Week 24 - Futures F5 (M) - Delhi, India

Drew · Jun 8, 2007

Week 24 - Futures F5 (M) - Delhi, India

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 24 - Futures F5 (M) - Dehli, India

Sheddie · administrator

also, the surface is cow dung not hard

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: Andrew Fitzpatrick UNR beat Yu-Da Shieh (TPE) UNR by 3 & 2
QR1: Jonathan Kinsella UNR lost to Suresh Krishna (IND) UNR by 7-6(5) 6-1

QR2: Andrew Fitzpatrick UNR v Nikunj Siwach (IND) UNR

Andrew will play again on Sunday.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

QR2

Andrew Fitzpatrick (GBR) d. Nikunj Siwach (IND) 6-3 6-1

Qualifing round

Andrew Fitzpatrick (GBR) d. (1)Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 6-3 2-6 6-1

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Main Draw R1

(3)Vivek Shokeen (IND) vs (q)Andrew Fitzpatrick (GBR)
Matthew Smith (GBR) vs (6)Myles Blake (GBR)
Robert Searle (GBR) d. (7)Vijay Kannan (IND) 7-6(3) 1-1 ret.

Lucky break for Searle. Seeded opponent withdrawing and all.

Blake vs Smith will be a nice judge of Blake's emergence but its a pity they had to meet early. Having said that, rankings wise, neither can complain at their draw.

Fitzy may be on a roll but to draw 3rd seed is pretty harsh

Drew · Jun 11, 2007

Nice to see another Brit getting through qualies...Kinsella did it last week...hope Fitzpatrick can secure a point but it will be tough !!!

Akhenaten · Pro player

johnnylad wrote:
Qualifing round

Andrew Fitzpatrick (GBR) d. (1)Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 6-3 2-6 6-1

That's a brilliant win for Fitzpatrick. Yang reached the Semi-Finals last week, beating Matt Smith 6-1 6-0 on the way!

Akhenaten · Pro player

1st Round

(LL)Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) d. (q)Andrew Fitzpatrick (GBR) 6-1 6-2 cry

[Yang replaces Shokeen]
Matthew Smith (GBR) d. (LL)Vignesh Perna (IND) 6-4 6-3 biggrin

[Perna replaces Blake cry

]

Yang gets a rematch against Fitzpatrick, and annihilates him.

And Myles Blake withdraws again. But, Matt Smith takes advantage of his lucky loser.

Drew · Jun 12, 2007

Myles hopefully will take some R&R now !!!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Week 24 - Futures F5 (M) - Delhi, India

Salmon · Tennis legend

No, David, the surface is very much hard.

You have a weird obsession with cow dung, I must say.

Sheddie · administrator

lol, it's nothing to do with a weird obsession...just that you guys use it as a surface

I was told by one of the players that the tournament here is held on dung....of course the ITF list it as hard not dung because (a) that's what the Indians officially call it, it's a hard court made from dung...here we have hard courts made from tarmac but ITF call them hard (b) they probably wouldn't get many entering if they knew it was on dung

Why can't you accept that some tourneys over there are held on dung

Salmon · Tennis legend

Your player was surely speaking rubbish, because that stadium just has hard and grass courts.

And I've seen the courts.

Salmon · Tennis legend

And where have I said that Futures aren't played on dung?

It's just that whenever there's a Futures played in India, you pop out of nowhere and say "this is played on dung".

It makes me laugh more than annoying me, actually.