Week 24 - ATP Challenger 125 - Rothesay Open - Nottingham, Great Britain (grass)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 24 - ATP Challenger 125 - Rothesay Open - Nottingham, Great Britain (grass)

wolf · Tennis legend

Doubles only one pair accepted Broady/OMara. Meanwhile Duncan/Willis are playing in Lyon challenger.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (1) André Göransson & Ben McLachlan (SWE/JPN) CR 136 (63+73) vs (WC) Jacob Fearnley & Johannus Monday UNR (0+516)

L16: Purav Raja & Divij Sharan (IND/IND) CR 297 (147+150) vs (WC) Toby Samuel & Connor Thomson UNR (1130+0)

L16: (PR) Denis Kudla & Jiri Vesely (USA/CZE) UNR (989+0 [but a CH of 94 in June 2015]) vs (4) Julian Cash & Luke Johnson CR 183 (48+135)

L16: Liam Broady & Jonny O'Mara CR 1219 (1100+119) vs Sriram Balaji & Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (IND/PAK) CR 186 (84+102)

indiana · Tennis legend

So Henry Patten is clearly not ready to play yet after his Surbiton withdrawal with a lower back problem. Hope it clears up enough quickly to see him back with Julian.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Andy has a Wild Card, makes sense to stay here and get some easy points as Stuggart is a stacked field.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Andy has a Wild Card, makes sense to stay here and get some easy points as Stuggart is a stacked field.

Stuttgart is probably as strong or stronger than queens will be- 7 of top 20 is almost unheard of at 250 level. Queens has 8 of the top 20.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

I see Feliciano Lopez has a Wild Card to both Stuggart and Mallorca but not Halle which perhaps suggests he will get one for Queens as a former champion, in his final year on tour.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
I see Feliciano Lopez has a Wild Card to both Stuggart and Mallorca but not Halle which perhaps suggests he will get one for Queens as a former champion, in his final year on tour.

That would make sense and he would certainly have a lot of fans supporting him.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QR1: Charles Broom WR 410 (CH = 352 last November vs (q9) Abdullah Shelbayh (JOR) WR 244 (CH = 242 last month)

QR1: (q2) Arthur Cazaux (FRA) WR 190 (= CH) vs (qWC) Toby Samuel WR 548 (CH = 531 last November)
QR1: Daniel Cox WR 365 (CH = 206 in July 2014) vs (ALT/q8) Nicolás Mejía (COL) WR 238 (CH = 228 in April)

QR1: (q3) Laurent Lokoli (FRA) WR 198 (CH = 167 in February) vs (qWC) Mark Whitehouse WR 553 (CH = 523 last December)
QR1: (qWC) Harry Wendelken WR 537 (CH = 499 in January) vs (q11) Alex Michelson (USA) WR 262 (CH = 260 last month)

QR1: (q4) Shang Juncheng (CHN) WR 200 (CH = 165 in February) vs Billy Harris WR 355 (CH = 290 last October) (*)
QR1: (ALT) Stuart Parker WR 441 (CH = 346 last October) vs (q12) Daniel Rincón (ESP) WR 269 (= CH)

QR1: (q5) Rio Noguchi (JPN) WR 205 (CH = 201 last November) vs (ALT) Giles Hussey WR 480 (CH = 475 last month)

QR1: (qWC) Johannus Monday WR 580 (CH = 500 in February) vs (q7) Zachary Svajda (USA) WR 227 (CH = 222 last month)

(*) same QR1 as in Surbiton!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Arthur and George get wild cards to main draw !

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, three of those QWCs were definitely 'earned' ones - no one can complain

Mark, Harry and JoMo played some really good grass court tennis, and 100% deserve another go

Toby was more off the pace

Seems slightly strange to me that Anton is not putting himself forward for a grasscourt wildcard (or has put himself forward and been rejected). Or maybe he'll get Ilkley and it's being shared out.

And, of course, I'm thrilled that Arthur and George have main draw ones - bit of a trial by fire for George - with no warm-up event. But they're both faves of mine and would be the sort of ones I'd pick too.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

No Dan Evans in the Main Draw, he has disappeared from the entry list. Maybe a niggle from this week, not a good start to the grass for Dan.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (WC/1) Andy Murray WR 43 (CH = 1 in November 2016) vs Qualifier
L32: Hugo Grenier (FRA) WR 122 (CH = 95 last September) vs Jan Choinski WR 177 (= CH)

L32: (ALT) Ryan Peniston WR 192 (CH = 123 last July) vs Mattia Bellucci (ITA) WR 167 (CH = 142 in January)

L32: Qualifier vs Liam Broady WR 140 (CH = 116 in February last year)

L32: Steve Johnson (USA) WR 181 (CH = 21 in July 2016) vs (WC) Arthur Féry WR 424 (CH = 417 in February)

L32: Otto Virtanen (FIN) WR 119 (CH = 109 in April) vs (WC) George Loffhagen WR 464 (CH = 460 last month)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
No Dan Evans in the Main Draw, he has disappeared from the entry list. Maybe a niggle from this week, not a good start to the grass for Dan.

As I reported on the Surbiton thread the other day:

Extract from the end of Elgan Alderman's report in The Times on Jack Draper's continuing injury woes, which will cause him to miss the entire grass court season (link to it in the relevant individual player forum):

There was further bad news for the British men at the Surbiton Trophy where Evans, the No 1 seed, lost in the second round against Gabriel Diallo. The 21-year-old from Canada, who is ranked No 146 in the world, is 6ft 8in and used all that to his advantage in a 7-5, 6-2 win. "I didn't serve well, difficult conditions, it was very windy," Evans said. "Then on top, he's obviously going to be a very good tennis player, already is, and I don't know what he served, but he served amazingly well."

Evans said he would play at The Queen's Club, but had not decided on other tournaments such as Nottingham next week. "It's difficult to keep playing," he said. "There's not much to be gained really apart from people are just having a crack at you and that's difficult, as we saw today. He played some free-swinging tennis and that was too good. And he was better than me. That's the bottom line. He was better today."

RainDelay · Pro player

Is Kyle injured. He's not getting any WC even into qualies?