Binghampton 50k challenger [outdoor hard]

Niall · Binghampton 50k challenger [outdoor hard]

Jamie has entered this challenger but unfortunately it looks like he will need to qualify.

Update: As it stands Richard Bloomfield and Martin Lee will feature in the main draw. Arvind Parmar has pulled out.

Updated entry list:

Main draw
1. Reynolds, Bobby USA 121
2. Zib, Tomas CZE 127
3. Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 134
4. Luczak, Peter AUS 150
5. Cakl, Tomas CZE 161
OUT Elseneer, Gilles BEL 186
7. Witten, Jesse USA 193
8. Vico, Uros ITA 197
OUT Salzenstein, Jeff USA 198
10. Delic, Amer USA 199
OUT Querrey, Sam USA 200
12. Bloomfield, Richard GBR 203
OUT Mamiit, Cecil PHI 208
14. Fruttero, John Paul USA 212
15. Healey, Nathan AUS 215
16. Lee, Martin GBR 217
17. Widom, Todd USA 220
18. Wessels, Peter NED 223
19. Jones, Alun AUS 225
20. Simmonds, Phillip USA 235
21. Giraldo, Santiago COL 241
22. Warburg, Sam USA 245
23. (SE) Okun, Noam ISR
24. (SE)
25. (WC) Gambill, Jan-Michael USA
26. (WC) Philippoussis, Mark AUS
27. (WC) Kuznetsov, Alex USA
28. (WC) Oudsema, Scott USA
29. (Q)
30. (Q)
31. (Q)
32. (Q)

Alternates
OUT Parmar, Arvind GBR 246
OUT Ram, Rajeev USA 248
IN Lacko, Lukas SVK 251
OUT Heuberger, Ivo SUI 255
OUT Nunez, Eric USA 259
IN Stoppini, Andrea ITA 260
OUT Fognini, Fabio ITA 274
IN Mergea, Florin ROM 277
IN Rehnquist, Bjorn SWE 282
IN Bourgeois, Luke AUS 286
11. Baker, Jamie GBR 289
12. Taino, Eric PHI 291
13. Adjei-Darko, Henry GHA 297
14. Yani, Michael USA 300
15. Salamanca, Carlos COL 326
16. Smeets, Robert AUS 331
17. Rastogi, Karan IND 339
18. Amritraj, Prakash IND 344
19. Lipsky, Scott USA 361
20. Cleveland, Tyler USA 364

Niall

The qualifying draw has been published.

Qualify Draw

Jamie is the top seed Smile

so he gets a bye in the first round. He will play Torrey Gambill (un) or Kris Nathan (wr-1551) in the second round and potentially the 7th seed Phillip King (wr-387) in the third round.

Colin is the fifth seed and has a tougher draw, he will face Alberto Francis (wr-528) or Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (wr-516) in the second round.[/url]

Niall

Jamie beat Torrey Gambill 6-0 6-2 Smile

As expected he will face Phillip King in the final round of qualifying.

Unfortunately Colin couldn't join him in the 2nd round. He was beaten 7-5 6-3 by Alberto Francis. Sad

Niall

Jamie beat Phillip King 6-0 6-4 Very Happy

He will face Florin Mergea (wr-291) in the main draw. That is a good draw but Mergea is more experienced at this level so Jamie will have to continue his excellent from qualifying.

Jamie has earned 3 points by qualifying so he is guarenteed to improve his ranking a little bit.

admin

Jamie was so close to making the main draw as a result of withdrawals, however I'm pleased he didn't now as he's gained the 3 points for qualifying !
Smile

What a win against King today, I thought it'd be a really close 3 setter - didn't expect 0 and 4 at all ! Hugely impressive Very Happy

Especially considering how Henman struggled so much with King in Washington rd2 last week - he had to save match point I think !

I reckon Jamie has a great chance against Mergea, that's a really good draw. Mergea's not ranked that much higher at 291 and his recent form has been quite poor. He was a world junior no 2 and won junior Wimbledon back in 2003 aswell as making Aussie Open junior final [losing to Bagdathis] but he hasn't really taken that promise into the seniors. Andy Murray beat Mergea in Granby last year and said afterwards that Mergea has a good game for hard courts with a big serve and forehand but his backhand was weak and his court coverage is suspect.

If Jamie makes it through to rd2 he'll be likely to face 5th seed Tomas Cakl [ranked 167]. Cakl has been on a terrible run of bad form and hasn't won a match since May.

Niall

Brilliant news.

Baker bt Mergea 6-1 6-4 Very Happy

Jamie has reacted to the Vacouver debacle in the best possible way.

In the 2nd round he will face Thomas Cakl who beat Mashiska Washington (wr-1004) 6-4 7-6(5)

Niall

Sadly Jamie's run ends in the second round.

Cakl bt Baker 7-5 6-2 Crying or Very sad

admin

A real shame that Jamie wasn't able to overcome Cakl as that would have put him back in the top 290. He got a great start, breaking early on but wasn't able to build on that, getting broken back straight away. Sad

Cakl then broke again at 5-5.

Jamie didn't play very well in set 2 and that was fairly routine for Cakl who broke twice and served out the match to love. Jamie needs to work on his 2nd serve as his play in the baseline rallies is really superb, the serve just lets him down at times.

A great win over Florin Mergea in rd1 though, Mergea was unable to make much impression on Jamie in the baseline rallies and the 20 year old Brit dominated from the start, standing close to the baseline and taking the ball early, keeping the pressure on his opponent.

Next up is Bronx challenger qualies which will be really tough, the top 8 seeds in qualifying are likely to be top 250 players so Jamie will have to be at his very best to make it through.

Qualifying draw details should be available on Saturday morning.