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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Week 26 - ATP 250 - Lexus Open - Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, Great Britain (grass)

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Weve talked about it before that it seems a particularly British player trait, a lack of something other countries seem to have - but I saw stats somewhere that it is not the case and it is just we are viewing life from our perspective.

Either way- very frustrating.

And I see JPJ is one set all now.

Some do view GB players like this. Some others consistently have not when such a subject has been raised.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (WC) Daniel Evans WR 170 vs (2) Tommy Paul (USA) WR 13 (CH = 8 at the start of the month)

L16: (LL) Billy Harris WR 142 vs (Q) Mattia Bellucci (ITA) WR 74 (CH = 66 in April)

L28: Jacob Fearnley WR 51 defeated (5) Flavio Cobolli (ITA) WR 24 by 2 & 2 biggrin

All in all, not a bad day for the Brits on the south coast.

*****

L16: Marcos Giron (USA) WR 46 (CH = 37 last August) vs Jacob Fearnley WR 51

Jajon · Club Coach

JonH comes home wrote:
Jajon wrote:
Wait thats only Billys second top 100 win? Is that correct?!
Second best win ranking wise - hes won 6 matches v top 100 players according to tennis abstract. His best was Cobolli da led 49 at the time in Eastbourne last year. Then Cam today; if he beats Bellucci next round, that is his third best - all in Eastbourne

https://www.tennisabstract.com/cgi-bin/player-classic.cgi?p=BillyHarris

tap on top of column where it says vs Rk and youll get a sorted list

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 24th of June 2025 06:49:22 PM

Cannot believe twitter dot com would lie to me! But thanks for that!

Neil Gee · County player

Fantastic win for Jake. You would never have known that Cobolli was the seeded player from watching that. If Jake continues to improve at this rate you can imagine an exciting rivalry between him and Jack in years to come, if all continues to go well.

DF · Tennis legend

Billy takes the first set 6-3

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Billy really taking advantage of his LL, straight after a massive ranking drop.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (LL) Billy Harris WR 142 defeated (Q) Mattia Bellucci (ITA) WR 74 by 3 & 4 biggrin

*****

QF: (LL) Billy Harris WR 142 vs (4) Ugo Humbert (FRA) WR 20 (CH = 13 in April last year)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Excellent, well done Billy. Dont you love lucky loser concept!

Jan · Hall of fame

Excellent!!!

Sheddie · administrator

Awesome stuff! Out of nowhere, Billy's one win away from defending all those semifinal points from last year. Got to be feeling much more confident about his game ahead of Wimbledon too now.

Madadman · Grand Slam Champion

Sheddie wrote:
Awesome stuff! Out of nowhere, Billy's one win away from defending all those semifinal points from last year. Got to be feeling much more confident about his game ahead of Wimbledon too now.

I assume hed actually end up with more points from Eastbourne this year than last if he made the semifinal. As hed get his points for winning in QR1 as well.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Looks like he will still drop in the rankings though, he will be 9 places down so far

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Looks like he will still drop in the rankings though, he will be 9 places down so far

Thst's just for the QF though. As Madadman says, if he makes the SF again, he will replace 100 points with 107. As things stand that would have him up 1 place to live ranked 141.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Looks like he will still drop in the rankings though, he will be 9 places down so far
Thst's just for the QF though. As Madadman says, if he makes the SF again, he will replace 100 points with 107. As things stand that would have him up 1 place to live ranked 141.

Ok, they hadnt added them in when I looked but I assumed they had. Thanks