Week 18 - Futures F5 (10k) - Guadalajara, Mexico

steven · Tennis legend

Week 18 - Futures F5 (10k) - Guadalajara, Mexico

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: Christopher Harfield UNR beat Juan Manuel Marucco (ARG) UNR by 4-6 6-4 4-2 ret.

QR1: (q9) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1477 beat B Rodriguez Rosales (MEX) UNR by 3 & 1

QR2: (q3) Kyle Brassington WR 1233 v Raul-Isaias Rosas-Zarur (MEX) UNR
QR2: Christopher Harfield UNR v Daniel Serur-de la Torre (MEX) UNR
QR2: (q9) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1477 v Yevgeny Perepelov (USA) UNR

Kyle's opponent is the player who knocked Christopher out 2 & 5 last week. The winners of the first two matches will play each other in the FQR.

-- Edited by steven at 01:24, 2008-04-27

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Hopeful for Kyle and Jonny to qualify here!

steven · Tennis legend

The Mexicans have repeated last week's trick of not updating the qualifying scores (there's still a result missing from last week's qualifying sheet on the ATP site) but it's possible to tell from Monday's OoPs who won in QR2:

QR2: (q3) Kyle Brassington WR 1233 beat Raul-Isaias Rosas-Zarur (MEX) UNR smile

QR2: Christopher Harfield UNR lost to Daniel Serur-de la Torre (MEX) UNR cry

QR2: (q9) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1477 beat Yevgeny Perepelov (USA) UNR smile

FQR: (q3) Kyle Brassington WR 1233 v Daniel Serur-de la Torre (MEX) UNR
FQR: (q9) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1477 v (q4) C Klingemann (USA) WR 1304

L32: Neil Bamford WR 827 v Qualifier

Neil has a nice section with (q8) Peter Shults (USA) WR 623 the first seed he could meet, in R2.

Kyla & Jonny play both singles and doubles (together v the no. 2 seeds) on Monday.

-- Edited by steven at 07:29, 2008-04-28

steven · Tennis legend

I don't believe this - what has happened to Kyle during this latest trip?!

FQR: (q3) Kyle Brassington WR 1233 lost to Daniel Serur-de la Torre (MEX) UNR by 6-3 2-6 6-3 bleh

FQR: (q9) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1477 v (q4) C Klingemann (USA) WR 1304 by 6-7(2) 6-1 6-2 cry

They lost 4 & 5 in the doubles too, which actually isn't too bad given that they were playing the no. 2 seeds.

Still, one bit of good news is that Kyle got a LL place smile

though it's hard to see him doing much with it on this form, unless S-dlT is a lot better than his ranking suggests.

L32: Kyle Brassington WR 1232 v Luis David Martinez (VEN) WR 817
L32: Neil Bamford WR 827 v (Q) Mario Cuellar-Gonzalez (ESP) WR 1247

Both are due to play on Tuesday.

steven · Tennis legend

Martinez took 7 games off Josh last week, a set off James Ward in January and thrashed Thornley 0 & 2 late last year.

freerider · Futures level

i recall that courtcrazy said that the cuban courts didnt suit brassingon... could be a south american theme

steven · Tennis legend

True, but with money for trips like that in short supply, if the Mexican courts were likely to be the same, why not go somewhere else. Maybe they didn't know the Mexican courts were likely to be the same. Maybe courtcrazy will come back and tell us one day

freerider · Futures level

yeah, i thought they were going to play in teh greek futures too- isnt tournament planning a mystery!

steven · Tennis legend

The Greek Futures sound like a much more sensible option given their success on fast courts in Canada.

-- Edited by steven at 08:20, 2008-04-30

Grundon · Intermediate Club Player

1st Round
Luis David MARTINEZ (VEN) d. Kyle BRASSINGTON (GBR) 6-1 7-6(7)

Neil BAMFORD (GBR) d. Mario CUELLAR-GONZALEZ (ESP) 7-6(2) 1-6 6-1

2nd Round
Peter SHULTS (USA) (8) Vs Neil BAMFORD (GBR)

steven · Tennis legend

That looks like a much better performance from Kyle even though he lost - it must be frustrating to go to these far-off places and come away without any ranking points, especially when we know that courtcrazy's boys choose their tournaments very carefully, even if (see above) they might have got the surface wrong this time.

Shults, WR 613, lost 2 & 3 to James Ward in R2 in Little Rock earlier this month, having just snapped a 7-match losing streak in R1. He lost to Kennaugh in Sweden last year, but took 8 games off Jamie Baker in a US Future this time last year, which is quite impressive.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Well done to Bamford for getting another ranking point and he is the kind of player who gets a point when it is available. Hope to see him in the QFs but I don't remember him beating a higher ranked player in the recent past so it's going to be difficult

Doesn't look to have worked out this trip for Kyle and Jonathon which is a shame as they are both nice people and I'd have liked them to have come away with a point each from this trip but it doesn't look like the courts have suited them too much.

The Hoose · Satellite level

Neil won...
6-7(4) 6-3 7-6(5) biggrin

Next up is Victor Romero in the QF.

Very good win - no sign of military vehicles this week.

-- Edited by The Hoose at 23:13, 2008-05-01

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Bravo Neil, it's always nice to see a Brit beat a seed