Week 16 - Futures F2 (15K+H) - Tyumen, Russia

steven · Tennis legend

Week 16 - Futures F2 (15K+H) - Tyumen, Russia

Happycynic · Pro player

Pretty easy field for a 15K+H. About the same as a Western European 10K. The joys of remote places...

helki · Futures qualifying

The guys have joined forces for the doubles again this week. First match is tomorrow, and if my calculations are correct, it'll be sometime after 08.00 BST. They are second on court.

Opponents are Levine and Zhuravski, who didn't figure in last week's tournament.

helki · Futures qualifying

helki wrote:

The guys have joined forces for the doubles again this week. First match is tomorrow, and if my calculations are correct, it'll be sometime after 08.00 BST. They are second on court. Opponents are Levine and Zhuravski, who didn't figure in last week's tournament.

Chris Eaton and Alexander Slabinsky beat their Russian opponents 6-4 6-2.

Some good news after a poor day in other places.

Neither are on tomorrow's OoP.

-- Edited by helki at 19:44, 2008-04-14

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

helki wrote:

helki wrote:

The guys have joined forces for the doubles again this week. First match is tomorrow, and if my calculations are correct, it'll be sometime after 08.00 BST. They are second on court. Opponents are Levine and Zhuravski, who didn't figure in last week's tournament.

Chris Eaton and Alexander Slabinsky beat their Russian opponents 6-4 6-2. Some good news after a poor day in other places.

Good news indeed!

Well done, lads! smile

Keep up the good work!

steven · Tennis legend

At last, something to celebrate in singles this week - a huge win for Chris! (see the first post on this thread for more about why it is so impressive)

L32: Chris Eaton WR 692 beat (1) Jan Mertl (CZE) WR 266 by 7-6(4) 2-6 7-5 biggrin

L32: (3) Alex Slabinsky WR 372 beat Dmitri Sitak (RUS) WR 724 by 7-6(4) 6-4 smile

L16: Chris Eaton WR 692 v Aleksandr Yarmola (UKR) WR 699 (age 30, CH 620 last year, beat Illingworth in Portugal, once beat Mackin but has lost to Kasiri)

L16: (3) Alex Slabinsky WR 372 v (Q) Mikhail Fufygin (RUS) WR 870 (age 17, CH 851 last year, beat Smethurst in 3 sets in Turkey recently but lost to Allinson 2 weeks in a row late last year)

Edit: changed rankings from last week's to current week's.

-- Edited by steven at 17:52, 2008-04-16

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

Finally Eaton springs into life!

good on him

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, and a new 'big idea' for the LTA springs to mind - send all our players to Siberia! (are the salt mines still there?)

You heard it here first! wink

helki · Futures qualifying

An excellent win for Chris

and Slabba kept the flag flying too.

They are both scheduled for tomorrow: Slabba on first thing,05.00 BST, then another singles with Eaton on third not before 07.30 BST. The doubles is later - 11.30 BST. I hope my timings are correct. wink

XCW4EVA · County player

finally something positive for the men to build on

Chris has really made me smile with that result, hopefully he can repeat as Rd2 but he doesn't strike me as the most consistent player.

helki · Futures qualifying

helki wrote:

An excellent win for Chris and Slabba kept the flag flying too.

They are both scheduled for tomorrow: Slabba on first thing,05.00 BST, then another singles with Eaton on third not before 07.30 BST. The doubles is later - 11.30 BST. I hope my timings are correct.

The flag's still flying.

Both guys won their singles matches today: Eaton 7-6(5) 7-6(5), he's on a roll and Slabba 6-4 6-1. to cap it all they won the doubles, too, knocking out the 3rd seeds, Ghedin and Koniusz.

Next up for Eaton is Kirillov (5) and for Slabba - Koniusz (8).
In the doubles SF it will be Arsenov wink

and Donskoy, a team who are also unseeded.

Go guys, may the force be with you, cos I am for one.

XCW4EVA · County player

Thats great news, expecially for Eaton again

steven · Tennis legend

Brilliant

- since this is a 15K+h, that's 4 points each, twice as many as Chris got in the whole of the first three months!

QF: Chris Eaton WR 692 v (5) Evgeny Kirillov (RUS) WR 377 (CH 286)

QF: (3) Alex Slabinsky WR 372 v (8) Blazej Koniusz (POL) WR 489 (at CH)

Chris is the only unseeded player in the QFs. Kirillov has only ever played 3 Brits - he beat Morgan Phillips in qyalifying for a Future in Qatar 3 years ago, lost to Jim May in Sweden 2 years ago but - and this suggests that he will probably have too much for Chris - he thrashed Slabba 1 & 2 in Lille last month.

Koniusz's only previous matches against Brits were a convincing win over Daniel Jewitt and a straight sets loss to Jamie Baker in GB Futures last year.

helki · Futures qualifying

steven wrote:

Brilliant - since this is a 15K+h, that's 4 points each, twice as many as Chris got in the whole of the first three months!

QF: Chris Eaton WR 692 v (5) Evgeny Kirillov (RUS) WR 377 (CH 286)

QF: (3) Alex Slabinsky WR 372 v (8) Blazej Koniusz (POL) WR 489 (at CH)

Chris is the only unseeded player in the QFs. Kirillov has only ever played 3 Brits - he beat Morgan Phillips in qyalifying for a Future in Qatar 3 years ago, lost to Jim May in Sweden 2 years ago but - and this suggests that he will probably have too much for Chris - he thrashed Slabba 1 & 2 in Lille last month.

Koniusz's only previous matches against Brits were a convincing win over Daniel Jewitt and a straight sets loss to Jamie Baker in GB Futures last year.

Slabba second match sometime after 05.00 BST *eek*

Chris, not before 07.30 BST.

The doubles, not before 11.00 BST. It's gonna be another busy, nay, tiring day for the two young bucks.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

I love it when someone backs up a great win with a second win, well done Chris

Also nice to see Alex winning again, hopefully he can go all the way this week. Where are the Brits seeded to meet? Semis or final?