---Chris Guccione Cheering Thread---

A shocker from Gooch. 57% first serve percentage, only 8 aces and he let Canas have 14 break points. You can't expect to win anything playing like that. He had 8 break points himself and only managed one.

Just reading these old messages, you cant win anything with 57% first serve percentage?? What? Thats actually an average amount to get in, especially a big serve like his, for a big server getting over 55% should be enough to win a lot of points on serve

Just reading these old messages, you cant win anything with 57% first serve percentage?? What? Thats actually an average amount to get in, especially a big serve like his, for a big server getting over 55% should be enough to win a lot of points on serve

Um, thanks for that dose of nostalgia. Fact is, 57% of first serves into play against a returner of Canas' quality is not good. He gave Canas 14 breakpoints and was broken 4 times. Are you saying he would've been happy with his serving performance?

I was just having a look at the scoreboard in the match against Schuettler then looked up his recent results and I don't understand the long break either.

I agree with the_natural that a 57% first serve percentage is good and if it's not good enough to win, it's more to do with the quality of the serve in terms of placement and variety, other parts of his game like maybe poor follow-up volleys and good returning from the opponent (likely a combination of all things).

:lol: Speaking of first serve percentages, he has gotten 71% first serves in against Schuettler and is on the verge of being broken for the third time. Obviously he can't be going for his first serves that much.

absolute choke fest this second set, chris a break down 3-2, got it back to 5-3, lost his service game and then had 2 set points on rainer's serve and is now at 5-5, can see him losing a tiebreaker now.

he lost 4-6, 7-6, 2-6

Disappointing, thought he could win after that second set fightback.

Artois Championships at Queen's Club

Double (day 3)

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg316/Tennis-Art/Lleyton%20Hewitt/2008%20Queens/23.jpg

What a shame. I thought he might come through here

Wimbledon is next for him, if he has a good draw he wil come far. last year he must win easy from davydenko.

He lost to Monfils last week but I feel he can reverse the result tomorrow, I watched Monfils against Karlovic a few days ago and Monfils didn't look too good especially his serve.

Chris hurry up and do something decent :ras:

well, he ended up losing to a lucky lsoer, so much for a good grass court season

A complete disaster!

I was at Wimby on Monday and watched Gooch's match. It was quite funny cos the stands were packed but when Bozoljac came onto court and everyone realised Monfils had withdrawn, people hit the exits like mad!

Anyway, Gooch was terrible. Everyone could see from the first set that he was by far the better player but couldn't put him away. He had chances galore to break serve...he must've had 0-40 a couple of times at least, but kept throwing them away. Then when he served at 5-4 down he would miss easy volleys and gift Bozoljac the set.

It's hard to criticise Gooch cos he's probably trying his best, but he just doesn't seem to have a spark on court. He just tends to mope around. It felt like he was the lucky loser and Bozoljac was the higher ranked player just by the way they behaved on court.

Second seed this week in Cordoba Spain. Joining him in the main draw is Groth, Klein and Armstrong! Go you good things!

He just tends to mope around.

I don't think that effects his game negatively though, if anything it's a positive. He always stays calm and cool and it helps him in Davis Cup. The only thing that's costing him at the moment is his lack of talent, I think he's a smart guy and realises there's no point in exerting more energy than you need to.

lost to a nobody.

lost to a nobody.

Yeah really pathetic stuff from the Gooch in Spain. Hes not playing next week but has direct entry into Indaniapolis the week after. Hes not on the qualifying list for Toronto Masters the week after so I guess hes going to either play one challenger in America or is just going straight to Asia to prepare for the Olympics. On second thoughts he'll probably spend a week in Australia before going to Beijing.

I don't think that effects his game negatively though, if anything it's a positive. He always stays calm and cool and it helps him in Davis Cup. The only thing that's costing him at the moment is his lack of talent, I think he's a smart guy and realises there's no point in exerting more energy than you need to.

really, he looks like he's not trying, he needs to want it more i think, just doesn't seem that way.

really, he looks like he's not trying, he needs to want it more i think, just doesn't seem that way.

Im sure he wants it but for him it is so hard to play a good game of tennis on a consistent basis. He still somehow gets broken which means he needs to do some breaking of service of his own. I really hope for tennis in Australias sake that the Gooch stays in the top 100 until the begining of next year where he will have lots of points to defend in Sydney. At this rate he wont even directly qualify for the US Open.

And with an injury cloud over Hewitt this could leave us with no one!

Indiana Police next week is a big tourny for him.

He lost 6-4, 7-6 to a player ranked 200 places below him, and i'm not surprised.

Man he is playing shit tennis.

