James McGee up to #209 - best ever but has a tough match today against Goffin (see above)
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James McGee up to #209 - best ever but has a tough match today against Goffin (see above)
The aforementioned David O'Hare (of Davis Cup doubles near miss fame) and Joe Salsbury (GBR) have recieved a wildcard into the first round proper of the US Nat Indoors in Memphis. They have been drawn against the Bryan Brothers. Neither of the Bryan's have a singles ranking of note - but apparently they make a useful doubles combo! Good luck to him!
Edit - no major shock as O'Hare / Salsbury lost out 6/4 6/3.
They were given the WC as the top ranked University of Memphis Tigers team and are the No.3 ranked team in Collegate Doubles Tennis.
He was serving for the 2nd set, threw in two df's and was broken to love :/Quote:
Originally Posted by swinfordfc
https://www.pledgesports.org/project...imbledon-2014/
I see our #1 doubles player James Cluskey is on the pledge sports bandwagon now. It's a nice initiative, hope he gets what he wants from it!
Sam Barry is almost back from injury, some visa mix up has stopped the aforementioned Cluskey from playing any competitions this week, and from what I can see there's no other Irish lads competing this week.
James Mcgee, 26 yrs old #206
Louk Sorensen 29 yrs old #258
Sam Barry 21 yrs old #403
That's how our top 3 lads stand at the moment, Louk is continuing his extremely impressive comeback, he's easily the most talented of the three, but injury problems effectively ended his career a few years ago. James made the qualifying cut for the French open, while Sam is doing quite well for his age.
Hopefully James and Louk are in the top 200 by the time Wimbledon rolls round.
James Cluskey has been having a terrible season in doubles, dropped to 161 at the moment, but he's played two singles competitions in the last month and managed to win 4 matches between the two, it'll be interesting to see how he does if he enters a few more singles comps..
Amy Bowtell also won a ladies ITF event in the last week or so!
Any mods want to rename this thread by the way? :P
James McGee won 1st round of qualifying in Roland Garros today, his first ever grand slam win. His side of the draw could have been a lot tougher so it'd be amazing for him if he could pick up even one more win. The money even in grand slam qualifying will be much higher than anything he's ever made before. Delighted for him!
Who is he up against in the 2nd Q Round and when it's on?
Plays Guido Pella from Argentina sometime tomorrow, ranked 120. I guess the order of play will be posted soon enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by swinfordfc
Guido Pella, tomorrow, Argentinian lad, #120 in the world. Seasoned clay courter, so it'd be a huge upset if James can get a win but he has a dodgy enough backhand so there's hope.Quote:
Originally Posted by swinfordfc
Edit: Beaten to it while I was typing! :D
In other news, James Cluskey is through to a semi finals of a doubles comp in Uzbekistan. Badly needed some wins this week, and he has two so far!
Pella v McGee - just started on Court 12 - Good luck to him.
http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/sc...ex.manual.html
And McGee takes the first set 6-4!!!!
Pella tanked the 2nd set. Holy **** James actually won!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid
Arnaboldi in the 3rd round.
He genuinely has a shot at doing this.
Yeah he surely does - how long since we had one in the main draw there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Acornvilla
Think sean sorensen back in '82?
James is up 3rd on court 11 today - 2 WS qualies up before him which have just started so I'm guessing he will be on court about 12.30 / 1.00 Irish time.
Lost 6-4, 6-3. About what would be expected if Arnaboldi played well, very good week for James thou, I checked the prize money, and he'll make about 10k euro this week, which is great considering up to this point so far this year he's won just under 15k in prize money.
Hopefully himself and Louk (Sean Sorensens son) make the cut for Wimbledon next month!
French open should be a good one anyway, Plenty of people have been giving Rafa problems this year.
I wonder why Ireland is so crap at tennis? It seems the kind of sport that this country would excel at it, by throwing huge amount of money at privileged individuals - something Irish sport and the Irish state has always relished.
Alright then..
Sam Barry up to #375, won his 2nd ITF singles title last month, and has won two doubles ITF competitions in a row! He's climbing up both doubles and singles rankings steadily.
McGee beat former world #63 Bobby Reynolds, and is in the 2nd round of qualifying for the Nottingham challenger later on today, should make it through and will probably face ginepri in the final round.
Gulbis and Djokovic were immense today! Sharapova also extremely impressive.
For some (great) reason - James Cluskey is in the Main Draw at the ATP250 event in Bastad (No sniggering), Sweden.
He and Mikhail Kukushin take on Johan Brunstroem and Nicholas Monroe just about now.
Good luck to him - I may stand corrected but this is his first game in the main draw of an ATP World tour event.
