Week 9 - Nigeria F2 (15k) - Benin City, Nigeria

freerider · Futures level

RE: Week 9 - Nigeria F2 (15k) - Benin City, Nigeria

DJ · County player

Yes, a good week, Fitzy! Doubled your points tally and taken a top 500 player to 4 and 4 - good going.

DJ · County player

Edward, while we may still not be totally confident of your top 500 place yet, (though hopefully certain by tomorrow afternoon!) we can definitely confirm that you're a top 500 doubles player!! Today's win takes you to roughly 480, while taking the title (again) would mean 460 or so.
Double congratulations.

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

Great effort Fitzy!

Seator played Accardo at the Italy F31 in 2007 winning 6-1 1-0 ret on his way to the final so lets hope for a similar outcome this time around (including the finalist bit)

smile

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Good luck Edward, play well!

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

hi, lack of internet on my computer is the reason behind my lack of posts.
And i reply to someone saying i take my parents with me, thats ridiculous!
My dad being in pakistan was a nice co-incidence. My mother is deffinatly not with me in benin thank god.
Yeah played good and solid against the number 3 seed.
He was serving so well, every time i go a break point he served an ace.
Tough but deffinatly taking mental postatives out of these weeks.

My next futures will be bath, where hopefully i might get a w.c to main draw for winning the british tour before i came out here.
See what paul has to say, he said he could consider me.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

hope you get that wildcard fitzy, thanks for giving us a little more insight into you match, glad you're taking the positives though

Unfortunately the news from Benin today isn't good, Edward lost 61 46 16 to Accardo, the 5th seed.

Which means the top500 place is still touch and go.(but that's unimportant, right

)

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Ah, it'll come soon.

Edward Seator · Social player

Today wasnt a good day, I won the first set pretty easily, similar to Italy when I played the guy. Again a loose start to the second gave him some belief, from then on he played pretty good and it was so hot today i struggled to stay in there physicaly especially after the 3set match on wed. Was very disappointing to take a loss today as I was on top of him but let it slip myself. He played pretty good to be fair started hitting out alot after the first set, but still shouldnt of let it slip.

Drew · Feb 28, 2008

Cant win them all Edward...still fighting for the dubs title though...were next for you ?

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

Unlucky Edward

there's a couple of futures in Ivory Coast and the field looks to be slightly stronger, he should still be seeded though!

Best of luck mate!

steven · Tennis legend

Fitzy wrote:
And i reply to someone saying i take my parents with me, thats ridiculous!

Hi Fitzy - thanks for posting again, and sorry about that ashamed

- I hoped it would be obvious that it was just a silly take on the comment on the Ogbe site where the Nigerians were bemoaning the fact that 'all' of the overseas participants had brought their parents with them! I'm pretty sure virtually everyone reading it realised that it wasn't meant to mean you really had. smile

Edward - bad luck today, it must have been horrible to let it slip after feeding him a breadstick in the 1st, but at least you've scored a few points both weeks, it's all progress. Disappointing, but how you manage to play at all in that kind of heat is beyond me! smile

Anyway, it wouldn't be the same if we weren't left in suspense until Monday week about the 500 thing blankstare - unfortunately, James is in the same boat after losing today too.

Shhh · Challenger level

Hi Fity and Edward, I wondered when you both expected to compete in the UK next? Also, would you expect to be around for any of the grass court season here or is that too far away to plan?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Thanks for the comments on the match today Edward - at least you are consistantly making the QFs of these events and you seem to have the ability to take these players on and hopefully next week in Ivory Coast you'll have another good week and confirm that elusive top 500 place

Andrew - hope you do get the WC spot in Bath, and from what I remember almost all the British tour winners do seem to get a WC so I'd say you'd have a good chance of it. Good luck to you back in the UK anyway and hope to see some more ranking points added to the won you won this week - well done on that btw

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Semifinals
(1)Marek Semjan/Jan Stancik (SVK) d. (3)John McGahon/Edward Seator (IRL/GBR) 6-2 7-6(5)

The streak comes to an end.

Blandin bt Accardo in singles for everyones interest....