Yeah, not much to say really.

what is going on here. I just read today that he has made the Olympics draw when Koubek withdrew. Chris must start winning matches soon otherwise we are going to be completely desolated at the top.

One word...
EMBARRASSING!

If Hewitt doesn't play olympics, this is the man that will be representing us in mens singles, it's scary to think how badly he will lose.

Scary stuff indeed!

His decision to skip the claycourt season to "work on his game" before the grasscourt events is now looking like the stupidest decision in the universe. At this rate he won't make the cut for the Aussie Open...even the US could be touch and go.

hes in quallies for a 50K Challenger

hes in quallies for a 50K Challenger

i actually like that choice from chris

probably lose first round the way he is going though.

hes in quallies for a 50K Challenger

He's only there cos he hadn't originally entered the tournament.
At 93 he will be seeded in main draw if he gets through quallies. Must be playing down to get some confidence back...lets hope it works:)

i note that he has pulled out of the TA squad to go it alone. He is working currently with Darren Cahill and will be looking for a full time coach very soon. I think this is a very good decision. He has done well but the full time coach is necessary for his full potential to be reached. I wish him well as we certainly need him playing at his best! Good luck in the qualifiers.

Yes, glad he hs pulled out of AIS.
But he will still be a partial scholarship holder, apparently.
Who would suit him as his new coach?
Cahill would be great for him IMO. Failing him, Roger Rasheed might get a phone call...maybe even Jason Stoltenberg

Guccione has fallen since Luczak kept up with him in the rnakings

I'm so surprised he's not doing well, in Sydney he looked like he had added a yard of pace to his movement, I thought we were seeing a new player. I don't understand why his form didn't continue. It's weird because of his serve his performances seem to be the same against any level of player, like he'll lose a similar scoreline to a hack and then lose 7-6-7 to Roddick.

Losing the qualifiers of a challenger is a new kind of low even for chris

All so depressing!

:tape: :o :help: :rolleyes:

WTF has happened? It would be embarrassing to watch

Sad to say it, but he seems to have no fight. I've watched him play a lot at Queens and Wimby the last four years and he's just too tame. He walks out for every match with the body language of the underdog, even when he's favoured to win. He needs to impose himself more on opponents...bang a couple of forehands at their chest...stare them down...make more noise on court so they know he's there.

Guccione might be starting to improve. He defeated Woong Sun Jun 6-3,6-4 at Cincinatti after losing to the same guy in Indianapolis 6-4,7-6.

About time he strung two wins together!

Good to see none of the four sets he played went to tiebreaks either.
Hopefully he can now score a win in the main draw and keep that top 100 ranking

i agree with Zac. It would be too much to have only one man in the top 100!

He can qualify for a MS but not for a 50K :haha: Really is a strange one.

He's got Levine in the first round. Hope he can do it.

He couldn't have asked for a better draw. Even though the guy did well for a set against Nadal last week, Gooch should be thanking his lucky stars he didn't draw someone like Simon or Kiefer...or anyone else in the top 50 for that matter.

Well for Chris he either wins this match and stays in the top 100 until at least October or he loses and drops out (which I have a feeling he will not getting back in). I feel this match is going to determine the whole rest of the season for Chris. Levine is on a high but Gooch hasnt dropped a set in qualifying. I also feel this match could potentially determine whether or not our Davis Cup team gets back into the world group or not. Regardless of what happens Gooch will play in the Olympics next week and play in the US Open two or three weeks later guarunteed.

Gooch should beat Levine:rolleyes:

I think Chris will beat Levine and then progress to the second round to play Fernando Verdasco which would be an awesome match between 2 lefties!

I think Chris will beat Levine and then progress to the second round to play Fernando Verdasco which would be an awesome match between 2 lefties!

And this is exactly what has happened. Chris beat Levine 6/3, 6/4 and that leftie batle is coming up.

Great win Chris!

I saw some of the verdasco-guccione match on a challenger live stream last year and i would be surprised if guiccone would be able to pull a win off but hopefully he can.

Chris went on to lose to Fernando Verdasco in two tie breakers. shame he did not win but Verdasco has been in fantastic form tis year so perhaps chris has dug himself out of that hole and has played himself into some form. Lets hope so anyway.

Chris played finally a good tournament with 3 wins and he wasnt broken 1 time

Is he playing Los Angeles or any challenger tournament?

He will play at the olympics next.

Take that Cincinatti form to China Chris!

Well, he's in solid serving form, he had won a few return points in the tiebreak against evrdasco then it could of gone the other way. Hopefully he can pull something off in beijing, really needs a run there or in New York

Heaps of us will be cheering him on in China!

Will "The Gooch" ever make it to top 50 in the world? I think he has top 30 potential, however with his innability to perform good on a consistent basis I'm not too sure.

