Nice one, Shhh - yes, Ryan P certainly deserves his own thread

I so enjoyed seeing Ryan beat Mannarino today at Surbiton, I wanted to update this thread.

Being local to me I have followed his career but it seems like just over a year ago, he was stuck at 350. He recorded wins against several 300+ in the rankings but when they were ranked higher than that, wins were few and far between. At the end of May 2021 he headed off to Greece for back to back 15k's and he won them both picking up 10pts for each. A win a Queens qualies followed on the grass and good performance at the qualies for Wimbledon too saw him emerge a different player afterwards. He started making quarters at challenger level, 6 times in fact over the next few months at 3 finals as well (2 in 50k's and 1 at 80k) 12 months on from that trip to Greece he has gone from 0 to 14 double figures rankings scores which has seen him rise into the top 200. A tribute to real consistency over the last 12 months.

Of course all these scores have to be defended and I thought to still be top 200 in a years time might actually be good work. Today he took a good scalp though and in doing so showed how strong his game is. Having had some of his success on Clay I was surprised how good his Grass game is. When you think of the childhood illness he fought through he is a really good story and I hope todays win can give him the confidence to go much higher still.

Ryan is near the top of the entry list for her Lexington Challenger in early August as he preps for the US Open qualies. Presumably too late to get his ranking high enough for a DA to main draw, given hes not playing in July.

indiana wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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Ryan is near the top of the entry list for her Lexington Challenger in early August as he preps for the US Open qualies. Presumably too late to get his ranking high enough for a DA to main draw, given hes not playing in July.

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Yes, far too late. Usually the MD entry is based on the rankings from 6 weeks before the first Monday of a Slam which would make it this coming Monday.

Hope she still does well at her Lexington Challenger   

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 Yes me too, I suggest we change her name to Rihanna 

So it was nip and tuck, but in the end Ryan finishes the year as GB#6.

Ryan's escapades in the summer means, he clocks in the greatest percentage of points from grass tournaments (54.4%).  His success helped him break into the Top150, but with 185 points all coming in June, it represents almost 55% of his points, the highest monthly concentration of points amongst the Top10. Along with Andy and Liam, he was unable to secure a title in 2022, instead going 0 for 2.  Instead he found himself being a bit of a quarterfinal addict, collecting almost 60% of his points from that round.

 

kundalini wrote:

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Thanks.

I'm surprised to see Ryan going from picking up 44.9% of his points on hard in 2021, to 7.9% in 2022.

He doesn't appear to have carried much momentum after his astonishing grass season. Instead of pushing towards the top 100, his ranking declined.

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 Paulisi noted during US Open qualifying that Ryan seemed to be outpowered on hard courts by players of a similar ranking during the longer rallies that don't tend to happen on grass. I fear he might not make that much of an impression on the slower surfaces.

Great to see he is past injury and raring to go! Be good to see him and Liam chase each other to the top 100!