Roland Garros qualies

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

RE: Roland Garros qualies

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Blast. 1 set all. 7-3 in the tie break. Arthurs is putting up a fight.

Sheddie · administrator

Similar to down here, very sunny at times but very changeable.

Oh no, Arvind collapses in the breaker and loses it 7-3

He'd been serving and holding so easily but collapsed under pressure, Grrrrr !

Predictions for the 3rd set ?

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

looks like arv was rushing in the 1st set, while arthurs will getting used to the conditions!! looks likes he going to win now!!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

3rd set 1-0 Arvind. Good solid game

Sheddie · administrator

Arvind starts the 3rd set with a hold to love, hopefully a sign of things to come.

Now why couldn't he have served like that in the breaker.

Set 2 stats coming up...

Sheddie · administrator

Set 2 stats:

Both players had high 1st serve percentages of 64% and 65% respectively. Chances on serve were few and far between with Parmar winning 83% of 1st serve points and 62% of 2nd serve points. Arthurs won 91% of 1st serve points and 67% of 2nd serve points.
Arthurs powered down 5 aces.

Parmar continued to try to outdo Arthurs for consistency and in that respect he was succesful as the Aussie made 13 ues to Parmar's 6.

However, that was counterbalanced by Arthurs smashing 20 winners compared to just 7 from Parmar.

Despite the match being played on clay, Arthurs has attacked the net a lot and has been successful winning 65% of net points.

Sheddie · administrator

2-1 Parmar, still on serve

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Arvind took WAyne to deuce in the second game of the set but Arthurs pulled through. Parpar then wobbled a bit himself taken to deuce twice but managed to hold for 2-1.

Its good that he's serving first in this set.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

2nd qualifying seed Hyung Taik Lee is gone in the first round.

Top seed Simon Greul is 3 1 down in the final set to a frenchman, which is promising for Tims ranking battles! Robert just broke him again. 4-1 with a double break. Its looking like a bad day for seeds at the French Open qualifiers!

-- Edited by johnnylad at 09:41, 2006-05-23

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Took Arthurs to 30 in the returning game and served out to 15. 3-2 Arvind.

If he can keep up this percentage of winning returning points he should be on top and maybe sneak a break out of the big Aussie!

-- Edited by johnnylad at 09:43, 2006-05-23

Sheddie · administrator

johnnylad wrote:

Arvind took WAyne to deuce in the second game of the set but Arthurs pulled through. Parpar then wobbled a bit himself taken to deuce twice but managed to hold for 2-1.
Its good that he's serving first in this set.

I agree, Arvind has the tendency to get a little tight when under pressure and I wouldn't be too confident at him serving to stay in the match.

He had chances in that last game but Arthurs held to 30.

Game 2 of this set was the first deuce since set 1 !

The winner of this match will play either John Van Lottum or Ricardo Mello. Mello was a set and a break up but Van Lottum fought back and it's now in a 3rd set.

Hyung-Taik Lee losing is a big upset ! Not that surprised about Simon Greul though, he's a very inconsistent player, still can't believe that Henman lost to him in Miami

Sheddie · administrator

Arthurs is up 40-0 in this game

In case anyone didn't realise, there's no tiebreak in this set. They just play until there's a break. With the way these two are serving, I wouldn't be surprised if the final set score is something like 10-8.

Sheddie · administrator

3-3

30-0 to Big Arvs on serve

johnnylad · Tennis legend

UltimateSlabbaFan wrote:

Not that surprised about Simon Greul though, he's a very inconsistent player, still can't believe that Henman lost to him in Miami

Greul is fighting back. 4-4 now. I always speak too soon.

My money is sadly on Wayne Arthurs to finish off this match

-- Edited by johnnylad at 09:52, 2006-05-23