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2013 Titles

4 Titles

Matt Ebden (64k+H Nottingham GBR, 50k Melbourne AUS, 50k Yokohama JPN, 50k Toyota JPN)

3 Titles

Jason Kubler (15k Italy F4, 10k Spain F37, 10k Egypt F36)

2 Titles

John Millman (50k Burnie AUS, 35k+H Kyoto JPN)
Nick Kyrgios (50k Sydney AUS, 15k China F3)
James Duckworth (15k Australian F5, 15k Chile F3)
Ben Mitchell (10k Thailand F1, 15k Korea F5)
Jordan Thompson (10k Austria F5, 15k Australia F8)
Andrew Whittington (15k Australia F7, 10k Cambodia F1)
Adam Feeney (10k Thailand F3, 15k Australia F6)

1 Title

Matthew Barton (50k West Lakes AUS)
Sam Groth (15k Austral ia F2)
Colin Ebelthite (15k Australia F4)
Luke Saville (15k Australia F10)
JP Smith (15k Canada F6)
Andrew Harris (15k USA F27)
Greg Jones (15k Australia F8)


2014 Titles

4 Titles

John Millman (50k Traralgon AUS, 50k Yokohama JPN, 10k Korea F10, 10k Korea F11)
Jason Kubler (42.5k Sibiu ROU, 10k Spain F1, 15k Netherlands F3, 15k Italy F24)

3 Titles

Nick Kyrgios (100k Sarasota USA, 50k Savannah USA, 64k Nottingham 2 GBR)
Luke Saville (15k Australia F2, 15k Australia F3, 15k Australia F5)

2 Titles

James Duckworth (50k Lexington USA, 50k Charlottesville USA)
Alex Bolt (50k An-Ning CHN, 15k Australia F4)
Dane Propoggia (15k Korea F2, 10k Turkey F21)
Maverick Banes (10k Croatia F10, 10k Croatia F11)

1 Title

Sam Groth (40k Rimouski CAN)
Matt Reid (50k Burnie AUS)
Ben Mitchell (15k Canada F4)
Thanasi Kokkinakis (15k Canada F5)
Gavin Van Peperzeel (10k Serbia F8)
Dayne Kelly (10k Thailand F7)
Chris O'Connell (10k Croatia F12)


2015 Titles

3 Titles

John Millman (50k Lexington USA, 100k Aptos USA, 50k Kobe JPN)
Jordan Thompson (15k Australia F4, 15k Thailand F6, 15k Thailand F7)

2 Titles

Matt Ebden (42.5k Surbiton GBR, 50k Traralgon AUS)
Sam Groth (75k Taipei TPE, 42.5k Manchester GBR)
Ben Mitchell (50k Canberra AUS, 15k Australia F10)
Matthew Barton (15k Australia F2, 15k Australia F3)
Gavin Van Peperzeel (10k Serbia F7, 15k Australia F9)
Omar Jasika (15k Korea F2, 15k Canada F4)

1 Title

JP Smith (50k Drummondville CAN)
Thanasi Kokkinakis (85k Bordeaux FRA)
Matt Reid (15k Canada F6)
Luke Saville (15k USA F24)
Jacob Grills (10k Thailand F3)
Dayne Kelly (15k Australia F11)


2016 Titles

6 Titles

Andrew Whittington (25k Australia F3, 25k Australia F4, 10k Guam F1, 10k Hong Kong F1, 10k Hong Kong F2, 10k Hong Kong F3)

2 Titles

Jordan Thompson (42.5k Cherbourg FRA, 100k An-Ning CHN)
James Duckworth (50k Bangkok THA, 10k China F6)
Marc Polmans (10k Mozambique F1, 10k Mozambique F2)

1 Title

Blake Mott (50k Launceston AUS)
Matthew Barton (25k USA F11)
Bradley Mousley (10k Greece F3)
Dayne Kelly (25k Australia F2)
Chris O'Connell (25k Australia F1)
 
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#364 ·
Yeah, another good performance by Ried, this time against Burnie titlist Chung, but a bad finish. He was battling to hold all through that 3rd set, beating off 6 break points but succmbed in the end.
A disappointing coupl eof results for Matt after a good lead-up, a good mental attitude, after training with Lleyton. Feel for him
 
#365 ·
In Launceston, in the battle of the States, Blues boy Jordie Thompson delivers a straight sets win against(perhaps slightly wounded) Maroon Ben Mitchell, getting over the line 62 63. Mitchell served at a low 50% for the match, only converting 55% of those first serves, and winning only a miserly 38% of his second serve. Thompson was a lot better all round on the serve stats.
Jordan now faces up against either last weeks winner Korean Chung or local lad Harry Bourchier. Com' Harry - make it an all Aussie semi-final.
 
#366 ·
Two out of four in India, Whittington goes down 7-5 in the third and Bolt loses 6-7 6-7 to Coppejans

On the flip side Saville starts with a win over a local qualifier but given his disappointing Aus summer he'll take it and Ducky wins 6-1 6-2....despite double faulting 3 times in the first game.
 
#371 ·
This is such old news - Lindahl was implicated with Matt Fox, and Feeney was caught up in the shenanigans, last year. It is just now that Lindahl is being charged in NSW.
 
