Week 41 - ATP Challenger 125 - Hangzhou, China (hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

RE: Week 41 - ATP Challenger 125 - Hangzhou, China (hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
indiana wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
indiana wrote:
Hopefully he can at least win a round or two more here to keep well in the hunt going forward.
McDonald will be no pushover.
Yes, I edited in some thoughts on McDonald, probably just as you were posting.
Didnt McDonald play well for the USA in Davis Cup recently as well, I think he appeared for them

Looking at his activity, he played and won one match in the China group. Beat Lukas Klein (SVK) WR 128 (CH 109) by 6-4 6-3

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
indiana wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
indiana wrote:
Hopefully he can at least win a round or two more here to keep well in the hunt going forward.
McDonald will be no pushover.
Yes, I edited in some thoughts on McDonald, probably just as you were posting.
Didnt McDonald play well for the USA in Davis Cup recently as well, I think he appeared for them
Looking at his activity, he played and won one match in the China group. Beat Lukas Klein (SVK) WR 128 (CH 109) by 6-4 6-3

Ok, still will be a tough opponent for Billy - experienced and has been playing out in China so well versed to conditions and time zone as well.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (3) Cristian Rodríguez & Matthew Romios (COL/AUS) CR 206 (108+98) defeated Ray Ho (TPE) & Joshua Paris CR 296 (138+158) by 7-6(4) 6-7(1) [13-11] hmm

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Billy got thrashed 6-0 6-1. Ouch!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Madadman wrote:
Billy got thrashed 6-0 6-1. Ouch!

I think many thought MxDonald would be tough, but thats a fair old whooping.

Maybe Billy has run out of steam this year and needs to regather over the close season.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Billys schedule shows another Chinese challenger next week and then two more in Europe, Brest and Bratislava. So hes certainly pushing himself to the end of the year. Theres one more week after Bratislava as well, no doubt he will turn up somewhere then as well.

Priesty · Challenger level

Ouch, definitely didn't want a bagel from McDonald's this morning cry

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Priesty wrote:
Ouch, definitely didn't want a bagel from McDonald's this morning

biggrin Oh, I like that.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Mackenzie McDonald (USA) WR 151 defeated (7) Billy Harris WR 106 by 0 & 1

The result I feared, but not the scoreline. hmm

On the other hand:

QF: Ugo Blanchet (FRA) & Billy Harris CR 929 (426+503) defeated (2) Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli & Arjun Kadhe (IND/IND) CR 195 (103+92) by 6-3 7-6(6) biggrin

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Not to be for Billy, he and partner went down in the MTB.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (WC) Sun Fajing & Te Rigele (CHN/CHN) CR 788 (290+498) defeated Ugo Blanchet (FRA) & Billy Harris CR 929 (426+503) by 6-2 3-6 [10-5] hmm