Week 40 - ATP Challenger 100 - Open de Vendée - Mouilleron-le-Captif, France (indoor hard)

seagull · Hall of fame

Week 40 - ATP Challenger 100 - Open de Vendée - Mouilleron-le-Captif, France (indoor hard)

emmsie69 · Top national player

Might we be seeing Arthur in AO qualifying (along with Billy)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Charles Broom & Henry Patten CR 284 (227+57) defeated Mathias Bourgue & Antoine Escoffier (FRA/FRA) UNR (0+259) by 2 & 3
*****
QF: Charles Broom & Henry Patten CR 284 (227+57) vs Maxime Cressy & Otto Virtanen (USA/FIN) CR 455 (72+383)

Charlie and Henry lost, 4-6 7-5 10-4

wales1994 · County player

Arthur beat Zeppieri only last week, here's hoping he can do it again!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (7) Jack Draper WR 92 defeated Dino Prizmic (CRO) WR 168 by 6-4 3-6 6-3
*****
QF: (7) Jack Draper WR 92 vs (WC) Lucas Poullain (FRA) WR 282 (= CH)
Poullain beat a fellow WC, Martineau, who beat Stricker, the second seed, in straight sets in the first round...

Well, Lucas won the toss and elected to receive ..... and Jack won his service game to love

Which - presumably - was not quite what Lucas had in mind....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Maybe Lucas' plan was more cunning than I gave him credit for.....

Poullain took the first set in a TB

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Maybe Lucas' plan was more cunning than I gave him credit for.....

Poullain took the first set in a TB

And Jack is 3-0 down second set now as well

Vhughes · Junior player

Oh dear! Jack lost 76 62

Priesty · Challenger level

Jack lost the second set 6-2 bleh

Pity, but obviously up against a man in form and he's played a fair few matches recently. At least he's back in the 100 club now - onwards and upwards!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bad day at the office for Jack:

QF: (WC) Lucas Poullain (FRA) WR 282 defeated (7) Jack Draper WR 92 by 7-6(4) 6-2 bleh

As I mentioned yesterday, "Poullain beat a fellow WC, Martineau, who beat Stricker, the second seed, in straight sets in the first round..." cry

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Doesn't really matter but I don't buy off on the argument that Poullain beat X who beat Y who beat Z

Lucas is ranked 282, he's 27 years old, he's never been any higher ranked than 282, he's not a mystery player hiding in the wings.....

He played well today but Jack was more dominant in the first set and just couldn't quite push home his advantage (his fault) and then gave up a bit after he'd lost the first set

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I dont get too bothered about the man who beat the man type stuff , styles of play and form on the day can vary so much. At this level anyone from 1-200 can beat pretty much anyone else on their day and surface. Jacks trajectory is ok, as is Liams , and Jack is doing right to largely focus on indoor challengers over the autumn and get some more notches back on his ranking.

Priesty · Challenger level

Arthur cheekily saves 3 SPs at 5*-6 0-40 then clinches his first of 3 to win the first 7-3 in the breaker smile

More of the same please Arthur....

Var · Satellite level

Priesty wrote:
Arthur cheekily saves 3 SPs at 5*-6 0-40 then clinches his first of 3 to win the first 7-3 in the breaker
More of the same please Arthur....

Arthur up 4-1 in the second set? Ive lost my live stream on the train!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

4-1 now to Arthur, come on that lad!