Week 44 - Challenger - Apis International, Canberra, Australia ($75,000) (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 44 - Challenger - Apis International, Canberra, Australia ($75,000) (hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Another win for Evan & partner

wolf · Tennis legend

SF: Evan Hoyt & Wu Tung-Lin (TPE) CR 1818 (376+1442) beat Hiroki Moriya & Yosuke Watanaki (JPN/JPN) CR 1764 (876+888) 7-6(2) 4-6 [10-2]

F: Jeremy Beale & Thomas Fancutt (AUS/AUS) CR 609 (260+349) vs Evan Hoyt & Wu Tung-Lin (TPE) CR 1818 (376+1442)

FriendofLouieG · Lower Club Player

This is big for Evan - if he wins the final he could be playing regular Challenger doubles tournaments. I imagine he has a few empty counters as well.

indiana · Tennis legend

Good stuff by Evan though by far the most important thing surely remains his singles and pushing that ranking up further so that he can more easily get into Challenger events, more particularly MDs.

If he plays challengers and the doubles compliments his singles fair enough though I'd be a bit wary of losing singles focus with regular doubles. No doubt singles will remain the main dictate on where he plays. We are in no need of another doubles specialist and certainly not Evan.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Agree with all the above Indi, I ll not cover old ground with my thoughts as we all know that by now. It does go without saying that as his singles rank goes up he will be closer to challenger qualies and therefore the same opportunity in both will arise anyway.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Evan & partner s! biggrin

Final: Evan Hoyt & Wu Tung-Lin (TPE) CR 1818 (376+1442) defeated Jeremy Beale & Thomas Fancutt (AUS/AUS) CR 609 (260+349) by 7-6(5) 5-7 [10-8]

Strongbow · All-time great

As of 29/10

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Have to agree with Indy and Jaggy - Evan still has a fair way to go to be a specialist. I'd prefer him in the singles top 10 but 150 places higher - which is do-able.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Good win, will cover some of the costs of the trip.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well done, Evan !!!!

And Mr. Wu Tung-Lin - not bad being a challenger title holder when you're only ranked 1442

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done indeed.

While at this stage I question the points importance overall for Evan, not bad to land a challenger doubles title.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I presume that has funded the week?

the addict · Tennis legend

Oakland2002 wrote:
I presume that has funded the week?

$4650 for the pair of them - and 80 points smile