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

wolf · Tennis legend

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

DJ · County player

Hi, afe,

Nothing wrong with pedantry; some of my best friends are pedants!
I agree with everything you say except for one vital point. Last week's Nigerian Future was at '$15,000 + Hospitality' level, which carries more points than a standard $15K (1, 4, 8, 16, 24 as opposed to 1, 3, 6, 12, 18). Alex earned 8 for his semi-final spot, rather than 6, so will have 54, not 52, come Monday.
Incidentally, this week's is also a 'Hospitality', so a win for Alex today will earn him an extra 3 points to add to the 1 from yesterday.

DJ · County player

Wolf, you beat me to the punch again - I'll have to take Redcabbage's implicit advice!!

Redcabbage, I hate to admit it, but you're right!!! :))

wolf · Tennis legend

Surprising how much cutting out the crap and getting straight to the point can achieve.

afe · Social player

Thanks wolf and DJ for that vital bit of information. Even more incentive for Slabba to progress as far as he can this week.

Incidentally, I notice that the UK Futures next year are £10Ks rather than £15Ks. Is this to encourage more UK players to test themselves overseas? Perhaps it will be better to invest the money in supporting players who are willing to travel rather than paying it in prize money to the mainly overseas winners of this year's £15Ks

Count Zero · Tennis legend

they have also dropped a challenger from early in the year, we a yet to see if it being replaced by a later one as the calendar doesnt go far.

perhaps they saw that they werent having a good effect so whats the point of paying out extra prize money.

RobC · All-time great

Could it be that we were seeing "too high" a standard of field in the UK futures, which meant we ended up having just one or two brits getting a DA. With 10Ks, we'll hopefully see less players ranked 250-500 turning up and more chance for Slabba, Kasiri et al to be seeded and for the guys in the high triple figures to get DAs and progress.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

might be that. I reckon British tournaments are a safe bet with regards to hotels, food poisoning (hopefully a lack of it), court surface, prize money allocation etc... which may be why a lot of players come here.

Slabba reaches the QF's by the way - Alexander SLABINSKY (GBR) (6) defeated Abdul-Mumin BABALOLA (NGR) 6-4 6-4

El Amrani again. A chance for revenge.

In doubles

MCGAHON (IRL) / ROY (IND) defeated LEONTE (ROU) / SLABINSKY (GBR) (4) 3-6 6-3 [10-8]

But I'm glad its this way round and not a doubles win/singles loss.

Simon · Lower Club Player

Good decision to move to 10Ks - I wrote a letter in the LTA magazine early this year complaining at there only being 15K last year as we had no-one with the ranking to play in them (except our challenger players playing down). Even got a lengthy response from the LTA Competitions Manager. What they should do is have 10Ks early and late in the year with some mixed 15Ks with 10Ks in the middle when the ranking required to make the main draw is usually higher.

Ironically, Slabba and a few others are now getting to a level where 15K tournaments are about the right level, but it will enable many more GBR players to get main draw entries.

Well done Slabba - good end to the year. biggrin

wolf · Tennis legend

Slabba won 6-1, 6-3!!!!!!!!

*Does a little jiggle*

He plays our old friend Richard Ruckelshausen in the semi-finals, who has took care of the second (via retirement) and seventh seeds so far.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

another great result,
*joins wolf in the little jiggle*

hopefully a win against Ruckelshausen tomorrow.

I make that roughly 464 for Slabs (433 if he wins against Ruckelshausen, 408 if he wins the tournament).

-- Edited by imoen at 18:23, 2007-12-20

Drew · Dec 20, 2007

Now thats the three of us 'dancing'.....!!!!

Well done Alex....a true top 500 performance !!!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Drew wrote:

Now thats the three of us 'dancing'.....!!!!

Well done Alex....a true top 500 performance !!!

Make that four! biggrin

He obviously learnt a thing or two from his encounter with El Amrani last week! smile

helki · Futures qualifying

Stircrazy wrote:

Drew wrote:

Now thats the three of us 'dancing'.....!!!!

Well done Alex....a true top 500 performance !!!

Make that four! He obviously learnt a thing or two from his encounter with El Amrani last week!

Nah! Let's make it five.

What price a Gard v Slabba final?

It's good to have some interest right up to Christmas. Thanks Alex.

XCW4EVA · County player

I don't dance,

but i like the result