Week 32 - ATP Masters 1000 - National Bank Open - Toronto, Canada (hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Week 32 - ATP Masters 1000 - National Bank Open - Toronto, Canada (hard)

Julia Carrot · All-time great

JonH comes home wrote:
I think I read Dan was quite hard hit by Covid although cant find any evidence !

Well he's playing really well considering. Hope he's got good support and nutritional advice to aid his recovery.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Cam playing singles today. Joe and Dan and Neal dont start doubles until tomorrow. Dan and Neal now seem to be playing alternates whose names arent yet specified

emmsie69 · Top national player

Long Covid doesn't seem to correlate to severity of the illness. I know a couple where one was hospitalised, 1 was barely I'll, 6 months later he us fine she is severely fatigued and working part time only

indiana · Tennis legend

Cam already 2 breaks down to Khachanov, 1-4*

indiana · Tennis legend

Cam breaks ( the only break of set 2 ) to level matters.

4-6 7-5

DF · Tennis legend

Cam LOST 4-6 7-5 4-6

RainDelay · Pro player

Wonder if this is just a bit of a come down after winning his first title.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L48: Karen Khachanov (RUS) WR 28 defeated Cameron Norrie WR 29 by 6-4 5-7 6-4 cry

indiana · Tennis legend

RainDelay wrote:
Wonder if this is just a bit of a come down after winning his first title.

Maybe, though pretty tight losses since to Ruusuvuori, Nishikori and now particularly Khachanov are not too worrying. I'm still not sure about him playing doubles though.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 10th of August 2021 06:03:17 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
RainDelay wrote:
Wonder if this is just a bit of a come down after winning his first title.
Maybe, though pretty tight losses since to Ruusuvuori, Nishikori and now particularly Khachanov are not too worrying.

And Khachanov won Olympic silver so is on a high right now, so dont see any issues re Cam. Think Ruusuvori was a reaction, other two are just tight matches versus strong opposition.

indiana · Tennis legend

Nadal has withdrawn with an ongoing foot issue. So no Djokovic, Nadal or Federer.

Down to 4 in the top 10 in the rankings competing, indeed 3 in the top 9. Though Thiem and Federer have been rather absent generally and are both outside the top 40 in this year's race.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 11th of August 2021 12:36:03 AM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L28: (WC) Grigor Dimitrov & Vasek Pospisil (BUL/CAN) CR 1058 (882+176) vs Daniel Evans & Neal Skupski CR 78 (62+16)

L28: (ALT) Miomir Kecmanovic & Casper Ruud (SRB/NOR) CR 341 (205+136) vs Daniel Evans & Neal Skupski CR 74 (60+14)

greeny12 · Lower Club Player

Two lucky losers now got into the draw - neither of them Liam, sadly.

Feels a bit too much of a coincidence that they were easily the two best-known (most marketable?) names to lose in FQR...

indiana · Tennis legend

greeny12 wrote:
Two lucky losers now got into the draw - neither of them Liam, sadly.

Feels a bit too much of a coincidence that they were easily the two best-known (most marketable?) names to lose in FQR...

I'm not sure exactly how it works but I believe it is meant to be a random draw of the top ranked FQR losers. (q1) Tiafoe and (q11) Lopez were the only seeded players to lose in FQR so they would be in the draw for any LL spots. I'm not sure how many there would be in the draw in total for 2 LL spots. Liam was 4th ranked of the 6 FQR losers.