Aussies in Carson at the Countrywide Classic USTA Challenger

Main Draw
http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=http://www.atptennis.com/1/posting/2008/3590/mds.pdf

FIRST ROUND:

Samuel Groth AUS vs. Robert Kendrick USA [1] | 2-6 6-2 7-5
Lester Cook USA [WC] vs. Ricardo Hocevar BRA | 6-4 6-1
Ramón Delgado PAR vs. Xin-Yuan Yu CHN [Q] | 6-2 6-3
Colin Ebelthite AUS [7] vs. Haydn Lewis BAR [Q] | 6-1 6-2

Amer Delic USA [3] vs. Ryler De Heart USA | 6-1 6-3
Cecil Mamiit PHI [Q] vs. Taylor Dent USA [WC] | 6-3 6-7 (3) 6-4
Phillip King USA vs. Jose Rubin Statham NZL [Q] | 7-5 4-6 6-2
Ryan Sweeting USA [8] vs. Conor Niland IRL | 1-6 5-5 Def.

Thiago Alves BRA [6] vs. Carsten Ball AUS | 6-4 6-4
Andrew Coelho AUS vs. Ryan Thacher USA [WC] | 6-2 6-4
Nick Lindahl AUS vs. Victor Estrella DOM | 7-5 6-0
Nicholas Monroe USA vs. Kevin Kim USA [4] | 6-3 5-7 6-4

Alex Bogomolov Jr. USA [5] vs. Michael Yani USA | 7-6 (2) 6-1
Todd Widom USA vs. Artem Sitak RUS | 6-2 6-1
Michael McClune USA [WC] vs. Alberto Francis USA | 6-2 6-3
Daniel King-Turner NZL vs. Sam Warburg USA [2] | 6-4 4-6 7-5

SECOND ROUND:

Samuel Groth AUS vs. Lester Cook USA [WC]
Ramón Delgado PAR vs. Colin Ebelthite AUS [7]
Amer Delic USA [3] vs. Cecil Mamiit PHI [Q]
Phillip King USA vs. Ryan Sweeting USA [8]

Thiago Alves BRA [6] vs. Andrew Coelho AUS
Nick Lindahl AUS vs. Nicholas Monroe USA
Alex Bogomolov Jr. USA [5] vs. Todd Widom USA
Michael McClune USA [WC] vs. Daniel King-Turner NZL

Thought I create this to celebrate the success of the Aussie's at a Challenger tournament in the USA during the Roland Garros

At least we're winning somewhere! I'd really like to see one or two of these guys step up to tour level in the next year...Lindahl or Ball perhaps.

all 4 of them lost

I went to the Carson challenger for a couple of days and watched Lindahl's match.

He seems like a sweet kid who has the talent to do well, but I also wanted to yell at him...but in a good way. :lol: When he gets down in the score, his body language, everything just screams that he's down on himself. And in the last set against Monroe, once Monroe got up a break, I knew that Nick kind of gave up.

He's very young, and he'll learn not to do that. Hopefully soon, because again, he seemed like a good kid.

I also saw Groth's match. He should have beaten Cook, but he got really tight. He was up I think like 5-1 in the first set tb, and lost it. Cook played well, but again, Groth s/h won.

Can't believe they all went down. All for one and one for all!