Week 15 - ATP 250 - Grand Prix Hassan II - Marrakech, Morocco (clay)

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Week 15 - ATP 250 - Grand Prix Hassan II - Marrakech, Morocco (clay)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

OK Bob. Enough of this doom and gloom. Kyle reached his first ever ATP final this week and will start next week on a new CH ranking of 23. If you had offered me that on 1st January, I would have taken it.

nicofrance · Strong Club Player

What a shocker !

Perhaps nerves got to him but even though his opponent had a lot of experience on clay the manner of the defeat is quite embarrassing.

This was a great chance to get his first title , I doubt he will be lucky enough to meet this level of opposition again in a final .

Well see what Kyles made of when he reaches another final , he surely cant play any worse than todays abject performance .

-- Edited by nicofrance on Sunday 15th of April 2018 02:45:02 PM

Smudge226 · Strong Club Player

Kedders.. Such a let down. He does seem to over think it some times, brain freeze. Obviously thinking about the outcome rather than staying in the here and now.

flamingowings · All-time great

Oh come on all you doom and gloomers. Cheer up a bit, aye? Whilst not the outcome we wanted, he did play 3 matches in 2 days and is runner up. Plenty of chances yet for him to win a title.

Nerves and such can happen to so many - watching the Dimitrov/Kygrios Masters final last year, that was not a great match by any stretch of the imagination.

indiana · Tennis legend

Some of my previous concerns have been how the occasion and match situations did seem to get to Kyle rather more than his peers with all these third set defeats and relative fade aways against well ranked players who he would compete well with for over two sets.

I didn't see it but sounds more just the occasion this time with him never really getting into a decent "match situation" and it wasn't against a high ranked player.

How was his body language today? That, which I had brought up as an issue for some time, was so much better at the Australian Open. He looked more of a presence to the opposition and the occasional jog into position and more than occasional genuine fist pump I would have thought helped motivate him. It was very encouraging along with of course the results. He looked as if he had been previously keeping it all far too within.

Still as Bob indicates, it HAS overall been a good start to the year, a very good start. Just hope he can pick it up again in Monte Carlo and learn from whatever went very wrong today.

flamingowings · All-time great

Also, well done Pablo. Coming back from 3 elbow surgeries is not be sniffed at.

-- Edited by flamingowings on Sunday 15th of April 2018 03:23:55 PM

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Cracking start he played to his seeding, did any of the other seeds. Great to see him in a final bit its gone now, hopefully he will loose in much more impressive finals in the future. Very early doors for the clay court season and this must be his best start toime ever! Bring on Monte Carlo and the beach, its a hard life.

indiana · Tennis legend

Not the teeniest weeniest concern about that final loss, Oakie ?

Though to be fair in general as I say it has overall been a very good start to the year.

Hopefully he will indeed be in much more impressive finals in the future though I don't know about losing them would be so ideal !

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I am working on the win some loose some philosophy

Vandenburg · Futures level

In terms of rankings, this is like losing a ATP 250 final to Glasspool. Just saying

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Vandenburg wrote:
In terms of rankings, this is like losing a ATP 250 final to Glasspool. Just saying

In terms of experience, its like losing to someone who is a two time former champion. And without being disrespectful to Lloyd, he doesn't have a CH ranking of 32 just a couple of years back.

Agreed that is was a "bad day at the office" for Kyle, but we all have them.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Certain posters are wrong Indiana.....care to comment now.

There is no right or wrong, only opinions, smug ones at that sometimes.

JonH · All-time great

Andujar rises to 154 in live rankings. Well done to him and maybe Barcelona and Madrid will give him a wc to recognise his come back and win. Well done to him.

JonH · All-time great

And lowest ranked ATP tour level winner since 1998. Was ranked in 1800's two months ago. That's a decent Performance