Week 40 - Challenger ($100,000) - Stockton, CA, USA (hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

Week 40 - Challenger ($100,000) - Stockton, CA, USA (hard)

Jan · Hall of fame

Well done Cam!

indiana · Tennis legend

SF: (4) Brydan Klein & Joe Salisbury CR 277 (161+116) beat (1) Neal Skupski & John-Patrick Smith (AUS) CR 131 (73+58) 7-6(7) 7-6 (5)

Very tight, 1/9 BPs converted for the winners vs 1/7. Neal & J-P won one more point overall (82-81) but Brydan & Joe won the TBs that ultimately mattered.

F: (4) Brydan Klein & Joe Salisbury CR 277 (161+116) vs (Q) Denis Kudla & Mikelis Libietis (USA/LAT) CR 412 (169+243) - not on tomorrow's schedule so no doubt on Sunday, hopefully along with Cam.

It appears that Joe will already have taken out his CH 114 from last month, and he will go up a few further places towards the top 100 if he and Brydan win the final. Talented guy, hopefully he can find another settled partner soon. Brydan might work at least in the interim, but he is still very much concentrating on singles, which might conflict.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

A bit of a turn-up:

SF: (4) Brydan Klein & Joe Salisbury CR 277 (161+116) defeated (1) Neal Skupski & John-Patrick Smith (AUS) CR 131 (73+58) defeated (4) by 7-6(7) 7-6(5)

Pleased for Joe...

*****

Final: (4) Brydan Klein & Joe Salisbury CR 277 (161+116) vs (Q) Denis Kudla & Mikelis Libietis (USA/LAT) CR 452 (169+243)

indiana · Tennis legend

YES. Best SC twice with doubles, I'm on a roll. Maybe I'm a doubles specialist

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
YES. Best SC twice with doubles, I'm on a roll. Maybe I'm a doubles specialist

Dream on, Indie! wink You must've posted while I was still typing - too slow off the mark! cry

scottie1 · Futures level

Semi-final and Cam down 0-4 first set

scottie1 · Futures level

Cam has retrieved the two breaks it is now 4-5 back on serve

indiana · Tennis legend

And Cam's now serving for the first set, "6-5

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
And now a repeat of last week's quarter-final:

SF: (3) Michael Mmoh (USA) WR 156 (CH = 141 last month) vs (8) Cameron Norrie WR 136
Mmoh defeated that dangerous floater, Tursunov (Q), by 6-3 retired.

Cam takes the first set by 7-5. Not sure how he turned it round from *0-5.... confuse

indiana · Tennis legend

Wonder if Mmoh's got an injury issue again. Anyone been watching ?

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 7th of October 2017 07:13:12 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Wonder if Mmoh's got an injury issue again. Anyone been watching ?

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 7th of October 2017 07:13:12 PM

Yes, I watched most of that set. No injury.

Mmoh got tight on his set points. But apart from that he didn't play badly in the 'comeback', Norrie simply hung in, played a bit better and asked the question. And Mmoh nearly had the answer. But not quite. And then in the last two games he just looked resigned and disillusioned and Cam was always going to win.

EddietheEagle · County player

Injured his head, perhaps. The contrast in mental approach is startling. No surprise why Mikayshun is a Norrie fan.

indiana · Tennis legend

Thanks. Started watching and saw Cam break a second time in the set for *3-0 and then 4-0*.

Certainly nothing to see or been mentioned. Cam was hitting very consistently and as usual with depth and maybe unsurprisingly Mmoh looks a bit dejected.

Commentator speculating that Mmoh could maybe take the one apparently 'no questions asked, walk off' allowed a year. But looks as if he will see it through.

indiana · Tennis legend

Err 4-2* with some good free hitting from Mmoh.