USA in the Autumn 2012 #12

The second round of qualifying for the Knoxville Challenger saw a still sore Greg taking on 26 year-old Australian and good friend, Adam Hubble, who is an ex-College player, also from the University of Tennessee. More of a doubles specialist these days, with an ATP doubles ranking of 165, Hubble is also a handy singles player, albeit ranked 1294, who will trouble a less than 100% fit Greg.

Vols Adam Hubble

Greg struggled with his serve in the first set, serving at below 50% first serve and winning only half the points he served. He managed to stay with Hubble in the rallies and broke Hubble twice in the first set but he was unable to stop Hubble bringing up five break-point opportunities on Greg's serve, breaking him three times to win the first set 6-4.

Billboard featuring Australian
JP Smith, a record setting
champion Vols player

Greg's serving improved in the second set but so did Hubble's play and only one break-point opportunity was created in the set. Unfortunately it was against Greg and Hubble gratefully converted that single opportunity to break Greg and then hold serve for the set, winning the set 6-4 and the match 6-4, 6-4.
Greg said he was able only to serve at below normal capacity, just starting the point, and was hampered by his elbow injury on the back-hand side, but that was not enough to match a fully fit Hubble.
Greg is again going to rest and treat his inflamed albow and then assess the situation before committing to the next tournament in Champaign, Illinois.