China here we come

Gucci goes for the China Title.

1st round Blake

yukky

Argghh! That will be very tough for Chris.

I watched Chris play James Blake. He had chances, had James very rattled particularly when he had set point and then typically folded away in the tie break. I can't wotk out why his tie break record is so poor. He lumbers around like a cow boy, and as someone said here recently needs to pump himself up. I always got the feeling that he was going to capitilate at some stage. Had lots of support and was really in the match.

A nice win for the doubles match today ;)

The Gooch played quite well against Blake, he had a set point in the 2nd,Served and volleyd well, Beat Nadal/Robredo in the doubles. The gooch is playing better.

Should have been a good confidence boost for him to beat Nadal and Robredo in the doubles, and considering he was the only Aussie not to get smashed in singles, he can take some positives out of his first Olympic Games.
Now I hope he can win a round at the US Open, hire a full time coach, play the Davis Cup and end the season on a high.

Guccione/Hewitt lost to the bryans, but a good tournament for the gooch in the doubles then.

Looks like Chis has a bit of form behind his back. Hopefully he can win a round in the US Open (:devil:), and finish his season on a high.

Who knows though, just hope he can get some good, solid consistant results going. Needs to win a match at New York would be a help.

Should make the main draw of New Haven i think, don't know if he'll play or not.

Chris has a first round match against Jesse Levine of USA. If he wins that match then the odds are that he will have a second round clash with Radek Stepanek and a thrid round matchup against Roger Federer if he makes it that far.

Good luck Guccione - break this Grand Slam Slump.

Wonder how Chris will fuck this up? He beat Levine a month ago.

Good luck Chris! Take this Aussie number 1 thing seriously as we need him at his very best.

I may regret saying this, but I think Guccione can win this match, lol!

I'll predict a 6-4 6-4 win.

I agree. I think Chris will win this. He played really well against Blake in Beijing.

Guccione can finally win a round at a slam i think, the scoreline will be something like 76 64 76 .

If he doesn't win this :o

But we have to have faith. Now that Hewitt is out, this is Guccione's turn to stand up and be counted at Grand Slam level and in Davis Cup.

He will play tomorrow at the US Open on Day 2

Fingers crossed for a win otherwise the media are going to make minced meat of 3 male players!

Well Chris won his match 6-3 3-6 7-6 7-6. He will now face Stepanek in Round 2. If he improves his break point conversions he has a real chance - if he plays at his best. He only converted 1/16 against Levine.

US Open R1 - Chris Guccione def. Jesse Levine 6-3 3-6 7-6 7-6

MATCHPOINT: http://forum.vaidisova-nicole.com/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=4426&p=7436#p7436

Gooch was just starting to work his way into the match with Stepanek. Down 4-6 4-6, he mananged to squeeze out the third set in a tiebreak and it's now 1-1 in the fourth set with Stepanek serving up 40-0

Come in here and cheer him on guys :wavey:

Stepanek 6-4 6-4 6-7(3) 1-1 40-15

Stepanek holds and leads 2-1, fourth set.

COME ON CHRIS

15-0

Always looks better than 0-15 :lol:

30-0 :)

40-0

Good game if he can finish it off here, put all the pressure back on Stepanek

40-15...

Where are you all, guys :lol:

Gooch holds convincingly and levels at 2-2 :D

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE, OI OI OI

Be great if Chris could really step out of Lleyton's shadow here :)

Stepanek 15-0

15-15

30-15...

40-15

40-30

Game Stepanek...
4-6 4-6 7-6(3) 2-3 now

0-15 :scared:
COME ON CHRIS

0-30 :help:

15-30

15-40...

Down 2 BP's

FIGHT :armed:

4-6 4-6 7-6(3) 2-4 :mad: :fiery:

Stepanek 15-0.

30-0

Come on Chris. Time is running out for you here mate

40-0, wow...piss weak game here.

Gee Stepanek annoys me :lol: :o

And Chris will now serve down 4-6 4-6 7-6(3) 2-5.

Hope he can muster some strength and courage here

0-15 :sad:
Stepanek has won 13/16 of the last points

0-30...

WTF Chris...

I hope he's not injured and that he's still trying

FIGHT MATE

:woohoo: he won a point :D

15-30

15-40...

Down 2 MP's :sad:

Australia is on it's way out of the singles

One saved...30-40

Game, Set, Match Stepanek 6-4 6-4 6-7(3) 6-2.

Pretty dysmal last set there from Chris in what was otherwise a decent effort.

He lost something like 16 of the last 21 points

Good luck at your next tournament :)

Zac, doubt many people come in here at all.

