Week 25 - The Championships, Wimbledon (grass) - men's qualifying

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Week 25 - The Championships, Wimbledon (grass) - men's qualifying

indiana · Tennis legend

Great minds etc, Jon

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Felix is in a battle, winning this first set TB could be vital!

Rich2310 · County player

Felix lost the tiebreak 12-10.

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Felix is in a battle, winning this first set TB could be vital!

Hopefully not.

6-7(10) *0-1

Felix served for the first set at *5-3. He then had 6-3* in the TB and 5 SPs in all. Elias converted his 2nd SP.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Congrats to Aiden in making it two through. Such a shame Felix couldn't get that 1st set over the line too.

Doonan · Intermediate Club Player

Felix was down and out but all of a sudden is up and in.

-- Edited by Doonan on Monday 20th of June 2022 05:22:42 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Felix 6-7(10) 5-5* having been *1-4 in the second set.

indiana · Tennis legend

Felix breaks and then takes the set on his 3rd set point.

6-7(10) 7-5

Go on !

Jan · Hall of fame

Come on Felix!!!!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

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First one down:
QR1: (q27) Mitchell Krueger (USA) WR 150 defeated (qWC) Luca Pow UNR by 1 & 4
And another one bites the dust:
QR1: Dimitar Kuzmanov (BUL) WR 175 (= CH) defeated (qWC) Charles Broom WR 417 (= CH) by 3 & 5
But King Arthur bucks the trend:
QR1: (qWC) Arthur Féry WR 692 defeated Thomas Fabbiano (ITA) WR 174 by 4 & 2
Sadly, Stuart couldn't follow his example:
QR1: Alexander Ritschard (SUI) WR 192 defeated (qWC) Stuart Parker WR 499 by 4-6 6-1 6-2
Anton another one for the growing casualty list:
QR1: Christian Harrison (USA) WR 248 defeated (qWC) Anton Matusevich WR 432 by 3 & 4
The casualty rate continues to climb:
QR1: Lukas Klein (SVK) WR 224 defeated (qWC) Billy Harris WR 323 by 3 & 4
But Aidan stops the rot:
QR1: (qWC) Aidan McHugh WR 353 defeated Gonzalo Lama (CHI) WR 250 by 2 & 4

And Felix's eventual defeat by the Portuguese completes the semi-rout:

QR1: Gastão Elias (POR) WR 183 defeated (qWC) Felix Gill WR 437 by 7-6(10) 5-7 6-3 hmm

Great effort, though.

I'm not going to apologise for using "rot" & "rout". They're succinct, summarising what we on here all knew was going to happen in QR1 in a nutshell, & will no doubt be how the results are perceived by those unacquainted with the workings of the rankings system & levels of experience/skill.

indiana · Tennis legend

Sorry SC, I truly fail to understand why you would mimic such perceptions in this British tennis forum and give out such a message to anyone passing through and/or not much acquainted with the situation re rankings, WCs etc.

So to anyone in that position, I assure you that this is generally far from "rot".

And now, point made, it's best I just move on because I know when there is very unlikely to be much in the way of yielding. And life is too short ...

Doonan · Intermediate Club Player

I honestly saw it as just a saying - I dont think saying stop the rot describes the style or unexpectedness of defeat but more that there had been a few in a row. Agreed that they were more or less expected rankings wise; but I dont think stop the rot is a particularly controversial saying and was more of a thankful reflection that there had finally a British win.

But never mind good luck to Aidan and Arthur in the next round. I dont expect either to win but live in hope!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Doonan wrote:
I honestly saw it as just a saying - I dont think saying stop the rot describes the style or unexpectedness of defeat but more that there had been a few in a row. Agreed that they were more or less expected rankings wise; but I dont think stop the rot is a particularly controversial saying and was more of a thankful reflection that there had finally a British win.

Thank you, Doonan. That was exactly my reasoning in using the expression. smile

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I think 'stop the rot' would probably have been fine on its own.

But to call it a semi-rout and then to go into further detail as to why 'rot' and 'rout' were appropriate was somewhat over the top and tends to give the wrong impression of the board (as Indy is indicating). In a normal Grand Slam, this draw would have included Ryan P and Liam and Jay and Paul Jubb and ..... They are the players who should be playing here, by level. They are the 'correct' players who should be competitive.

Our group of players, from 323 up to completely unranked, 'should not' be competitive - that's the point of rankings. (And the net effect of wildcards). We should have lost all the matches.

I don't believe we should sugar-coat things and be a 'Pollyanna' board, but the fact that, out of 8 pretty much non-hopers, we had two wins, from one player ranked 692 and another ranked 353, is actually good. I think that's what seems rather unfair when today's results are portrayed as a rout.

But it's not a biggie