Nottingham Challenger

Count Zero · Tennis legend

RE: Nottingham Challenger

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Thanks cOunt. That's really interesting. Is that all main draw matches or qualifying as well!?

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i think its just challenger and higher lvl, but does include Qm, not 100%

heres the link to the info, shows stats from playing in differnt regions too.

http://www.tennisinsight.com/player_stats.php?player_id=240

Count Zero · Tennis legend

btw i am not sure they are 100% accurate as i have just looked at boggo's and that shows his carpet stats as: W1-L2 over the last 12 months but i am sure he won bergamo which was carpet. his indoor hard stats are won 22 lost 4 over the last 12 months, i think they may have put his carpet wins there by mistake.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

More R1:

Joseph Sirianni (Aus) bt Martin Lee (Gbr) 6-4 4-6 6-3

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Sally wrote:

More R1: Joseph Sirianni (Aus) bt Martin Lee (Gbr) 6-4 4-6 6-3

That's a shocking result. Gutted.

More results -

Antony Dupuis (Fra) bt Andrew Coelho (Aus) 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-2

Ivan Navarro Pastor (Esp) bt Tomislav Peric (Cro) 6-7 (6-8) 7-5 7-5,

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Doubles round 1 (selected results)

Marray and Lee beat Crisp and McGahon 60 60

Kennaugh and May beat Peric and Zovko by a walkover

Rob Chambers and James Prescott (GBR) lost to Fitzgerald and Mishra 61 63.

Sheddie · administrator

johnnylad wrote:

I don't get this fascination with Alan Mackin and clay courts. He talks about clay as his favourite surface but all his best results seem to come on the grass. Also he would easily make the clay chalenger draw in Finland this week but has chosen to play on grass. Has a good chance too!

I agree, Alan's a much better player on grass and faster surfaces than on clay. On clay, he hasn't had the weapons to hit through opponents as it's so slow, the only weapon he's got is his consistency. When he comes up against a really hard-hitting opponent on clay, he struggles. On the faster courts, his serve and forehand are more effective, plus his speed about the court and retrieving ability are more useful. I think Alan's starting to realise this himself, he's playing less and less tournaments on clay.

Sheddie · administrator

Slabinsky and a lot of the British juniors are missing from this tournament due to the summer county cup which is going on this week [I'll start a new thread for that in a sec].

That's quite a shocker for Martin Lee, a good run this week would have put him in the top 200. However, Sirianni is also on-form having reached the Manchester quarters last week and in June he qualified for the ATP grass court tournament in Holland. He's a former top 200 player and a couple of years ago he beat Max Mirnyi at the Aussie Open. Incidentally Sirianni was the guy Martin Lee played in rd1 of the Scottish Open when he had to retire with a rib injury when serving for the match.

Apart from a slight scare against Chris Eaton in rd2, Colin played really well in the qualies, beating Bamford 4 and 1 was really impressive as Bammy has caused him problems in the past - he beat Colin in 3 sets at Surbiton. It's a shame he's got the worst draw of the qualifiers but I've got a good feeling about the Elseneer match. The "Beast of Belgium" is ranked 186, he has been in the top 100 and possesses a booming 1st serve but he hasn't been at his best lately - he had an unexpected defeat to the much lower ranked Zovko last week and lost in rd1 of Cordoba the week before. The grass courts of Nottingham play slightly differently to those of Manchester so hopefully Colin can catch him off-guard.

Mackin has the jammiest draw now Boggo has gone, his rd1 opponent - French qualifier Julien Maes is ranked 574. Maes did reach the Frinton quarters last week but the field there was really weak. After last week's win over Matsui, I'd pick Ross Hutchins to overcome Alex Miotto and be Mackin's potential rd2 opponent - that could be a tricky match for Alan given Hutchins' current form but probably one of the best rd2 matches he could have hoped for.

Given Parmar's current form I can't see him overcoming the 6ft7 giant which is Chris Guccione. Parmar does lead 2-0 on head-to-heads, he won 6-4, 7-6 in Aussie Open qualies 2002 and won 7-6 [7-2], 6-7[11-13], 6-4 in Binghampton 2004. However, Guccione is a much improved player from 2 years ago.

Jamie Delgado has played Aisam Ul-Qureshi once before, the Pakistani no 1 won 7-6, 3-6, 6-3 on indoor hard in GB F3 this year. Given Qureshi's liking for grass and that Delgado is likely to be still physically and mentally drained from the weekend I can;t see him winning

-- Edited by UltimateFlemingFan at 16:09, 2006-07-25

Niall · Pro player

More results, Tom Rushby put up a good fight but Josh Goodall's good run continues.

1st round:

Joshua Goodall (Gbr) bt Tom Rushby (Gbr) 6-4 6-4

Paul Baccanello (Aus) bt Rameez Junaid (Aus) 6-7 (7-4) 7-6 (7-3) 6-3

Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (Pak) bt Fabrice Martin (Fra) 6-4 6-3,

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Niall wrote:

Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (Pak) bt Fabrice Martin (Fra) 6-4 6-3,

Has Jamie Deglado withdrawn?

steven · Tennis legend

Yes he has, the curse of playing DC strikes again.

He's going to drop 20-30 places this week now that he can't defend his Lexington points from last year.

Sheddie · administrator

Sally wrote:

Niall wrote:
Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (Pak) bt Fabrice Martin (Fra) 6-4 6-3,
Has Jamie Deglado withdrawn?

He must have done, Fabrice Martin is a lucky loser. Not surprising really, 2 five setters in 2 days must really take a lot out of you especially if you lose them both.

Out of interest, I just looked up Robert Searle on the ITF. He was one of our top juniors in 2002, reaching a high of no 57 in the world. He's a bit similar to Jamie Murray who made the top 50 juniors but has also struggled to get results on the senior circuit.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Good result from Josh, its the first match out of the last 9 that he has won where he has not dropped a set! Josh has had a fantastic grass court season so far, having qualified for Wimbledon, won at Felixtowe, finalist in Manchester and still in the hunt in Manchester. I make that won 12, lost 2. Many of his matches have been extremely close though. It would be intereresting to know his current mindset - does he feel like his brain is frazzled with all the tension, or does he relish the final set tie-breaker, knowing that he's done it before and that he can most likely do it again? Winning these tight matches is great, but I'd also like to see him dishing out more bakery produce (ie bread sticks and bagels) and being in the bar after just an hour.

I imagine his good run has rather changed his plans for the next three months. I know he is down to play F11 in Ilkely (last chance to make hay onthe grass!) but withdrawn from F12 (Wrexham, hard courts) the following week. Perhaps he'll concentrate on Challengers, I think he he should!

-- Edited by stevemcqueen at 16:56, 2006-07-25

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i hope josh can continue on up, i think people fail to realise how tough the transition is to the top lvl, generally expecting a swift jump up there, then when it doesnt appear, as with boggo, get panned. Josh will probably benefit from the fact the the country/press has calmed down from the next henman hype which got to boggo, and i think we still see long lasting effects of that even today, thanks to murray making that jump, how many players actaully do it in a generation 3/4 out of the whole world?, yet the brits public think every semi decent british player under the age of 21 should do it.

hopefully for josh's sake he can quietly get on with it without all that extra hassle, but unforuntly i doubt that will happen.