Week 30 - ATP Challenger 80 - Winnipeg, Canada (hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Week 30 - ATP Challenger 80 - Winnipeg, Canada (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (1) Liam Broady WR 132 vs (Q) Govind Nanda (IND) WR 453 (CH = 327 last week)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Good start for Kyle, given he has points to defend this week.
Both his and Aidan's potential seeds got turned over

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Bob in Spain wrote:
Kyle looked a lot more aggressive and pro-active today. Cobwebs have been blown away. That was a decent win.

Thought the same. The 2nd match back always worries me for, match one you are fresh and the adrenaline will fet

you through.A player that has been out for so long. The body getting use to playing competitive tennis two days in row is always telling.

wolf · Tennis legend

L32: Aidan McHugh WR 330 beat (LL) Sho Shimabukuro (JPN) WR 344 6-3 4-6 6-1

Crispy · Strong Club Player

Very encouraged by Kedders start here. If I look at the comebacks after long layoffs of players like Coric and Thiem, they were struggling at Challengers at the beginning, and their ranking just stagnated. I hope it's the case that Kyle has waited till he is absolutely ready to compete to get back into the top 100 efficiently without setbacks. Best of luck to him

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (1) Liam Broady WR 132 vs (Q) Govind Nanda (IND) WR 453 (CH = 327 last week)

L16: (Q) Alafia Ayeni (USA) WR 695 (CH = 436 in July 2019) vs (Q) Kyle Edmund WR 496

L16: Aidan McHugh WR 330 vs Enzo Couacaud (FRA) WR 230 (CH = 155 in February)

Couacaud was born in the delightfully named town of Curepipe ( smile ) (also known as La Ville Lumière ["City of Light"], just like Paris) in Mauritius. He got past the third seed, Pospisil, when the Canadian retired at 0-4 in the third set.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Billy Harris & Kelsey Stevenson (CAN) CR 1106 (510+596) defeated Hady Habib & Li Tu (LIB/AUS) CR 1301 (1032+209) by 4-6 7-6(7) [14-12] smile

indiana · Tennis legend

Rain has delayed the start today.

Kyle and Liam are due to play their R2 singles today plus Aidan his R1 doubles.

indiana · Tennis legend

After numerous reschedules with a steadily reduced schedule, and I believe Kyle very nearly starting on at least one occasion, all has been pushed back until Thursday.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (Q) Alafia Ayeni (USA) WR 695 (CH = 436 in July 2019) vs (Q) Kyle Edmund WR 496.

First set down the pan 6-7(6). cry He was pegged back after briefly having his nose in front in the TB.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (Q) Alafia Ayeni (USA) WR 695 defeated (Q) Kyle Edmund WR 496 by 7-6(6) 6-2 cry

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Enzo Couacaud (FRA) WR 230 defeated Aidan McHugh WR 330 by 6-2 3-6 6-4 hmm

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (Q) Alafia Ayeni (USA) WR 695 defeated (Q) Kyle Edmund WR 496 by 7-6(6) 6-2

Early days - remembering of course that kyles live ranking is mid 600s so we should expect too much at this stage. Job done for this week Id say.

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (Q) Alafia Ayeni (USA) WR 695 defeated (Q) Kyle Edmund WR 496 by 7-6(6) 6-2

Early days - remembering of course that kyles live ranking is mid 600s so we should expect too much at this stage. Job done for this week Id say.

Early days indeed given how long Kyle has been out.

That's what's meanngful and how he can now begin to pick up his game and progress over the coming months. His live ranking though is meaningless regarding expectations, his live 34 points being simply his one remaining previous counter of 23 points ( ATP Canada Masters 2019 which will drop off in another week, on 08/08 ) plus his 11 points from here. So his live points at the start of next week will be just these 11 and FWIW a provisional ranking then in the 900s from one counter.