Week 9 - Futures F8 (10k) - Terrasa, Spain

Drew · Feb 21, 2008

Week 9 - Futures F8 (10k) - Terrasa, Spain

Akhenaten · Pro player

... and Evo.

steven · Tennis legend

No less than 10 Brits in qualifying here, with two in each of five different qualifying sections - Dan & Joshua are the only ranked players in theirs, so hopefully one of them will make it!. This is a 64-player qualifying draw, with 4 rounds of qualifying and 5 wins needed to gain a single ranking point!

QR1: Robert Dee UNR v (WC) Fabio Borges (BRA) UNR
QR1: (q14) David Rice WR 1246 v Sergio de la Fuente-Ramos (ESP) UNR

QR1: (q3) Dan Cox WR 948 v Fernando Barrios-Lopez (ESP) UNR
QR1: (q13) Joshua Milton WR 1246 v Alberto Adam Navarro (ESP) UNR

QR1: Paul Brown UNR v (WC) Alexander Hillbricht (GER) UNR
QR1: Alexander Hutchings UNR v Bogdan Djurdjevic (GER) UNR

QR1: Alexander Ward UNR v Jeremias Lima-Perez (ESP) UNR
QR1: (q16) Daniel Smethurst WR 1287 v Alessandro Hamuth (AUT) UNR

QR1: James Armstrong UNR v Michal Nevrela (NED) UNR
QR1: Greg Goodall UNR v (q11) Georgi Rumenov Payakov (ESP) WR 1246

Main draw - L32: Myles Blake WR 649 v TBA

Malteaser · Junior player

Hey Steven

Where did you get the qual draw from?

Tried ITF, ATP and coretennis and didn't find it anywhere.

Was going to predict a 2 or 3 qualifiers this week, but with 4 rounds I guess we'll be lucky to get as many as that. Rice and Cox have been getting close the last few weeks in Spain. Come on guys do it for us this week!

steven · Tennis legend

www.tenispain.com (odd that they use the Spanish word for tennis and the English word for Spain!), it's sometimes a bit ahead of the rest.

wolf · Tennis legend

QR1
Fabio Borges (Ita) d. Robert Dee 6-0, 7-6(4)
Sergio de la Fuente-Ramos (Esp) d. David Rice (14) 7-6(5) ret
Daniel Cox (3) d. Fernando Barrios-Lopez (Esp) 7-6(3), 6-4
Joshua Milton (13) d. Alberto Adam Navarro (Esp) 6-0, 6-1
Paul Brown d. Alexander Hillbricht (GER) 6-4, 6-1
Bogdan Djurdjevic (Ger) d. Alexander Hutchings 7-6(5), 6-2
Alexander Ward d. Jeremais Lima-Perez (Esp) 6-1, 3-6, 6-3
Daniel Smethurst (16) d. Alessandro Hamuth (Aut) 6-1, 6-1
Michal Nivrela (Ned) d. James Armstrong 6-0, 6-0
Georgi Rumenov Payakov (Esp) d. Greg Goodall 6-3, 6-1

QR2
Joshua Milton (13) d. Guillem Amilo-Zaragueta (Esp) 6-2, 6-3
Daniel Cox (3) v Roberto Rodriguez-Alonso (Esp)
Paul Brown v Guillem Collado-Castells (Esp)
Alexander Ward v Adria Mercadal-Berenguer (Esp)
Daniel Smethurst v Inigo Santos-Fernandez (Esp)

-- Edited by wolf at 16:59, 2008-02-23

-- Edited by wolf at 17:01, 2008-02-23

Simon · Lower Club Player

Dee nearly got a set !!! confused

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Not bad at all.

Hope Rice is ok.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Todays happenings

QR2
Joshua Milton (13) d. Guillem Amilo-Zaragueta (Esp) 6-2, 6-3

Steven Diez (Esp) (unr) bt Coxy 6-0 1-6 7-5.

Paul Brown bt Guillem Collado-Castells (Esp) 6-3 7-6(5)

Alexander Ward bt Adria Mercadal-Berenguer (Esp) 6-3 7-5

Daniel Smethurst bt Inigo Santos-Fernandez (Esp) 7-6(2) 6-2

QR3

Milton bt Dios-Zetterlind 6-2 7-5

Ward bt Takahiro Ittogi (Jap) (1035) 6-2 4-6 4-2 ret...

Smethurst bt Medina-Carmargo 6-1 6-0

FQR

Milton (1246) vs Diez (who bt Cox in QR2)

Ward vs Smethurst. GUARANTEED QUALIFIER

XCW4EVA · County player

What happened top Paul Brown, and who the hell is he lol?

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Lost a close one in QR3 i think but don't quote me as I'm going form memory from last night and don't have time to look it up this morning.

steven · Tennis legend

Paul Brown got thrashed 0 & 1 by the no. 5 seed in QR3. Still, not not bad progress for someone we'd never even heard of before!

P.S. He was 17 earlier this week, he's 949th in the Junior Combined rankings a career high after he qualified and then won two main draw matches in Bangladesh last week) and this is his first Future.

-- Edited by steven at 09:57, 2008-02-24

john · Top national player

These bloody four round qualifying tournaments are annoying. Shame to see Dan Cox failing to qualify. Think he's struggling a little on the Spanish Futures tour but we know it's very tough. Encouraging to see him out there, probably learning a lot more from this than he could by staying in the UK Futures picking up the odd WC. Think he needs to start picking up some points soon though if he's going to move up the rankings like we thought he could.

Drew · Feb 25, 2008

FQR :

Milton (1246) def S Diez (UNR) 6-2 7-5

Smethurst (1287) def Ward (UNR) 6-2 7-5

So 2 Brits make the MD...well done...and to Ward for his best run so far.

DJ · County player

The Tenispain website has Josh Milton losing 6-7 (5), 1-6 to Diez, Drew. Are you, perhaps, looking at Josh's semi-final win over Dios-Zetterling - it bore a 6-2, 7-5 scoreline?
I would second your applause for young Ward - a very promising showing.