Week 31 - ATP Challenger 75 - Lexington, KY, USA (hard)

RainDelay · Pro player

Week 31 - ATP Challenger 75 - Lexington, KY, USA (hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

RainDelay wrote:
I went on holiday with Trump a good few years before he was president, quite a funny guy mixed with long bouts of being extremely difficult to deal with. Complex character.

hang on, hang on - you cant just post this and not explain more! How did you get to be on holiday with Trump, how did you know him, what are the circumstances?

More info needed RainDelay!!! Hahaha

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: George Goldhoff & Vasil Kirkov (USA/USA) CR 552 (301+251) defeated Alex Bolt (AUS) & Ryan Peniston CR 830 (224+606) by 7-6(5) 6-4

wolf · Tennis legend

L16: (3) Mikelis Libietis & Adam Walton (LAT/AUS) CR 343 (159+184) defeated Scott Duncan & Luke Johnson CR 369 (232+137) by 6-1 6-2

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Brendan F wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Billy Harris & Kelsey Stevenson (CAN) CR 832 (579+253) defeated (1) Hunter Reese & Artem Sitak (USA/NZL) CR 352 (182+170) by 4 & 5
*****
QF: Billy Harris & Kelsey Stevenson (CAN) CR 832 (579+253) vs Hong Seongchan & Ly Nam Hoang (KOR/VIE) CR 2180 (540+1640)
On the face of it, an easy QF match for Billy & Kelsey, but their opponents did for Christian Harrison & Tennys Sandgren by 4 & 2 in their first round match.
Not that I like him at all but Sandgren seems to have really fallen back since he had that breakthrough a few years ago, has he been injured?
I think he's one of the countless Americans who were only, as Jaggy would call them, challenger level players who are able to get a good ranking without needing to try too hard because of the vast number of American tournaments whereas the likes of Liam only gets that luxury for a few weeks and otherwise has to constantly travel round the world to maintain his ranking.

Confused by what I would call them here???

Jaffa · Challenger level

Sandgren not been the same since Roger did a Houdini against him at AO a few years ago

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Billy Harris & Kelsey Stevenson (CAN) CR 832 (579+253) defeated Hong Seongchan & Ly Nam Hoang (KOR/VIE) CR 2180 (540+1640) by 6-7(4) 6-1 [10-8]

*****

SF: Billy Harris & Kelsey Stevenson (CAN) CR 832 (579+253) vs George Goldhoff & Vasil Kirkov (USA/USA) CR 552 (301+251)

wolf · Tennis legend

SF: George Goldhoff & Vasil Kirkov (USA/USA) CR 552 (301+251) defeated Billy Harris & Kelsey Stevenson (CAN) CR 832 (579+253) by 6-4 6-3

Priesty · Challenger level

Jaffa wrote:
Sandgren not been the same since Roger did a Houdini against him at AO a few years ago

Don't remember that, is it a bit of Fett-Wozniacki syndrome?

the addict · Tennis legend

Priesty wrote:
Jaffa wrote:
Sandgren not been the same since Roger did a Houdini against him at AO a few years ago
Don't remember that, is it a bit of Fett-Wozniacki syndrome?

Federer beat him in the QF in 2020 in five sets. 3-6 6-2 6-2 6-7(8) 3-6 to Federer. I don't remember what happened in the fourth set though.

Edit - found an article in the NY Times https://archive.ph/PFjwE Tennys had 7 match points in the fourth set, including three at 6-3 in the tiebreak.

-- Edited by the addict on Saturday 5th of August 2023 09:56:04 AM

Jaffa · Challenger level

Im impressed with myself that I recalled that to be honest!

wales1994 · County player

Isn't Tennys the Trump supporting homophobe?

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

wales1994 wrote:
Isn't Tennys the Trump supporting homophobe?

Thats the one - nice guy.