Week 49 - Futures F2 (15k) - Khartoum, Sudan

RobC · All-time great

Week 49 - Futures F2 (15k) - Khartoum, Sudan

XCW4EVA · County player

Feaver was sooo close though,

wolf · Tennis legend

Singles R1

Alexander Slabinsky [540] (5) d. Ammar Assan [unr] (Sud) 2-0 ret
Alexander Somogyi [767] (Svk) d. James Feaver [1019] 7-5, 7-6(4)

Doubles R1

Slabinsky / Mohazebnia (Iri) withdrew
Ruckelshausen (Aut) / Steinberger (Aut) (2) d. Feaver / Filenkov (Rus) 6-3, 7-6(7)

wolf · Tennis legend

Singles R2

Maniel Bains [1190] v Bertam Steinberger [879]
David Brewer [1088] v Alexander Slabinsky [540]

Steinberger got to last weeks semis, and knocked out 6th seed Sabeckis in R1.

Sheddie · administrator

vamos slabba !!! great to see him getting this african tour started....hopefully he can continue the business tomorrow....beat Brewer 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(5) in Wrexham earlier this year

Slabba should win as he's got bigger weapons than Brewer - good serve and forehand. Brewer lacks a really big shot, solid off both sides and moves well but can't really hurt opponents consistently.

wolf · Tennis legend

Singles R2

Bertam Steinberger [879] d. Maniel Bains [1190] 6-4, 6-2
Alexander Slabinsky [540] d. David Brewer [1088] 6-2, 6-2

Singles Q/F

Alexander Slabinsky [540] v Matwe Middlekoop [276]

Middlekoop on a 17 match winning streak.

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Good one Slabba.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Slabba

If anyone can trouble Matwe it's Slabba! (Not strictly true, as Federer would have a fairly good idea!)

kid · Social player

Slabba lost against 2nd seed Matwe Middelkoop 4-6 3-6

Jack · Intermediate Club Player

Expected but still a shame :(

wolf · Tennis legend

kid wrote:

Slabba lost against 2nd seed Matwe Middelkoop 4-6 3-6

Was actually 7-5, 6-3.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

even better! Whilst Middelkoop HAS to lose at somepoint, he is having a bit of a blinder at the moment, to understate it somewhat. Do we know anything about him? Where's he come from, age etc? Ie, is he on the return from injury or just starting out, or just have a weird few weeks?!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

imoen wrote:

even better! Whilst Middelkoop HAS to lose at somepoint, he is having a bit of a blinder at the moment, to understate it somewhat. Do we know anything about him? Where's he come from, age etc? Ie, is he on the return from injury or just starting out, or just have a weird few weeks?!

There's nowt very much in his ATP profile other than that he's Dutch (born in Leerdam & resident in Breda), 24 & a right-hander. idea

helki · Futures qualifying

Stircrazy wrote:

imoen wrote:

even better! Whilst Middelkoop HAS to lose at somepoint, he is having a bit of a blinder at the moment, to understate it somewhat. Do we know anything about him? Where's he come from, age etc? Ie, is he on the return from injury or just starting out, or just have a weird few weeks?!

There's nowt very much in his ATP profile other than that he's Dutch (born in Leerdam & resident in Breda), 24 & a right-hander.

From his web site. I think it lost a little in translation but you can get the gist of what he is saying. Probably should have left the original for Stircrazy to translate.

Name: Matwé Middelkoop
Born: September 3, 1983
Height: 1.89 m

Hobbies: Computing, go to the cinema and tennis course ...
Plays: Right
Coach: Henk van Hulst
Professional since: 2002
Strengths: Service and forehand
Favorite surface: Hardcourt
Great examples: Sjeng Schalken, Marat Safin
Best performance: Winner national championships to 16 years,
Winner national championships to 18 years,
Winner A in Rotterdam.
Winner Simperopel Cup 2003 in Ukraine

I started tennis when I was 4 years old. I got my mother for my birthday a simple racket, which I day after day against a wall started saving. Eventually I went lesson in Leerdam to Bart Baarn, and soon thereafter with Jan-Willem Escher. On my 10th I went to the bond train in Capelle aan den Ijssel. My trainer was there Betuw of Flip. In the meantime, I played much k3 and k2 career. I have trained with the bond until I Willem-Jan van Hulst came in at Groningen. He asked if I wanted to Henk van Hulst train. This seemed to me a little bit and I was on my 13rd to Valkenswaard departed in order to train and going to school. Since I am going to train Henk is my level very quickly went up to the level that I am now.

And here's the man himself! He's not done badly on clay considering he prefers hard surfaces.

Ha, ha! Wikipedia says his favourite surface is clay. confused

-- Edited by helki at 16:19, 2007-12-07

-- Edited by helki at 16:24, 2007-12-07

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Thanks Helki (and Stircrazy), I appreciate the effort, basically when I ask these kinds of questions it's becuase I'm too lazy to research it myself, so thank you very much for doing the research (and translation) for me