Week 10 - Futures F3B (10k) - Roma-Eur, Italy

steven · Tennis legend

Week 10 - Futures F3B (10k) - Roma-Eur, Italy

DJ · County player

Italy F3 was this week, week 09; there's an Italy F4 in week 11 - presumably this is an extra added after the original list was issued?

steven · Tennis legend

I'm sure that's part of the explanation, but they usually call them 3A in those circumstances. Not important, obviously, just weird!

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: (q12) James Feaver WR 1010 lost to (WC) Mirko Nasoni (ITA) UNR by 0 & 4 doh

I didn't see that coming! cry Nasoni is 17, has never played in ITF juniors and this is just his 3rd Future - he's lost in R1 in the other two, but he did beat two players with one ranking point each convincingly to qualify for the second one.

Akhenaten · Pro player

Nasoni is actually 27. And he's got a W10 L11 record, so's he's not so bad.

steven · Tennis legend

Oops, that would explain why he hasn't played in Juniors (I only looked at junior results since 2000 and senior results in the last year, since I thought he was only 17) - I'd still expect someone ranked near the top 1000 to normally beat an unranked player though, even if the unranked player sometimes wins matches in Futures qualifying, and I certainly wouldn't see a 0 & 4 loss coming!

Still, James's tennis can't be worse than my subtraction 2007-1980 = 17 ashamed

-- Edited by steven at 13:27, 2008-03-03