Vancouver Challenger

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Vancouver Challenger

Nick_Squashplayer · Social player

I thought Jamie Murray was going to play the qualies as well, because he was going to team up in doubles with Colin Fleming?

Sheddie · administrator

Nick_Squashplayer wrote:

I thought Jamie Murray was going to play the qualies as well, because he was going to team up in doubles with Colin Fleming?

Jamie did plan to play the qualies but he's still involved in ATP los angeles having reached the semis [playing later this evening].

Jamie and Colin are still teaming up in doubles later this week.

Both Jamie Baker and Colin have pretty good draws. Jamie should breeze through to rd3 as both his prospective rd2 opponents have no ranking points, aren't even registered with the ITF and haven't played a pro tournament before. Jamie's seeded to face American Alex Reichel in rd3, Jamie will be big favourite as Reichel is ranked over 650 places lower at 942 and has only won 3 matches this year. He lost in Cordoba challenger qualifying in his last tournament.

Colin has an unranked Canadian 16 year old in rd2 today which is just as well as he had problems with flights last night and didn't arrive in Vancouver until 2am GMT so he's suffering from jetlag. Luckily he was able to make the qualies sign-in deadline via phone. If he makes it through to rd3 he could have a tricky match against Czech Ladislav Chramosta who's ranked 491, about 100 places lower than Colin. Chramosta reached the Granby challenger quarter-finals last week before losing to Noam Okun, beating 4th seed Cecil Mamiit along the way [wr:208] so he's clearly on fine form.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Qualifying round 2

Jaimie Baker def. Justin Kates 6-1, 6-1 (Next J Williams [USA] or A Reichel [USA] )

Colin Fleming def. G Hernandez 6-3 6-3 (Next L Chramosta [CZE] )

3 points for qualifying and 1 for rd 1 = 4 points at stake !

-- Edited by mjd at 08:25, 2006-07-30

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Main Draw

Richard Bloomfield has drawn Alun Jones (AUS)

Martin Lee has drawn Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)

Both are in the top half of the draw, only 1 'Q' in top half

and as if by magic Philippousis appears at the bottom

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

Qualifying OOP shows Baker second on court 1 and fleming third on court 2 with play starting at 11am. though how many hours are canada behind from Britain? i think its 5 hours, if so bakers match should be finished

RobC · All-time great

VSandhi20 wrote:

Qualifying OOP shows Baker second on court 1 and fleming third on court 2 with play starting at 11am. though how many hours are canada behind from Britain? i think its 5 hours, if so bakers match should be finished

Vancouver's all the way over on the West coast - similar longitude to LA, so you're looking at 8 hours difference. should still be over by now, though.

Montana Doug · Futures qualifying

UltimateFlemingFan wrote:

Nick_Squashplayer wrote:

I thought Jamie Murray was going to play the qualies as well, because he was going to team up in doubles with Colin Fleming?

Jamie did plan to play the qualies but he's still involved in ATP los angeles having reached the semis [playing later this evening]. Jamie and Colin are still teaming up in doubles later this week.

On the Tennis Channel over here they said Jamie was going to continue playing doubles with Butorac in Vancouver. I watched that final on TV, you can read my thoughts in the LA section. I thought they were a good team and was kinda happy that they would play together in the future. I can't wait to see the draw to see who Jamie is playing with.

I would not be shocked to discover that you know are more informed than the tennis channel though as I know you are in contact with Colin.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Qualifying round

Jeff Williams (USA) WR 1051 def Jamie Baker WR 289 7-6(3) 6-4

Ladislav Chramosta (CZE) WR 491 def Colin Fleming WR 378 6-3 6-1

Main Draw

Only Richard Bloomfield playing Alun Jones Monday NB 2.00pm (10.00pm BST)

Doubles

Just noticed Jamie Murray and Colin have entered doubles and Martin Lee has joined with Harel Levy and seeded 4th.

edit - Murray added in doubles comment
-- Edited by mjd at 09:33, 2006-07-31

-- Edited by mjd at 08:14, 2006-08-01

Niall · Pro player

Those are shocking results, Jamie should have cruised through that match and at the very least Colin should have been competitive in his match.

Another good chance wasted, Jamie is going to slip back bellow 300 as he is defending 8 points from last year, he needs to pull out some results soon or this tour is going to be a bust.

Martin Lee is also in the main draw, he has drawn the 3rd seed Yen-Hsun Lu.

Drew · Jul 31, 2006

Niall wrote :

Those are shocking results, Jamie should have cruised through that match and at the very least Colin should have been competitive in his match.

Drew wrote : ditto

Happycynic · Pro player

Methinks they will both be (proverbially) kicking themselves...

Count Zero · Tennis legend

poor results indeed, these are the kinda that always make you wonder if they will break through. hopefully thay can bounce back.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Philippousis has been replaced by LL Eric Tano (USA) - The question is, why was it not Jamie B? He was next in line for a LL spot, or was he already on a plane to next event? Or did he fail to sign LL list?

Count Zero · Tennis legend

didnt someone say they had changed the LL procedure so its out of a hat now rather than in ranking order to try and stop seeds throwing matches as such?