I was hoping he could win, he really needed it, to turn his season around a bit. But like usual, he loses his concentration way too much and loses, i heard the rain delay came at 5-5 in the 3rd. That probably helped Chris because his max concentration time is for about 20 mins, then he switches off. :o Helped him get a set.

Wanted a Federer/Guccione 3rd round :sad:

I assume Davis cup next, then i'm not sure, i have seen him on the entry lists for some euro indoor tournament (as an alt), you would think he would play a few south american challengers since he'll be down there again.

Loses against Stepanek isnt that bad for the Gooch, he finally won a match in a slam.

Lost his Davis Cup match in Chile.............even though he won more points than Massu and lost three sets in tie breakers. It is beyond me as to how someone with that serve can have such a mediocre record in tie breaks!

In a rare situation Gooch drew Joe Sirianni (the only other aussie in the draw) in the first and took him out 3-6 6-1 7-6(7). Plays either Michael Berrer or Bredan Evans in the second round. Heres hoping he can make semis in Bratislava.

In a rare situation Gooch drew Joe Sirianni (the only other aussie in the draw) in the first and took him out 3-6 6-1 7-6(7). Plays either Michael Berrer or Bredan Evans in the second round. Heres hoping he can make semis in Bratislava.

Have you come in here to jinx him, first win in a month, against an out of form sirianni, nothing to get excited about.

Have you come in here to jinx him, first win in a month, against an out of form sirianni, nothing to get excited about.

Well just the fact he was playing Joe Sirianni I thought was worth mentioning. He took out Evans in the second round 6-4 6-4 and next plays Petzschner or Ulihrach. Will be a tough one against Petzschner. The 21 points he has gained this week is a real bonus seeing as he has another 57 to defend for the rest of the year. I think he should be able to go deep in Jersey next week on grass.

Well after a good week in Slovakia Chris backs up this week in Jersey as the number 1 seed. He will play a qualifier in round 1. Lets hope the Mighty Gooch can make at least a semi final showing here so he wont have to worry about dropping out of the top 100.

Be great if he couls stay there in the top 100 as Lleyton would be the only one otherwise. Grim!

Excellent win against Berdych for Chris in Sydney :yippee: Now if he can just keep up that kind of momentum somewhere other than Sydney ... :hug:

God he is a frustrating player...how does he play so crap and then come up with wins against the likes of Berdych for the second year in a row

Congrats to Chris on a solid first round win :yippee: Good luck for the next round :)

He's a set up against Simon!!! Hahaha go for it Chris!!!

Yep he is :) - keep it up Chris!

could keep it up lost in 4 sets. really interesting to see how he performs in future tounraments.

Anyone have the match against simon ?

Chris had a great win for the Davis Cup tie in really tough conditions :yeah:

Thank goodness for Chris eh. We were heading for disaster there for a while!

On YA Guccione for finishing it off, australia is grateful and you deserved it mate !

Great Fitzy and Wally got it right, had it been in other selectors hands waving the magic TA youth policy around we well could have had 14 or 15 year olds on court and no win at all.

Anyone know what the almighty Gooch is up to over the next few weeks?

Anyone know what the almighty Gooch is up to over the next few weeks?

Due to his bad drop in ranking Chris is now playing challengers again. He will head to South Africa next week where he will not be seeded. Staying in SA for another challenger in East London (although I heard it got cancelled) and then will play a challenger in Tunisia. After that I don't know.

Gooch won doubles tournament with Bastl. Defeated Erlich/Ram in straight sets in the final.

Gooch beat Kudryavtsev in straight sets who is a pretty good player. Good win for Gooch.

that guy beat gooch in the aussie open so goo win

Gooch lost his first round match at Wimbledon Qualies 3-6 7-6 7-5. Not much to cheer about this year, his ranking is sure to drop out of the top 200 by the end of the year?

Chris Guccione is versing Jesse Levine in the Newport ATP event this week.

He lost 7-6(2) 7-6(2)

Poor Gooch. :confused:

Gooch is into the quarters of the Aptos Challenger after a 62 63 thrashing (by Gooch standards) of Sugita.

Hopefully he can build on this and have a good US Hardcourt season. He certainly needs it.

Now into the semis after defeating Odesnik.

Chris is pretty hard to stop when he is stringing together wins. I'd almost back him to win this.

62 61 win over Devvarman. I dont think this is the Gooch :lol:.

get a sport psychologist chris guccione whats with the inconsistency inr esults, beating a top Us college player one week and then the next losing to some mug

What the hell Gooch?!

How many points is he defending between now and the US Open because if he takes this title he will be ranked in the top 120..close to direct entrance. I think he made the second round last year.

