Week 20 - ITF M25 - Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic (clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 20 - ITF M25 - Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic (clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QR1: Ondrej Horak (CZE) UNR defeated (q6) George Loffhagen WR 833 by 5 & 1 bleh

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

R1: Jack Draper (GBR) WR 321 v [2] Michael Vrbensky (CZE) WR 294

For some reason Vrbensky didn't play his home 25k last week (where Jack made the final). However, he played the Prague Challenger at the start of May, and made the semis.

R1 Dubs: Jack Draper played with Simon Carr (IRE) and lost 2-6 1-6 against an unseeded French pair

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

quite a tough draw for jack - the field must be quite tightly bunched if the 3rd to 8th seeds sit between vrbensky and jack, jack presumably only just missed out on being seeded and would have been if his result from last week had gone on to his record.

going to be a tough match but one jack should look to win

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, Jack is 9th on the acceptance list so unlucky not to be seeded.
However, Vrbensky was 7th on the acceptance list, at 318, which was presumably before his challenger points mentioned above went on.
Vrbensky is exactly two years older than Jack, aged 21; used to be 14 in juniors (I remember his name playing quite a lot of our lads like Aidan, Anton, George Loff etc). Hasn't really smashed into adults but is doing OK.
The betting sites have them as pretty much equal, which seems about right.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jack lost the first set 4-6

But there's been a rain break for the past 2 hours.

Should be helpful (for Jack), you'd think.....

emmsie69 · Top national player

Match restarted and Jack took 2nd set tiebreak to love

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: Jack Draper WR 321 defeated (2) Michael Vrbensky (CZE) WR 294 by 4-6 7-6(0) 6-2 smile

*****

L16: Uladzimir Ignatik (BLR) WR 352 (CH = 129 in June 2017) vs Jack Draper WR 321

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

well done jack!

Shhh · Challenger level

Nice result :)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Jack Draper WR 321 defeated Uladzimir Ignatik (BLR) WR 352 by 3-6 6-3 6-4

*****

QF: (8) Vitaliy Sachko (UKR) WR 320 (CH = 319 last month) vs Jack Draper WR 321

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Jack making a habit of these first set losses and then coming back; another decent win in l16 and another evenly matched opponent next.

On top of a final last week , another decent showing this week

seagull · Hall of fame

Good win. Jack is next alt for main draw in Oeiras challenger next week

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
Good win. Jack is next alt for main draw in Oeiras challenger next week

And he is also in qualifying anyway, so presumably committed to that event regardless - although presumably if he reaches the weekend here, he will need to drop out of qualies and hope the alt route comes through into the main draw?

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

honestly I'm as happy Jack is getting matches as much as he's winning them. needs to have some miles in the legs given how little he's played in the last year