Week 1 - ATP 250 - Brisbane International - Brisbane, Australia (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 1 - ATP 250 - Brisbane International - Brisbane, Australia (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And in the doubles:

L16: (4) Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 51 (21+30) vs Grigor Dimitrov & Ryan Harrison (BUL/USA) CR 497 (395+102)

L16: Kyle Edmund & Neal Skupski CR 205 (172+33) vs (3) Henri Kontinen & John Peers (FIN/AUS) CR 49 (26+23)

flamingowings · All-time great

Has Duckworth been injured? Seems to be low ranked.

JonH · All-time great

Medvedev up next if Andy wins. Going to be a long hard Road back, ductworth probably as good as it gets at this stage.

Kyle would get a qualifier next round.

Anyone know if ram is a long term partner for Joe or just an ad hoc partner?

JonH · All-time great

Andy of course beat duckworth in the US open in 4 sets, I recall both returning from injury at time.

FriendofLouieG · Lower Club Player

Yes James Duckworth is on his way back from long term injury like Andy.

indiana · Tennis legend

It is worrying to hear that Andy still has pain in his hip when he plays.

As he has been saying hopefully that will ease with more matches and he can at least be unrestricted. But even relatively unrestricted as such playing with continual pain can't be fun.

Nearly took a dive in my predictions list but l too hope ...

JonH · All-time great

My concern with Andy is that he's being undergoing therapy and training in the US for several months so why would suddenly playing tourneys and matches see it clear up? It won't clear up now, he is going to have to live with some pain for rest of his career. Question is whether it inhibits him - most players have pain or discomfort of sorts, but can they move ok and be an athlete. Playing 3 matches or whatever in Brisbane won't make the pain get any better, surely? He's going to have to learnt to live with it and do his best or..
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flamingowings · All-time great

You gotta wonder if Nadal and Delpo, as well as many others, Ivanovic for one, just kinda do the best they can with the pain and until they can no longer. Andy has recently said that he wants to end his career on his own terms, so it makes sense.

JonH · All-time great

Kyle will play humbert or uchiyama in his first match.

flamingowings · All-time great

I do like the camaraderie the GB players have as well as the tour in general. Social media definitely has it's negative points but I like that we seem to get a more personal side to people - sportspeople, actors, singers etc that we only used to get interviews in papers and tv. Andy is very funny, although I get humour is subjective (there is plenty comedy I don't find amusing) www.instagram.com/p/BsDRrr1FxWD/

flamingowings · All-time great

JonH wrote:
Kyle will play humbert or uchiyama in his first match.

Kyle will play Uchiyama

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) WR 185 (CH = 162 in July) vs (3) Kyle Edmund WR 14

flamingowings · All-time great

Andy 6-3, 1-1*

flamingowings · All-time great

Stircrazy wrote:
And in the doubles:
L16: (4) Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 51 (21+30) vs Grigor Dimitrov & Ryan Harrison (BUL/USA) CR 497 (395+102)
L16: Kyle Edmund & Neal Skupski CR 205 (172+33) vs (3) Henri Kontinen & John Peers (FIN/AUS) CR 49 (26+23)

Kyle and Neal beat Kontinen and Peers and 7-6(5) 6-2. Nice one guys!