Also made the doubles final with Carsten Ball with three easy victories. He has to defend 100 points from the Cincinatti Masters last year but after that nothing till November.

And of course the 70 points from the US Open and 10 from the Olympics.

(7) Chris GUCCIONE (AUS) defeated (Q) Nick LINDAHL (AUS) 6-3 6-4

Nice win and week from the Gooch...keep it up

Into the top 120 now... hopefully he can back this win up with another decent result. This is a great headstart for the US Hardcourt season. :yeah:

guys lets make a poll

can guccione bring his recent form into the US summer hardcourt season.

But once guccione gets into form he takes massive scalps

but i dont think hell take his form into the hardcourt season

Gooch seems to do reasonably well in the US. I think if he sticks to the challenger circuit he will keep up the good showings. If he steps up to the ATP tour then it is anyone's guess. He is capable of losing to a Futures journeyman whilst also being capable of knocking off a top 20 player.

Will be interesting to see his chances of getting the US Open wildcard are. Surely Tomic won't get it unless he starts putting in some good results on the challenger tour given the recent results of Gooch, Looch, Ball and Lindahl.

Gooch will probably make it to the main draw anyway, and since they are going with the "youth only" policy he won't receive the wildcard... I don't think Tomic should get the wildcard - he hasn't proved himself enough yet... Maybe if Groth has a couple of solid months he will get the wildcard, maybe Lindahl if he steps up. Ball was knocked out in the first round of a challenger last week, so lets see how he goes in the next couple months... out of the top 200 now...

Can't see Gooch doing much more than some solid challenger wins... but even that is not a certainty.

Yep,a fter last week's effort he goes and loses in straight sets in the first round. Go figure.

Yeah disappointing loss. In all fairness to him De Heart has been playing well of late and was probably one of the worst first round draws he could have gotten. Still though Gooch should have beaten him.

By the way Gooch is 8th alt for the US Open Maindraw although 5th alt when you take out Muller, Nalbandian and Moya.

Whats Mullers problem? Hopefully he can sneak into the MD...

Man giant Chris, hopefully he places good in some tournaments 2nd half of the year

Chris Plays Tonight Against Kohlschreiber:devil:

Gooch beat Kohli. What a legend.

USO 1R: Pablo Cuevas(URU) VS (WC)Chris Guccione(AUS)

Excellent chance for Gooch to progress to the second round again this year. Will take on the winner of Koellerer VS (25)Fish in the second round if he gets there.

Hello there people!

Does anyone know how I could contact Chris Guccione or his team?

Thanks :)

If Gooch beats Cuevas he will now play the winner of the Koellerer/Machado match. Machado replaced Fish who withdrew with a broken rib. The draw opens up quite a bit now for him - hopefully he can take advantage.

Hello there people!

Does anyone know how I could contact Chris Guccione or his team?

Thanks

He's on facebook.

Hello there people!

Does anyone know how I could contact Chris Guccione or his team?

Thanks

He's on facebook.

I think I know you!
Anyone else? I've tried contacting him on facebook.

Gooch is injured until atleast mid-December with an Achilles tear. At the moment there are doubts as to whether or not he will be apart of the wildcard playoff for AO.

Bad time for it to happen considering that he has a few points to defend from last year. He will almost certainly get a AO maindraw wildcard if he doesnt take part in the WC playoff due to injury. Good to see him using his offtime wisely and getting his drivers license.

Guccione's chances of coming back next month and getting an AO wildcard are looking slim. He said he may take extra time off in order for his achilles injury it to fully heal, which means he may not come back until March. This obviously leaves a spot open for someone else.

he might come back later to get a fully protected ranking

Correct.

What would bes protected ranking be?

Not sure, i heard he expects to start playing again Mid-Late February!!

Guccione making the most of his time out
DARREN WALTON
January 2, 2010 - 10:59AM

AAP

For Australian tennis ace Chris Guccione, absence indeed makes the heart grow fonder.

While Guccione will miss the entire Australian summer with a torn Achilles, the 24-year-old says his time away from the game has helped him appreciate the two great loves of his life.

After popping the question to American girlfriend Andra Kucerak during a romantic holiday in New York in November, the talented under-achiever is now vowing to also devote more time to on-court matters.

As is often the case with comeback athletes, a refreshed Guccione feels hungrier than ever to finally make good on his potential after experiencing a frustrating mid-career setback.

"It's been great to get away from it for a while," he told AAP.

"I got engaged and my fiancee is out here now for another few weeks, so I'm doing a bit of training in the gym at the moment and enjoying my time with her.

"But I can't wait to get back into it. I'm not sure I needed six months off.

"It's not a bad thing, though. I'll come back fitter than I've ever been and champing at the bit.