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#373 ·
Mildura grass futres has Barton storming into the final, again who is really on the come back march and should be looking at challengers soon as his ranking will jump up a storm when the Port Pirie and Mildura rankings get added, crosses fingers the fitness holds.

, plays Bourchier in the final, who is an odd one with his withdrawals but since the AO has wins over Moriya, Klein, Grills, Bains, Proppogia and a 3 setter against chung in the Launnie QF. The Bourchier serve and forehand combo is big and Proppggia couldn't combat it today, Harry suited to grass by the looks of it.

Still Barton will probably have a bit more depth on his returns and take it in 2 but could be an interesting match.
 
#374 ·
Spent s fair bit of time at Morninton this week, though sadly not today for the final as a pre existing Easter commitment was unavoidable.

I am going to say a bit about what i saw regarding Luke Saville in his thread.

but other players

Barton: The boy is playing very well, we all know hits the ball fast but he's hitting his spots and playing fast, he is shooting early. Saville couldn't get any look in in the QF and Saville refused to play behind the baseline and Barton kept skidding the ball in at his feet to which he couldn't react. In the semi's against the big German with the heavy clay court style forehand would punch swing across the court to his back hand side once or twice if required, if he had half an open court or half a short ball h would shoot regardless of his own position, this led to some trouble early in the 2nd with a couple of breaks but he always broke straight back. While initially surprised he played at Mornington the surface wasn't pure clay but a clay-entecourt hybrid that if played right could have skidding balls playing fast. Hoping to see him step up to overseas Challengers soon.

Bolt: Had little gain from this tournament and played like it at times at other times looked like he was a class above. Rarely found his shooting range and just held on in a tiebreak against De Waard, against Jaryd Maher down a break early in the third that he overcame.

The loss to Statham though was disappointing, While Sthathem hits well placed balls Bolt tried to take them too early and lost control of his shots and regularly went over the baseline. 2nd set though he switched on and was dominating, rallied shot set up shots and Jos couldn't keep up, until he double faulted twice serving for the set and also in the tie break before losing. Probable he's had a long campaign and really needs some time off and didn't really get into the tournament.

Whittington: Thought he played really well in sets one and three just the big German played even better in a three hour dog fight, it was a clay court style battle, heavy and deep shot exchanged from behind the baseline, probably just got worn down as the game style really suited torebko and Whittinton maybe could have transitioned back up over the baseline a little better but it could have gone wither way except the 2nd set where he let the level go. Not sure he's going to push on the next level but if he keeps the fight he might. Lucky not to drop the first set at 6-7 in the tiebreak with a racket smash as he already had a code violation warning. Umpire was pretty poos though having had a score she read overturned after a let for a stray ball floating over the court and a few arguments over which ball mark was which.

Jary Maher: I mention him as he was surprise packet, all but unknown to me was really surprised with how well he played, he has a top backhand for this level and against Bolt structured his points well so Bolt left his own backhand exposed before he changed the line and shot it down. It's not super fast but he times it so well and takes it early that it won a lot of points. The forehand would go amiss at times and perhaps not quite as fit as the other's in the QF's, been the only tournament he has played in 12 months at this level it seems. Also a bit of a charterer, yelling out to get a haircut as he had hair in his eyes and bagging his own court at the end of the first set despite been offered by a lines-person to take it off his hands. Went down to bolt in three and was really competitive in that third set.

If your reading this Jarryd, spend the winter getting fit and have that haircut, would love to see you play this level again.
 
#383 · (Edited)
And some disappointing losses - in Busan, Jordan Thompson goes down to Ze Zhang 26 16 (ouch), Saville loses (again) to Lucas Lacko 16 64 36 (but did manage to win a set), Barton loses in final round of qualifying, but then gets LL but draws the No.3 seed and loses 26 46 to Go Soeda, and Bolt loses to fellow Aus and No.2 seed Sam Groth 46 57.
In the second round Groth faces up against fellow winner from last week Franko Skugor, whilst JP Smith is up against No.3 seed Go Soeda.
 
#385 ·
A snapshot of Aussies in Futures Tournaments this week:

Mav Banes into QF in Croatian $10k event on hard, plays No.1 seed Tomislav Brkic next;

Jacobs Grills into QF in Thailand $10k event on hard, beat Sho Katayama and Mohit Jalyaprakash, plays No.1 seed Kento Takeauchi from Japan next;
Also in Thailand Blake Mott lost in first round to Akira Santillan 57 36 and Chris O'Connell lost 2nd round to Indian Karunday Singh67(4) 36;

Matt Reid got through the 1st round in USA $10k event, beating Yank Collin Johns 75 63

Scott Browne (WC) lost 1st round in Turkey $10k, to Belgian Clement Greens 16 16

In Romanian $10k tournament, in the 1st round, Steven De Waard lost to No.1 seed Maxim Dubarenko from Belarus 62 36 26, whilst Gavin van Peperzeel als went down to Brazilian Eduardo Duschinger 46 67(6), and Wild Card Justyn Levin lost to German Bastian Wagner 36 26.

And in Mexico Jarryd Chaplin lost to No.1 seed Adam El Midawy from USA 46 36

Go Banes, Grills and Matt Reid
 
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