Week 14 - ATP Challenger ($50,000+H) - Panama Tennis Cup, Panama City (clay)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Week 14 - ATP Challenger ($50,000+H) - Panama Tennis Cup, Panama City (clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: Jay Clarke WR 238 defeated Pedja Krstin (SRB) WR 206 by 5 & 2

*****

L16: Jan Choinski (GER) WR 249 (= CH) vs Jay Clarke WR 238

Jaffa · Challenger level

That was very impressive indeed. He doesnt do anything spectacular, but his defence is incredible at times. Kristin beat himself really.

FriendofLouieG · Lower Club Player

That was a very good win for Jay!

indiana · Tennis legend

Good stuff

From BPs down at *5-5 in the first set looks as if he saw the rest out very nicely.

indiana · Tennis legend

Jay's last 16 match is 2nd on 'Cancha 2' following a noon local, 6 pm BST start.

I see that he is currently the 10th ranked teenager in the world.

indiana · Tennis legend

Jay *3-3.

4 breaks of serve already.

indiana · Tennis legend

First set lost 6-4.

3 breaks to 2.

Priesty · Challenger level

Choinski now serving for victory at 5-2 in the 2nd. Disappointing collapse after a fine start. Hope nothing's wrong.

Priesty · Challenger level

Jay goes out 4 and 2. I had such high hopes when he was serving at 3*-0 in the first.... cry

indiana · Tennis legend

Priesty wrote:
Jay goes out 4 and 2. I had such high hopes when he was serving at 3*-0 in the first....

Suspect it was *2-0. He was a break down at 2-3* when I looked in on the scores and he broke for *3-3.

Whatever, clearly another tough one playing at this level but I had hoped that he might prevail.

Priesty · Challenger level

indiana wrote:
Priesty wrote:
Jay goes out 4 and 2. I had such high hopes when he was serving at 3*-0 in the first....
Suspect it was *2-0. He was a break down at 2-3* when I looked in on the scores and he broke for *3-3.
Whatever, clearly another tough one playing at this level but I had hoped that he might prevail.

Ah, you are correct, looking back I think I saw that he was 2*-0 and up 40-0 so wishfully expected he would be going up 3-0.

Although Choinski is clearly on the way up it seems a disappointing scoreline, will be interesting to see if there is some context to it.

flamingowings · All-time great

A) a loss doesn't mean anything is necessarily wrong I.e injury. Most likely, just outplayed and outgunned

B) might be a disappointing loss but still learning at this level. Plus, played both doubles and singles last week, minor recovery period in between tournaments.

Onwards!

indiana · Tennis legend

Indeed !

I didn't follow the second set but it was 6-2, 32 points to 25, 2/5 BPs taken against 0/5. That still looks fairly competitive.

Jay has not generally reached such a level on clay that I find such a scoreline against a player in the mid 200s at all strange or particularly worrying, especially if on a good day against maybe a not top notch Jay.

As I said I hoped. But without looking into Choinski more, and he has moved up a lot in the rankings over the last year, not a big surprise.

Jaffa · Challenger level

Jay has posted on his Instagram that he has heatstroke, and to be fair from the pic he put up he looks in a bad way.

Hope he is better soon.