Bronx 50K Challenger

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Bronx 50K Challenger

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Salamanca is aged 23 and ranked 323 which is pretty much his high point which tells me he's on his way up! Looks like he's a clay courter though. Won the Cuenca challenger this year and QF in Bogota.

Mergea is 21 and ranked 294. Reached QF in Milan challenger but best results have been in Romanian futures. Arvind should beat him.

Wessles is 28 now and has slipped from 72 in the world this time last year to 225. I don't know if its becasue of injury or poor form, but hopefully either way Jamie can catch him off guard and steal his seeding spot in the qualifying draw. Wessels made the final at the ST Brieuc challenger this year but no other results of much note. In fact he's lost his last 5 matches. Come on Jamie B!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

The draw has changed an Josh Goodall has appeared!!!!!!!!!!!! He plays Eric Taino of Phillippines in r1 and is in same quarter as top seed and fast rising junior champion Marin Cilic!

steven · Tennis legend

Changed since when? He was already shown on the draw early this morning.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I didn't see him there when I started this topic earlier but I was probably just wrong. Just glad he's there and hope he can keep up his good form heading towards US Open qualies!

steven · Tennis legend

Yes

they all need some encouragement before USOQ!

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

It's nice to see so many Brits trying Challengers instead of playing safe with Futures and Satellites.

Good luck to them all.

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: Josh Goodall WR 260 beat Eric Taino (PHI) WR 359 by 4 & 0
QR1: (q2) Martin Lee WR 205 beat Carlos Salamanca (COL) WR 323 by 3-6 6-1 7-6(2)
QR1: Jamie Baker WR 310 beat (q6) Peter Wessels (NED) WR 225 by 4-0 ret.
QR1: (q8) Arvind Parmar WR 257 beat Florin Mergea (ROM) WR 294 by 5 & 5

QR2: Josh Goodall WR 260 beat (q7) Fabio Fognini (ITA) WR 253 by 1-6 6-0 7-6(5)
QR2: (q2) Martin Lee WR 205 beat Pierre-Ludovic Duclos (CAN) WR 614 by 2 & 2
QR2: Jamie Baker WR 310 lost to Gianluca Naso (ITA) WR 391 by 0-6 6-2 6-4
QR2: (q8) Arvind Parmar WR 257 beat (WC) Todd Paul (USA) WR 1003 by 3-6 6-4 6-1

Josh impressed again, beating Taino more easily than expected then coming back from a 1-6 1st set loss to beat seeded Fognini, while Martin and Arvind won the matches they were expected too, for some reason getting much lower-ranked opponents in QR2 than in QR1. Jamie got a bit of good fortune when Wessels retired, but who knows what happened against Naso, when he lost after bagelling him in the 1st set?

QR3: Josh Goodall WR 260 v (q1) Marin Cilic (CRO) WR 197

Cilic was the player who won Roland Garros juniors last year, beating Andy Murray in the semis, and was no. 1 junior in the world earlier this year. Since then, he has been shooting up the senior rankings, qualifying and then reaching the semis of the main tour event at Gstaad, for example. His best results have come on clay though.

QR3: (q2) Martin Lee WR 205 v (q5) Andrea Stoppini (ITA) WR 224

Stoppini beat Agassi in Washington.

QR3: (q8) Arvind Parmar WR 257 v Harsh Mankad (IND) WR 298

Mankad beat Josh in the Manchester Final, but more encouragingly his one previous meeting with Arvind was the following week at the Nottingham Challenger, Mankad's last match before yesterday, when Arvind won 3 & 3. He did thrash Bloomers' nemesis Alun Jones yesterday though.

Niall · Pro player

Good results for three of the Brits but what on earth happened to Jamie Baker? He should have beaten Naso, especially after such an easy first round match. Maybe he got overconfident after winning the first set 6-0 but there are worse things than bageling an opponent. I thought Jamie had got back on track at Binghampton, now he will be looking to once again bounce back from disappointment.

Josh Goodall has drawn a real star of the future in Marin Cilic, the 1988 generation of Korolev, Del Potro, Gulbis, and Cilic haven't made the impression that Murray and Djokovic made last season but there seems to be a greater breadth of talent and I think it is just a matter of time before all of these players make a big breakthrough. Hopefully it won't be this week for Cilic.

-- Edited by Niall at 13:06, 2006-08-13

johnnylad · Tennis legend

3quite tough final qualifying matches for the British guys.

However I am encouraged by the fact that I don't expect them all to lose limply like I have expected in the past. I think the current situation of players ranked 200-600 is quite encouraging for British tennis!

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

According to MTF, Mankad d. Arvind Parmar 64 61 in QR3.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Cilic beat Josh Goodall 62 63

Stoppini beat Martin Lee 62 63

Hopefully there's a slim chance of a ll spot for one of them. As 3 of the four final round losers were Brits but we'll have to wait and see.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Some pretty random doubles pairing this week!

J Murray/P Capdeville

Fleming/Parmar (wild cards)

Goodall/Ratiwatana ( maybe sonchat's brother is injured - fair enough)

Lee/Levy (played together last week - fair enough)

I can only think Arvind really wanted to play to get match practice for US open qualies but couldn't make the cut so begged Colin or Jamie to play with him and the other had to find someone fast. Its not as if they've just played the final of another tournament or something!

Niall · Pro player

As it stands there are no Brits in the main draw.

Martin Lee is first in line for a lucky loser spot, then big Arvs but it is disapointing that none of the Brits put up a fight.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

What is the situation for LL spots in challengers? I think I read here that it has changed, and that the lucky loser sports are drawn out of a hat, instead of going to the highest ranked player. Assuming that some LL spots become available, we must have chance!