Week 1 - USA F1 ($25,000) - Los Angeles, CA (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 1 - USA F1 ($25,000) - Los Angeles, CA (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (1) Luke Bambridge & Hans Hach (MEX) CR 364 (139+225) vs Tomas Papik & Dominik Suc (CZE/CZE) UNR (609+0 [but a CH of 289 in July 2014])

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L32: Tomas Papik (CZE) WR 523 (CH = 447 last October) vs Luke Bambridge WR 575 (CH = 481 in May 2016)

L32: (Q) Daniel Cukierman (ISR) WR 1244 (CH = 525 last February) vs (2) Alex Ward WR 289

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Good decision to start the year here for Alex. Get some wins and confidence before moving up to bigger events.

Miriambee · Futures level

Luke just started. *2-0 30-40 1st set.

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

I assume Alex's plan was to play the week 2 Challenger in the US that got pulled late and replaced with the second Bangkok Challenger. Shame as it would probably have been a weak event.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Luke is 6-3 5-3* up. Just one more game please Luke.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: Luke Bambridge WR 575 defeated Tomas Papik (CZE) WR 523 by 3 & 3

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Another break sees Luke seal a very solid looking 3&3 victory.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (1) Luke Bambridge & Hans Hach (MEX) CR 364 (139+225) defeated Tomas Papik & Dominik Suc (CZE/CZE) UNR (609+0) by 6-2 7-6(5)

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QF: (1) Luke Bambridge & Hans Hach (MEX) CR 364 (139+225) vs Ulises Blanch & Sam Riffice (USA/USA) CR 2947 (1588+1359)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L32: (Q) Daniel Cukierman (ISR) WR 1244 (CH = 525 last February) vs (2) Alex Ward WR 289

Alex appears to have been replaced by an American lucky loser, Gianni Ross. cry Wonder what's happened there. Whatever it is, I sincerely hope it's nothing serious.

seagull · Hall of fame

Like madaman said he was probably looking to play this as a warm up for the following weeks challenger that got pulled

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Luke Bambridge WR 575 vs (6) Kaichi Uchida (JPN) WR 351 (CH = 348 in the middle of last month)

Doonan · Intermediate Club Player

I've got a result which has Alex winning 7-6(3) 6-1. Of course it could be the LL who won and it is a glitch.

indiana · Tennis legend

First set of Luke+'s doubles QF 6-0 for the loss of just 7 points.

Both their opponents had singles matches earlier and I don't think Riffice had that long a rest after a 2 hour 24 minute loss. So probably not ideal ( for them ) before playing the hugely higher ranked top seeds.