Week 16 - Challenger 80 (€44,820) - Roma Garden Open - Rome, Italy (clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 16 - Challenger 80 (€44,820) - Roma Garden Open - Rome, Italy (clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (WC) Andrea Giallanza & Francesco Iannini (ITA/ITA) UNR vs (3) Lloyd Glasspool & Harri Heliövaara (FIN) CR 188 (102+86)

Vandenburg · Futures level

Stircrazy wrote:
L32: (PR) Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) WR 219 (CH = 69 in June 2015) vs Jay Clarke WR 201 (CH = 153 in July 2019)

Where has Clarke been?

indiana · Tennis legend

Vandenburg wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L32: (PR) Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) WR 219 (CH = 69 in June 2015) vs Jay Clarke WR 201 (CH = 153 in July 2019)
Where has Clarke been?

Well in the last month in a challenger in Lugano and a 25K in Biel in Switzerland and then a challenger in Split in Croatia before just having this past week off. Only won one match ( in the 25K ) in these 3 weeks though.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 18th of April 2021 03:02:30 PM

flamingowings · All-time great

Jay lost the first but up in the second: 2-6 3-0*

DF · Tennis legend

flamingowings wrote:
Jay up in the second: 2-6 3-0*

Did not last long. Trailing 3-4 in the second

DF · Tennis legend

Jay lost 2-6 4-6

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The outcome with updated rankings:

L32: (PR) Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) WR 215 defeated Jay Clarke WR 233 by 2 & 4

I'm not even remotely surprised. cry

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Being honest, Kokkinakis is a cut above his ranking, he really is a top 50 (or higher) player in reality, just hit hard by injury, but coming back.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

No one was remotely surprised by that one.

The betting sites has Kokki as the overwhelming favourite.

That is a decent-ish score from Jay, one of his better ones.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (3) Lloyd Glasspool & Harri Heliövaara (FIN) CR 194 (104+86) defeated (WC) Andrea Giallanza & Francesco Iannini (ITA/ITA) UNR by 1 & 3

*****

QF: Robert Galloway & Alex Lawson (USA/USA) CR 241 (119+122) vs (3) Lloyd Glasspool & Harri Heliövaara (FIN) CR 194 (104+86)

Vandenburg · Futures level

Stircrazy wrote:
The outcome with updated rankings:
L32: (PR) Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) WR 215 defeated Jay Clarke WR 233 by 2 & 4
I'm not even remotely surprised.

He has been the next big Australian thing since 2014. He will never be a top 50 player, like many Australian players, no brain.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Vandenburg wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
The outcome with updated rankings:
L32: (PR) Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) WR 215 defeated Jay Clarke WR 233 by 2 & 4
I'm not even remotely surprised.
He has been the next big Australian thing since 2014. He will never be a top 50 player, like many Australian players, no brain.

Seems unfair to a country which gave us possibly the greatest player ever in rod laver, and rosewall, hoad, Newcombe, Roche, cash, mcnamara, Hewitt and many other great players, and women like Court (possibly the greatest womens player) and Goolagong...

Jajon · Club Coach

JonH comes home wrote:
Vandenburg wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
The outcome with updated rankings:
L32: (PR) Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) WR 215 defeated Jay Clarke WR 233 by 2 & 4
I'm not even remotely surprised.
He has been the next big Australian thing since 2014. He will never be a top 50 player, like many Australian players, no brain.
Seems unfair to a country which gave us possibly the greatest player ever in rod laver, and rosewall, hoad, Newcombe, Roche, cash, mcnamara, Hewitt and many other great players, and women like Court (possibly the greatest womens player) and Goolagong...

True, but think we can convincingly argue that Margaret Court does also have no brain

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Jajon wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Vandenburg wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
The outcome with updated rankings:
L32: (PR) Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) WR 215 defeated Jay Clarke WR 233 by 2 & 4
I'm not even remotely surprised.
He has been the next big Australian thing since 2014. He will never be a top 50 player, like many Australian players, no brain.
Seems unfair to a country which gave us possibly the greatest player ever in rod laver, and rosewall, hoad, Newcombe, Roche, cash, mcnamara, Hewitt and many other great players, and women like Court (possibly the greatest womens player) and Goolagong...
True, but think we can convincingly argue that Margaret Court does also have no brain

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