Week 2 - Australian Open - men's qualifying (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 2 - Australian Open - men's qualifying (hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Tough on Jay, given that he drew Kavcic last week too, in a Challenger, and was beaten 4&2

Born2WinTennis · Club Coach

It's a shame the LTA couldn't have come to some type of swap deal to allow Jack Draper a WC into qualies.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Both look like tough draws, and both opponents have been Top 100 in their time.

emmsie69 · Top national player

I'm not sure it would benefit Jack to be in slams yet as he has had problems with growth spurts, a possible 5 sets now wouldn't help. He has plenty of time to develop.

Born2WinTennis · Club Coach

I'm not sure I agree there, he would have to win two three set matches to reach a 5 set match and even then I'm sure he trains about 5 hours a day at least, so wouldn't think the odd 5 set match would have any negative impact.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Born2WinTennis wrote:
I'm not sure I agree there, he would have to win two three set matches to reach a 5 set match and even then I'm sure he trains about 5 hours a day at least, so wouldn't think the odd 5 set match would have any negative impact.

Well, I guess he hasnt got a spot here, French Open we will see if he raises his ranking to reach qualies, but most like his first 5 set slam main draw appearance will be on the grass of Wimbledon, pretty certainly one would expect him to get a wild card for the main draw unless he falls away and has a bad start to 2020, which looks unlikely.

seagull · Hall of fame

Be interesting to see if he gets a wild card for Bangkok next week as he is way off main draw currently and its a long way to go for 1 week?

Babfive · Satellite level

Liam lost 3-6 0-6

Babfive · Satellite level

Jay just lost the first set 6-7(2)

Babfive · Satellite level

Jay loses 6-7(2) 6-3 2-6

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

By all accounts, Jay was an early break up in the decider but then started cramping up badly.

From Simon Briggs on Twitter

British No 5 Jay Clarke now cramping on Court 13. Rolling in his serve at 50mph.

seagull · Hall of fame

Hmm not good. Especially as his opponent was about 10 years older.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

At least Bernard Tomic losing in QR1 made me happy though.....

Pleased that Luke Saville (WC) won too. I like watching Luke play.

And Blake Mott winning is nice - a local Aussie WC, ranked 512, who beat a seed - always good

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

VERY disappointing from the two Brits, both of them probably need to have a long hard think with their coaches if they are going to move up to the right level.