Week 19 - Futures F1 (10k) - Kos, Greece

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RE: Week 19 - Futures F1 (10k) - Kos, Greece

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

He has a very rare style of play that other players find hard to combat

its great to have him back on the circuit!!!

Drew · May 6, 2008

Welcome back Mr Marray....

steven · Tennis legend

It's wonderful to have another Brit with real class back on the circuit.

Here's a quick R2 preview ...

L16: (Q) Jonny Marray UNR v (3) Riccardo Ghedin (ITA) WR 672
L16: Sean Thornley WR v (Q) Alex Bothe (AUS) UNR

Jonny has never played Ghedin before, but the Italian is well known on the GB Futures and Challengers circuit, with wins last year against Slabba, Ward & Eaton but losses to Childs and May. The winners of these two matches will meet in the QFs.

Silver · County player

Yay!

Good to see him back!

DJ · County player

Delighted to see someone come back through that long, dark tunnel of injury; welcome back, Jonny, and congratulations on that first win.

steven · Tennis legend

L16: Sean Thornley WR 1254 beat (Q) Alex Bothe (AUS) UNR by 3-6 6-1 7-6(2)

QF: Sean Thornley WR 1254 v the winner of
L16: (Q) Jonny Marray UNR v (3) Riccardo Ghedin (ITA) WR 672 (playing tomorrow)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

johnnylad wrote:

Doubles R1

BRADSHAW, Timothy
EDLEFSEN, Nicholas

prevail over

ITA CARRESE, Valerio
ITA PIROZZI, Giacomo

6-2 6-4

Unfortunately, they lost out quite tamely to the top seeds, Alcaide & Arsenov (ESP/RUS), in R2 today (2 & 1), but then, there was quite a difference in ranking (Bradshaw & Edlefsen were unranked, A & A are WR 1178)... cry

Silver · County player

Cracker from Sean again

Good to see him winning

freerider · Futures level

matrray lost in three

steven · Tennis legend

Jonny won the 1st set but then looks to have run out of steam in the 3rd after long 2nd set:

L16: (Q) Jonny Marray UNR lost to (3) Riccardo Ghedin (ITA) WR 672 b 2-6 7-5 6-1 cry

QF: Sean Thornley WR 1254 v (3) Riccardo Ghedin (ITA) WR 672

I imagine Ghedin will complete the double Brit-bash but good luck Sean!

nicknack222 · Junior player

Isn't Marray able to use a protected ranking, or something?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Good to see Jonny back and straight away he's back on the ranking board which is always good to see. Hope he continues to do well in Greece and takes a point out of all the events which would be an encouraging start to his comeback

Great to see Thornley in the QFs as well as it looks like our juniors have finally got themselves together and are all hitting form together and consistantly picking up points and making QFs as they start to move towards a higher position in the rankings

steven · Tennis legend

nicknack222 wrote:
Isn't Marray able to use a protected ranking, or something?

He is, and I seem to remember calculating it as in the 320-330 range a while back (it's certainly in the 300s) but he can only use his PR a limited number of times and I assume that, like Morgan Phillips, he's decided to play qualifying in a few tournaments first to get some match practice before using his PR to get directly into Futures main draws. I'm sure that's the right way to do it - far better than using it too soon when there's a significant risk of going out in R1 and getting no points.

Bladetiger · Pro player

Yes, Jonny's PR is around 303, he can use 9 PR's over the next 6 months, could possibly make some lower level challengers with that.

As for yesterday's defeat turns out it was a shocker, he led 62 52 with two breaks - before losing 11 games out of 12 to lose!!

He said that it was very odd game, the wind is so strong it is more of an advantage to be playing 'with the wind' than serving, and he had two games into the wind at 52, lost those, then expected to hold serve at 54 to win it, but the other guy played well his level dropped and the whole game turned round.

he was obviously incredibly fed up to have a lost a game that he should have won, though I suppose the good part is that he as playing well enough to lead like that in the first place, but it's a big missed opportunity to really rack up some points. The other encouraging thing is he has had no after effects from the injury thus far, and said that the courts here are pretty slow, so if he can be getting results on a surface that doesnt really suit him then it augurs well for later on in the year.