Week 46 - Futures F22 (15K) - Sunderland, GB.

sd51rby · Lower Club Player

RE: Week 46 - Futures F22 (15K) - Sunderland, GB.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

I wasn't expecting that! Fabulous result. Futures final for Skupski

That's made my day

Salmon · Tennis legend

Wow!

If he wins another match, it'll be something very special.

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Go Kenny.
Super Skupski.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Semifinals
Andrei Karatchenia/Vladimir Voltchkov (BLR) d. Henrik Norfeldt/David Nylen (SWE) 6-3 6-3
Neil Bamford/Martin Pedersen (GBR/DEN) d. Joshua Goodall/Kenneth Skupski (GBR) 7-6(5) 6-2

XCW4EVA · County player

Thats absolutely amazing, i didn't think he would get this far but hes done so well.
Do we know who his finals opponent is?

steven · Tennis legend

Wow, let's hope that's not another mistake. Brilliant news if it isn't!

We did think he had a chance didn't we, so hopefully it is true.

helki · Futures qualifying

Glad he did it!

He certainly showed some bottle and held his nerve after losing the second set. A close one until the third, but at last one that has gone our way.

Fingers crossed for the final.

-- Edited by helki at 16:18, 2007-11-16

gazzpash · Club Coach

Get in Ken!!!!!!!!! Fantastic result. Hopefully this will be the kickstart for him. Said he'd be the next one to join the 100-300 club

gazzpash · Club Coach

Let's not forget as well that Ken only got his first ranking point on 9th July. Now he will get into Futures directly, and challenger quallies, meaning less matches to gain a point. In 4 months he's gone from no ranking to top 700

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Skupster

He is the man! Another fillip for the college route into pro tennis!

Mannarino in the final.

Drew · Nov 16, 2007

If Ken can keep the ball in play and keep Mannarino moving then I think he can win it. As I said before I saw Mannarino getting beat by Decoud in Edinburgh this year and the guy loves going for his shots....but Decoud kept the ball in play with some power and the young guy kept making the errors.

We done Ken.....really well done.

wolf · Tennis legend

The second semi was straight after Ken's so if he had any sense he would have watched it to find out how his opponent plays.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Bammy lost the doubles final 2-6 6-2 10-8

Sheddie · administrator

Loving Akhenaten's new signature btw

and welcome to the forum DJ....fantastic first post...great insight !!!

I totally agree with you about Josh...it's not the first time he's just combusted on court and thrown a match away....it's happened several times this year. Peter Lundgren was saying at the Cardiff challenger that he gets on top of himself far too much when he's not on top form. In that tourney...Josh played Simon Stadler (a seed in rd1)...it was quite close till 4-4 in the 1st set when Josh lost his serve through some silly errors but then completely lost it and didn't win another game.

It's really an issue he has to sort out if he's going to reach top 100 singles....he's a player who has bags of talent but the mental approach isnt right. Should have been in the final this week

He's not at all like that off court though, he's a popular guy....not with umpires though, he admits that there's only 1 in Britain whom he gets on with