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Chardy 2016 Cheering Thread

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#1 · (Edited)
Wow, this subforum is completely abandoned since last year.
I'm making this one since I have the feeling that he will have a more solid season this year (hopefully a breakthrough year) :yeah:

I think it's so much easier to have every update on him in one single thread like this.

So today he won against Kukushkin with relative ease on his service gamen (only once broken in the 2nd). A pretty good number of winner against the agressive Kazakh.

Next will be the winner between Cervantes or Duckworth. Allez jeremy! :yeah:
 
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#2 ·
7-6 (5), 6-4 against Duckworth :yeah:

Winning after being led by a mini break in the first set tiebreaker, and broke back after 0-2 in the second set and broke again in the last game to win the match.
The serve game was very convincing the entire match (bar the first game second set).

Next will be Muller. Allez
 
#3 ·
Already 2 QF this year :D

He lost to Muller 6-7 3-6. But it's okay, since AO starts Sunday. Gulbis in R1, Kuznetsov/Qualifier in R2. Hopefully he will get through to R3, though he has Nadal
 
#4 ·
Not too disappointed, but I kinda wished he could start to solve Muller's riddle by now. Jeremy went 0-4 on his H2H vs the luxembourgois now (lost 3 times in since 2015, only winning a set).

Move on to AO. 1R is against washed up, but ever unpredictable Gulbis (h2h 2-3, but Jeremy won the last match and the last GS match, both in straight sets). Ernest is another fav of mine, but this year supposes to be Chardy's breakthrough year, so Allez Jeremy! ;)
 
#6 ·
I really hope more people join in the conversation... like nobody posts in this forum ever
Yeah, here the fanbase is quasi non-existant. Everywhere else he's actually got a decent fanbase (instagram, facebook etc). But hey at least there's the two of us :yeah::hug:


Anyway Chardy just won the 1st set 7-5. Hope he can win the next 2...
I only watched the third set where he lost the set by a DF then I stopped watching, only to find out late in the day that I miss his epic comeback from 4-5 fifth set, winning it 13-11. I was like GODDAMN it, i should have knew it :sobbing: And no highlight to relive that moment...
 
#7 ·
I stopped watching then too, went to sleep but set my alarm to go off later, woke up at 6-5 in the 5th. I completely forgot about 5th set tiebreaks...for some reason kept watching through the rest of that mess of a match with all the match points, so aggravating :( but it was worth it to see him finally win even it was ugly and mostly because of Gulbis choking horribly.

I don't have much hope for the next round though. He was horrible in that match and it went on for 5 hours. Too bad too, because the draw really opened up with Nadal being out
 
#8 ·
:lol: aggraving for you, satisfying for me. The uglier my fav win his/her match, the more I love it :lol:.

Kuznetsov is a bit peculiar. He's the lower ranked between the two, but he ended his year and started 2016 in a pretty high note, having a string of victories in challenger circuit and only got defeated by higher ranked players on ATP tour (Nadal, Lopez, Cilic). Meanwhile Chardy lost to players ranked lower than him in the warm-up events, which doesnt bode too well.
Fatigue may play a role though, as you say, since the russian only spent 1h58, while Chardy took 4h47 to finish Gulbis. But as long as the serve holds and his FH regain the consistency, it should be a straight sets win for our Jeremy ;)
 
#9 ·
Only could watch the last couple of game. He sliced a lot on his BH side (which was quite effective somehow, and his net game during those games was fantastic). His return was dire though, he can barely make any point on Andrey's serve. Holding strong till the 3rd set tie break, then he DFed to set up MP for the russian :help: :help: :help:
 
#10 ·
His scheduled tournament up to Miami:

February 08-14 Rotterdam
February 15-21 Delray Beach
February 22-28 Acapulco
March 07-20 Indian Wells
March 21-April Miami

I couldnt find his name in any tournament next week, so I suppose he takes a 2 week breaks (since week 1 AO), then goes to Rotterdam before flying directly to Delray Beach. Could be proven problematic if he actually makes it deep in Rotterdam.

He is defending as the following:
45 points from Rotterdam (R16)
45 points from Marseille (QF)
0 points from Dubai (R32)
10 points from IW (R64)
10 points from Irving Challenger (R16)
45 points from Miami (R32)
TOTAL: 155 points.

In a way it's a good decision to actually play in the golden swing tournaments, because:
1) the competition is not as ruthless as Dubai. Given the entry list, if he plays decent he can only rise in ranking (currently 29, CH 25) and get some confidence from winning some matches.
2) he plays better on clay (only lost to Murray, Federer and Beluccis during european clay season)
3) and playing outdoor clay is preferable than indoor+fast HC for IW and Miami preparation.

I'm hoping this schedule will work out for him. Courage Jeremy! :)
 
#11 ·
His quarter for Rotterdam:
[1] Richard Gasquet FRA v Jérémy Chardy FRA
Q v Teymuraz Gabashvili RUS
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP v Hyeon Chung KOR
Q v [8] Viktor Troicki SRB

Bad luck meeting the first seed. Richard also seems to be pretty fit, despite questionable debut at Montpellier. H2H is 3-0 (all on HC) for the current French #2 (with Jérémy only having won one set, and lost the 3 tiebreaks they have played). Best of luck then :lol:
 
#12 ·
Couldnt watch his two matches (one is unstreamed) but it seems like a very poor tournament for Jérémy. He barely defeated Donskoy in the third set tiebreak (with lots of choking on his serve), now lost to Mahut whom he never lost to before (H2H is now 3-1 for Chardy).

