Week 43 - ATP 500 - Erste Bank Open 500 - Vienna, Austria (hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Week 43 - ATP 500 - Erste Bank Open 500 - Vienna, Austria (hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

With Gasquet beating (2) Thiem no seeds remain in the bottom ( Kyle's ) half. Though Pouille vs Gasquet looks a decent all French QF.

The two remaining seeds meet in the QFs, (1) Sascha Zverev vs (8) Tsonga, with Schwatzman vs Kohlschreiber completing the QF line-up.

Good to battle out the win today but does indeed look like Kyle will need to step up again to beat Struff with fast courts probably not a help to him.

Toby · Lower Club Player

Funny watching Kyle and Gasquet winning their points followed by complete silence. The crowd is very partisan but at least doesnt try to put off the foreign players.

paulisi · Tennis legend

First set Kyle

Jaffa · Challenger level

Break up in the second.

Struff has been poor it must be said.

Sheddie · administrator

Kyle served for it at 6-2, 5-4 but has been broken

6-2, 5-5 now

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Kyle Edmund WR 63 defeated Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) WR 51 by 2 & 5 biggrin

Jan · Hall of fame

Excellent

Jaffa · Challenger level

Great stuff. Is that his first ATP 500 SF then?

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Just caught the last couple of points, which is probably a good thing as my blood pressure is high enough already.

Fantastic that Kyle has reached his 1st SF at ATP 500 level and that win should take him back into the Top 50.

Edit

With all Kyle's 2016 points now having dropped out of the system, anything else Kyle can get here or in Paris will be a bonus.

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Friday 27th of October 2017 12:45:36 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done to Kyle, must admit I wouldn't have bet on him today ( if I did bet these days ) once I learned the court was very fast and a bit of a struggle yesterday ( but got across the line and got the W ). He has lacked big points weeks, not getting into 3 figures all year until now, so 180 points ( so far ) is by far his biggest scoring week this year.

indiana · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Just caught the last couple of points, which is probably a good thing as my blood pressure is high enough already.

Fantastic that Kyle has reached his 1st SF at ATP 500 level and that win should take him back into the Top 50.
Edit
With all Kyle's 2016 points now having dropped out of the system, anything else Kyle can get here or in Paris will be a bonus.

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Friday 27th of October 2017 12:45:36 PM

... and take him past his total 1001 points from 2016. Now up to 967.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Fantastic onwards and upwards.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Kyle Edmund WR 63 vs Lucas Pouille (FRA) WR 25 (CH = 13 in May)

That's not going to be a piece of cake by any stretch of the imagination!

flamingowings · All-time great

Stircrazy wrote:
QF: Kyle Edmund WR 63 vs Lucas Pouille (FRA) WR 25 (CH = 13 in May)
That's not going to be a piece of cake by any stretch of the imagination!

Late 2017 Pouille is not the same as 2016/early 2017 Pouille. He has barely been able to string more than one win together. Kyle definitely has a chance.