Week 12 - Futures F5 (15k+H) - Poitiers, France

XCW4EVA · County player

RE: Week 12 - Futures F5 (15k+H) - Poitiers, France

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Slabba

steven · Tennis legend

Excellent, no gettng to the top 500 and then just waiting around that level for Slabba, it seems to have spurred him on to greater things

Happycynic · Pro player

Cool. 15K+H is probably Slabba's optimal level right now (points and opposition wise)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Slabba's QF is vs 5th seed Stoppini and is 3rd on court on Friday.

steven · Tennis legend

QF: Alex Slabinsky WR 398 v (5) Andrea Stoppini (ITA) WR 326 (CH 219 in 2005)

Stoppini holds a 2-0 record against Boggo (Canada AMS qualifying last year, Orleans Challenger the year before, both in straights) but is 0-2 v Bloomers, 0-1 v Marray and 1-1 v Josh. He retired from his last match against a Brit, which was against Dan Cox.

His record in Futures so far this year is SF - QF - WON - QF - R/UP, so he's a formidable opponent for Slabba.

-- Edited by steven at 20:36, 2008-03-20

freerider · Futures level

i always get really confused what are the points awarded in 15K+H's ?

Shhh · Challenger level

R32 - 0
R16 - 1
1/4's - 4
Semis - 8
R/U - 16
Winner - 24

steven · Tennis legend

QF: Alex Slabinsky WR 398 lost to (5) Andrea Stoppini (ITA) WR 326 by 7-5 7-6(?) cry

Very close sets! It's sad that Slabba lost cry

but having beaten two players ranked quite close to him and narrowly lost to someone in the low 300s who has been a fair bit higher, it's clear that Slabba has grown into his c. 400 ranking. smile

He's in Jersey next week.

-- Edited by steven at 19:49, 2008-03-21

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

That's not a bad week for Slabba and shows that his ranking is pretty much where it should be at the moment, and losing a close match to Stoppini who seems to be in some form at the moment is a good effort

Hopefully he can go and win Jersey next week and pick up the supposed easier points next week to continue to move up the rankings and get towards that top 300

Drew · Mar 22, 2008

Great run for Alex. He seems to have settled down at this level. !

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Stoppini went on to win the title and his match vs Slabba was by far the toughest of the week going by the scoreline.

Sheddie · administrator

good stuff from Slabba.....Stoppini beat Agassi a couple of years ago and without the injuries he'd be a lot higher......spoke to him after the win against Wauters, forehand was really on song this wk

still nothing of note for him to defend till mid-June so with some more last 8 performances (and he can play on clay), a ranking of 300-350 looks possible by the grass season