Week 17 - Challenger ($75,000) - Tallahassee, FL, USA (clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 17 - Challenger ($75,000) - Tallahassee, FL, USA (clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (1) Luke Bambridge & Jonny O'Mara CR 259 (119+140) vs Andrea Arnaboldi & Andreas Siljeström (ITA/SWE) CR 1445 (1253+152)

wolf · Tennis legend

Luke and Jonny about to start their R1 match - livestream.com/ATP/events/8171805

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (1) Luke Bambridge & Jonny O'Mara CR 252 (116+136) defeated Andrea Arnaboldi & Andreas Siljeström (ITA/SWE) CR 1445 (1253+152) by 6-3 7-6(4)

flamingowings · All-time great

Jay has started and currently has the early break 2-0, serving.

Consolidates for 3-0.

-- Edited by flamingowings on Tuesday 24th of April 2018 06:50:47 PM

flamingowings · All-time great

...and now it's 3 all.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Jay is a set and a break up.

flamingowings · All-time great

Not any more, he is a set up and a break down.

Looks like a 3 setter....

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: Jay Clarke WR 236 defeated Christian Harrison (USA) WR 235 by 6-3 3-6 6-2

*****

L16: Jay Clarke WR 236 vs (4) Michael Mmoh (USA) WR 144 (CH = 141 last September)

indiana · Tennis legend

Just actually saw the very last game but saw on livescore Jay holding in a long game with BPs for 3-2* with indeed over 30 points in total in Jay's opening 3 service games of the final set.

Looks as if that might have broken the Harrison spirit a bit, combined with Jay then immediately breaking for *4-2.

Not the first time Jay has held in a very long game recently to good effect.

Sheddie · administrator

Solid performance from Jay, watched bits of it. He's much more of a natural on clay than Harrison, moves a lot better. Not his best performance today, quite a few unforced errors off the ground, missed a fair few forehands on big points which he would normally make. But really showed his mental toughness. Could have folded after he let Harrison right back into the match after being in control at 6-3, 2-0 up, with Harrison on self-destruct mode having lost 5 games in a row. But some really gritty tennis in that final set to close it out.

Harrison's temperament appears to really let him down. He went totally AWOL in the first set, at one point yelling out "Every day I want to quit. 3-4 times a day." Then in the second set he got in a big dispute with the umpire over one of Jay's serves. Harrison was apparently claiming that Jay's serve wasn't big enough to make the mark the umpire was pointing to. Heard him exclaim, "It's not a Karlovic serve" which was quite funny.

But good win from Jay, it's been impressive how he looks like he clearly belongs at top 200 level, especially on the slower surfaces. Bigger tests will come from opponents (like Bagnis last week, who outmuscled him with his big lefty forehand), who have the firepower to cause him problems on this surface. Harrison was a good grinder, but on a very slow court, lacked the weapons to really hurt Jay.

indiana · Tennis legend

Jay and Michael Mmoh warming up on the ATP Challenger stream.

JonH · All-time great

Strong start from Jay, first game on serve

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Mmoh looking strong here takes first set 6-2. Love these streams from the Livestream very well done on the Challenger front.

indiana · Tennis legend

Broken immediately at the start of the second set but importantly broke back right away.

Good movement and the ability to make the opponent play that one more ball proving its worth there.

2-6 *1-1