Week 8 - Futures F4 (15K) - Brownsville, USA

wolf · Tennis legend

Week 8 - Futures F4 (15K) - Brownsville, USA

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Good luck to the boys. Apparently Boone went for pre-qualies at the Dallas Challenger so he should be in shape and hope for the best for him here.

Interesting to compare Bradshaw and Baxendine's results here to in Mexico. Hopefully Bradshaw's point last week has given him great confidence. Weird that he pulled out of R2 last week though.

DJ · County player

Wins for David and Timothy, defeat for Ned.

David beat Jarmere Jenkins, the 13th seed and already ranked 1203, though just turned 17, by 2-6, 7-5, 6-1. Jarmere is one of eight brothers, one of whom, Jarmaine, is seeded 2 in these qualifiers though, bizarrely, his ITF record doesn't give him a ranking. Round 2's opponent is Russian Alexei Miller, WR 1491.

Timothy beat Canadian Aaron Chad by 1 and 2 in what seems to be Aaron's first professional match. Next up is American 7th seed, Adam El Mihdawy, ranked 1005 at 18.

Ned went down to unranked wild-card Richard Johnson by 4 and 3.

DJ · County player

I see that Jarmaine (see above) has a doubles ranking - do our more knowledgeable contributors know whether an entrant to a Futures event may count whichever ranking is the better - or have the organisers made an error?

wolf · Tennis legend

I don't want to be seen as being more knowledgeable than you, but a doubles ranking cannot be chosen over a single ranking (as I am sure you know), so it must be a mistake, either by the tourney organisers, or the ITF doing something wrong.

steven · Tennis legend

You're right about the doubles ranking not being relevant for singles seeding (though having a doubles ranking does give you precedence for acceptance into qualifying over players who don't have either a singles OR a doubles ranking) but the ITF/organisers haven't done anything wrong because Jarmaine isn't the no. 2 seed, Adam Fass is. Jarmaine was just the first-named player in the second QR1 match.

There's an article about Jarmere Jenkins (the victim of the GB seeding upset yesterday) at http://www.clgandjrtennis.com/JarmereJenkins0403.htm, written in 2003 when he was 12 - there are nine boys and one girl in the family and six of the boys play tennis! He once smashed a ball in anger and hit his opponent's mother, accidentally I hasten to add. LOL

-- Edited by steven at 10:53, 2008-02-17

freerider · Futures level

baxendine continues to the final round, however bradshaw lost

wolf · Tennis legend

QR3
Adam FASS (USA) (2) defeated David BAXENDINE (GBR) 6-2 6-4

R1
Ryan HARRISON (USA) Vs Jamie BAKER (GBR) (2)

Harrison is ranked 1359 in seniors, but 7 in juniors, and reached the semi-final of the Junior Championships at the Australian Open.

steven · Tennis legend

Well they say things aye come in threes, and this is a nice one - all of our top three have drawn WCs in R1 this week!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

lets hope they can all post wins as well!

DJ · County player

Thanks to Wolf and Steven for clearing up my errors (5 and 6 posts ago); I was fairly confident about the rankings element, though couldn't see what could have wrong and was, perhaps, grasping for a straw. The answer was, of course, neither the organisers nor the ITF had made a mistake, I had! My apologies for misleading folk.

steven · Tennis legend

You were forgiven days ago

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Am I misreading today's OoP, or is Jamie B due to play Ryan Harrison at 2 o'clock in the morning Texas time (i.e. 08.00 GMT)?

If so, that's bloody outrageous! furious

seagull · Hall of fame

Pretty sure they mean not before 2PM!!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:

Pretty sure they mean not before 2PM!!

In that case the stupid b*ggers responsible for preparing the OoP should be more careful: "02.00" is the 24-hour clock & can only be interpreted as 2 in the morning!