Hopefully his spring american swing will get his groove going. No top 10 players will play at Delray Beach, so he really should capitalize on this.
 
#13 ·
Jeremy, what an awful start to the year. He just keeps losing matches to players he really could and/or should beat (Marchenko, Kuznetsov, Mahut) and what was with the Donskoy match? It never should have been that close. The double faults and not converting break points have really been hurting him lately. Delray may not have anyone in the top 10 but there are still some dangerous players in there (Anderson, Tomic, Dimitrov, etc) Normally he would be capable of beating most of the players in the draw but now he seems he could lose to anyone.
 
#14 ·
I really jinx him with the thread (so far) :lol::sobbing:
 
#15 ·
His quarter for Delray Beach 2016:

(3)Ivo Karlovic v. Qualifier
(WC)Juan Martin Del Potro v. Denis Kudla
(WC)Noah Rubin v. Sam Groth
Matthew Ebden v. (5)Jeremy Chardy

well of course he must be in the same section with DelPo :rolleyes::lol:
 
#17 · (Edited)
Delray Beach R1: def. Matthew Ebden 6-2, 6-1

Jérémy was definitely the superior player between the two. He literally bullied Ebden (#105) with his forehand although you can tell that the australian is a very fit and strong physically. Granted Matthew is also one of the player with the worst balance i've ever seen. He easily cracks on his BH after hitting the ball in the same position. H2H is now 3-0 for the frenchman (all straight sets)

A little trivia, it's funny to see Jérémy playing on the annex court. The court i think is separated from the main stadium by a public street, a bit surrounded by palm trees (you can see the shadow of these trees). One ball boy looks very old, i think he's a 40-50 y.o volunteer (respect!). One time after a point, Jérémy tried to hit a ball back to Ebden, but he missed and the ball went astray into the street :tape:. Plus there was one game on Ebden's serve, they stopped the play because there was a very loud dance music. Matthew even shaked his body a bit :lol: Lots of smiling in this match :)

Next would be probably Noah Rubin. Never see him playing before, so cannot asses. This would be their first encounter. From his match today, Jérémy really need to pay attention on his much weaker BH as Rubin will definitely attack this wing. He should slice a lot his BH to give him some time to set up his run-around FH (his FH on-the-run was really clicking today). Another thing, despite his dominant play, he looked a bit lethargic. Maybe because it's his first match and it was under some heavy sun. Hopefully he'll do be as well if not better than today.
 
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Chardy def Rubin 6-4 6-2. Terrible start, broken right away then nearly got broken his next 2 service games. Lots of errors from both, Chardy with 57 double faults, overall not a good match but at least he got through it.
 
#20 ·
Didnt watch his Acapulco match, but he lost another 3 setter, now to the rising youngster Fritz. Nothing to be ashamed of, but I guess it's mostly Jérémy's bad play rather than the young american's brilliance. His ranking is for now still safe, but at this rate he could be out of top 30 by Wimbledon. I was really hoping a title of at least a final from his American Spring swing, but well, if he manages to make it to the R16 at one of IW-Miami duo, i'll consider that an achievement :(

This thread starts to look like one giant jinx :lol::sobbing:
 
#21 ·
Still jinxed :tears: Lost to Andrei for the second time in 3 months
 
#24 ·
I was so ready for another loss to the young Russian, but Clayrdi is another beast on terre battue :p. However RBA for the next round and Federer after that would be very very hard for him. Harsh draw for the frenchman
 
#25 ·
Back on french clay again. Chardy is defending R16 points from his impressiv run last year where he defeated Isner and Goffin.
He just won in 4 against Mayer, who is a dangerous on clay. Next would be Pavlasek, and he is projected to meet Wawrinka in R32.
Allez Jérémy!
 
#26 ·
Throught to the 3d round :angel: Beating Pavlasek in straight set


Next: the defending champion. I dont expect much, but IF he manages to outlast the swiss (Jérémy once beat Roger on clay after all ;)), I'll be over the cloud nine.

Courage Jérémy!
 
#27 ·

Only one (competitive) match in his pocket prior to Wimbledon :facepalm: Pretty worrying. But his recent records in Wimbledon have been pretty rassuring (R32 twice in a row, never lost first round since 2009 against Roddick). I hope he remembers he was a junior champion here in 2005 :tears:. Cant wait for his draw. Hopefully tennis god smiles upon him this year. Allez Jérémy!
 
#28 ·
Jinxing the thread again? :lol:
He's not even seeded this year, last year he drew Berdych in R1 so hopefully he does get a better draw this time. His results this year have been terrible though so I'm really not optimistic...
 
#29 ·
I know :tears: everytime i created a thread, it went down to the sink. Both MTF and TF :sobbing: i made Novak's Dubai thread and looked what happened :lol:

Yes, draw is essential for him, although i'm taking the same approach with you being not too optimistic. Well at least i can always enjoy his recently active instagram posts :lol::tears:
 
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