Week 40 - Challenger ($100,000) - Sacramento, USA

wolf · Tennis legend

Week 40 - Challenger ($100,000) - Sacramento, USA

Spectator · All-time great

Not a great draw. Farah is good, and once again, I think he's "At home." (While he is Colombian, I seem to recollect that he also used to play at the University of Southern California. Could be wrong on that though)

S&V · Club Coach

Sacramento is pretty far from USC (about an 8 hour drive is my guess) so no real 'home' draw.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Farah's dropped out of the top 200 this week, seems he's mainly a dubs guy, but clearly he's very capable on the singles court too.

Going to be tough for Alex you feel. a really hard few weeks for him for various reasons so i doubt he is going into this feeling confident, unlike last time on switching from future to challengers where he was flying. having said that the switch from futures to challengers may also be good for him mentally.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

not going well for alex, 61 41 down. massively struggeling on serve, i still dont even know if he is fully fit.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

well boggo ges a bp, only to have it snuffed out by 3 aces(inc one on a second serve) 61 51

Count Zero · Tennis legend

now alex holds to love, inc a brace of aces, wonder if farah is just coasting tho.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

GSM 61 62.

never really a match as such. clearly a torried 4 weeks in california for alex.

few weeks off now, to regroup, recover and work out what went wrong, before a last few challengers to finish the year.

RJA · Hall of fame

Count Zero wrote:
few weeks off now, to regroup, recover and work out what went wrong, before a last few challengers to finish the year.

What about Tiburon next week?

Count Zero · Tennis legend

he's said he's not planning on going to the qualies there.