JonH comes home wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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L24:  Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) & Joe Salisbury CR 55 (43+12) vs Neal Skupski & Michael Venus (NZL) CR 47 (23+24) 

L24:  BYE vs (8) Harri Heliövaara (FIN) & Henry Patten CR 35 (17+18)

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 Lloyd is into main draw with Pavlasek: they play Gille and Vliegen tomorrow in round one. 

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In the bottom quarter of the draw.  

L16:  (8) Harri Heliövaara (FIN) & Henry Patten CR 28 (13+15) vs (PR) Marin Cilic & Ivan Dodig (CRO/CRO) UNR (0+28)

The real maturing insight here is that the top players win 53% of points (true in general terms!) - the second tier of players win maybe 51% of points - so there is a 1-2% of points difference between the top players and the really good players - a typical match is maybe 20-30 games, 120-180 points. So we are talking 3 or 4 points in a match that make the difference to being a top, top player.

Win those and win them consistently and you are on your way - if Jack is learning when to do that, marvellous.

In the summer he hired Wayne Ferreira to fix his service - I read Ferreira worked on technique and it didnt really work out; Jacks percentage of serves in is and remained quite low. In recent weeks at the US and Vienna, having sacked Ferreira, he worked on his ball toss and not his technique. His percentage first serve in has risen a lot and he is now moving up from 50 something percent in to nearly 70 percent in and reaping the benefits by winning lots of first serve points.

Tennis is a margin sport and getting those margins right (marginal gains) and at the right times, can make all the difference!

Stircrazy wrote:

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L16:  (8) Harri Heliövaara (FIN) & Henry Patten CR 28 (13+15) vs (PR) Marin Cilic & Ivan Dodig (CRO/CRO) UNR (0+28)

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L24:  Neal Skupski & Michael Venus (NZL) CR 39 (19+20) defeated Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) & Joe Salisbury CR 63 (45+18) by 1 & 0 

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L16:  (1) Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos (ESP/ARG) CR 2 (1+1) vs Neal Skupski & Michael Venus (NZL) CR 39 (19+20)

Fritz looked absolutely distraught when he was broken in the third game and he never seriously looked like breaking back into the set until Jack was serving for it. Suddenly TF found another level and it was 5 all. It's like an echo of what JonH was saying, the big points, the ones that get you over the line, those are the ones that really matter, although I still fancied Jack to hold his nerve for the tie break.

-- Edited by Neil Gee on Wednesday 30th of October 2024 07:15:30 PM

Joe seems to be on a really bad run. 0 and 1 is well, terrible at this level. Hope he bounces back for next season.

Looking at Neal beating Joe 61 60 in advance of their pairing together...