Week 13 - ATP Challenger 125 - San Remo, Italy (clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 13 - ATP Challenger 125 - San Remo, Italy (clay)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Why would he move to clay? And not stay on indoors hard?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Why would he move to clay? And not stay on indoors hard?

Pass! confuse

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Stircrazy wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Why would he move to clay? And not stay on indoors hard?
Pass!

There are already two other SEs for Lille they have a higher ranking so get priority. So therefore Billy has to get an SE from another tournament.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Billy has also been more successful on clay (although not the reason as madadman points out) - hes won more titles and been in more finals on clay than any other surface

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Sebastian Ofner (AUT) & Ryan Peniston CR 1211 (724+487) vs (4) Nikola Cacic & Marcelo Demoliner (SRB/BRA) CR 168 (64+104) bleh

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Billy's popped up as an SE here rather than in Lille:
L32: Jozef Kovalik (SVK) WR 153 (CH = 80 in October 2018) vs (SE) Billy Harris WR 373 (CH = 317 last October)
L32: (5) Luca van Assche (FRA) WR 108 (= CH) vs Ryan Peniston WR 151 (CH = 123 last July)

van Assche mentioned in a an ATP challenger list of players to follow

https://www.atptour.com/en/atp-challenger-tour/challenger-news/challenger-tour-five-to-watch-2023

indiana · Tennis legend

Ryan is a set up but a break down in the second ( just been broken to love ).

6-2 1-3*

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Ryan is a set up but a break down in the second ( just been broken to love ).

6-2 1-3*

and now 4-2 down in the final set. Falling away from him, sadly

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (5) Luca van Assche (FRA) WR 108 defeated Ryan Peniston WR 151 by 2-6 6-3 6-2 hmm

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

As expected, Billy getting murdered on the clay

Lost the first set 2-6

Maybe he's getting used to it, though, and the second will be better....

RainDelay · Pro player

Coup Droit wrote:
As expected, Billy getting murdered on the clay

Lost the first set 2-6

Maybe he's getting used to it, though, and the second will be better....

If he's getting murdered, clays the surface for it to happen on as it hides tha blood stains well.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L32: (5) Luca van Assche (FRA) WR 108 defeated Ryan Peniston WR 151 by 2-6 6-3 6-2

L32: Jozef Kovalik (SVK) WR 153 defeated (SE) Billy Harris WR 373 by 2 & 1 cry

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Kovalik is a highly ranked player. He has played 12 Challenger finals in his career and all of them, 12, are on clay. So, it is his surface and Billy was straight off hardcourts and into this...so no surprise at all and for Billy , nothing really lost

Loss 64 Apr 2013 Itajaí, Brasil Challenger Clay Brazil Rogério Dutra da Silva 64, 36, 16
Loss 65 Feb 2014 Turkey F3, Antalya Futures Hard Ukraine Artem Smirnov 67(47), 61, 46
Win 75 Mar 2014 Greece F1, Heraklion Futures Hard Czech Republic Jan Hernych 63, 76(86)
Win 85 Apr 2014 Greece F4, Heraklion Futures Hard Serbia Dejan Katic 60, 62
Win 95 Jun 2014 Slovenia F2, Maribor Futures Clay Belgium Julien Cagnina 76(72), 61
Win 105 Aug 2014 Meerbusch, Germany Challenger Clay Russia Andrey Kuznetsov 61, 64
Loss 106 Jun 2015 Mestre, Italy Challenger Clay Argentina Máximo González 16, 36
Win 116 Apr 2016 Napoli, Italy Challenger Clay Belgium Arthur De Greef 63, 62
Loss 117 May 2017 Rome, Italy Challenger Clay Italy Marco Cecchinato 46, 46
Loss 118 Oct 2017 Lima, Perù Challenger Clay Austria Gerald Melzer 57, 67(47)
Win 128 Jun 2018 Poprad, Slovakia Challenger Clay Belgium Arthur De Greef 64, 60
Loss 129 Oct 2018 Braunschweig, Germany Challenger Clay Germany Yannick Hanfmann 26, 63, 36
Win 139 Aug 2019 Szczecin, Poland Challenger Clay Argentina Guido Andreozzi 67(57), 62, 64
Loss 1310 Oct 2019 Barcelona, Spain Challenger Clay Italy Salvatore Caruso 46, 26
Win 1410 Sep 2022 Tulln an der Donau, Austria Challenger Clay Netherlands Jelle Sels 76(86), 76(73)
Loss 1411 Oct 2022 Parma, Italy Challenger Clay Kazakhstan Timofey Skatov 57, 76(72), 46

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L32: (5) Luca van Assche (FRA) WR 108 defeated Ryan Peniston WR 151 by 2-6 6-3 6-2
L32: Jozef Kovalik (SVK) WR 153 defeated (SE) Billy Harris WR 373 by 2 & 1

Big 'oops' from me. Been busy today and not following the results. Just sent Billy a 'good luck this week' message. Seems like I was a bit late. Thank goodness for the 'delete' button LOL.