Week 16 - Tunisia F15 ($15,000) - Jerba (hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Week 16 - Tunisia F15 ($15,000) - Jerba (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Luke Johnson WR 810 defeated (8) Maxime Pauwels (BEL) WR 685 by 2 & 3

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SF: (1) Daniel Brands (GER) WR 428 (CH = 51 in August 2013 - he's now 30) vs Luke Johnson WR 810

Jaffa · Challenger level

Difficult semi obviously but a great week for Luke regardless now.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Should put Luke into the mid 750's

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Luke looking good for my prediction he will finish the year above Jonny, Billy, Ryan and Evan etc that nobody else agreed with.....

indiana · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Luke looking good for my prediction he will finish the year above Jonny, Billy, Ryan and Evan etc that nobody else agreed with.....

And personally I still most certainly don't agree with that. Though actually it is even more buoyant than you were before when you saw Luke finishing the year behind Jonny but ahead of the rest, as well as surely going to be a top 500 player in time.

Good to see Luke having a good week here, but in the bigger scheme of the whole year not enough to jump in with your "looking good". I see probably all of Jonny, Billy and Evan finishing the year ahead of him. All the best to Luke though like to the others.

By the way, I didn't see "Ryan" mentioned in the previous discussions that I am aware of. If you mean Ryan Storrie as opposed to Ryan Peniston ( not sure how much Ryan P ) will play, I'd probably go for all 4 finishing the year ahead of Luke and be surprised if less than 3 do.

Anyway, it has many months to play out re this year's order ( let's see at year end ) and years re Luke's eventual top ranking ...

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

I had Ryan Storrie in mind Indiana. We ll see who ends up being right I guess. Billys popularity on here masks his potential. Wish him well but dont see him top 500.

One thing I think we can agree on is Luke Bambridge and Jonny OMara would be ahead of all these guys. Every time I see their name in Doubles I cant help think its a waste of a career.

indiana · Tennis legend

I don''t know if Billy will make the top 500. But having steadily improved to WR 634 I would think there is certainly a chance he will be.

Anyway, promise not to be diverted from the general order at year end

And just not really going there re switching almost exclusively to doubles supposedly being a waste of a career ... ( potentially very profitable "waste" though in monetary and potential Slam experience and indeed enjoyment ).

I assume that you did take the chance to listen to Luke spelling out his reasoning in his talk with Mike Cation.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 20th of April 2018 08:22:02 PM

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Yes I did, then I realised I had actually heard it before. So wasnt anything new from that. It does makes sense but still a waste in my opinion.

Well spotted though at my attempt to make my point again. Im employing more tactics, more discreet although I had a good line the other week that was missed by everyone sadly.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Luke looking good for my prediction he will finish the year above Jonny, Billy, Ryan and Evan etc that nobody else agreed with.....

I also am a fan of Luke. Been posted on here several times. He seems very focused. The only question will be if he makes too much headway in doubles and ends up dropping the singles because it hasn't kept up.

And I think he will finish above Billy. Although not Evan, if Evan has a year without injury. Maybe above Jonny too. Ryan has a few questions at the moment. On pure tennis talent, he is above Luke, no problem. But that's not the whole picture.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The top seed prevails:

SF: (1) Daniel Brands (GER) WR 428 defeated Luke Johnson WR 810 by 3 & 2