Wimbledon qualifying

Sheddie · administrator

Wimbledon qualifying

DavidC · Tennis legend

Wimbledon qualifying starts on Monday for the men with the draw made later today.

According to www.wimbledon.org 8 out of 9 qualy WCs have been allocated to:

James Auckland
Kenneth Carlsen (Denmark)
Jeremy Chardy (by agreement with the ITF, as he won the Junior tournament last year)
Lee Childs
Colin Fleming
Josh Goodall
Jonny Marray
Wesley Whitehouse (SA)

However Jonny Marray has to withdraw if he beats Janko Tipsarevic and qualifies for Nottingham

Sheddie · administrator

Thanks for that info DavidC

I don't mind Chardy getting a wc as he deserves one for winning the junior tournament and also he's a fantastic prospect, definately a top 50 player in the future.

However, why on earth have Carlsen and Whitehouse got wcs. Carlsen is a veteran at 34 [?] and he should have bothered to enter on time - his ranking would have easily got him in directly. Whitehouse is ranked in the 600s, he's a weird player as on the grass he plays like someone in the top 200 and on any other surface he has bad results.

Hmmm, I'm quite torn as to who to support for the Marray-Tipsarevic match now. Marray has rd2 points to defend at Nottingham and so he needs to defend some of them but then again he'd be one of our best chances in the Wimbledon qualifying given his main draw performances over the last couple of years.

I wonder who'll get the final wc and also I wonder why they haven't announced who it is. I think it's likely to be Jamie Murray. Unless he gets a wc, Jamie will be quite stuck for this week - he can't play Nottingham doubles with Colin because Colin's playing Wimby qualies. I suppose he'd have to ask for a wc into Ireland F1 this week.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Jamie Murray will not be receiving a Wimbledon Qualy WC as he is down to play doubles with Andy in Nottingham (they play Justin Gimelstob and Stanislav Wawrinka).

The other British WC for Nottingham doubles goes to Martin Lee/Jamie Delgado who are drawn against the top seeds Jonathan Erlich/Andy Ram

Sheddie · administrator

Ok, thanks for that info. It'll be great to see how the Murray brothers do together and hopefully provide both of them with a boost ahead of Wimbledon.

I wonder whether Neil Bamford will get the final wc, he's the next in line rankings-wise. Either that or I wouldn't put it past them to be phoning up Donald Young right now

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Mondays Brits in qualifying:

Court 13
James Auckland v Simone Bolelli, 2nd match
Bamford/May v Motti/Smit, 5th match

Court 14
Rik de Voest v Joshua Goodall, 2nd match

Court 16
Jan Mertl v Colin Fleming, 1st match
Arvind Parmar v Santiago Gonzalez, 2nd match
Jonny Marray v Pavel Snobel, 3rd match
Ilia Bozoliac v Lee Childs, 4th match

All courts start 11am.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

So let's get the Andy Murray message board pins into Jan Mertl first, and hope that court 16 stays cursed against British players opponents all day!

I think they've all had a pretty good first round draw here! Joshs' match against De Voest is arguably the hardest given the surface.

I also fancy Bamford and May to qualify for the doubles main draw which would be nice!

Sheddie · administrator

Looking at the draw:

James Auckland has a decent chance, both the seeds in his section are clay-court specialists. His rd1 opponent Simone Bolelli is ranked 173, he's played in Halle on grass this year losing in rd2 qualifying. If James makes it through to the final qualies rd, he's probably most likely to face John-Paul Fruttero, the guy Martin Lee beat to qualify for Queens.

Josh Goodall will have it tough against Rik de Voest who's a big serving serve-volleyer who caused Andy Murray some problems earlier this year in Memphis. However, De Voest did lose his only grass match so far this year - lost in rd1 qualies for Halle.

Lee Childs has the toughest match, I can't see him beating Bozo. The Serbian player can serve at over 150mph and his blistering delivery put paid to GB's chances in the DC doubles in April.

If Colin can find his best form he has a good chance against Mertl who's never played on grass before. He's been playing mostly on clay so hopefully Colin's attacking game will catch the Czech off guard on the fast grass courts of Roehampton.

I can see Jonny Marray getting through to the final qualies rd but then I think that either Chardy or Kim could be too tough. His rd1 opponent is ranked 210 and is yet to play on grass this year.

Arvind has a reasonable draw. He definately ought to win rd1 against a clay-court specialist.

Sheddie · administrator

Scoreboard's not active yet

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I was just about to ask about that! All I can get is blurb about how it will work, and they state it will start from today, but nothing yet. Annoying.

steven · Tennis legend

It's working now:

Colin Fleming 4-6 7-6 (8-6)

James Auckland *2-2 (Adv Bolelli)

Josh Goodall *0-3 (30-0)

Sheddie · administrator

Colin's facing bps against Mertl

He's saved one but Mertl has another.

Currently 2-1 to Mertl in set 3

Phew !!!! Deuce.

I get the feeling that Colin's big serve is getting him out of trouble here

Sheddie · administrator

Josh has broken back against De Voest, it's now 3-3 in set 1.

James Auckland had a bright start against Simone Bolelli but got broken twice and lost set 1 6-3.

Colin's saved 3 bps so far in game 4 of set 3.

That 2nd set breaker in his match was really tight. He got to 6-3 up but then missed 3 set points and Mertl got it back to 6-6. Colin was able to get to 7-6 and then won the next point on Mertl's serve to take it.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

dont forget bolliei was ghood enoughto make the bergamo challengr final, beating a top italian on the way, so his game probab can work on fast surfaces.

Sheddie · administrator

2-2 now in Fleming-Mertl. That was a tough hold, 3 bps saved