Week 12 - ITF M15 - Heraklion, Greece (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 12 - ITF M15 - Heraklion, Greece (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L32: (3) Stefanos Sakellaridis (GRE) WR 455 defeated (Q) Marcus Walters WR 1367 by 4 & 2

L32: (8) Miles Jones (USA) WR 801 defeated (JR) Oliver Bonding WR 957 by 3-6 6-2 6-3 hmm

A fair effort by young Oliver: he pushed Jones hard in his service games in the final set.

indiana · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L32: (3) Stefanos Sakellaridis (GRE) WR 455 defeated (Q) Marcus Walters WR 1367 by 4 & 2
L32: (8) Miles Jones (USA) WR 801 defeated (JR) Oliver Bonding WR 957 by 3-6 6-2 6-3
A fair effort by young Oliver: he pushed Jones hard in his service games in the final set.

Still a bit disappointing on the face of it.

paulisi · Tennis legend

I'm not sure that is fair given he was playing a higher ranked player and had never won a game on tour until a couple of weeks ago.

indiana · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
I'm not sure that is fair given he was playing a higher ranked player and had never won a game on tour until a couple of weeks ago.

No criticism, likely to be a bit inconsistent.

But looking further at Jones' record he looks quite fairly ranked. Oliver, 17 yo JCH 8, can and I am sure will go much higher. And he did add to his first tour win ( an M25 R1 win last September ) with 5 wins and an M15 title last month. Yes, pretty out of the blue but some decent wins and an indicator of his talent. I suspect he himself will be rather disappointed not to get a win here.

It's no biggie ( says he coming back and waffling on further ). All the best to him, moving forward.