"I'm sure my best tennis is ahead of me."

One would hope so.

Despite boasting multiple victories over grand slam champions and world No.1s Rafael Nadal, Juan Carlos Ferrero and Davis Cup teammate Lleyton Hewitt, Guccione has yet to even crack the top 60.

Unfortunately, his most sustained run of form came last July-August when he won a Florida Challenger event and reached the last 16 at a Masters Series tournament for the first time in Cincinnati.

Just as he looked to be peaking for the US Open, having toppled former Australian Open runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga the week after the Frenchman snapped Roger Federer's 21-match winning streak, Guccione hurt his foot playing doubles with Hewitt in Washington.

A nasty injury at the best of times, Guccione has to be extra careful managing his given the left-hander's game is so reliant on his big serving.

"It's the right leg and that's the leg I push off on and land on when I serve," the former Wimbledon junior finalist said.

"And after I serve, I serve and volley so I have to land and push off straight away on that right leg.

"So it's never going to work until it's 100 per cent.

"But I can't really complain. I had a pretty good run with basically no injuries for eight years fulltime on tour prior to that."

Guccione will spend the summer rehabilitating and strengthening his leg and hopes to return in March, using an injury-protected ranking of No.118.

He will need to improve to about No.105 by May to gain direct entry to the French Open and then Wimbledon.

"It's coming along slowly. I'll get there eventually," Guccione said.

"I'm definitely looking forward to getting back on the court and putting in the hard yards again.

"I'm only 24 now, so I'll get this foot right and get the right mindset going, be positive and be ready to go again."

In the meantime, he plans to watch all the summer's action on TV.

"I really hope that Lleyton can give the Open a good nudge this year," he said.

"I heard he's training hard and hitting the ball pretty well and he's back fighting fit and coming off a great last year.

"I'd love to see him go deep again. That was awesome watching him a few years ago (in 2005) when he won all those five-setters and made the final."

any pics of the gingers gf?

http://images.brisbanetimes.com.au/2010/01/02/1008494/guccione-kucerak200-200x0.jpg

Gooch's protected ranking will be 118 when he returns in March.

When you say that he will return in march do you mean he will play in march on start hitting again i just want to know if he'll will be able to play davis cup if he gets picked or masters series events?

He is already doing strength training for his leg and said he is looking to return in March. I'm not 100% sure though so I'll keep you updated if I find out.

lets hope when he is back he applies himself more and really makes something of his tennis

Does anyone know when he will return please tell me, at the moment Luczak is the only aussie playing 250, i cant wait for Guccione to return.

Does anyone know when he will return please tell me, at the moment Luczak is the only aussie playing 250, i cant wait for Guccione to return.

If you read the above posts, you will see that he is currently doing rehab and is looking to return to action next month.

Well if you actually read it propley it says do you when he will return meaning what tournament i know in march?

The Gooch will make his comeback in Indian Wells, starting March 8.

Hope he has fully recovered and can have a good season.

Well after another setback, the Gooch is planning to play the Baton Rouge challenger in Louisiana in 2 weeks. Hope he can get that achilles back to 100% and can post some wins on the board over the next couple of months.

still injured?

Has Go Soeda in the first round. Anyone know what sort of performance we should expect from him?

Gooch got killed 6-2 6-2 by Soeda.

I'll give him some more time to get matches under his belt before I take this result to seriously.

Good to see him getting into the final of the doubles event with Frank Moser who these days is more focused on the coaching side of things rather than playing doubles. Don't know what this means for the Gooch's form but at least he is getting some vital matches under his belt and some confidence. Will be interesting to see how he goes against Kendrick in Tallahassee. If he is playing ok he should be able to keep it much closer against the fellow serve and volley player.

Good to see, this as you said will give him great match practice which is what he needs at the moment.

Gooch lost 76(6) 63. At least it was closer than his last singles match and he came close to winning a set this time. He is teaming up with Carsten in the doubles this week but no results have come through yet.

It will take a while to get his serve, movement, fitness back to 100% after being out for so long, so it is no surprise that he is losing. I just hope he continues to improve.

Gooch withdrew from Sarasota with a left shoulder injury. Fingers crossed it isn't too serious. Would be a massive blow if it was.

DEVVARMAN, Somdev IND [6] v VANEK, Jiri CZE
GUCCIONE, Chris AUS v KING-TURNER, Daniel NZL
SALAMANCA, Carlos COL v MANNARINO, Adrian FRA (W)
POLANSKY, Peter CAN v DELGADO, Ramon PAR [28]

Didn't think I would be saying this but Gooch actually has a chance of winning a match here.

Guccione has won matches here before, no real pressure on him, having said that, he should get a kick up the backside if he manages to lose to Dan....a great chance to qualify here!!

