Week 10 - Futures F1 (10k) - Gatineau, Canada

Drew · Feb 28, 2008

Week 10 - Futures F1 (10k) - Gatineau, Canada

steven · Tennis legend

I can never quite work out why Futures and Challengers in Canada are so weak, nor why more Brits don't go for main draw places there, but we do at least have five in qualifying, three of them seeded to qualify and in sections without any other ranked players.

QR1: Christopher Harfield UNR v Eros Lampioni (ITA) UNR

QR2: (q1) Ross Connolly WR 1246 v Jean Olivier Hebert (CAN) UNR
QR2: (q4) Kyle Brassington WR 1403 v Alexandre Demarais (CAN) UNR or Pedro Ast (VEN) UNR
QR2: (q6) Timothy Bradshaw WR 1492 v Sam Jonas (CAN) UNR or Steven Kane (USA) UNR
QR2: Harfield or Lampioni v Alain Humblet (CAN) UNR (in Bradshaw's section)
QR2: (q9) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1492 v Vlad-Victor Ghinda (CAN) UNR or Byron Weinberg (CAN) UNR

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Intelligent schedule setting by these boys.

I would hope that one of Brassington, Bradshaw and Kinsella could qualify, go deep and maybe crack that top 1000 this week!

DJ · County player

johnnylad wrote:

I would hope that one of Brassington, Bradshaw and Kinsella could qualify, go deep and maybe crack that top 1000 this week!

Ambitious, Johnny! Any one of them would need to reach the final to break into the top 1000. (that originally said 'top 10', but Steven was sharp!)

-- Edited by DJ at 16:13, 2008-03-01

steven · Tennis legend

DJ wrote:

johnnylad wrote:

I would hope that one of Brassington, Bradshaw and Kinsella could qualify, go deep and maybe crack that top 1000 this week!

Ambitious, Johnny! Any one of them would need to reach the final to break into the top 10.

... and you call Johnnylad ambitious! wink

DJ · County player

Oops! Thanks, Steven, I'll sort that pdq!

steven · Tennis legend

Don't worry, it was obvious what you meant, I just couldn't resist.

steven · Tennis legend

QR1 complete, so now we know who's playing who in QR2:

QR1: Christopher Harfield UNR lost to Eros Lampioni (ITA) UNR by 1 & 5 cry

QR2: (q1) Ross Connolly WR 1246 v Jean Olivier Hebert (CAN) UNR
QR2: (q4) Kyle Brassington WR 1403 v Pedro Ast (VEN) UNR
QR2: (q6) Timothy Bradshaw WR 1492 v Steven Kane (USA) UNR
QR2: (q9) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1492 v Byron Weinberg (CAN) UNR

steven · Tennis legend

QR2: (q1) Ross Connolly WR 1246 beat Jean Olivier Hebert (CAN) UNR by 1 & 0 smile

QR2: (q4) Kyle Brassington WR 1403 beat Pedro Ast (VEN) UNR by 3 & 5 smile

QR2: (q6) Timothy Bradshaw WR 1492 lost to Steven Kane (USA) UNR by 5 & 1 bleh

QR2: (q9) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1492 beat Byron Weinberg (CAN) UNR by 2 & 1 smile

FQR: (q1) Ross Connolly WR 1246 v Yevgeny Perepelov (USA) UNR
FQR: (q4) Kyle Brassington WR 1403 v Mihai Parvan (ROU) UNR
FQR: (q9) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1492 v (q8) Tinotenda Chanakira (ZIM) WR 1492

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

I think all three of the guys in the FQR won.

steven · Tennis legend

FQR: (q1) Ross Connolly WR 1246 beat Yevgeny Perepelov (USA) UNR by 3 & 4 smile

FQR: (q4) Kyle Brassington WR 1403 beat Mihai Parvan (ROU) UNR by 6-3 7-6(6) smile

FQR: (q9) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1492 beat (q8) Tinotenda Chanakira (ZIM) WR 1492 by 3 & 2 smile

For the main draw, WRs shown are updated to be this week's rankings. Poor Ross didn't get the greatest reward for qualifying ... cry

L32: (Q) Ross Connolly WR 1244 v (1) Timo Nieminen (FIN) WR 460
L32: (Q) Kyle Brassington WR 1404 v (Q) Simon Cauvard (FRA) WR 1404
L32: (Q) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1492 v (5) Florin Mergea (ROU) WR 540

All to be played on Wednesday.

Nieminen had a CH of 254 in 2003. He beat Bloomers in the SFs of the Sheffield Future in January. Cauvard, a rare ambidextrous player, has an odd record against Brits - in the past year, he has shocked Matt Smith (twice), Rushby & Flan, all in straight sets, but has lost to Joshua Milton and Chris Priddle ...

