Austria F3 - Bergheim by Salzburg 10K (carpet)

steven · Tennis legend

Austria F3 - Bergheim by Salzburg 10K (carpet)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Hope Slabba can hit form here and do well. He needs the points badly.

Allinson picked his surface intelligently here to make best use of his booming serve.

I wait with trepidation

Sheddie · administrator

Alex's nose is a lot better now, he's been unable to compete for the last two weeks because of that. He'd planned to play France F1 last week but wasn't ready. It's been frustrating for him as he had to turn down the Sunderland wildcard and he'd been playing so well in Sheffield.

This week he said he'd either be playing here or in France, I guess he chose this tournament because the field is weaker. Alex played here last year and didn't particularly like it as the courts are very slippy so movement is difficult. The big servers therefore will have a massive advantage here, Allinson has a good chance of qualifying if he plays well.

-- Edited by ultimateshedman at 18:36, 2007-01-28

Sheddie · administrator

I have a couple of results and it's very good news

Alex is through to the final qualifying round

He beat Yannick Weihs 6-2, 6-1 in rd1 and then defeated some geezer called Linzer 6-3, 6-3 in rd2.

Hoping to hear from Alex later about the matches.

I don't know how Allinson did.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Good good.

Sheddie · administrator

Arka wrote:
Good good.

By the way Arky, I love that avatar

Salmon · Tennis legend

ultimateshedman wrote:

By the way Arky, I love that avatar

Heehee. A thank you!

I'll have to make myself an animated one very soon.

Sheddie · administrator

Yeah that'd be cool

Unfortunately it's bad news regarding Allinson.

He won his first match 6-2, 7-5 but then lost his rd2 qualies match 6-4, 6-3 to Miroslav Mecir, the son of the top Slovakian tennis player in the 1980s.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Go Slabba!
Glad his nose is better and hope he has retained his form!

steven · Tennis legend

Here's the full rundown. Sorry to hear that Slabba had to miss out on a WC due to injury.

QR1: (q2) Alex Slabinsky WR 819 beat Yannick Weihs (AUT) WR 1541 by 2 & 1
QR1: Edward Allinson WR 1541 beat Christian Kloimullner (AUT) WR 1541 by 2 & 5

QR2: (q2) Alex Slabinsky WR 819 beat (WC) Michael Linzer (AUT) UNR by 3 & 3
QR2: Edward Allinson WR 1541 lost to Miloslav Mecir (SVK) WR 1541 by 4 & 3

QR3: (q2) Alex Slabinsky WR 819 v (WC) Philipp Jelinek (AUT) UNR

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Unbelievably Slabba lost 6-4 7-6(5) to Jelinek

steven · Tennis legend

* Checks the date in the hope that it's 1 April *

He must have a good chance of a LL place (and in Futures, that means no harm done, since you don't get points for qualifying anyway), but if he gets a LL place and wants any points this week, he'll have to play a heck of a lot better!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

No LL as of last night. Unless someone pulls out last minute. BUT

if you search for the Capriolo 25K thread in british womens discussion forum an explanation says LL are drawn out of a hat now, not by ranking to avoid top seeds tanking matches.

I guess that would apply to futures as well but can't confirm.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Also ATP challengers and futures page hasn't listed this tournament or Costa Rica for this week.

Does that mean they're not ATP sanctioned or just a mistake...

johnnylad · Tennis legend

A minute consolation is that Slabba's conquerer Jelinek bt 4th seeded Italian ranked 466 6-2 6-0 in MD R1.

He's 24 with no ranking. A late newcomer. Perhaps with promise...