Week 12 - Futures F1 (10k) - Antalya, Turkey

steven · Tennis legend

Week 12 - Futures F1 (10k) - Antalya, Turkey

johnnylad · Tennis legend

QR1: Joshua Milton WR 1255 bt Adam Bzezinsky (ISR) UNR 6-2 6-4
QR1: Daniel Smethurst WR 1233 lost to David Jeflea (AUS) UNR 6-7(3) 6-4 6-2
QR1: Chris Priddle UNR lost to Almog Mashiach (ISR) WR 1502 6-4 6-1

QR2: (q12) Daniel Cox WR 957 bt Milton 6-3 6-4

so

QR3 (of 4)

Cox (957) vs Wedege (Den) (1502)

wolf · Tennis legend

Cox beat Wedege 6-4, 6-0, and plays Kevin Deden in QR4, who is WR 1098, with a CH of 571.

JAMES4578 · Social player

Here's hoping Cox can do it then. biggrin

steven · Tennis legend

Deden, a German, may be WR 1098 but beat the no. 2 seed (WR 662) 5 & 2 in QR2 and then double bagelled a Romanian WR 1072 today who had beaten a ranked Polish player 3 & 2 in the previous round.

freerider · Futures level

will be tight but hoping dan can do it

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Some lovely looking draws in the main event. Some horrible looking ones too!

DJ · County player

Dan has qualified for the main draw with a 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 win against Germany's Michael Deden, who had come through the first three rounds of qualifying without losing a set. For more Deden details, see Steven's post above.

In the first round proper, Dan has avoided the worst draws for Qualifiers (v. the number 1 and 2 seeds), but has also missed out on the two best, against Turkish Wildcards; he has drawn Belgian Yannick Mertens, ranked 598 in the world - a real challenge for Dan, but not an insuperable one.

-- Edited by DJ at 16:18, 2008-03-17

Hey, that 'Edited' line above is rather impressive, given that the time is now 15.19!! Have our website's clocks gone forward in conjunction with those in the USA, which moved on at the weekend - or is it just an error? ... or maybe we're on European time?

-- Edited by DJ at 16:22, 2008-03-17

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, our clocks have moved in line with the USA - exactly the same has happened on the Rusedski board.

That's an excellent win by Dan, on clay as well, no less.

Unfortunately, his R1 opponent, Mertens, has tended to win Futures R1 matches recently. He reached the QFs in Tipton about 6 weeks ago, though he managed to avoid any Brits there. He has played against GB players just three times, beating Myles Blake twice in 2006 (one 3-setter, one ret.) and losing to David Sherwood in 2005.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Well done to Dan for qualifying, but I'd wouldn't be too confident that he will add another ranking point to his collection this week. Toughish draw for him, but the fact he's won 3 matches already should give him some confidence

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

After spending a few weeks on the Clay courts in Spain i reckon Dan could suprise a few people here

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Power to Dan! I think he'll win! < Kiss of Death!

-- Edited by johnnylad at 19:19, 2008-03-17

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

DJ wrote:

In the first round proper, Dan has avoided the worst draws for Qualifiers (v. the number 1 and 2 seeds), but has also missed out on the two best, against Turkish Wildcards; he has drawn Belgian Yannick Mertens, ranked 598 in the world - a real challenge for Dan, but not an insuperable one.

Match to be played no earlier than 13.30 local time, so 11.30 here.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Come on! Quite winnable.

Why are they not letting him play on hard courts in GBR?

Drew · Mar 18, 2008

Arka wrote:

Come on! Quite winnable.

Why are they not letting him play on hard courts in GBR?

Hi Arka long time no speak...........

This could be to do with the LTA's get-out-and-about instruction....maybe they want him to get to grips with the mens game on clay ?