Week 24 - ATP 500 - cinch Championships - The Queen's Club, London (grass)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 24 - ATP 500 - cinch Championships - The Queen's Club, London (grass)

indiana · Tennis legend

Yay, currently at a CH 41, Cam is now live 40. And he is up to live race 13

Priesty · Challenger level

First set Jack 7-6 (7-5)!

Good at winning TBs but not so good at challenging calls...

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Interesting times at Queens.

Real serve fest in the first set. Until the end where Bublik served a nightmare but Jack made three UEs.
Then at 5 all in the tb, Bublik slipped and looked a bit upset and lost the tb.

Jack played a very good set, though. Exciting.

DF · Tennis legend

Anticipating a tense tiebreak but 6-0 so far for Jack

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Cameron Norrie WR 41 defeated (5) Aslan Karatsev (RUS) WR 24 by 5 & 2

L16: (WC) Jack Draper WR 309 defeated Alexander Bublik (KAZ) WR 39 by 7-6(5) 7-6(0)

He served for it at 5-4. 90 ranking points & 40,765 euros in the bag!

*****

QF: Cameron Norrie WR 41 vs (WC) Jack Draper WR 309

the addict · Tennis legend

Tank alert !

Well done Jack, very good tie-break. And great serve to bring-up the tie-break - must be one of the tightest reviews of the year

Jan · Hall of fame

Brilliant Brits!!!!!!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

excellent for jack and cam - and a guaranteed semifinalist!

Priesty · Challenger level

Will this be enough for US Open quals? Would hope so.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Watched the 1st set of Cam's match before going out to work. Really high quality from both players and Cam was hitting the ball very solidly. Glad he got the win.

Got home in time for the last 3 games +TB of Jack's match but had to watch with the sound off because I was on the phone. What the hell was going on with Bublik in the TB. It's like he just threw in the towel.

Regardless of that, from the little I saw, Jack looked very impressive again. QF in an ATP 500 is a huge achievement.

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Wednesday 16th of June 2021 06:32:56 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Priesty wrote:
Will this be enough for US Open quals? Would hope so.

Now moved up to 255 points, Jack is showing as 'just' live 250. So he would to win his QF vs Cam here to make sure of that this week.

He has just 2 net points due off before US Open Q cut-off date so deductions are not really an issue.

Armchair · County player

But what on earth was Bublik up to ? Ridiculous shots, stupid points., definitely not playing to win.

I don't think it's a good idea to take that match as a sign of Drapers arrival with the big guys ( though Andrew Castle thinks so).

And very off topic - I have a notion a few years back that it was mentioned the UK tax laws make playing Halle vs Queens a better financial option.

If Queens paid an appearance fee to Bublik they definitely bought a dud. Not a gambler so no idea if there are other implications here.

Jiwan · Club Coach

I enjoy watching Bublik, he is an entertainer. He also uses all sorts of tactics to win matches = also entertaining. I know this will erk a certain generation on here but tennis needs to evolve /survive. I'm sure these tacticts also get sponsors swarming, which is how a lot of players keep going. So maybe winning isnt the most important thing for Bublik? In terms of 'gambling tanks' which I think you are referring to. There is a global high tech system in place to analyse gambling stats. No chance a high profile player would do this esp with his style. Well done Jack btw, he got through all of the above

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I sort of agree, Jiwan. We need variety. And characters.
Certainly Peter Fleming in the commentary said he'd done similar things as a player ie faked a tank to try and destabilise the opponent, then all of a sudden ramping it up a level or three just as the other guy is serving for it.
He didn't say he's then thrown the last few points but the gamesmanship part was all fair in love and war, in his view