Week 4 - Challenger ($50,000) - Hong Kong - Hard

Jan · Hall of fame

RE: Week 4 - Challenger ($50,000) - Hong Kong - Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Excellent stuff.

And seems to have put a stop on some slightly alarming fall aways of the past, staying with it and as said dealing well with tight situations. Presumably much due to physical and mental development, and should be plenty more to come.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Goshdarnit with all the excitement of the AO I forgot all about this! Good win, Kyle, keep it up.

RJA · Hall of fame

Another solid win for Kyle, although it probably should be acknowledged that Ebden is a shadow of the player he used to be.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Great win. Hope he keeps going

philwrig · Hall of fame

Solid form from Kyle, looking very very good.

Tennismad95 · Improver

Great win kyle keep up the good work. biggrin biggrin

Sim · County player

Good result from Kyle - 6th challenger in a row when he has made the QFs or better - lets hope this is one of the "better" ones!

And welcome Tennismad95

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Well I feel sorry for GBJ who was checking Katie's scores but has just opted for 40 winks in preparation for Kyle as flipped on live stream to find he has just killed the second set 6-1 after a closer first 7-6.

That was with a first serve percentage in the 50's and less than his opponent so still plenty of room for improvement. A great message to send out before the semi final.

Pretty good week for British tennis lets hope by Sunday it's a great one!

Shhh · Challenger level

There were quite a few BP's for both players, Kyle took a couple more of his but otherwise it seemed closer than the scoreline suggests.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I only saw about three points, I wondered why he looked so pleased with the win! Having said that I like the scoreline a lot.

He was only getting 62% of his first serves in compared to his opponent who was getting over 70% compounded by winning a smaller proportion, so looking forward to the day everything clicks against a top 30 opponent.

More results like this and he may get the opportunity sooner rather than later.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Another excellent result, good points and some weak Aussie challengers coming up a great chance to climb well into the top 150.

Tennismad95 · Improver

I watched the whole match . He played well until he served for the first set at 54 then played a sloppy game to lose serve but steadied the ship and played a good tiebreak . Then first game of the second set he was done 0 40 but then he played well to win next 5 points after that the Indian player made quite a lot of unforced errors so kyle only really needed to keep it in the court to win the match.

-- Edited by Tennismad95 on Friday 30th of January 2015 07:26:39 AM

freerider · Futures level

Nishioka in the semi who just beat desein in an excruciatingly tight final set tie break (8-6). Should be an interesting match (and hopefully on at a Uk friendly time)

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Great win Kyle; good luck in the SF :)