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wolf · Tennis legend

Week 14 - ATP Challenger 50 - Wuning, China (outdoor hard)

wolf · Tennis legend

Final: (2) Joshua Charlton (AUS) & Ben Jones CR 422 (238+184) defeated Buvaysar Gadamauri (BEL) & Giles Hussey CR 789 (366+423) by 6-4 6-2

wolf · Tennis legend

The singles are now indoors as well, with Harry 2nd match on.

indiana · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
Final: (2) Joshua Charlton (AUS) & Ben Jones CR 422 (238+184) defeated Buvaysar Gadamauri (BEL) & Giles Hussey CR 789 (366+423) by 6-4 6-2

Yay, a second challenger doubles title for 27 yo Ben ( the first was a Georgia Challenger 50 title with Charles Broom in 2024 ). He will be up to a new CH on Monday, currently showing as live 171.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (6) Harry Wendelken WR 237 defeated Li Tu (AUS) WR 416 by 2 & 2

.... on his fourth match point!

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Final: (6) Harry Wendelken WR 237 vs (8) Pavel Kotov (***) WR 299 (CH = 50 in June 2024)

seagull · Tennis legend

Been a great few weeks for Harry

Sheddie · administrator

Tu didn't play particularly well, but Harry was absolutely rock solid today. Barely missed a return and kept the pressure on constantly.

Now live ranked 222 - should mean that he and Felix should make the RG qualies cut

indiana · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
SF: (6) Harry Wendelken WR 237 defeated Li Tu (AUS) WR 416 by 2 & 2
.... on his fourth match point!
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Final: (6) Harry Wendelken WR 237 vs (8) Pavel Kotov (***) WR 299 (CH = 50 in June 2024)

Looks a very competitive opening 6 games. Harry did go down a break but has retrieved it.

*3-3

JonH · Tennis legend

Got that opening set, 6-4.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, Harry broke to serve for the set at *5-3, was broken, but broke again to take the set. He is a break down in the second set but hopefully he can find his breaking prowess again.

6-4 2-3*

indiana · Tennis legend

Into a 3rd set.

6-4 3-6

wolf · Tennis legend

Final: (8) Pavel Kotov (***) WR 299 defeated (6) Harry Wendelken WR 237 by 4-6 6-3 6-4 cry

korriban · Challenger level

Sadly lost his second final in a row. Great effort nonetheless. I believe Liam said he was unfortunately ill last week, which explains his mini collapse from a set up. I watched the last 2 sets today and I felt Harry was increasingly passive - trying not to lose and keeping his balls very central and well within the court, whereas Kotov was trying to win - so it was increasingly on Kotovs racket. He deserved it. A great 2 weeks nonetheless and lots to learn for the next time

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity. Still another very good week and Harry live ranked 222 on 253 points which, as Sheddie said earlier, should be enough to get into French Open qualifying,

Also probably already Wimbledon Q since he now has no counters to drop before the relevant 25/05 rankings date for the Wimbledon Q list. The more we can have as direct entries the better since there will be a queue looking for WCs.

I see half a dozen already very strong looking claims for GB Wimbledon MD WCs ( Jake Jan, JPJ, Billy, Arthur, Toby ). But there might be room for one or two more, so no harm in trying to keep on winning, rising up the rankings, and see where that might get him.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 12th of April 2026 09:41:36 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
QF: (6) Harry Wendelken WR 237 defeated (1) Clement Chidekh (FRA) WR 179 by 6-4 6-4

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SF: (6) Harry Wendelken WR 237 vs Li Tu (AUS) WR 416 (CH 160 in 2025)

I've just noticed that that impressive QF win for Harry last week was evidently a CH win, his first win against a top 200 ranked player.