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Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 24 - ATP Challenger 125 - Lexus Open - Nottingham, Great Britain (grass)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nice one

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L32: (Q) Jay Clarke WR 250 defeated (SE) Tristan Boyer (USA) WR 191 by 7-6(3) 6-3

L16: Christopher O'Connell (AUS) WR 154 (CH = 53 in September 2023) vs (Q) Jay Clarke WR 250

O'Connell beat the sixth seed, Henrique Rocha, in straight sets in his first round match.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L32: Roman Safiullin (***) WR 131 defeated (WC) Oliver Tarvet WR 344 by 4-6 6-3 6-2

L32: (LL) August Holmgren (DEN) WR 143 defeated (Q) Alastair Gray WR 270 by 4 & 5

L32: Arthur Géa (FRA) WR 135 defeated (Q) Anton Matusevich WR 385 by 3 & 3

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Billy playing well

One set all

And now a break up in the third

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Christopher O'Connell (AUS) WR 154 (CH = 53 in September 2023) vs (Q) Jay Clarke WR 250

L32: (WC) Billy Harris WR 142 defeated (4) Coleman Wong (HKG) WR 109 by 7-5 3-6 6-1 biggrin

*****

L16: (WC) Billy Harris WR 142 vs Arthur Géa (FRA) WR 135

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Excellent, Billy

Enjoyed that

JonH · Tennis legend

Good stuff - Billy has won a match at each of the 3 challenger's so far, hopefully push further this week

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And Felix takes the first set TB

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L32: (WC) Felix Gill WR 222 (CH = 220 last week) vs (5) Hugo Gaston (FRA) WR 117 (CH = 58 in July 2022)

BLSP with the score at 7-6(4) 5-5*. Felix had gone two breaks down in that second set, but somehow fought his way back to all square. Only trouble is, it will be bloody Bu (SE) or Virtanen in the next round is he does pull it off.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L32: (WC) Felix Gill WR 222 (CH = 220 last week) vs (5) Hugo Gaston (FRA) WR 117 (CH = 58 in July 2022)
BLSP with the score at 7-6(4) 5-5*. Felix had gone two breaks down in that second set, but somehow fought his way back to all square. Only trouble is, it will be bloody Bu (SE) or Virtanen in the next round is he does pull it off.

He was only one break down

But still did well to fight back - and save SPs

Ballcrewparent · Improver

I've been at nottingham on and off since Saturday so here are some thoughts on the matches i saw at least some of:
QR1 jansen did well but just lost out in 3 sets to a much higher ranked opponent. Hurrien looked good in flashes but never seemed likely to win against a more consistant opponent. He didn't seem 100% well either...

Didn't see much of the men in QR2 but did enjoy watching mochizuki gonthrougy inn R1.

Today i saw a bit of jay from the adjacent court. He raced to 4-0 in the first set but then got pegged back so did well to turn it round and served it out well at the end. Billy played very well in the 3rd set to win his match. Then over to court 1 where felix had just won the 1st set. Gaston was looking comfortable to 3-0 in set 2 (including underarm drop shot serve) and felix managed to pull it back. Some good rallies although I'm not sure how they could see the ball in the last 2 games!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ballcrewparent wrote:
I've been at nottingham on and off since Saturday so here are some thoughts on the matches i saw at least some of:
QR1 jansen did well but just lost out in 3 sets to a much higher ranked opponent. Hurrien looked good in flashes but never seemed likely to win against a more consistant opponent. He didn't seem 100% well either...

Didn't see much of the men in QR2 but did enjoy watching mochizuki gonthrougy inn R1.

Today i saw a bit of jay from the adjacent court. He raced to 4-0 in the first set but then got pegged back so did well to turn it round and served it out well at the end. Billy played very well in the 3rd set to win his match. Then over to court 1 where felix had just won the 1st set. Gaston was looking comfortable to 3-0 in set 2 (including underarm drop shot serve) and felix managed to pull it back. Some good rallies although I'm not sure how they could see the ball in the last 2 games!

Thanks - always love firsthand reports biggrin

paulisi · Tennis legend

I watched all of Oli's match and he deserved the opening set as he was far more solid than the Frenchman, who made a lot of errors.
The second and third sets were totally different as the errors stopped and Oli couldnt counter.
Havent seen Oli before, but very strong defensively.

I watched Jay from 4-1 up and then he got broken twice.
However he maintained his composure, held his serve and cruised through the rest of the match against an error ridden opponent.

Finally Billy Harris put up an excellent performance against the big serving lad from HK. The final set was terrific.
Once he worked out how to return serve effectively, he was in control.
I saw 2 games of Felix Gill(it was late and i had a 2 hour drive) in which he got broken. Glad to see he got the break back.

Challengers with electronic line calling is a new one to me...