2017 Aussie Watch

[Redline]

I don't think a thread exists for this year so I'll start one up but feel free to move this.

There is no ATP main tour events this week due to Round 1 of the Davis Cup.

A number of Australians are playing the Challenger in Burnie. Some of their first round matchups are below.

Bolt (WC)v Even King (USA)
Saville v Jason Jung (TPE)
Ebden v Bourchier (WC)
Barton v Polmans
Jasika v Nguyen (USA)
Whittington v Nola (Slovak)

 

[The City Boyz]

I don't think a thread exists for this year so I'll start one up but feel free to move this.

There is no ATP main tour events this week due to Round 1 of the Davis Cup.

A number of Australians are playing the Challenger in Burnie. Some of their first round matchups are below.

Bolt (WC)v Even King (USA)
Saville v Jason Jung (TPE)
Ebden v Bourchier (WC)
Barton v Polmans
Jasika v Nguyen (USA)
Whittington v Nola (Slovak)

Cheers mate. What about the women's?

 

[Redline]

Cheers mate. What about the women's?

Stosur is playing in Taipei City. Seeded second. Dasha is in St Petersburg, has a wildcard first up.

There is an ITF tournament in Burnie at the same time as the men. Draw can be found at the below link. Qualifiers still to be placed.

http://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/tournaments/women's-tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100038983

 

[Amazing Bombers]

Barton and Ebden are in the 2nd round so far.
In the women's Rogowska, Aiava and Fourlis are all playing the Burnie ITF alongside a few other aussies.

 

[Jeremias]

Gavrilova won her opening match in St Petersburg, 6-4 7-5 against Anna Kalinskaya.

Faces a really tough opponent in R2 - Kuznetsova.

 

[Amazing Bombers]

So far we have a number of Aussies in the 2nd round in the Burnie events.
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Mens-

Barton(5) vs Jasika
O'Connell vs Bublik
Ebden vs Rola
Banes vs Rubin(6)
Bolt vs Kelly
Mott vs Safwat(4)
Saville vs Popko
Womens-

Rogowska vs Lim
Aiava vs Arina Rodionova



https://livestream.com/ATP/ is showing challengers this year I believe so hopefully that continues because it's good to be able to see some of those promising players and aussies who are playing at a lower level.

 

[Redline]

So far we have a number of Aussies in the 2nd round in the Burnie events.
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Mens-

Barton(5) vs Jasika
O'Connell vs Bublik
Ebden vs Rola
Banes vs Rubin(6)
Bolt vs Kelly
Mott vs Safwat(4)
Saville vs Popko
Womens-

Rogowska vs Lim
Aiava vs Arina Rodionova



is showing challengers this year I believe so hopefully that continues because it's good to be able to see some of those promising players and aussies who are playing at a lower level.

Some good wins from Kelly and Saville in particular.

 

[Jeremias]

Stosur won her first match in Taipei, 6-2 6-4.

She's seeded 2nd but received a WC into the tournament...not sure how that works.

 

[FFC4ME]

She's seeded 2nd but received a WC into the tournament...not sure how that works.

That's easy enough to answer.

A WTA International tournament (like Taipei) holds four wild cards - two for players entirely of their choice, and two of what are referred to as "Top 20 wild cards". These two are reserved for player/s either in the year end Top 20, who have been No. 1 in the rankings, or have won a Grand Slam / WTA Finals / Premier Mandatory tournament at any time.

Therefore, as both a Top 20 player and a Grand Slam winner, Sam asked for one of these wild cards and got one. Her ranking means that she is seeded 2 even though she didn't originally enter the tournament.

This mechanism is why Francesca Schiavone will pop up many times in her farewell year on tour (you can get unlimited wild cards if you've won the WTA Finals or a Grand Slam) despite her ranking falling significantly very soon. Same with Daniela Hantuchova, although only winning Indian Wells means she gets a maximum of 3.

 

[Amazing Bombers]

Will update this post as more results occur for this round.
Men-
Bolt defeats Kelly 6-3 6-4
Mott defeats Safwat(4) 7-6(3) 6-3
Ebden defeats Rola 6-4 6-4
Banes defeats Rubin(6) 7-6(5) 6-4
O'Connell defeats Bublik 7-6(6) 7-5
Jasika defeats Barton(5) 6-1 7-5
Women-
Rogowska defeats Lim 6-4 1-6 6-3
Arina Rodionova defeats Aiava 6-4 1-6 6-3

 

[Amazing Bombers]

Arina Rodionova having a good week , she's in the final of the Burnie event having beaten Taylor Townsend 3-6 6-4 7-5(6). She'll face Asia Muhammad. If she wins she'll move to a career high ranking of around 154.


Mens-
Mott defeats Santillian 7-6(5) 5-7 6-4

 

[Firestarter]

All Aussie Bernie final. Wicked.

 

[Redline]

Mott is in good form i can't pick a winner.

 

[Redline]

Jasika defeats Mott in the final 6.2 6.2

A good win for Omar as he had lost some ranking points in the last fortnight.

 

[matt_897]

Good on Jasika, he's going to struggle on the big tour but he is starting to string some challenger results

 

[matt_897]

Also, can anyone explain to me why Ebden would use his PR to travel half way around the world to play a clay court atp event where he'll get his arse kicked

 

[BobbyMorri]

Asia beat Rodionova easily in the Burnie final. now, most of these players are off to Launceston ITF this week.

 

[Alesana]

Also, can anyone explain to me why Ebden would use his PR to travel half way around the world to play a clay court atp event where he'll get his arse kicked

Because it's a good time to do it with Davis Cup taking away some of the better players

 

[Amazing Bombers]

Also, can anyone explain to me why Ebden would use his PR to travel half way around the world to play a clay court atp event where he'll get his arse kicked

He's got a qualifier in the first round and possibly Lorenzi in the 2nd round, so might get some wins with a bit of luck.

 

[matt_897]

He's got a qualifier in the first round and possibly Lorenzi in the 2nd round, so might get some wins with a bit of luck.

He's a career 0-8 on the tour on clay. He's going to slaughted by that qualifier if he can't beat jasika on hard court at home.

 

[Beavis07]

Also, can anyone explain to me why Ebden would use his PR to travel half way around the world to play a clay court atp event where he'll get his arse kicked

Financially he has nothing to lose and he is off to Memphis after that so with the right flight connections it's not much of a detour. Quito doesn't attract the strongest of draws and it's at altitude. While he is terrible on clay, the altitude lessens the disadvantage. If a player can adapt to the altitude then it is a very good tournament to target as Estrella has shown in the past two years. He might not do too much here but it's worth the gamble for him.

 

[Amazing Bombers]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/tennis...s/news-story/e09912755cd1b70085bc73218b422130

Thompson, Chris O’Connell (219), Alex De Minaur (248), Destanee Aiava (256) and Jaimee Fourlis (295) are all at new personal-best rankings.

Omar Jasika climbed 103 places to No 258 — two places shy of his best mark — after winning Burnie.

 

[danstar]

I can see why ebden is there, watched a couple of matches last year of this tournament and it doesnt have a strong draw as its kind of out of the way could be a chance to break the duck on clay

 

[ozgamer]

Jasika continues his gr8 Aussie Challenger form.

 

[Firestarter]

De Minaur dumped the first seed out of the same comp.