Edit - Beaten 7/6 6/4
Keeping an eye on James Cluskey - I completly missed Louk Sorensen who qualifed for the main draw in the 250 World tour event in Stuttgart as a lucky loser. He then went on to shock world number 68 Igor Sisling in straight sets before losing in 3 sets to 3rd seed Roberto Bautista Agut today in round two. Be interesting to see his ranking next week.
Do you think Serena was on something at Wimbledon? I still dont understand that.
For the 1st time in a few years James McGee isn't Ireland #1 Louk's pipped him by one spot on the world rankings.
Great to see Cluskey get a shot at a 250. The lads they lost to won the comp afterwards. Sam Barry at a new career high again of 331. This lad might be the real deal.
Hard to know really. Think she was just completely out of the tennis zone. Illicit substances didn't play a part. Patrick Mouratoglou will be staying as Serena Williams’s coach but admitted the world No 1 was going through “a difficult period”.
James McGee is in the semi of a challenger in Canada today, winnable match if he plays well. McGee also lost in the doubles semi. He rarely plays doubles, but it's a handy bit of extra pocket money for him!
In even better news our doubles #1 James Cluskey is in the final of a challenger in Italy. He mentioned in an article this week that he might consider quitting playing professionally at the end of the year if his ranking drops much further, so I'm very glad for his sake that he's had a good week.
Career high #193 for McGee.
McGee beat #111 ranked guy in 1st round in America - can he back it up now in the next game to get into the quarter final?
He did and emphatically. 6-0,6-1 win, one of those days where everything went right.Quote:
Originally Posted by swinfordfc
This quarter final v Odesnik is winnable, but a lot depends on which James McGee turns up. He's had a lot of chances to really push on and make a breakthrough but failed to take any. Let's hope tomorrow is a big step to changing that. He's also made a second doubles semi in two weeks as well. His partnership with Chase Buchanan is looking fairly handy!
Cluskey desperately unlucky to lose a challenger quarter final in Finland today, lost two tiebreaks to go down 2-1. His partner was terrible. James would actually easily be within the top 100 doubles players if he could get a decent and consistent partner from what I've seen of him.
I'm sure they've considered it and maybe finances are dictating otherwise, but it'd be great if we seen Cluskey go around the tour with either McGee or Barry and play doubles with either of them.
How did Glancy v Barry end in the Irish Open 1/4 final today? I assume Sam won handily enough, but can't see a score at the mo!
Barry won handy enough
Meekly lost the semi sadly. McGee into the doubles final. He's never won a challenger level title before as far as I'm aware.Quote:
Originally Posted by swinfordfc
And, he still hasn't! MGee played with an injured calf, was heavily strapped and he wasn't moving freely. Probably unwise to have even played. They were totally outclassed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Acornvilla
Himself and chase are both in the draw in a canadian challenger next week, so it'll be interesting to see if they carry on playing together. The singles draw is very strong, wouldn't hold out hope of James doing much.
McGee up to #188 in world
David Goffin has won 22 matches in a row, the mad yolke. Some resurgence after he had a terrible season last year.
Louk lost in the USOpen 1st q round today, was 4-1 up in the 3rd set, lost it 4-6...
McGee should win his match tomorrow, but James likes to surprise us.
Goffinwatch update:
24 wins and counting!
McGee wins first match 6-1 6-1 .... up against a seeded player from India next .....
Indian lad was world junior #1 in 2009, hasn't played much this year must have been injured, but he's won a few challenger titles and would be comfortably top 100 but for injury it seems, only 22 yrs old. I'd say it'll be tight enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by swinfordfc
Looking at the draw I really felt either James or Louk would make rnd 3 and maybe even qualify, but Louk shat his pants already. James has as good a chance as he's had so far in his career to make the breakthrough. Light a candle for him :P
Oh, and 25 wins on the bounce for Goffin!
McGee is 4th up on Court 6 this evening - I'm guessing around 9 or 10ish Irish time. Must look for a stream somewhere.
Incidentally - its 5 years ago next week I had the pleasure of visiting Flushing Meadows for Day 3 of the 09' US Open - had Grandstand tickets for Ashe and with a delay we ended up watching Radek Stepanek beat Leonardo Mayer is 3 sets out on court 17 ( I remember it being a few close sets) - When we got in I was amazed by the steepness of the stadium - it actually took 10-15 mins of getting used to - and we watched Sharapova destroy an American WC Melanie Oudin and then a set or two of Andy Roddick who dished out a bit of a thrashing as well to a French player (I think it was Giquel). Great memories - if anyone has a chance to visit a grand slam tournament; it is well worth it.
I was at the Wimbledon qualies this year, but Roehampton isn't quite as impressive albiet nice :)
James is on at about half 8, depending on how the matches before his go, doubt there will be any streams, there very rarely is for GS qualies.