Eaton won

ITF may have screwed Slabba from playing here...not sure why yet

No Slabba!

Can you get us the full story Sheddie?

Main Draw

Josh Goodall (361) vs Ante Pavic (Cro) (WC) (1169)


Doubles

Blaz Kavcic/Grega Zemlja (SLO) vs (4)Joshua Goodall/Konstantin Kravchuk (GBR/RUS)

Chris Eaton/Mait Kunnap (GBR/EST) d. (2)Thiemo de Bakker/Antal van der Duim (NED) 2-6 6-1 (13-11)

Slabba is in Croatia this week, but not in the tournament....why ? read on, neither of us can believe it, how crass is this for a pro tourney

Slabba lost in the quarters to Oger in France last Fri. Now even though he'd entered Zagreb, he had to confirm he was coming to the tourney officials. However, the stupid Croats hadn't put down any contact telephone number for the tournament online not even in the player info sections. The Bressuire tournament office contacted ITF who spent the afternoon trying without success to get through to Zagreb on behalf of Slabba. Slabba emailed the Zagreb tourney but they didn't bother to check their email till after they'd made the draw on Friday night, putting someone else in Alex's place and despite the email having been sent many hours earlier they said "too late, you can't play, we're not doing the draw again".

The ITF have the power to overule the tournament officials and make them do the draw again but it was Friday night, they wanted to go home for the weekend and couldn't be bothered to wait at the office for another hour to sort things out.

rumour has it that the courts are like glass out there so at least he gets a week to prepare for wk 2

Wow, even the LTA aren't that useless! Slabba must be fuming after having paid to go there.

Three things I can't understand though:

1) There are telephone and fax numbers here: http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/tournamentfactsheet.asp?tournament=1100016978 - the obvious place to look for them, I'd say.

2) If no numbers were there on Friday, couldn't they have used last year's details?

3) How incompetent are the ITF at not managing to get through to anyone on Alex's behalf. Next time, he should pass the details to me - with all the clues there are, I bet I could find a number and get through to them on time, even if there isn't a number on the factsheet.

-- Edited by steven at 20:42, 2008-02-11

Thats a good point jezzauk.  Josh was in France until Sunday, so how come he has made the draw and Slabba hasn't? 

Sheddie wrote:

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because Josh had a lot of time on his hands to contact Croatia after losing rd1 of singles

The numbers given on the ITF page weren't the right ones....the one given is a home tel no rather than a tournament tel no or mobile

ITF had other contact details I think but couldn't get hold of the guys

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Thats quite unlucky, will he be watching any of the tourney this week? might be a chance to scope out any potential opponents next week!