Week 20 - Futures F2 (10K) - Heraklion, Crete - Ken Skupski's first title!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RE: Week 20 - Futures F2 (10K) - Heraklion, Crete

steven · Tennis legend

Fabulous win for Sean, who has now racked up 7 ranking points in three weeks, having started that period with just 4 ranking points in total. He has 2 points coming off on Monday from Greece F1 last year, but he will be in the top 1000 on Monday week. biggrin

I am not sure what Ken was up to in that 1st set, but he certainly imposed his authority in the other two. smile

L16: (1/Q) Ken Skupski WR 630 beat (WC) Konstantinos Mikos (GRE) UNR by 6-7(6) 6-0 6-2 smile

L16: (Q) Sean Thornley WR 1064 beat (4) Enrico Ianuzzi (ITA) WR 656 by 4 & 5 biggrin

QF: (1/Q) Ken Skupski WR 630 v Daniel Danilovic (MNE) WR 1061
QF: (Q) Sean Thornley WR 1064 v David Ollivier-Baquero (ESP) WR 1059

As Yorkie said, the bottom half of the draw has really opened up, with all the seeds out. In fact, everybody left in that half of the draw is outside the top 1000!

-- Edited by steven at 10:44, 2008-05-15

DJ · County player

steven wrote:

Fabulous win for Sean, who has now racked up 8 ranking points in three weeks

Three points at Eastbourne, two in Greek F1, two so far this week equals eight? What have I missed, Steven?

DJ · County player

ForeverDelayed wrote:

Thornley is definately having a great year so far and looks like a top 700 player at the moment, which has to be his target for the end of the year

Sean has 7 points at the moment, with 2 on and 2 off on Monday; he needs 25 for a top 700 spot. This week and next offer 20 points for a title and a final appearance, so an ambitious Sean may have a top 700 place as his target for the end of May!

-- Edited by DJ at 12:56, 2008-05-15

seagull · Hall of fame

DJ wrote:

steven wrote:

Fabulous win for Sean, who has now racked up 8 ranking points in three weeks

Three points at Eastbourne, two in Greek F1, two so far this week equals eight? What have I missed, Steven?

Eastbourne!!

I make it 7 points as well

RedCabbage · Club Coach

I think he meant that other place on the south coast of England with "bourne" in its name.

steven · Tennis legend

Oops, for some reason I was counting QFs in both UK clay court Futures and only one Greek one. ashamed

Well done for all being more awake than me!

DJ · County player

Sorry, Seagull and RedCabbage - I should have written Bournemouth, I assume?
Still, they're both so far away! (echo, echo ...)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Quarterfinal

Ken SKUPSKI (GBR) (1) defeated Daniel DANILOVIC (MNE) 4-6 6-3 7-6(2)

Karlis LEJNIEKS (LAT) (3) defeated Idan MARK (ISR) (6) 6-2 6-4
David OLLIVIER-BAQUERO (ESP) defeated Sean THORNLEY (GBR) 6-1 6-3

David CANUDAS-FERNANDEZ (ESP) defeated Giacomo PIROZZI (ITA) 7-6(5) 4-6 6-2

Semifinal

Ken SKUPSKI (GBR) (1) Vs Karlis LEJNIEKS (LAT) (3)
David OLLIVIER-BAQUERO (ESP) Vs David CANUDAS-FERNANDEZ (ESP)

Salmon · Tennis legend

Shame about Thornley losing but he's done a lot this week, so it is okay.

steven · Tennis legend

True, he definitely has, but I doubt he'll ever be in a QF again with nobody inside the top 1000 in his half of the draw, so it's a missed chance. Wasn't even close though so maybe D O-B is better than his ranking suggests.

Lejnieks is WR 654. His last two matches against Brits have been a 1 & 3 loss to Boggo in Lanzarote and a 2-t/b win over Kennaugh, so hopefully that means Ken should be able to take him.

lloyd · Improver

Bad luck to Sean today he has been playing well, I'm pleased to see him making progress.

I do think some of his recent form has been down to him working very hard on his movement and footwork, Aparently he's been doing a lot of dancing and I have heard through the grapevine that his dancing has been described as "off the richtar" I have seen brief bits of the big man in action and i myself have high hopes that if his tennis does not work out then he may have a big future in dancing

"Sean for Step up 3 LEAD ROLE"

-- Edited by lloyd at 20:20, 2008-05-15

Silver · County player

Good stuff from Ken :)
Shame for Sean but another good week :) YAY for Sean's good week!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Good to see Skupski continuing the winning week. One more win and we get a fabulous picture of him on the greek tennis site (lta equivalent), so even more reason to hope he wins!

Shame for Sean but take nothing away from the week he's had and hopefully he can continue to build on that.

And from the aforementioned website, a paragraph on Skupski's match against local hope konstantinos Mikos. Below in the orignial greek if anyone can translate. All manage is the Mikos lost to Ken Skupski (the number 1 seed)... He took the first set 7-6(3)....the next two sets when to Skupski by 60 and 62. Any advance on that?

Edit: hmm, copying and pasting the original greek doesn't seem to be an option. Well, if anyone wants to venture a translation, its the 3rd paragraph (2nd after the subheading) here: http://www.efoa.org.gr/view.aspx?anid=1183

-- Edited by imoen at 21:37, 2008-05-15

DJ · County player

lloyd wrote:

Bad luck to Sean today he has been playing well, I'm pleased to see him making progress.

I do think some of his recent form has been down to him working very hard on his movement and footwork, Aparently he's been doing a lot of dancing and I have heard through the grapevine that his dancing has been described as "off the richtar" I have seen brief bits of the big man in action and i myself have high hopes that if his tennis does not work out then he may have a big future in dancing

"Sean for Step up 3 LEAD ROLE"

-- Edited by lloyd at 20:20, 2008-05-15

What a fascinating snippet of information - welcome to the site, Lloyd ( I see this is your 7th post, but i don't recall the others, I'm afraid.)

I notice you haven't played yet this season - may I ask why? Injured? Retired? Gone to uni? (Feel free to tell me to mind my own business if you don't want to answer, by the way!)