Week 2 - ATP 250 - ASB Classic - Auckland, New Zealand (hard)

Michael D · All-time great

Week 2 - ATP 250 - ASB Classic - Auckland, New Zealand (hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Sandgren in the final. That's winnable.

JonH · All-time great

Great stuff from cam, big week for him

Jan · Hall of fame

Wow biggrin biggrin

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Oakland2002 wrote:
I am sure it would be big for Cam to do that in NZ! Come on Can

Yes, must be great for him.

And sure that the NZ federation are feeling a bit sick at treating him shabbily and letting him get away (and sponsoring some top dog's daughter, instead, who's spectacular by her absence)

Brilliant start to the year.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Go Cam. What a fantastic week for him.

Is this his first final ?

seagull · Hall of fame

ATP Yes

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (WC) Cameron Norrie WR 93 defeated Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) WR 58 by 7-6(3) 6-3

*****

Final: (WC) Cameron Norrie WR 93 vs Tennys Sandgren (USA) WR 63 (CH = 47 in April last year)

Made good use of his WC, it would seem! wink

Mervatron2 · Futures level

Awesome week. Would be lovely to end with a title.

wolf · Tennis legend

I remember Luke Bambridge's podcast with Mike Cation last year.

Talking about Sandgren "The only person he struggled with at challenger level is Norrie, because Norrie is just as happy with the ball in court as he is. The first couple of times they played he panicked."

Norrie leads the H2H 4-2, all in 2016/17, and won the last 3.

flamingowings · All-time great

Cam is down a break at 3-4*

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Cam not at his best and Sandgren pretty awesome, to be fair, in the last few games I managed to catch.

4 -6 2-6

Oakland2002 · All-time great

An amazing week for Cam his family coaches and of course the team at TCU! An ATP tour championship final is a fabulous way to start 2019. He deserves a low fat chocolate milkshake in celebration and then getting fully focused on his recovery and getting into the best shape he can to take on Taylor Fritz again.

It is at this point the LTA need to look at a packages of sports science advisors/nutritionalists/sports psychologists to work with the local teams of top 100 players with a realistic chance of becoming second week Slam players. This is another important developmental milestone and revolves initially around winning and recovery from 4 and 5 set tennis.

Andy has had a fantastic career, you cannot criticise the bloke, he maximised and gave everything he had. If one was to be critical and look for improvement one would want to look at training in a different way to reduce wear and tear, improve longevity at the highest level. In the Swedish interview with Kyles coach that BiS posted, there was some discussion about how younger players on tour hit much less than the big 4/5 ..... will they ever be as good, how do you get them there.

Cam, then hopefully Jay, Jack, George and Aidan will need that kind of support, Kyle can probably already pay for it although money is probably not a significant factor in the equation here ? How much is a British slam champion worth to British Tennis and organisations such as the LTA, looking at the USTA approach and investment , its priceless!! We have smaller cohorts of players at each level we definitely have the talent out there to maximise it, we now need to use Andy, his experience and experiences to crystallise and develop a similar BUT BETTER vision.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I'm not sure that making a policy around one man and his experience is sound policy (not that I disagree with the policy as such, just the basis).

Yes, I think players/trainers/coaches are now far more attuned to the problems of over-playing - it's funny to see how it evolves - I saw an interview with Castle and Lloyd where they said hitting was the only sort of training accepted as being useful/acceptable for tennis players in their era - weight-training for instance was an absolute no-no.

The NTC package, though, is pretty hot on this front - i.e. if you see the list of everyone they've got, they certainly tick all the boxes. Not that this necessarily means anything. In my view, the LTA are rather old-fashioned in many of their approaches. And, then, of course, there's the problem of accessibility. Keeping the dream teams in their NTC box, or even just focusing them on your list of Jay and Jack and a couple of others, is not the answer.

However, yes, great week for Cam, although shame Tennys won.

Jan · Hall of fame

One step too far for Cam, but a fab week for him. Now go and get some wins at the AO!!