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

emmsie69 · Top national player

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

the addict · Tennis legend

The rules for Lucky Losers are slightly different to what people have posted above.

Just to clarify, this is a straight copy from the ATP rulebook

"Lucky Losers shall be selected based on the computer rankings as follows: If there are no vacancies when the qualifying event has been completed, then the order of the Lucky Loser list shall be selected on the basis of their position on the FedEx ATP Rankings (singles or doubles) list used for determination of qualifying seeding (protected ranking is not considered). If there is a vacancy in the main draw when qualifying is completed then the order of the two (2) highest ranked players shall be randomly drawn, thereafter the order shall follow the players rankings, unless there are two (2) or more withdrawals at the time the Qualifying competition is finished in which case the size of the random draw will be the number of withdrawals plus one (1)."

emmsie69 · Top national player

FQR: (qWC) Ryan Peniston WR 383 LOST TO Aleksandar Vukic (AUS) WR 209 (CH = 183 last October) 6-4, 6-7, 4-6

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And he had at least one (two, I think) match points in the second set.
No regrets on the first but rather daft UE on the second....:(

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

For the sake of completeness:

FQR: (q6) Ilya Marchenko (UKR WR 161 defeated (qWC) James Ward WR 329 by 6-4 7-6(4)

the addict · Tennis legend

Tabilo (WR166) got the LL spot.

GBJ · Club Coach

Anyone know whether the replays of this will be available on iplayer if i cant watch live?

the addict · Tennis legend

It's on Amazon Prime as well, so if the replays aren't on iplayer they will be avaialable there.

junior · Intermediate Club Player

3 lines into commentary and Andrew Castle is spouting nonsense, after two weeks of Petchey at it

emmsie69 · Top national player

Well, well, wel Jack has just taken the 1st set off Sinner.

Elegant Point · Satellite level

junior wrote:
3 lines into commentary and Andrew Castle is spouting nonsense, after two weeks of Petchey at it

The best comment from Petch was: Will players evolve physically over the next 10 years to consistently hit a ball over X mph?

Not sure what natural selection pressure would have such a rapid impact? Or what advantage this would confer for the non tennis playing portion human race? wink

I can understand that technology advances in rackets/balls etc might give rise to changes in the game..or player development, but evolution within a decade? Maybe he was thinking of some kind of cybernetic human adaptaction.

A tech advance I would like, is to be able to turn off the commentary, but still hear the ball being struck and the crowd and players

-- Edited by Elegant Point on Monday 14th of June 2021 12:31:38 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

And he was 0-4, and 2-5 down, so to take it the tiebreak and win it was some achievement.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

not watching but a jack D win over Sinner would be something. is he playing well?

junior · Intermediate Club Player

I weep for the future of tennis

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (WC) Jack Draper WR 309 defeated (3) Yannik Sinner (ITA) WR 23 by 7-6(6) 7-6(2)

Didn't see that coming, especially after the first four games! biggrin Cracking win! Well & truly justified his wild card! biggrin 45 ranking points in the bag!