Week 48 - Kuwait F3 ($10,000) - Meshref (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 48 - Kuwait F3 ($10,000) - Meshref (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Dan's match seems to have been postponed until tomorrow

steven · Tennis legend

L32: (2) Dan Smethurst WR 289 beat (Q) Ali al-Qallaf (KUW) UNR (17yo) by 1 & 0

L16: (2) Dan Smethurst WR 289 v Keivon Tabrizi (SUI) WR 1227 (CH 1143 earlier this month; 18yo junior CH 287 in Jan)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Dan has got the first set 6-3

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Dan comfortably through, 6-3 6-3.

the quarters were always going to be where it might get tricky though . .. Bossel hasn't started his match yet . .

steven · Tennis legend

L16: (2) Dan Smethurst WR 289 beat Keivon Tabrizi (SUI) WR 1227 (CH 1143 earlier this month; 18yo junior CH 287 in Jan) by 3 & 3

QF: (2) Dan Smethurst WR 289 v (5) Adrien Bossel (SUI) WR 343 (CH 317 in 2012)

H2H 1-0 - Dan won 5-7 6-2 7-6(2) in the Czech Republic in 2010

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Very close. Dan jsut saved the first BP. Which was also a SP.

5--5

(Or, at least, the score definitely said Ad-40 to Bossel, and Dan was serving, but there's no sign of any BP now)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 27th of November 2014 09:36:48 AM

steven · Tennis legend

No breaks in the 1st set - Bossel had 2 bps, Dan none - and it's *7-7 in the tiebreak

steven · Tennis legend

*11-11!

steven · Tennis legend

Bossel takes the tiebreak 13-11

steven · Tennis legend

Dan was a break down in the 2nd set but has just won 3 games in a row to leave Bossel serving to stay in the set

6-7(11) 5-4*

steven · Tennis legend

Bossel holds (from bp down, I think - not sure) and breaks, so will serve for the match

steven · Tennis legend

2 very close sets but sadly Bossel won them both

(94-92 in total points won)

QF: (2) Dan Smethurst WR 289 lost to (5) Adrien Bossel (SUI) WR 343 (CH 317 in 2012) by 7-6(11) 7-5