Mergea had a CH of 243 in 2005, a year after he failed to double bagel Adam Lownsbrough (it was 0 & 1) and he has been playing Challenger qualifying recently, which is probably the only reason he hasn't got that many points at the moment. He is on a 4 match losing streak against Brits stretching back to summer 2005, but his losses were against Murray, Boggo, Big Arv & Jamie B, so this probably won't be much consolation to Kinsella!

The winners of the first two matches above play each other, so it's a pretty rubbish draw all round. furious

Doubles

Brassington & Kinsella v Bondaz & Colangelo (ITA)
Harfield & Cauvard (FRA) v (2) Jobe & Wettengell (USA)

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

steven wrote:

FQR: (q1) Ross Connolly WR 1246 beat Yevgeny Perepelov (USA) UNR by 3 & 4
FQR: (q4) Kyle Brassington WR 1403 beat Mihai Parvan (ROU) UNR by 6-3 7-6(6)
FQR: (q9) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1492 beat (q8) Tinotenda Chanakira (ZIM) WR 1492 by 3 & 2

For the main draw, WRs shown are updated to be this week's rankings. Poor Ross didn't get the greatest reward for qualifying ...

L32: (Q) Ross Connolly WR 1244 v (1) Timo Nieminen (FIN) WR 460
L32: (Q) Kyle Brassington WR 1404 v (Q) Simon Cauvard (FRA) WR 1404
L32: (Q) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1492 v (5) Florin Mergea (ROU) WR 540

All to be played on Wednesday.

Nieminen had a CH of 254 in 2003. He beat Bloomers in the SFs of the Sheffield Future in January. Cauvard, a rare ambidextrous player, has an odd record against Brits - in the past year, he has shocked Matt Smith (twice), Rushby & Flan, all in straight sets, but has lost to Joshua Milton and Chris Priddle ...

Mergea had a CH of 243 in 2005, a year after he failed to double bagel Adam Lownsbrough (it was 0 & 1) and he has been playing Challenger qualifying recently, which is probably the only reason he hasn't got that many points at the moment. He is on a 4 match losing streak against Brits stretching back to summer 2005, but his losses were against Murray, Boggo, Big Arv & Jamie B, so this probably won't be much consolation to Kinsella!

The winners of the first two matches above play each other, so it's a pretty rubbish draw all round.

Doubles

Brassington & Kinsella v Bondaz & Colangelo (ITA)
Harfield & Cauvard (FRA) v (2) Jobe & Wettengell (USA)

Thats an AWFUL draw!

Kinsella still looks worth more than his 1 ranking point suggests i reckon, but Mergea will prove way too strong!

wolf · Tennis legend

R1
BRASSINGTON (GBR) / KINSELLA (GBR) defeated BONDAZ (ITA) / COLANGELO (ITA) 6-3 1-6 [10-6]
JOBE (USA) / WETTENGEL (USA) (2) defeated CAUVARD (FRA) / HARFIELD (GBR) 6-1 7-5

Q/F
AREVALO (ESA) / PAUL (USA) Vs BRASSINGTON (GBR) / KINSELLA (GBR)

Drew · Mar 5, 2008

Kyle & Ross are down to play today on court 1 - 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Kinsella is second on court 3.

steven · Tennis legend

Two of them managed to win! biggrin

L32: (Q) Ross Connolly WR 1244 lost to (1) Timo Nieminen (FIN) WR 460 by 2 & 1 cry

L32: (Q) Kyle Brassington WR 1404 beat (Q) Simon Cauvard (FRA) WR 1404 by 4 & 4 smile

L32: (Q) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1492 beat (yes, beat!) (5) Florin Mergea (ROU) WR 540 by 6-3 3-6 6-1 biggrin

A good win for Kyle, but a stunning win for Kinsella against no. 5 seed and former top 250 player Mergea - Mergea's 5-match losing streak against Brits now reads Andy Murray, Boggo, Big Arv, Jamie Baker and Jonathan Kinsella. smile

L16: (Q) Kyle Brassington WR 1404 v (1) Timo Nieminen (FIN) WR 460
L16: (Q) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1492 v Todd Paul (USA) WR 875

Nieminen had a CH of 254 in 2003. He beat Bloomers in the SFs of the Sheffield Future in January and Ross in R1 here. Paul has only played a Brit once, losing to Big Arv in Bronx Ch Q in 2006, but has already reached a Futures Final this year.

Doubles

L16: Brassington & Kinsella beat Bondaz & Colangelo (ITA) by 6-3 1-6 (10-6) smile

- quite a day for these two!
L16: Harfield & Cauvard (FRA) lost to (2) Jobe & Wettengell (USA) by 1 & 5 cry

QF: Brassington & Kinsella v Arevalo & Paul (who knocked out the no. 3 seeds)

-- Edited by steven at 00:32, 2008-03-06