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indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Week 10 - ATP Challenger 50 - Hersonissos, Crete (Greece) (hard)

Sheddie · administrator

Just to carry over my comment from the previous page, I suspect that Harry ran out of gas. Played a lot of matches in the last couple of weeks, and watching the end of his match with Giles yesterday, he looked absolutely beaten sitting down afterwards, and I wondered if he might run out of steam today. Believe he's now heading for the big Asian hard court swing in a couple of weeks.

Good to see Paul winning matches at this level again - would be great to see him go on and make the final

indiana · Tennis legend

For now Paul is up to live ranked 292 with nothing to drop until 18/05.

Even without further wins here he will very probably hold on for top 300 in next Monday's rankings, which would give us 19 in the top 300, more than twice the 9 in the top 300 of a year ago.

As Sheddie says though, it would be great to see Paul add more wins here.

JonH · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
For now Paul is up to live ranked 292 with nothing to drop until 18/05.

Even without further wins here he will very probably hold on for top 300 in next Monday's rankings, which would give us 19 in the top 300, more than twice the 9 in the top 300 of a year ago.

As Sheddie says though, it would be great to see Paul add more wins here.

Agreed - I have always had a soft spot for Paul, partly his back story, partly his college exploits, partly seeing him at Ilkley a couple of times. His game always feels very precise and neat to me, but lightweight compared to some of the guys out there and that, plus injuries, may hold him back

Should be top 200 though and higher, so hope he can have two months now of gaining some places in those rankings. I seem to recall he likes clay, had a good LATAM circuit a couple of years back - hope a fit Paul can do something similar this season

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
L16: Paul Jubb WR 310 beat (7) Harry Wendelken WR 277 by 6-1 6-2

QF: (1) Lorenzo Giustino (ITA) WR 204 (CH = 127 in August 2019 (*)) vs Paul Jubb WR 310

(*) now 34

alex03maccy · All-time great

I think a bit of break will do Harry the world of good in the long run - although he still has doubles to play. Hopefully a good few days off before he heads out to Asia refreshed and confident.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (1) Michael Geerts & Tiago Pereira (BEL/POR) CR 360 (190+170) defeated Finn Bass & Anthony Genov (BUL) CR 541 (296+245) by 6-0 7-6(4)

The Belgo-Portuguese duo clearly learnt their lesson from last week. cry

L16: (WC) Melios Efstathiou & Eleftherios Neos (CYP/CYP) CR 933 (516+417) defeated Tom Hands & Harry Wendelken CR 559 (300+259) by 4 & 3 bleh

L16: Stefan Dostanic & Ioannis Xilas (USA/GRE) CR 2501 (1010+1491) defeated Giles Hussey & Mark Whitehouse CR 640 (429+211) by 6-3 3-6 [10-7] bleh

L16: Lui Maxted & Connor Thomson CR 747 (328+319) vs Javier Barranco & Alexander Merino (ESP/PER) CR 1061 (901+160)

Lui & Connor were replaced by ALTs. cry

Not a pretty sight...

stevemcqueen · Futures level

Toby takes the first set 6-3. The serve is absolutely not dominant here - there have been loads of BPs. Toby is comfortably ahead in terms of total points won. He should be a comfortable winner.