Rich2310 wrote:

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Surely Julian and Henry can leave behind the 25K level given their ranking rise and start to aim bigger.
We already know they can win at challenger level.

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Yes, but what are their singles ambitions, Henry in particular, and what could they realistically expect to get out of challengers in that respect, even if they could get into singles qualifying?

I think mixing it up seems to make sense for the time being.

Plus Bob might need Henry to get into his singles top 500 quota   

Rich2310 wrote:

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Surely Julian and Henry can leave behind the 25K level given their ranking rise and start to aim bigger.
We already know they can win at challenger level.

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 As Indy says, what about singles? 

I'm with Jaggy (amazingly ) - players (who physically can) should always keep their singles going, at least to give it a good go, before - maybe - dropping it later to concentrate solely on doubles

Henry and Julian are both very new to the fulltime pro tour - playing this event is perfect for their singles and it's hardy as though they've been cruising it in the doubles - they only won their first match 10-7 in the MTB

My own view - as before - is that Julian's doubles is significantly better than his singles, which has certain major weaknesses which it's unlikely he's going to really get round, and it's not really worth it - doubles is a better route (rather like Joe S, really)

However, Henry (and others) has more singles qualities and may well wish to work on those and at least give it a real go - he may well find (like Lloyd G say) that he plateaus out in singles and doubles gives him more scope - but at least he'll have really tried

Its certainly close !

A mirror image of last time

Henry was 4-1 up and then 5-3 up

But slipped and conceded a mini-break

And then played a tentative forehand which he pushed wide

5-5

But Stuart then had a nice mid-court ball, hit an aggressive forehand and out it in the net

And then a long rally with Stuart finally netting his backhand slice

Very close.....

But well done to Henry

And Toby beats Mark in two sets (sorry, Jon )

From the bits I saw, not a great quality match, lots of unforced errors from both, but Toby wins on attitude and well done to him

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 15th of July 2022 02:21:48 PM

Into the top 850 for Toby.