Of course he lost.... 6-3 6-3 :help:

Pity a couple of the other boys didnt get to trade places....waste of a half decent draw!

Get on the grass quick Gooch!

A loss like that probably shows you how far he still has to go to get back to his former level. It was good to see him play though as it means he is not having a recurrence of that left shoulder problem he had issues with last year.

Gooch plays Soeda once again in the first round at Nottingham. Good luck Gooch.

Gooch got into the Queens MD as the last alternate with his PR of 118. He has Sela in the first round.

GL Gooch

Gooch lost a close one to Sela 76 67 46. Had BP early in the second set but couldn't take it. Good effort by him.

Unlucky Chris. I think he had triple BPs in the second set aswell.

Gooch made Newport ATP directly with his protected ranking. The tournament has a pretty poor cut-off at #122, the draw is more like a challenger tournament. Hopefully he can rack up a couple of wins to improve that ranking.

Gooch went down to the Ruskie Bubka 76 64. Just can't get that 1st win under his belt.

Winning the dubs at Newport will hopefully giveGooch the confidence to kick-start his singles winning ways

Guccione has gone down an astonishing 85 places to be ranked 308th. This year he hasn't won a match and is on 0-8. With this ranking, he might not even get into the qualies for the us open.

With Chris turning 25 at the end of the month, we have to wonder where his career is going. He really is at the crossroads IMO

Another poor result for Gooch. The doubles final, played on a Sunday, not the normal Saturday, will have wrecked the preparation for Gooch, Ball and Jonesie. They had to travel overnight from Aptos to Kentucky and only arrived, no doubt sleep-deprived, at 1pm yesterday. No preparation time and very tired. Not their fault, but as they say, "If you fail to prepare, you are preparing to fail" (Laurie Lawrence).

Big Red lost to college prodigy Steve Johnson 6-3 6-3 in the final round of LA qualies today. Good that he beat Harrison but this was definitely a missed opportunity to play in a main draw of a ATP tournament again, hopefully he can string some wins together at his next tournament.

Hope he makes it in a Lucky Loser.

Havn't heard of Steve Johnson before - he was not prominent amongst the ITF Juniors, so well done to him for qualifying for LA

Guccione down another 28 places to 334. I doubt that he can get into us open qualies now. He is gonna struggle to make main draws of challengers also.

Gooch plays Witten in Canada in the 1st round. Good luck big red, you really need to start winning matches soon.

Gooch plays Witten in Canada in the 1st round. Good luck big red, you really need to start winning matches soon.

Already won it 3-6 6-3 6-2 :worship:

Witten must have been awful, Gooch had 13 break points :eek:

World domination: The Sequel begins this week in Vancouver.

Gooch is playing at the 50k Binghamton Challenger this week. He is into the maindraw after defeating the promising college player Michael Shabaz 63 76, John Paul Fruttero 64 75 and the fellow Aussie Dayne Kelly 63 62. In the MD he will play Millman.

There were some promising signs last week but Millman will be very tough. Pretty convincing win there over Dayne Kelly though.

Into 2nd round after close match against Millman. Dropped the tie-breaker in the 1st set which was a surprise but managed to get on top of Millman at the end of the 2nd set and win a close match 7-5, 6-3

Gooch gets the 1st set against Rajeev Ram, at 4-4 in second set. Gooch needs to ram it home...
6-6 in 2nd set, into tie-break, Gooch goes mini-break up, now at 4-2,can he bring it home?
Yes - wins tie-break 7-4, advances to QF round. Well done Gooch, two wins in a row.
;)

The inconsistent Gooch is back. YAY!!!!!!!!!! From losing on a consistent basis to winning out of the blue. Good on ya Gooch.

Well done Gooch. Has to play Klahn in the Quarters so he has a big chance of making the semis now. Hopefully Ball can give him a few pointers on how to play him.

Gooch had an easy 64 62 win. Now ino the semis where he will face Kendrick. Kendrick looks to be in good form this week with a very easy win over Soeda and did beat Gooch last time they played in April, 76 63 but Gooch was still struggling after the injury layoff and is in much better form now.

Gooch also made it into the semis of the doubles with Ball.

Better times are coming for Chris. Whilst this is only a 5o k all of our players except the top 2 were there so I am sure the selectors were watching with interest. Great to see Chris doing so well. John Millman really pushed him in the first round.

Gooch withdrew citing a problem with his achilles. Hopefully it isn't the same the achilles problem.

Some bad scheduling for Gooch saw him play his singles QF, followed immediately by a 1st round doubles match, followed immediately by another doubles match, a tough one which went to the match tie-break, against Feeney and Jonesie. No wonder his achilles is playing up. He should be limiting his play one any one day if he is still a bit suss injury-wise. Let's hope it is not too serious.

