Week 9 - Challenger (€30000) - Wolfsburg, Germany

Shhh · Challenger level

RE: Week 9 - Challenger (€30000) - Wolfsburg, Germany

helki · Futures qualifying

mjd wrote:

Bloomers & Skups defeated 3rd seeds Johan BRUNSTROM / Frederik NIELSEN (SWE / DEN) 76(3) 46 10-7
Sundays final will be against the no 4 seeds C. BALL /I. VAN DER MERWE.

Great.

steven · Tennis legend

Great result

but has that done for Kyoto (which judging by the qualifying draw is very weak) for Bloomers even if they given him a late start, I wonder, or was Kyoto already done for after yesterday's win?

I want those two getting singles points!! (demanding, I know)

john · Top national player

Hope these continuing good doubles results don't convince the Skupster to give up on the singles any time soon. Think one or two too many Brits have been a bit hasty in becoming "doubles specialists" when they have a slightly poor run of form in the singles.

wolf · Tennis legend

Doubles final not until Sunday it seems. Well done Wolfsburg Challenger, you really know how to mess with players schedules. On the other hand in the Cherbourg Challenger, Lugassy is in the doubles semi-finals, and he's not even on the schedule for Saturday!

steven · Tennis legend

Oh how pathetic, couldn't they move it knowing that one of the players has to get to Japan? I there's ever been a good excuse to pull out of the doubles, they've just handed them one!

steven · Tennis legend

The doubles Final starts at 12.00 GMT tomorrow.

That's 13.00 CET, so I'm a little worried by the fact that the flights from Munich to Tokyo leave at 15.25 CET! I wonder how they're going to manage it ... Maybe Frankfurt-Osaka (the nearest airport to Kyoto) leaving around 11.00 CET on Monday, arriving very early on Tuesday morning after an 11 hour flight. It doesn't sound good, does it ...

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Rich and Ken also in doubles in Japan having drawn against WCs Iwabuchi/Motumura in rd1
Flying out from H'row Monday pm weirdface

-- Edited by mjd at 10:48, 2008-03-02

john · Top national player

So Ken is going to Japan purely to play doubles? Is there other events out in Asia in subsequent weeks then?

johnnylad · Tennis legend

They've lost the first set of the final 7-6

johnnylad · Tennis legend

And the second 6-3.

Quick lads! Get to Kyoto!

steven · Tennis legend

Perhaps Fed could lend them his private jet LOL

XCW4EVA · County player

Man, that would be sweet to have a private jet. How long does it take to get to Japan from Germany?

steven · Tennis legend

11 hours, but if they're flying from Heathrow, it'll be about 2 hours to Heathrow, 12 (I'm guessing) to Tokyo then another flight (or bullet train ride?) to Osaka, which is the nearest airport to Kyoto.

steven · Tennis legend

A bit more accurately:

1 hour+ (50 miles) from Wolfsburg to Hannover
1 h 30 from Hannover to London by air
11 h 30 (BA) or 12 h (Virgin) from London to Tokyo by air arriving 9, 10 or 11 am Japanese time
2 h 30 from Tokyo to Kyoto by fast train (or 1 h 10 by air to Osaka + 1 h by bus to Kyoto)

So whichever way you look at it, that's at least 16 hours of travelling, not to mention a 9 hour time difference!

Whoever said tennis players had it easy? LOL

-- Edited by steven at 15:37, 2008-03-02