Week 39 - ITF M25 - Shrewsbury, Great Britain (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 39 - ITF M25 - Shrewsbury, Great Britain (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: Elliott Farmer & Alexander Jhun CR 3056 (1384+1672) defeated (WC) Sean Hodkin & Andrew Ponder UNR (1599+0) by 5-7 6-2 [10-6]

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

So we have an all Brit final

SF: Tom Hands & James MacKinlay 2723 (1321+1402) def. (2) Julian Ocleppo & Francesco Vilardo (ITA/ITA) CR 998 (275+723) 0-6 6-4 10-6

Some turn around that ...... well done to our men.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Great win for young Tom & James! Just to confirm:

Final: Elliott Farmer & Alexander Jhun CR 3056 (1384+1672) vs Tom Hands & James MacKinlay 2723 (1321+1402)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Luke Johnson has been on a god run of form of late, and was impressive on the livestream from Glasgow.

Six points here (and counting) is his best counter to date, I believe. And 3 points last week in the challenger, 4 points the week before in the 15k SF.....

It's true that this opposition here has not been the hardest (no disrespect but just based on the rankings, he's beaten an ATP 796 and two unranked players). However, let's hope he gives a good account of himself.

One of Bob's 'good chance/maybes' for the top 500, at some point, I'd have thought.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Luke lost the first set in a TB, having been a break down for most of the set but managing to get it back.

Is now a break up in the second....

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Luke fought back to take the 2nd 6-3 but was broken in the opening game of the decider.

indiana · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Luke Johnson has been on a god run of form of late, and was impressive on the livestream from Glasgow.

Six points here (and counting) is his best counter to date, I believe. And 3 points last week in the challenger, 4 points the week before in the 15k SF.....

It's true that this opposition here has not been the hardest (no disrespect but just based on the rankings, he's beaten an ATP 796 and two unranked players). However, let's hope he gives a good account of himself.

One of Bob's 'good chance/maybes' for the top 500, at some point, I'd have thought.

Luke was a jaggy top 500 pick some time ago. I think that possibly put a curse on the poor guy but maybe it wears off in time

Indeed I see above that he appears to have god on his side now.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Not to be today though as Luke goes down 6-3 in the 3rd. Excellent week for him though.

Priesty · Challenger level

indiana wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Luke Johnson has been on a god run of form of late, and was impressive on the livestream from Glasgow.

Six points here (and counting) is his best counter to date, I believe. And 3 points last week in the challenger, 4 points the week before in the 15k SF.....

It's true that this opposition here has not been the hardest (no disrespect but just based on the rankings, he's beaten an ATP 796 and two unranked players). However, let's hope he gives a good account of himself.

One of Bob's 'good chance/maybes' for the top 500, at some point, I'd have thought.

Luke was a jaggy top 500 pick some time ago. I think that possibly put a curse on the poor guy but maybe it wears off in time
Indeed I see above that he appears to have god on his side now.

Well one of the synoptic gospels was written by his namesake wink

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Yes it was my fault Im afraid, I saw Luke a couple of times and thought he was a 400 ranked player. The evidence would suggest otherwise.

I did however tell everyone Dan Evans would be GB number 1 at year end, so at least I got that right

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Yes it was my fault Im afraid, I saw Luke a couple of times and thought he was a 400 ranked player. The evidence would suggest otherwise.

I did however tell everyone Dan Evans would be GB number 1 at year end, so at least I got that right

You've got time, Jaggy.

He's 25. If he has the time and money to carry on for a few more years, he's got a good chance.

I would have said a good chance of top-500, based on what I've seen these past few weeks.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jack Draper wins 3-2 retirement

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Jack Draper WR 354 defeated (6) Tobias Simon (GER) WR 532 by 3-2 retired

SF: (2) Julian Ocleppo (ITA) WR 412 defeated (7) Luke Johnson WR 752 by 7-6(3) 3-6 6-3 hmm

*****

Final: (1) Jack Draper WR 354 vs (2) Julian Ocleppo (ITA) WR 412

indiana · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Yes it was my fault Im afraid, I saw Luke a couple of times and thought he was a 400 ranked player. The evidence would suggest otherwise.

I did however tell everyone Dan Evans would be GB number 1 at year end, so at least I got that right

Err, Dan's not yet GB #1 and it's not the year end

Though plenty of folk I think could see this scenario as likely for a while as the season developed with the race points position linked to the points Kyle has to come off in October. And it remains very likely.

Your top 4 in the predictions thread was 1. Andy, 2. Cam, 3. Kyle, 4. Dan. I too had Dan as #4. We are like the many who didn't previously see this coming.

All good fun with plenty surprises along the way.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 27th of September 2019 02:33:40 PM