Week 10 - Challenger ($35,000+H) Kyoto, Japan

mjd · Challenger qualifying

RE: Week 10 - Challenger ($35,000+H) Kyoto, Japan

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Dunno the answer to mjd's question, but there are some rum goings-on in the doubles: only the second seeds, the Chinese pair, Yu & Zeng, have survived the first round!

The Aussie top seeds, Feeney & Smeets, fell to the Czech pair, the two Jans, Mertl & Vacek, 6-2 6-7(4) [7-10], the third seeds, Cerovic & King-Turner (CRO/NZL), to Dieter Kindlmann & Martin Slanar (GER/AUT) 6-7(5) 6-4 [6-10] & the fourth, Evans & Grambow (USA/GER), to the Japanese qualifiers, Masato Hatanaka & Masatoshi Miyazaki, 3-6 6-3 [7-10]!

Bloomers & Skups would face Mertl & Vacek if they got past their Japanese WC opponents & into the second round...

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Even stranger Rich and Ken now playing LL from kOREA

Not Before 1:00 PM (4.am GMT)
Richard BLOOMFIELD
vs
Gary LUGASSY (FRA)

Approx 5.00 pm (8.am GMT)
Kyu Tae IM (KOR)
Oh-Hee KWON (KOR)
vs
Richard BLOOMFIELD (GBR)
Ken SKUPSKI (GBR)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

mjd wrote:

Interestingly, looking on the scoresheet at the website the WC's are listed not as Japenese but for example - Hiroshi Matsunaga (Mitsubishi Electric) and Tasuku Sugita (Mitsubishi Electric) Similarly in the womens - Tomoko Taira (Shimadzu Corporation)

Are these the sponsors or are they who paid for the WC, or are they employers?
Anyone fluent in Japanese on this board?

For what it's worth, mjd, I reckon they could be sponsors. It's called the Shimadzu All-Japan Indoor Tennis Championships, Shimadzu being "one of the world's leading manufacturers of advanced imaging systems and equipment for use in medical diagnosis and treatment" & you quote its name after that of the female WC. Perhaps Mitsubishi supplies the electronic equipment for the tournament & using their names for the WCs is the Japanese way of honouring the sponsors? Just a thought...

steven · Tennis legend

Could be any of those, or maybe there is a team competition in Japan like French club, with teams names after their sponsors, and the teams have been allowed to put forward a player each to be a WC.

There's a Hiroshi Matsunaga at Mitsubishi who was one of the people who wrote a paper called "Interface communication processor for public packet switching network" - I wonder if that's him. LOL

steven · Tennis legend

There are still no scores for any of today's matches on the 'scoreboard' at http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~takyoto/tournament-info/2008/44th-shimadzu-indoor/HP/scoreboard.htm#080305 (Richard's match is the 10th one down - A4) - this is a bit of a surprise, since as far as I know, this is an indoor tournament so can't have been rained off!

steven · Tennis legend

Someone on MTF has just called the tournament office to get scores, but only got completed matches - all of the singles matches 1st, 2nd & 3rd on court have finished as has the Kindlmann-Ito match (Kindlmann won) which was 4th on Court B, but not Richard's match which was 4th on Court A. So I assume Richard is playing now but hasn't finished, either because his match is long or because the matches before his overran.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Richard plays Kindleman thurs so must have won - great result there!

Result Bloomfield 6-3 7-5 Lugassy

But must have lost doubles (with Ken)

Result 4-6 5-7 Im/Kwon

-- Edited by mjd at 12:42, 2008-03-05

seagull · Hall of fame

He won 6-3, 7-5 Great result

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Richard Bloomfield WR 353 beat (7) Gary Lugassy (FRA) WR 221 by 3 & 5 biggrin

Well done Bloomers, that's a fabulous result under the circumstances! biggrin

Lugassy was the only seed to fall in R1 here.

L16: Richard Bloomfield WR 353 v Dieter Kindlmann (GER) WR 345

Richard is 3rd on Court C tomorrow, not before 11.30 JPN = 02.30 GMT.

They lost the doubles to the LLs Im & Kwon by 4 & 5 cry

- a pity since both seeds in their half went out.

-- Edited by steven at 11:39, 2008-03-05

steven · Tennis legend

Kindlmann was ranked as high as 130 in 2004 but Richard beat him 3 & 4 in qualifying for Wolfsburg just 10 days ago.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

bravo Bloomers, lovely to see a win. Hopefully another one on its way

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Great win given the dash to get there. Congratulations Richard.

Nathaliia · Lower Club Player

Hey, good luck to Bloomers. Anyway I am posting here cos I forgot to whom I promised, I added Britishtennis.net and also Boggo's site to my links.

Okay, kisses. Enjoy the scoreboard :)

steven · Tennis legend

Once again, MTF have the results for the matches that were due to be played in slot three on the other courts, but not the result of Bloomers' match ... and this time, the scoreboard on the Kyoto site has been filled in during the day but, you've guessed it, only for every match up to but not including the one we want to know about the most, despite the fact that it should have finished about 3 hours ago.

-- Edited by steven at 08:31, 2008-03-06