Week 37 - Futures F4 (M) - Manado, Indonesia

Drew · Sep 7, 2007

Week 37 - Futures F4 (M) - Manado, Indonesia

seagull · Hall of fame

Eaton gets a great 1st Round draw against local wild card Wibowo (whose first ever match at this level was last week which he lost). However it would be Top Seed Lindahl in Round 2

Ward plays Indian - Vardhan who did beat Matt Smith earlier this year but would expect James to be too strong here.

-- Edited by seagull at 14:46, 2007-09-10

Sheddie · administrator

Well at least Eaton should get a point this week...shame he's in Lindahl's section, he'd have a chance against most of the other seeds here. Lindahl should be playing challengers tbh, he's top 300, beat Jamie Baker 2&1 in April and took Donald Young apart in the spring too....been dominating futures all year

Ward should make quarters, then he'd be likely to play 2nd seed and huge serving Aussie Ebelwidthe who's ranked 336...did really well on the astroturf in June, winning a 15K in Ireland and making Dublin ch semis beating Baker in 3 sets. Hasn't done much since tho

johnnylad · Tennis legend

points points points! Come on boys. You've made the long journey. Make sure it was worth it!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Doubles R1

EATON (GBR) / WARD (GBR) Vs NANDKUMAR (IND) / PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND)

Salmon · Tennis legend

Sheddie wrote:
Lindahl should be playing challengers tbh, he's top 300

Yes, but it's sort of his homeland (his mum is Indonesian), so he probably likes to play there.

Good player he is, I think, and someone whom I thought would get to the top 150 by the year end. But that looks unlikely now.

Sheddie · administrator

Arka ! First time you've been on in a while, how's it going ? What u been up to past couple of weeks, uni stuff ?

Grundon · Intermediate Club Player

A good start to the week for the Futures boys

Chris EATON defeated Ayrton WIBOWO (INA) 6-4 6-4
James WARD (6) defeated Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 6-3 6-4

Chris plays Lindahl and James plays Kim of Korea in R2

XCW4EVA · County player

shame about eaton meeting lindahl, but i expect wardy to win hs round 2

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Good wins for both of them, so at least they will come out of this week with a point. Ward should win his next match, but Lindahl will probably have too much for Eaton

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Wardy

Grundon · Intermediate Club Player

As predicted above

James Ward d. Hyun-Joon Kim 7-5 6-1

Nick Lindahl d. Chris Eaton 6-3 6-2

Ward plays number 2 seed Colin Ebelthite (WR332) of Australia in the quarter finals

Salmon · Tennis legend

Sheddie wrote:

Arka ! First time you've been on in a while, how's it going ? What u been up to past couple of weeks, uni stuff ?

Mostly not been at home.

But I'm going to the tennis on Sunday!

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Ward and Eaton lost their doubles QF 6-1 6-2 to the 4th seeds, Chang and Peng of Chinese Taipei

The results were as expected, but this looks like it could be a good tour of Asia for Ward, and hopefully he can reach the QF's for a few weeks in a row, which could get him towards the top 500, and maybe go on to a final for one of the weeks

Ebelthite is a decent player, and cruised through his last match, but hopefully James can win this, as he would have an unseeded player in the semis, so it would be a great chance to reach a final

Sheddie · administrator

Unfortunately Ebelthite won 6-3, 7-5

He is ranked 300 places higher though, another 2 pts for James this week so can't be bad ! The way forward for him game-wise imo is to work on being more aggressive, taking the ball on more from the back and looking to dictate. He's got the huge serve, and the shots to do so.....against Eaton at Hampstead last month, he creamed a no of winners particularly off the backhand but then he'd take his foot off the gas, let Eaton control the rallies and stay several feet behind the baseline hitting loopy topspins from side to side.