Week 51 - Futures F4 (15k+H) - Lagos, Nigeria

Drew · Dec 15, 2007

Week 51 - Futures F4 (15k+H) - Lagos, Nigeria

Sheddie · administrator

Only tournament we have to follow this week....strange feeling lol

I think the Orange Bowl younger age group sections (Jessica Ren won the U12s last year) are over Christmas week....Laura Robson must be overwhelming favourite for the U14 title

RobC · All-time great

just one win needed for Slabba to overtake Lee Childs and claim the British number 7 spot.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Morris lost in qualies again.

Incontrast to last week we appear to have finished qualies and have a MD R1 published already.

Slabba has drawn 17 year old Russian, Evgeny Donskoy in R1, with a possible rematch with Destiny in R2 and a possible rematch with El Amrani in the quarter finals.

Teams up with Leonte in this weeks doubles.

wolf · Tennis legend

QR1

Pekun Akiangbade (Ngr) d. Alastair Morris 6-2, 4-6, 6-1

R1

Alexander Slabinsky v Evgeny Donskoy (Rus)

R1

Slabinsky / Leonte (Rou) d. Khotulev (Rus) / Stoliarov (Rus)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:

R1

Alexander Slabinsky v Evgeny Donskoy (Rus)

R1

Slabinsky / Leonte (Rou) d. Khotulev (Rus) / Stoliarov (Rus)

Alex has moved up to sixth in the seedings for the singles & he & Leonte are the fourth seeds in the doubles!

wolf · Tennis legend

He didn't play singles today but:

Slabinsky / Leonte (Rou) d. Khotulev (Rus) / Stoliarov (Rus) 4-6, 6-3, 10-3

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Slabinsky d. Donskoy 6-1 7-6(2)

Next, plays Nigerian wildcard Abdul Mumin Babalola. Go Slabba!

wolf · Tennis legend

R1
Alexander Slabinsky d. Evgeny Donskoy (Rus) 6-1, 7-6(2)

R2
Alexander Slabinsky v Abdul-Mumin Babalola (Ngr)

Doubles Q/F
Slabinsky / Leonte (Rou) v McGahon (Irl) / Roy (Ind)

DJ · County player

SLABINSKY, Alexander (GBR) 6 def DONSKOY, Evgeny (RUS)
6-1 7-6(2)

Next opponent is
WC BABALOLA, Abdul-Mumin (NGR) who beat WC FORD-DA SILVA, Destiny (NGR)
6-0 6-2

The extra point will push Alex up another 3 spots to a provisonal year-end 487; of course, we hope there are more points to come later in the week!

Quarter-final doubles opponents are MCGAHON (IRL) / ROY (IND) who beat
WC DAIRO (NGR) / FORD-DA SILVA (NGR) 6-4 3-6 [10-7]

McGahon had been partnering Maniel Bains earlier in the African tour.

Alex and his Romanian partner, Leonte, are now the sole seeds left in the lower half of the draw.

Apologies for re-iterating what Madeline and Wolf have just submitted; they clearly type much more quickly than I do!!

-- Edited by DJ at 16:32, 2007-12-18

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The good news in the doubles is that the top seeds, the all-Dutch combo of Antal van der Duim & Boy Westerhof, are out of the top half of the draw, beaten 7-5 4-6 [5-10] by the Nigerians, Idoko & Shehu! Van der Duim, the second seed in the singles, so in Slabba's half of the draw, clearly had a bad day: he lost 6-7(5) ret. to Richard Ruckelshausen! So no more appointments with Destiny for Slabba in either singles or doubles this year, since he lost to Babaloa in the first round & with Dairo to McGahon & Roy in the doubles!

The Nigerian, Shehu, had a good day: he's a WC in the singles & saw off the potential danger, Alain Ntamag, in straight sets, 4 & 2!

RedCabbage · Club Coach

DJ wrote:

they clearly type much more quickly than I do!!

They just type much less than you do. :)

Sheddie · administrator

Great stuff Slabba. Donskoy was a tricky rd1 draw, he's 17, ranked 64 in juniors and made semis last week, losing a tight match to the eventual winner Westerhof

Next match should be reasonably comfortable, the guy is ranked 1100ish...only played about 5 tourneys this year, all in Nigeria and lost 3&4 to a guy in the 600s last week.

RobC · All-time great

Slabba is the New British #7! Childs now #8

afe · Social player

Whilst I'm delighted to see Slabba getting the reward for his commitment to play right to the end of the season, unless the points for Futures have changed he still has not officially cracked 500 or overtaken Childs. He has 46 points currently, with 6 to add on next Monday from the first Nigerian Future. This gives him 52, level on points with the players from 499+, but at 502 as he's played more tournaments. He has so far earned 1 point from this week, which will definitely place him in the top 500 with 53 points, but still below Childs. If he wins his second round match, this would give him 55 points and place him above Childs at 488 at least. This does not however take into acount other players around Slabba gaining (unlikely) or losing (possible) points.

Sorry to be pedantic about this but please let me know if I've got it wrong!