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Sheddie · administrator

Week 26 - The Championships, Wimbledon (grass) - men's qualifying

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Lambda wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Im expecting one win for the men today- Jubby- hoping for two (Jubby plus Ive a gut feeling Ryan may have experience on his side against Landaluce); 3 would be a miracle to me, at least!
I have every faith in Ollie T being able to grind out a win for the college boys.
And young Oliver repays Lambda's confidence with a convincing win:
QR2: (qWC) Oliver Tarvet WR 719 defeated Alexis Galarneau (CAN) WR 210 by 3 & 2

Curious that, when it's interrupted coverage of Ryan's match to report on the outcome of matches on other courts & conduct one of those cringe-worthy interviews with a pesky, there's been no mention of which I'm aware of Oliver's result or any sign of a brief chat with him. furious

Sheddie · administrator

Ryan broken and then had 0-40 in the next game to break straight back, but missed all 3 bps

LordBrownof · Futures level

Hamish was broken back and now into a tie break.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Brilliant, well done Oli T!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

And good call, Lambda

Sheddie · administrator

LordBrownof wrote:
Hamish was broken back and now into a tie break.

Had to switch off as that was a brutal watch.

Hamish was playing so well, serving huge. The Frenchman should have been a goner - Hamish had match point at 5-3, but got tight and sent a forehand long. Then played his first tight service game of the set while serving for it and let his man back in. Such a tough loss as was on his racket

DF · Tennis legend

9-9

simon381 · Lower Club Player

Yay! Well done Hamish! 11-9 in the tiebreak.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
FQR: (qWC) Oliver Tarvet WR 719 vs (q29) Alexander Blockx (BEL) WR 144 (CH = 140 two weeks ago)
I presume that that match will be Oliver's first taste of a best-of-five sets encounter.

And Hamish takes full advantage of his lucky break on Monday:

QR2: (qWC) Hamish Stewart WR 550 defeated Luca van Assche (FRA) WR 182 by 7-6(3) 4-6 7-6(11-9) biggrin

He trailed for most of that MTB! Didn't see that coming at all! Good job I'm not a betting woman! smile

*****

FQR: (qWC) Hamish Stewart WR 550 vs Leandro Riedi (SUI) WR 506 (CH = 117 last August)

The Swiss beat the Argentine q24, Gómez, in three sets.

Sheddie · administrator

I assumed Hamish was done and dusted, but I take it all back....

DF · Tennis legend

Wow! Well done!

Sheddie · administrator

He was 8-4 down in that tiebreak!

Grachka · County player

Reports of his demise have been greatly exaggerated etc. etc.

Hamish came back from 4-8 down and then 7-9 (saving two MPs) to win the final set tiebreak 11-9. Supreme effort.

miriam abc · Strong Club Player

Sheddie wrote:
Watching Hamish here:

jokerfreestreams.com/352f9a5d/55da4b3a/bb8f4136

Thanks for that Sheddie, just caught the final few points of the tie break.