Stircrazy wrote:

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L28:  Cameron Norrie WR 41 (= CH) vs Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) WR 56 (CH = 48 in February last year)

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As per Madadman's post:

L28:  (9) Cameron Norrie WR 41 vs Alexei Popyrin (AUS) WR 67 (CH = 61 last month)

FQR: (qwc) Alastair Gray WR 1132 (CH = 986 in October 2017) vs (q5) James Duckworth (AUS) WR 92 (CH = 71 in February 2020)

Great QR1 win for Alastair and he'll be back in the top 1000, probably at a CH. But I suspect Duckworth will have rather too much. 

emmsie69 wrote:

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Bit of trivia, Alistair played Kwon Soonwoo at Surbiton 2019 and lost. Looking at his results last year in Pro series somewhere in the 300-400 bracket would probably be a reasonable rating for him, maybe higher. In the 2nd Pro series he beat Liam, Adian and Ryan Penniston

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 Yes, but he also played a lot of ITF events last year and never got out of qualis.

In fact, he played 5 events last autumn with the results being:

Lost in QR1: 1x

Lost in QR2: 1x

Lost in FQR: 3x

 

Which really doesn't tie in with 300-400 and might say more about how Ryan and Aidan were playing.

However, I did note at the time that a lot of his losses were in MTBs. (Four out of five, in fact)

So there was maybe something about matchplay that could be improved. Or about him being really a grass courter.

 

I remember the match in Surbiton too - as previously posted yesterday, I saw him lose the amazingly close heartbreaker against Saville in the FQR (third-set TB).

And then he got a LL spot to play Kwon in R1. Which was pretty close, especially in the second set. Impressive tennis. And very much a grass court game (hence, maybe the losses above? Although his Pro wins were not on grass, obviously).

Either which way, he was always in the top cohort of Jay and Ryan Storrie (rather than the others mentioned). And college tennis seems to have done him good. He looked a touch slow at times yesterday. But I don't know how the court was playing. And the LTA seem to think highly of him (quite rightly), hence the wimbly dubs wildcard, as well as qualis one here and last week in Notts.  

 

 

Just to tie into talks about Ali's results, I posted last year about Zizou Bergs who won a round in a 250 in the middle of three futures qualifying defeats. This year after two successive futures R1 defeats he has now won 3 challengers (though bizzarely still only at WR 220???).

wolf wrote:

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Just to tie into talks about Ali's results, I posted last year about Zizou Bergs who won a round in a 250 in the middle of three futures qualifying defeats. This year after two successive futures R1 defeats he has now won 3 challengers (though bizzarely still only at WR 220???).

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 Its really hard to make progress on the Challenger tour right now, Liam had a similar problem. Getting the results but not moving up the rankings.  Hopefully a few players will have a big jump up shortly when all the points bottleneck releases.  Also looking at those itfs that Ali played in, he lost to the same guy twice who had been around the 300 mark in 2018.  Just really hard right now to get a proper idea of where a player is.

FQR:  (q5) James Duckworth (AUS) WR 92 defeated (qWC) Alastair Gray WR 1132 by 6-3 7-6(4)

My internet cut out at 3-3 .
Would have been great to see a third set.
But think the score overall seems fair.
It's a decent score, though, against a reasonable grass court top 100 player.