Well given he lost in the 1st round of qualies of Wimbledon 2 years in a row, but that was with little no warm up. So I would say hopefully 3rd times the charm for Young.
It doesn't suit his game well, but maybe with some preparation and practice he'll improve. He's out of the top 100 with the loss of his Carson points so he needs a few good results.
Donald plays a qualifier in R1 of Nottingham. All things considered, he got probably the best draw he could hope for and should be able to win at least 1-2 matches. I don't expect a lot from him on grass and especially given he hasn't played in a while with his wrist problems, but hopefully he has a good week this week in England and take steps back into regaining his top 100 spot.
Don got destroyed 3-6 1-6. His serve stats are beyond horrible, really not even high-level professional stats. He won 14 serve points and held one out of eight serve games. He did break 3 times and won nearly half of return points but it wasn't enough.
I'm guessing he either was adjusting to grass or is still injured, because no disrespect to Niland, but Don has no business losing like this to a player of his ability.
DY won his 1st rd at Queens in 3 sets. He plays the winner of Karlovic/Andersen next, won't be easy. But, at least he made up some of the pts he lost from the Carson Challenger.
Donald plays Anderson tomorrow. Don lost to Kevin earlier this year in Delray Beach, he had opportunities to win in straights but eventually lost in three. Will be difficult to win but if he returns well he can maybe pull off the upset.
He got past Ben Mitchell 6-1, 6-7(5), 6-3. Then he beat Santiago Gonzalez 7-6(3), 6-4 in Round 2. He plays Denis Kudla in the last round of qualifying. Hope he can get the win, he could use the points.
Glad he picked up the 3 wins that he should have. I really think he could make the quarters here. With the opening round with Cox and Seppi/Kamke in the 2nd round. He won't get many ATP main draws this light.
Yeah, Cox is still competing on the Futures Circuit, Seppi & Kamke are pretty much clay court players. Also, he's getting great prep for Wimby. So far he has 4 wins in 6 matches on grass. All he needs is a decent draw at Wimby to be able to win a couple of rds.
Yep. 32 more pts in the bank. I think he has a good shot against Seppi and I would like to see a rematch against Berlocq, who double bageled him at the Lipton back in like '05. It'd be great for him to get back in the top 100 soon so he can make the US Open cutoff and not have to depend on a WC.
Hewitt just lost too. So this is a grand opportunity to break through in a tournament. But I don't want to get my hopes up. I think Seppi is still the favorite on paper, but Don needs to breakthrough here.
He beat Starace earlier in the yr, Seppi is the same type of player, about the same size, 2HBH, prefers clay. Don needs to get that slice serve working for him in the ad court like he did against Berankis at San Jose.
Don didnt get it done against Seppi. The match stats were interesting tho. DY served 82% 1st serves for the match. There were no break pts in the 1st set, DY was 1/4, Seppi 2/2 on break pts in the 2nd.
He needs the pts to replace those falling off from last summer so hopefully he gets a good draw at Wimby.
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