Week 35 - Challenger ($50,000) - Bangkok, Thailand (Hard)

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

RE: Week 35 - Challenger ($50,000) - Bangkok, Thailand (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Huang Laing-Chi & Toshihide Matsui (TPE/JPN) CR 439 (175+264) vs James Cluskey (IRL) & Kyle Edmund UNR

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Not surprised that Kyle lost more games in R2 considering this guy was 18 and probably has more spark. There's nothing amazing about Kyle beating these two but there are positives to be taken if you want to take them. There's room for both the ordinary and the positive. I'd say that Duckworth's loss gives Edmund a much better chance of another Challenger SF but Thompson will be no easy deal and Kyle should, of course, be careful.

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
QF: (6) Kyle Edmund WR 243 vs Jordan Thompson (AUS) WR 278 (CH = 265 in June)

Thompson, who beat 2nd seed Duckworth today, is the player who lost to Liam in the semi-finals in Winnipeg last week.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

I watched around 20 mins of the Thompson / Duckworth match. It was not high quality, I'm sure both players would admit as much. I think neutral observers will have Kyle as the favourite. I wonder what the odds are? I might even try and wake up early enough to watch...

paulisi · Tennis legend

I think Kyle has a great chance of making the final here. He has had a small break and the standard of opposition is much lower than normal.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Win number 2 on the board, now the tournament really begins ( like the 2nd week of a slam for the top players ).
I see that Kyle is travelling with Trotters for this Asian swing, a decent sub for Greg.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Kyle first up again tomorrow at 10am local time. He could be in for along day, as he is scheduled to play QF singles, QF doubles and (if successful) SF doubles all in one day.

Should he win his QF singles, I hope that the doubles exertions don't impact on his singles SF which will no doubt be on Friday.

paulisi · Tennis legend

I'd expect him to not try too hard in the doubles QF.

Priesty · Challenger level

Kyle lost 3 and 1.
Some serving problems it seems - no aces, 4 doubles and only 49% first serves.
Hmm. ...oh well onto the next one....

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Disappointing, I think we were all expecting more. But like you say, on to the next one...

korriban · Challenger level

Disappointing. The first 2 matches were gimmes for someone of Kyle's current standard and potential level, which he won easily. This was likely to be a tougher match where I suspect most observers would have put Kyle as a slight favourite. To lose in 2 fairly easy sets wasn't what I expected at all.

indiana · Tennis legend

Ah, wasn't expecting to see a score like that.

However, the serve stats indicate real issues there, and you're always likely to have problems with stats like that. I hope Greg being missing isn't too big a handicap in looking to sort the serve out.

Hopefully he can, and have a good week next week.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

I'm watching a bit of Kyle's doubles, they served the first set at 5-4 but were broken. It is very, very windy. Perhaps Kyle didn't handle the wind well...

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

stevemcqueen wrote:
I'm watching a bit of Kyle's doubles, they served the first set at 5-4 but were broken. It is very, very windy. Perhaps Kyle didn't handle the wind well...

yes, quite possibly.

Kyle seems to be playing fine in the doubles (James too) so maybe just one of those things . . . one set and 5-2 up