Guccione has gone down an astonishing 258 places. He is now ranked 536th. This is because he failed to defend the points from Cincinniti. Thats incredible!

I think he might have to go down to the futures level with that ranking. That's a massive fall

If he qualifies for the Main Draw, and he will reach the 3th round he can start playing challengers.

He has nothing left to defend for the next 11 months. NOTHING! So assuming he turns up to events then any win will push him higher up the ranks with no fall back.

If he qualifies for the Main Draw, and he will reach the 3th round he can start playing challengers.

That's a very big if.

He's going to have to play futures for a while, hopefully he can get his confidence back in those.

Yeah the Australian futures near the end of the year seem like the way to go for him. Would be helpful if those tournaments were challengers like they are for the women which could help him get straight back up the rankings like it did for the likes of Molik and Dellacqua on the womens side. At least if he struggles to get back up the rankings he has a very promising doubles career that he can fall back on.

In the US Open Qualies he has to face Bobby Reynolds in the first round.

Lost to Reynolds 36 67(4) what a fucking stupid loss, he's going to play futures for sure now next year, any idea what his next tournament will be now?

Hope he can be a top 100 player someday.

Not in the most confident time of his career, poor Gooch. Let's hope he can get firing again.

Gooch has dropped down to the futures level with a 10k hardcurt tournament in Irvine, USA. In the first round he plays a qualifier Nathaniel Gorham who is ranked at 1418 in the world. It would be very bad if he were to lose this match.

Gooch should be good enough to get through this one :lol:

This is a good move. By playing here he SHOULD get five easy wins giving him confidence and form leading into a few US challengers.

After a slight hiccup in the first set Gooch ended up winning the match 4-6 6-1 6-2. Next up will be Bulgarian, Boris Nicola Bakarov who is ranked 904 in the world. Same story as last match for the Gooch. A loss here would be pretty bad.

Gooch won 6-3 6-2. Next up is 4th seed Robbye Poole who is ranked 520 in the world. Poole made the final of an American futures tournament last week but this is a match the Gooch should win.

Good work, keep going.

Once again Gooch dropped the first set but recovered to win the match 3-6 6-3 6-3. Next up will be top seed Artem Sitak. Sitak is capable of pulling off an upset if Gooch plays sub standard tennis but if he plays anything remotely decent he should pull through and make the final.

Tough on the big servers playing Futures and not getting new balls as often as they would like. More of a grind in the Futures, levels the playing field for the big guys. Good to see Gooch coping and building confidence. Hope he makes the final.

:rocker2: Gooch is into the final after a 7-6(5) 6-4 win and now takes on a young qualifier by the name of Daniel Kosakowski who the Gooch will be very confident of beating. Good luck Gooch.

Good to see him atleast getting some wins. It will certainly give him some confidence as he works towards getting back to the challenger level eventually.

Good to see him atleast getting some wins. It will certainly give him some confidence as he works towards getting back to the challenger level eventually.

Hopefully he can take this final in straight sets and get a confidence boost ahead of next week's sacramento challenger where he is in the main draw!!

Hopefully he can take this final in straight sets and get a confidence boost ahead of next week's sacramento challenger where he is in the main draw!!

He has a protected ranking, doesn't he? Completely forgot about that. Hopefully he uses it wisely.

Gooch takes out the final 6-3 6-4 :clap2:.

His section for the 50k Sacramento Challenger on Hardcourt.

[1] Tobias KAMKE (GER) vs Amer DELIC (BIH)
Chris GUCCIONE (AUS) vs [WC] Denis KUDLA (USA)
Alex BOGOMOLOV Jr. (USA) vs [WC] Michael MCCLUNE (USA)
Jesse LEVINE (USA) vs [7] Izak VAN DER MERWE (RSA)

Gooch will be happy with that first round matchup. Kudla was the runner up at the US Open juniors this year but his senior results seem to suggest that this is a match that the Gooch will be confident of winning.

Good win for Gooch and hopefully he can atleast take the first round here against Kudla.

Good to see him dropping back and winning a futures....hopefully he can win this first round match and pick up another 7 ranking points...also playing doubles with Ball...they are the top seeds..

Gooch won 7-6(3) 6-4. Good stuff.

Nice stuff Gooch. Oppons.ent in the second round is top seed Tobias Kamke. Kamke had a three setter against Delic today. Hopefully Gooch can use the confidence he has from the winning streak and cause an upset.

Guccione beat Kamke 6-3 6-4!

Great to see Chris back

Yeah, good to see the big fellow firing again