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

helki · Futures qualifying

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

DJ · County player

imoen wrote:
Where are the Brits seeded to meet? Semis or final?

I do love your confidence, Bethan!

Incidentally, the results so far should see three career highs for the boys - 365 (singles) and 693 (doubles) for Alex, and 449 (doubles) for Chris, all approximate, of course, and not appearing in the charts till Monday 27th. Just think how much further they'd jump with another win or two!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Incurable optimist, that's me

Drew · Apr 17, 2008

Well thats a welcome relief...well done to both !

The Hoose · Satellite level

Bad news

Evgeny KIRILLOV (RUS) (5) defeated Chris EATON (GBR) 7-6(3) 6-4 cry

Blazej KONIUSZ (POL) (8) defeated Alexander SLABINSKY (GBR) (3) 2-6 7-6(2) 7-6(3) bleh

Good week for Eaton; Slabba failed to build on a good draw through to the quarters

-- Edited by The Hoose at 15:23, 2008-04-18

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The Hoose wrote:

Bad news

Evgeny KIRILLOV (RUS) (5) defeated Chris EATON (GBR) 7-6(3) 6-4
Blazej KONIUSZ (POL) (8) defeated Alexander SLABINSKY (GBR) (3) 2-6 7-6(2) 7-6(3)

Good week for Eaton; Slabba failed to build on a good draw through to the quarters

And it gets worse: the pair of them lost to Arsenov & Donskoy in the doubles, 6-7(4) 2-6. I sincerely hope this set of results doesn't end up being the first in a series that counter-balances all the good ones we had yesterday...!

helki · Futures qualifying

Stircrazy wrote:

The Hoose wrote:

Bad news

Evgeny KIRILLOV (RUS) (5) defeated Chris EATON (GBR) 7-6(3) 6-4
Blazej KONIUSZ (POL) (8) defeated Alexander SLABINSKY (GBR) (3) 2-6 7-6(2) 7-6(3)

Good week for Eaton; Slabba failed to build on a good draw through to the quarters
And it gets worse: the pair of them lost to Arsenov & Donskoy in the doubles, 6-7(4) 2-6. I sincerely hope this set of results doesn't end up being the first in a series that counter-balances all the good ones we had yesterday...!

Flippin' 'eck! And they were going so well. cry

It was always going to be tough for Chris but he put up a fight there. And Slabba went down in three well-contested sets but... one winner into the SF would have been nice. Pity about the doubles, too, Arse & Don were ranked slightly higher. I'm

too Stircrazy. wink

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
I sincerely hope this set of results doesn't end up being the first in a series that counter-balances all the good ones we had yesterday...!

Me too, though it was always going to be a bit tougher today. I'm not too disappointed with Chris's result - he's had a good week and clearly wasn't outclassed by Kirillov, but I really was expecting Slabba to win, and would have even more so after he won the first set 6-2!

If Bloomers doesn't get any points next week, we could end up with Baker having overtaken Boggo this week despite being ill and Slabba overtaking Bloomers next week despite losing a match he should have won! ashamed

Malteaser · Junior player

is it me or does Slabba seem to get into an unusually large number of tie-breaks?

.... and is it me or does he seem to lose a majority of them?

steven · Tennis legend

A very quick count (so may be slightly inaccurate) gives the following stas fo Slabba in 1008:

18 tiebreaks in 70 sets (not particularly high, I don't think)
won 9 lost 9 of those tiebreaks (though there have been slightly more losses than wins in the last few weeks)

-- Edited by steven at 11:33, 2008-04-19

Sheddie · administrator

he's quite a big server and has played a lot of tourneys on fast surfaces this year so its not that surprising

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

steven wrote:

A very quick count (so may be slightly inaccurate) gives the following stas fo Slabba in 1008:

Aha! Difinitive proof that the British invented tennis, despite what any frenchmen may try to make us believe.

DJ · County player

imoen wrote:

steven wrote:

A very quick count (so may be slightly inaccurate) gives the following stas fo Slabba in 1008:
Aha! Difinitive proof that the British invented tennis, despite what any frenchmen may try to make us believe.

... and that's why I voted for you in the 'Posters of the Year' competition, Bethan! Very funny - I was toying with all sorts of different cracks re Steven's slip, but am very glad I didn't use them, as yours is much more subtle - the definitive version, one might say.

Salmon · Tennis legend

imoen wrote:
Aha! Difinitive proof that the British invented tennis, despite what any frenchmen may try to make us believe.

Now that was really good...

steven · Tennis legend

We set that one up very nicely, didn't we Bethan? biggrin

(whisper: play along and save my blushes! ashamed

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