Week 9 - Greece F1 - Heraklion ($15,000) (hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 9 - Greece F1 - Heraklion ($15,000) (hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

Luke 4-6 6-2 6-6, final set TB

Luke was broken for the first time in the final set for 4-5* and faced a total of 3 MPs before breaking back for *5-5.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And he does it !

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Luke Johnson WR 881 defeated (8) Matthias Haim (AUT) WR 629 by 4-6 6-2 7-6(3)

*****

QF: Luke Johnson WR 881 vs Ljubomir Celebic (MIH) WR 662 (CH = 437 last July)

Celebic did for the Swiss fourth seed, Adrian Bodmer, by 2 & 0....

paulisi · Tennis legend

Luke is a better doubles player than singles, but is still capable of moving into the 600-800 singles ranking.
Must have a decent chance in the QF

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

paulisi wrote:
Luke is a better doubles player than singles, but is still capable of moving into the 600-800 singles ranking.
Must have a decent chance in the QF

Oof, if that was me Id take that as massive offence smile .

Ive never seen Luke in action but his results this season suggest a bit higher than that top 500 surely?

indiana · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
paulisi wrote:
Luke is a better doubles player than singles, but is still capable of moving into the 600-800 singles ranking.
Must have a decent chance in the QF
Oof, if that was me Id take that as massive offence .
Ive never seen Luke in action but his results this season suggest a bit higher than that top 500 surely?

These 2 points so far here take Luke to 3 for the season and up to 18 overall. WR 500 is currently on 68 points and we only have 11 Brits above that mark.

All the best to Luke but no surely top 500 about it. For now, paulisi seems to have it about right, and if Luke shows otherwise, great.

I'd add that the Grigelis ( then WR 279 ) win in Loughborough for his other point of the season looked very good. But there's still not many results yet this season.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 1st of March 2018 05:20:40 PM

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Sorry I ll clarify I meant season as in calendar year for ranking points. Hes beaten quite a few higher ranked players and came close a few times.

paulisi · Tennis legend

I've seen him a few times - IMHO he is not as talented as Jonny Gray, Evan Hoyt, Billy Harris yet. He is more in the Josh Paris level and I standby my prediction.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Fair enough Paulisi, interesting though that the ones youve mentioned have stagnated a little at start of season. Too early to tell, be interesting to see out of these 5 players who end up at top and bottom. I ll take a stab and say Luke will end the year behind only Jonny and ahead of Evan and Billy.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Ljubomir Celebic (MIH) WR 662 defeated Luke Johnson WR 881 by 6-4 7-6(3)

indiana · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Gabor Borsos & Danilo Petrovic (HUN/SRB) CR 519 (212+307) beat Jonny Gray & Luke Johnson CR 1271 (902+369) 6-2 6-4

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I wouldnt write off Evan. The frustrating thing for him is as yet we dont know how good he can be as he has yet to stay fit for 18-24 months on tour.

indiana · Tennis legend

Oakland2002 wrote:
I wouldnt write off Evan. The frustrating thing for him is as yet we dont know how good he can be as he has yet to stay fit for 18-24 months on tour.

Yes, got to a CH 542 in June 2016. But so frustratingly didn't play on tour for 16 months from May 2016 until September last year when he had been on the rise. So clearly has at least top 500 potential if he can stay fit and find his game again. Still only turned 23 yo in January.