Week 32 - Challenger (M) - Istanbul, Turkey

Salmon · Tennis legend

Week 32 - Challenger (M) - Istanbul, Turkey

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Arka wrote:

Stakhovsky won by 61 76.

How did you find that out? I've been trying since noon (start of play BST) to get the site to display the scores of matches in progress, both at work & here at home, only to get the "page unavailable" message at every attempt. Very frustrating.... furious

What about Delgo & Zovko?

Salmon · Tennis legend

ATP site. The doubles results aren't there.

The official site is rubbish.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Arka wrote:

1) ATP site. The doubles results aren't there.

2) The official site is rubbish.

1) Curiously, three of the four doubles matches scheduled to be played today are: Jeanpierre & Renavand beat Karanusic & Mertl 4 & 3, Kubot & Prpic beat Kratochvil & Muller 6-4 7-6(3) & Groen & Zverev beat Smit & van Hasteren 6-7(12) 6-2 [13-11] (bit of a ding-dong battle, that!

)...

2) Couldn't agree more!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

Arka wrote:

1) ATP site. The doubles results aren't there.

1) Curiously, three of the four doubles matches scheduled to be played today are: Jeanpierre & Renavand beat Karanusic & Mertl 4 & 3, Kubot & Prpic beat Kratochvil & Muller 6-4 7-6(3) & Groen & Zverev beat Smit & van Hasteren 6-7(12) 6-2 [13-11] (bit of a ding-dong battle, that! )...

Having checked tomorrow's OoP (on the ATP site! wink

), I see that Delgo & Zovko are now scheduled to play Dustov & Karagiannis in the fourth match on Court 3 tomorrow (13.00 KO local time, so 11.00 BST)...! confused

johnnylad · Tennis legend

(4)Jamie Delgado/Lovro Zovko (GBR/CRO) d. (WC)Farrukh Dustov/Niko Karagiannis (UZB/GRE) 3-6 7-6(5) (10-6)

Delgy

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Yay! Aucks & Hutch, the second seeds, have kept up their end in Instant-bull on a day when all around them were apparently busy dropping theirs: they beat Ghouse & Moser in what looks to have been a bit of a titanic struggle 6-7 7-6 [10-3] (score taken from the official site, which no longer claims to show games in progress, but does show the day's results from time to time, so no indication of the TB points)!

The French WCs, Jeanpierre & Renavand, next. They should have a slightly better idea of one another's style of play after today's match...

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

A shame, but an unsurprising one to see Childs lose to Stakhovsky. To be honest I'm not sure why anyone thought it was a good draw (I haven't seen who else he could've got so I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt and say it was the best of a bad selection). Still Childs get's another 3 points to add to his total from qualifying and I love the ambition he's showing by going for these high-scoring challengers with weak qualifying draws. Long may it continue and he's certainly not being outclassed by his first round opponents so hopefully soon it'll turn itself into a first round win and who knows where it'll go from there! I'm so impressed with what Lee has done during and since the grass court season, I hope he can carry it on

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Unfortunately I've just seen that Lee is defending 6 points from a British futures last year this week so he'll actually make a net loss of 3 points and probably drop a place or two in the rankings

(Still think he's making the right decisions though!!)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

Yay! Aucks & Hutch, the second seeds, have kept up their end in Instant-bull on a day when all around them were apparently busy dropping theirs: they beat Ghouse & Moser in what looks to have been a bit of a titanic struggle 6-7 7-6 [10-3] (score taken from the official site, which no longer claims to show games in progress, but does show the day's results from time to time, so no indication of the TB points)! The French WCs, Jeanpierre & Renavand, next. They should have a slightly better idea of one another's style of play after today's match...

No sign of the result from that match this afternoon yet, but we're gonna have at least a 25% Brit stake in the SFs: Delgo & Zovko had an easy (2 & 1) win over Lacko & Stakhovsky!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

Yay! Aucks & Hutch, the second seeds, have kept up their end in Instant-bull on a day when all around them were apparently busy dropping theirs: they beat Ghouse & Moser in what looks to have been a bit of a titanic struggle 6-7 7-6 [10-3] (score taken from the official site, which no longer claims to show games in progress, but does show the day's results from time to time, so no indication of the TB points)! The French WCs, Jeanpierre & Renavand, next. They should have a slightly better idea of one another's style of play after today's match...

Plenty more court time & match tie-break practice for Aucks & Hutch today, but the main thing is, they got there in the end: 6-4 4-6 [10-6], so the Brit stake in one of the SFs rises to 75%! biggrin

Think I have a slight preference for an Aucks/Hutch win tomorrow...

helki · Futures qualifying

imoen wrote:

Unfortunately I've just seen that Lee is defending 6 points from a British futures last year this week so he'll actually make a net loss of 3 points and probably drop a place or two in the rankings (Still think he's making the right decisions though!!)

Shame about the points situation, imoen, but I have to agree with you about the decisions Lee has made since Wimbledon. I watched him playing the other week at Nottingham and he seemed full of enthusiasm and zest for the game. Love his Union Jack bandanna wink

helki · Futures qualifying

Stircrazy wrote:

Stircrazy wrote:

Yay! Aucks & Hutch, the second seeds, have kept up their end in Instant-bull on a day when all around them were apparently busy dropping theirs: they beat Ghouse & Moser in what looks to have been a bit of a titanic struggle 6-7 7-6 [10-3] (score taken from the official site, which no longer claims to show games in progress, but does show the day's results from time to time, so no indication of the TB points)! The French WCs, Jeanpierre & Renavand, next. They should have a slightly better idea of one another's style of play after today's match...

Plenty more court time & match tie-break practice for Aucks & Hutch today, but the main thing is, they got there in the end: 6-4 4-6 [10-6], so the Brit stake in one of the SFs rises to 75%! Think I have a slight preference for an Aucks/Hutch win tomorrow...

They seem to like making it hard for themselves. wink

It's good to see Aucks having some success after a few poor weeks.

Now who do I want to win? confused

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Glad to see the doubles guys have lived up to their seeding.

Have to grudgingly admit Childs seems to be turning it around. My prediction about retirement appears wrong, and good on him! Hope he can really push on!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

3rd up today. Matches start at 3 in Turkey