USA Tour 2011 #2

The second round of the Challenger tournament in Winnetka saw Greg up against the No.3 seed, old adversary and peer 22 year-old American Donald Young. currently ranked 11 with a high rank of 73. Greg and Young have played each other a few times over the years, starting in the Juniors, and Greg has yet to record a win against him. Hopefuly he can achieve that in this match.
The match did not start well for Greg who struggled to cope with the different spins that Young plays with and he went an early break down. He could not read Young's serve and was struggling to hold his own serve, wth Young returning extremely well. Young went another break up and the Greg managed to hold his own serve, but could not deny Young winning the 1st set 6-1.

Donald Young

The 2nd set continued in much the same manner, Young breaking early again to get Greg on the back foot. Young again dominated the set, winning the crunch points and this set denied Greg gettining a game, delivering a "bagel" 6-0 win, with a comprehensive 6-1, 6-0 win.

Not a good match-up of styles for Greg, who also did not serve at his best, and was unable to cope with the left-hander's unconventional game, especially Young's second serve. Not a good day at the office.

Greg will now travel to Rhode Island to compete in the qualifying of the Campbell's ATP tournament on grass, in Newport.