Week 36 - Futures F4 (M) - Gothenburg, Sweden

Sheddie · administrator

Week 36 - Futures F4 (M) - Gothenburg, Sweden

Sheddie · administrator

Great to see Josh and Tom making the last 8...both must have upped their levels after tight rd1 matches. Kennaugh was always going to find it tough against Pauhhu who's the 6th seed and won a 10K last week without dropping a set, he made two futures finals in August so clearly in great form.

Big surprise for me this week was Kasiri going out in straights in rd1, Eichenberger is very fast and retrieves a lot of balls so maybe frustrated Kasiri into too many errors...it's tough to outhit him, u really have to grind him down. Eichenberger also has great touch at the net and the courts over there are fast

seagull · Hall of fame

Skupski won in the doubles as well

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Rushby and Josh

helki · Futures qualifying

Rushby v Paukku and Brage v Goody first thing tomorrow, 10 AM Swedish time, so 9 AM here. Go lads.

The doubles take place later, Goody & Rush v Skupski & Walter, with Bamfs and Weintraub taking on the local guys, Brunstrom and Holmstrom. Fingers crossed.

-- Edited by helki at 20:15, 2007-09-05

-- Edited by helki at 12:17, 2007-09-06
Finally got the times right - must have been having 'senior moments'

-- Edited by helki at 17:02, 2007-09-06

Drew · Sep 6, 2007

Bad news...

Juho PAUKKU (FIN) def Tom RUSHBY (GBR) 6-4 1-6 6-0

Robin BRAGE (SWE) def Joshua GOODALL (GBR) 2-6 7-6(4) 7-6(5)

Oh Dear !!!

helki · Futures qualifying

Drew wrote:

Bad news...

Juho PAUKKU (FIN) def Tom RUSHBY (GBR) 6-4 1-6 6-0

Robin BRAGE (SWE) def Joshua GOODALL (GBR) 2-6 7-6(4) 7-6(5)

Oh Dear !!!

Oh dear indeed! weirdface

Both three-setters at least but still disappointing, especially Goody, who has a much better ranking than Brage. Strange results in the Paukka/ Rushby match. Any news of the doubles?

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Semifinals
(1)Joshua Goodall/Tom Rushby (GBR) d. Kenneth Skupski/Ludovic Walter (GBR/FRA) 3-6 7-6(6) (10-8)
(3)Johan Brunstrom/Rickard Holmstrom (SWE) d. (2)Neil Bamford/Amir Weintraub (GBR/ISR) 6-4 6-2

helki · Futures qualifying

johnnylad wrote:

Semifinals
(1)Joshua Goodall/Tom Rushby (GBR) d. Kenneth Skupski/Ludovic Walter (GBR/FRA) 3-6 7-6(6) (10-8)
(3)Johan Brunstrom/Rickard Holmstrom (SWE) d. (2)Neil Bamford/Amir Weintraub (GBR/ISR) 6-4 6-2

Thank you

No problem who to support in the final. biggrin

XCW4EVA · County player

Josh needs a kick up the bum, hes better then this

Sheddie · administrator

are you volunteering to administer it ?

XCW4EVA · County player

Depends if hes bigger then me or not

Drew · Sep 7, 2007

More doubles glory for the Brits !!!!

(1)Joshua Goodall/Tom Rushby (GBR) def (3)Johan Brunstrom/Rickard Holmstrom (SWE) 7-6(4) 4-6 [13-11]

wolf · Tennis legend

I am getting the impression that Goodall should become a doubles specialist, maybe team up with Hutch permanently.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Rushby/Goodall seem to be a pretty good combo too!

Josh has it to succeed at singles! He qualified for US Open last year. Just let him have his bad season and hopefully he'll come back!