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1st futures of the 2013 USTA Pro Circuit and the dreadful 128-player qualifying draw: http://assets.usta.com/assets/1/15/q...ng_draw217.PDF

Good luck to everybody

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Smoke

Rhyne Williams ‏@RhyneWilliams

Gonna be needing lots of this today in Sydney #warmweather pic.twitter.com/iXUBbs9U

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Interesting match-ups between Papa-Broady and Krueger-Kubler in the final qualifying round. I would give Broady and Kubler the upper hand. Spencer hasn't done anything since last year's South American swing and Kubler is a clay specialist. But good luck to our boys

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Jason Kubler [AUS/1/w.c] d. Mitchell Krueger [USA/11] 6-3 7-6(5)
Spencer Papa [USA] d. Liam Broady [GBR/14] 6-4 6-3

Spencer draws Ricardo Rodriguez (ATP No.388) in the maindraw.

Full draw: http://assets.usta.com/assets/1/15/singles_draw219.PDF

[PTWahoo14]

Wow, great win by Spencer against Broady. Hopefully he stays healthy and this foreshadows some good things for him in the clay season.

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Originally Posted by PTWahoo14

Wow, great win by Spencer against Broady. Hopefully he stays healthy and this foreshadows some good things for him in the clay season.

And hopefully stays fit too. He looked out of shape last summer . But it was somewhat understandable (coming back from shoulder injury).

[PTWahoo14]

Having followed Steve Johnson's college career (and college tennis in general) pretty closely, I'm in shock about this scoreline. It's hard to wrap my head around a 16 yr old keeping pace with him until the last second. To me this continues to speak volumes about the generation to come.... but maybe someone who watched the match could explain if the score was so close because kokkinakis played well or because johnson played poorly and passively? http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/...y1/7122ms.html

SHOW COURT 3 - MEN'S QUALIFYING SINGLES | 1ST ROUND
T.Kokkinakis                4 7(7) 15  
S.Johnson                   6 6(5) 17  
ELAPSED TIME BY SET:        40 59 127

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I thought both played well for the most part. Johnson was broken serving for the match twice @ 6-4 5*-3 and @ 6-4 6-7 5*-4. He had plenty of break opportunities in the 3rd set but TK was poised and saved them all until the 15-all mark (I think, was drifting between matches during 3rd set).

[PTWahoo14]

Watching the highlights, to me it looked like Johnson's forehand was consistently not as heavy or penetrating as last year. Maybe he had a bad offseason. But kudos to Kokkinakis, he deserves all the credit for hanging in there.

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Originally Posted by PTWahoo14

Watching the highlights, to me it looked like Johnson's forehand was consistently not as heavy or penetrating as last year. Maybe he had a bad offseason. But kudos to Kokkinakis, he deserves all the credit for hanging in there.

Maybe still dealing with shoulder injury. But great mentality from the kid.

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Spencer lost 3&5

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http://twitter.com/Noahrubin33/statu...59489944502272

Noah Rubin
‏@Noahrubin33
The time off will get me in the best shape possible. Maybe this broken wrist is a good thing.......

Sh*t

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Noah

[PTWahoo14]

He better come back with the most massive tennis legs ever after his time off.

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Which reminds me, I wonder how Stefan's elbow is doing? I see he's withdrawn from all the January tournaments.