Week 8 - Challenger ($85,000 + H) - Besançon, France

DJ · County player

RE: Week 8 - Challenger ($85,000 + H) - Besançon, France

wolf · Tennis legend

I spell it like that constantly.

wolf · Tennis legend

Aucks and Del are 4-3, up with a break, and have just missed two bp's to go 5-2 up.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

6-3 6-1 great win in 34 minutes!

Drew · Feb 21, 2008

Well done Aucks / Delgy....never met Delgado but Aucks is a pleasure to talk to. Hope they win this !

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Nice going!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

mjd wrote:

6-3 6-1 great win in 34 minutes!

Splendid win for the boys!

Looks as though they hardly had to break stride!

Only the second seeds to down tomorrow (not before 15.00 GMT on Court 1) & they're in the final! wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

DJ wrote:

Has anyone noticed how they've spelled 'quarter' on the Livescore box - 'quater'.

It's a very common mistake on sites for lesser tournaments in non-English-speaking countries, DJ, presumably because they can't afford to employ a native English-speaker to ensure that everything's tickety-boo!

Some of their efforts can be quite funny, but that one's intensely annoying!

But as an ex-professional translator, I would say that, wouldn't I? wink

Even so, I could cheerfully strangle the individuals who inflict such indignities on my mother tongue!

I also disapprove of the absence of a hyphen, but that's the Yankee influence, I'm afraid... hmm

wolf · Tennis legend

Pictures of Aucks and Del today.

-- Edited by wolf at 19:06, 2008-02-21

helki · Futures qualifying

Stircrazy wrote:

mjd wrote:

6-3 6-1 great win in 34 minutes!

Splendid win for the boys! Looks as though they hardly had to break stride! Only the second seeds to down tomorrow (not before 15.00 GMT on Court 1) & they're in the final!

I'm off-line a couple of hours and it's all over.

I thought they must have had a walkover, but it was just an easy win.

Same again tomorrow.

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
I also disapprove of the absence of a hyphen, but that's the Yankee influence, I'm afraid...

True, but not as bad as "titlist", which was all over the ATP site at the weekend. I realise it's said tight-list rather than tit-list, but it sounds like something an ornithologist (or a Sun photographer!) might have written down!

Anyway, great to see such a convincing and quick win. Hopefully it'll leave them feeling good when they face the tougher challenge tomorrow.

john · Top national player

Wow, James has really got the hair thing nailed down in a big way since I last saw him in Aberdeen

steven · Tennis legend

Doh! Boggo's conqueror Chardy took the 1st set off Gicquel 6-2 then retired at 3-3 down in the 3rd, leaving Gicquel as the ONLY seed in the QFs!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i wonder what happened?

why couldnt he have done tahat in the 1st rd!!!!
a 6-2 set is impressive, boggo again a bit unlukcy with the draw?

steven · Tennis legend

I think so, it looks like he'd have had a much better chance in any of the other 3.5 quarters of the draw, especially once Ancic withdrew - one of 5 withdrawals so far.