Week 7 - ATP 250 - Delray Beach Open, FA, USA (hard)

flamingowings · All-time great

RE: Week 7 - ATP 250 - Delray Beach Open, FA, USA (hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

flamingowings wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
4 withdrawals in delray beach, kyle and seppi and nick k is out. Field wide open for someone to take advantage. 4 lucky losers doesn't look good though. 2 out in Rio and 1 in marseille also and several doubles withdrawals...

Not ideal and hurts 250 event credibility.
On the other hand it has provided Jack Sock with his first ATP singles win since 2018.

Ha! Small blessings!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Sorry to put it in here but this is the main current thread.

In case anyone who follows the mens side hasn't seen it, we have re opened a process for determining the GB Player of the Month.

Aim is to have nominations based on events starting in a calendar month (eg in Feb from Monday 3rd Feb and through events starting Monday 24th Feb) and then once nominations are completed by month end, a poll to vote for the monthly winner will take place.

At year end, the monthly winners will go into an annual player of the year poll.

For January, it was determined by a few folks that based on winning a slam, Joe Salisbury would get the award (no poll as it was done retrospectively).

Here is a link to the thread

britishtennis.activeboard.com/t64503276/gb-player-of-the-month/

flamingowings · All-time great

A win for Jonny+, a loss for Dom+

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

flamingowings wrote:
A win for Jonny+, a loss for Dom+

Good to see Jonny and Arevalo making ongoing progress, Dom will presumably be back with Qureshi again for the rest of the US swing.

Be interesting to see if both Jonny + and Dom + get into the IW and Miami fields, hopefully so

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (4) Luke Bambridge & Ben McLachlan (JPN) CR 101 (53+48) "defeated" John Millman & Matt Reid (AUS/AUS) UNR (0+89) by a walkover
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QF: (WC) Nicholas Monroe & Jackson Withrow (USA/USA) CR 169 (93+76) vs (4) Luke Bambridge & Ben McLachlan (JPN) CR 101 (53+48)

L16: Marcelo Arévalo (ESA) & Jonny O'Mara CR 120 (63+57) defeated (3) Marcus Daniell & Philipp Oswald (NZL/AUT) CR 91 (49+42) by 4 & 2 biggrin
L16: (WC) Christian Harrison & Dennis Novikov (USA/USA) CR 843 (676+167) defeated Dominic Inglot & Robert Lindstedt (SWE) CR 135 (61+74) by 4 & 4 bleh

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QF: Marcelo Arévalo (ESA) & Jonny O'Mara CR 120 (63+57) vs (WC) Christian Harrison & Dennis Novikov (USA/USA) CR 843 (676+167)

Let's hope Jonny & Marcelo can exact revenge.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (WC) Brandon Nakashima (USA) WR 294 defeated (Q) Cameron Norrie WR 60 by 5 & 2 bleh

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (WC) Brandon Nakashima (USA) WR 294 defeated (Q) Cameron Norrie WR 60 by 5 & 2

That's a real low point from Cam. Something not clicking for a few months now.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Nakashima can obviously play a bit

twitter.com/atptour/status/1230246174583664649

Don't know if he is an under-ranked college player. But a strange contradiction in results having beaten Fritz WR 38 yesterday and then losing to Nakashima WR 294 today.

indiana · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
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L16: (Q) Cameron Norrie WR 60 vs (WC) Brandon Nakashima (USA) WR 294 (=CH), age 18, JCH 3
Nakashima beat Vesely WR 74 in R1.

I don't know Nakashima's college position if any but, although it was reasonable to think Cam would win, he generally hasn't been in great form ( the Fritz win came a bit out of the blue ) and the extra detail above about Nakashima, plus he has only played 13 ATP counting tournaments with 11 counters in the last year, suggest he is probably well underranked and on the up

Nakashima JCH 3, on the up as a senior, beating WR 74 and then WR 60 is less contradictory. Be interesting to see how he progresses.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 19th of February 2020 11:16:50 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Nakashima can obviously play a bit

twitter.com/atptour/status/1230246174583664649

Don't know if he is an under-ranked college player. But a strange contradiction in results having beaten Fritz WR 38 yesterday and then losing to Nakashima WR 294 today.

Seems he reached #3 in junior world ranking end of last year.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

For what it's worth, the pre match odds were pretty much 50/50:

www.wincomparator.com/cameron-norrie-id174951-brandon-nakashima-id150003/

W Hills and Betfred 1.91 vs 1.91, Unibet/888 (same family) 1.90 vs 1.90, some had Cam a very marginal favourite, so not a big shock in that respect, albeit a bit disappointing after he won the seemingly harder match where he was a clear underdog. Still, he was quite close to losing in quals, and did get a stand out win, so could have been worse.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Luke and Ben win the qf and move into the semis. Good , comfortable 2 sets win .

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Luke and Ben win the qf and move into the semis. Good , comfortable 2 sets win .

For the record:

QF: (4) Luke Bambridge & Ben McLachlan (JPN) CR 101 (53+48) defeated (WC) Nicholas Monroe & Jackson Withrow (USA/USA) CR 169 (93+76) by 6-2 7-6(3)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
QF: Marcelo Arévalo (ESA) & Jonny O'Mara CR 120 (63+57) vs (WC) Christian Harrison & Dennis Novikov (USA/USA) CR 843 (676+167)
Let's hope Jonny & Marcelo can exact revenge.

And they do just that! smile

QF: Marcelo Arévalo (ESA) & Jonny O'Mara CR 120 (63+57) defeated (WC) Christian Harrison & Dennis Novikov (USA/USA) CR 843 (676+167) by 4 & 4 smile

Could be the Bryans in the semi.