Week 21 - French Open, Roland-Garros, Paris, Qualifying (Clay)

flamingowings · All-time great

Week 21 - French Open, Roland-Garros, Paris, Qualifying (Clay)

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Wonder if other British players would get such an easy ride for a choke like this. Could hardly say Davidovich played lights out tennis in the crucial game to break.

Nix · Futures level

Jeff Stelling wrote:
Wonder if other British players would get such an easy ride for a choke like this. Could hardly say Davidovich played lights out tennis in the crucial game to break.

Well they probably would if they were also only 20, at a career high, and in the top 20 players under 21. Younger players are far more likely to be inconsistent. And Jay has had some good results this year.

Its not great but I'm sure he's learnt from it and I'd like to give him until the end of the grass season to assess his progress over the summer rather than judge him over one poor game against a clay court specialist.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

The only British player I can remember making it through RG qualifying is James Ward. It is the equivalent of winning a stacked challenger, I dont have an issue with Jays performance here at 20.

His progress over the last 3 yrs has been incremental and not short of phenomenal outstripping the progress of his contemporaries nationally and keeping pace with all but the junior phenomens (of which he was never one as a junior) Internationally. Definitely the best prospect to emerge on the mens side since the 1995 cohort, some of the posts in this thread suggests problems with managing our expectations now rather than how good he will be at 24.

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Thursday 23rd of May 2019 07:12:27 AM

flamingowings · All-time great

Reminder that the main draw is today at 7pm Paris time.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Re Jeff's comment, and following on from the other two above, just to say that I am not all rosy about every GB prospect, not all soppy and do not treat them all with kid gloves.
But I watched the match and Jay did not choke.
It's true that he had chances in the second set, and so did the other guy, obviously, - just look at the score.
And, with hindsight, he may feel that he got himself pushed a bit too far back.
But he did not 'choke' (make stupid UEs, just loop the ball down the middle of the court, stop playing)

flamingowings · All-time great

For those keeping track (or not)

José Morgado
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Maden d. Davidovich to reach Roland Garros MD.

Alejandro couldn't move at all in the 3rd set, his first career GS main draw will have to wait (or he gets some luck with a lucky loser spot...)
9:59 AM - 23 May 2019

Dustin Brown is sadly also down & out in FQR