Week 47 - Challenger ($100,000+H) - Bengaluru Open, Bangalore, India (hard)

FriendofLouieG · Lower Club Player

Week 47 - Challenger ($100,000+H) - Bengaluru Open, Bangalore, India (hard)

Michael D · All-time great

Yes indeed, one more Jay.... then we can congratulate you!

And I loved Jay's confidence during the third set tie break...

-- Edited by Michael D on Thursday 23rd of November 2017 10:58:25 AM

-- Edited by Michael D on Thursday 23rd of November 2017 10:59:38 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

what a win....

paulisi · Tennis legend

Good win and a reasonable chance in the semi final based on rankings.

indiana · Tennis legend

Michael D wrote:
Yes indeed, one more Jay.... then we can congratulate you!
And I loved Jay's confidence during the third set tie break...

Still would look a maybe aye, maybe nae, situation once everything had played out re his points to come off and assuming none further added than a SF win here. Jay would be about WR 250 and I certainly can't see that getting in on the initial cut so maybe having to wait it out and stew. For all reasons, just win the tournament, mate. Indeed that would be so tremendous in itself.

35 points is already Jay's best ever counter. Great work so far !

Michael D · All-time great

And whatever else happens, and despite the two 18 pointers still to come off this year - next Monday Jay will smash his career high. Still career highs are not his immediate target...

christ · Futures level

indiana wrote:
Still would look a maybe aye, maybe nae, situation ...

*heads off to Google translate*

Priesty · Challenger level

What does Jay need to do to achieve NextGen status?

Edit - have just decided to stop being so bone idle and check it myself. Aged 21 and under and ranked in the top 200 - so well on the way!

-- Edited by Priesty on Thursday 23rd of November 2017 09:46:42 PM

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

I didn't know next Gen was an official status, so what would getting this status mean?

kaseldop · Social player

It is a new (Year ending?) Tournament for the top u21 players. Shorter sets, no lets, timer clock for in between points, and a couple of other innovations.
So a competition for u21 to aim at and testing new idea's to see how they go down.
This might be only 95% accurate but its the gist.

indiana · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
indiana wrote:

On to Indonesia. For him the Australian Open quest certainly goes on ...
For some reason I imagined the guy who voices that Apprentice to be saying that sentence!
"For now the search for Lord Sugar's apprentice continues"

But for Brydan the journey is evidently over. He withdrew on 22/11 from both Indonesia and Thailand.

indiana · Tennis legend

kaseldop wrote:
It is a new (Year ending?) Tournament for the top u21 players. Shorter sets, no lets, timer clock for in between points, and a couple of other innovations.
So a competition for u21 to aim at and testing new idea's to see how they go down.
This might be only 95% accurate but its the gist.

There is a thread regarding that tournament and the trial innovations.

britishtennis.activeboard.com/t63562106/next-gen-atp-finals

Michael D · All-time great

Helen40 wrote:
I didn't know next Gen was an official status, so what would getting this status mean?

Otherwise it was just something dreamed up for marketing purposes because of the continued dominance of the big 4 - even if mostly only big 2 this year. However the London ATP finals showed this wasn't really necessary, although it did give the ATP chance to experiment with some gimmickry.

seagull · Hall of fame

First set Jay 6-3, but 4-1* down in the second

seagull · Hall of fame

Better now - breaks back and its 4-3*