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James Duckworth Cheering Thread

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#1 ·
He is currently playing the 15th Sarawak Chief Minister's Cup, in Malaysia. After qualifying in two pretty easy straight set matches. He is now played three matches and is through to the quarter final's in straight sets. He will next play America's Campbell Johnson.

Duckworth played in Thailand last week where he made the main draw by qualifying then made it to the third round, he also ended up winning the doubles title with Benjamin Mitchell, who did the double last week winning the singles and the doubles. These are some of his stats.

Birth Date - 21/01/1992
Birth Place - Sydney, NSW
Residence - Sydney, NSW
Nationality - Australian
Plays - Right Hand (Double Handed Backhand)
Favourite Surface - Grass
Coach - Ben Pyne
Current Ranking - 169
Career High - 17

He is also currently ranked 1395 in the men's rankings at the moment.

Good Luck to James in Malaysia.
 
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#60 ·
Great reult for James beaing Janowizc. Unkucky Duckie could not get the win in the final.
Even though he is in a purple patch and playing well James should considering missing one of these Futures events, as hard as it is to contemplate now, to give his body a rest. If you lose 2nd or 3rd round then it is ok to play every week, but playing 5 matches a week when making the finals every week takes a lot out of a player mentally as well as physically.
 
#62 ·
Duckie currently ranked 631, with 30 points; defending 0 pts this week; 18 pts gained for winning $10k Futures last week, will go to 48 pts + 15 pts gained from finalist in $15k Futures this week, will go to 63 pts(from 14 tournament, he should go to about 480-485 in ranking. (After Roland Garros).
Go Duckworth...
 
#68 · (Edited)
Duckie wins 1st round with ease 62 64 at the expense of another Aussie, Maverick Banes. He faces No.5 seed Eric Chvojka next, but hopefully can deal with him.
 
#69 ·
Duckworth passes the test and forges a fighting 64 16 76(5) win over No.5 seed Chvojka, so keeps his hot streak going.
Hope it continues, he is doing the right thing and getting good results at his level of competence at the moment. Good experience.
Duckie plays No.1 seed Slovakian Pavol Cervenek, ranked 264 in QF round. A tough test, should be interesting.
 
#70 ·
Duckworth rises to the occasion and show his fighting qualities in a 63, 36, 63 win over the No.1 seed. Plays Gregorz Panfil next in the semis. Duckie beat Panfils recently in straight sets, so will be confident.
 
#71 ·
James into another final this week and is going to face an unseeded German Peter Torebko. 3 finals in 4 weeks is very impressive especially when you take into account he didn't play last week so three finals in a row. Duckie will move to around 438 if he loses the final and around 408 if he wins. Would obviously be a massive win for him if he could do it, I'm hoping he stays on the European clay for a couple more weeks because he seems to be playing really well but I haven't seen him on any recent entry lists.

If he does win he'll overtake Ben Mitchell and become our second highest ranked '92 player.
 
#79 ·
Taking this week off and then entered in a 10k future in Germany on clay. Might snare the 7th or 8th seeding for that one. The following week is entered in lots of Euro futures but only has direct entry into a Serbian 10k future so I think he'll be heading there. Sticking to the European clay is probably a good thing because he seems to be thriving. Seeing as his points from last week won't be added on until after Wimbledon his results in the first German future will add to his ranking, a semifinal showing should get him inside the top 400 and a win would send him to about 375.

Probably jumping the gun a bit expecting him to go deep but if he were to be ranked 375 after Wimbledon he could start entering some low paying challengers in Europe and might even make some cuts. As it stands he is currently about 60 points shy of the top 300 and if he can get inside the top 300 he would make most challenger cuts. Although if history has taught me anything James will probably get knocked out first or second round in this next German future and just be average for the rest of the year but I am hopeful James will kick on for the next few months and inspire Kubler/Mitchell to start making moves as well.
 
#86 ·
James is going to have to make at least the final this week to take his number 2 Aussie '92 spot back from Ben Mitchell. A win this week would see James move around 350 in the world. Big opportunity for him this week considering this is a 15k future. If this back and forth battle between James and Ben Mitchell keeps happening then both are going to be playing Grand Slam qualifying by the time the US Open comes around!

Neither are far from the top 300, both just about two 15k futures titles away and if James picks one up this week then the potential year end ranking for him could be quite amazing considering where he was ranked this time last year. Come on James, bring another one home!
 
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