Week 23 - Surbiton Trophy [$ 50K] 2008.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

RE: Week 23 - Surbiton Trophy [$ 50K] 2008.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Akhenaten wrote:

This is what is says on the main page...

698 user(s) visited this forum in the past 24 hours

The most users ever online was 12 member(s) and 144 guest(s) at 12:38pm Jun 04, 2008

Now - 1019 user(s) visited this forum in the past 24 hours

steven · Tennis legend

New stuff in bold

Latest

Michail Elgin (RUS) leads (6)Philipp Petzschner (GER) 7-6 3-4
(Q) Noam Okun (ISR) leads (WC)Alexander Slabinsky (GBR) 6-4 0-1*
(Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND) leads Simon Stadler (GER) 7-5 1-0

Results

(WC) Alex Bogdanovic (GBR) beat (2)Michael Zverev (GER) 6-4 6-3
(WC) Joshua Goodall (GBR) beat Brendan Evans (USA) 6-4 6-1
(5)Kevin Anderson (RSA) beat (q) Neil Bamford (GBR) 6-2 6-2
Stephane Bohli (SUI) beat (4) Kei Nishikori (JPN) 5-1 ret. (source: BBC)
Harel Levy (ISR) beat Sergey Stakhovsky (UKR) 6-4 6-4
Alex Kuznetsov (USA) beat Ryan Sweeting (USA) 3-6 6-4 6-4
(1)(WC)Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) beat (LL) Martin Fischer (AUT) 6-4 6-4
Gary Lugassy (FRA) beat Aisam Qureshi (PAK) 5-7 7-6 6-3
(3)Arnaud Clement (FRA) beat Andrei Goloubev (RUS) 6-4 7-5
(8)Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) beat Pavel Chekhov (RUS) 6-3 7-6
Robert Smeets (AUS) beat Paul Capdeville (CHI) 4-6 7-6 7-6
Adrian Mannarino (FRA) beat Mikhail Kukushkin (RUS) 6-2 6-4
(q) Frank Dancevic (CAN) beat (7)Gilles Muller (LUX) 6-2 ?-? ret.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

So Slabba has a break in the second set at least.

Come on young man!

Malteaser · Junior player

Steven wrote earlier today (after Arkhetan's post) ....

That's even more useful info than the thread's hit count (which, btw, has gone up 4000 already today to nearly 14000!) - it means that at least 150 people are checking the scores (since I'm sure nearly all of them are on here for that reason) and that's just a snapshot - if other people are coming on from time to time and going away again, as I'm sure they are, the number interested in live scores could be far higher ... and who knows how many times that number are looking at the LTA site where they'd expect to find the info and giving up because they don't know about this one! Great evidence that proper live scores would be valued by lots of people.

11 have even bothered to sign up as new members since Surbiton started to - welcome to all of them and the hordes of guests!

Wouldn't it be easier if we could all watch British Futures and Challengers on the telly? Or at least on the internet - perhaps even on this site? Obviously we'd only be interested in those courts with Brits playing on!!!!!

Maybe this already happens?

steven · Tennis legend

Dan (F-D) has to leave now to catch a train home, keeping his fingers crossed that Slabba can continue turning it around. Thanks Dan for a brilliant service! biggrin

We'll have to wait for the official updates to know the remaining results.

Apparently Sheddie went off with a cute Ukrainian hours ago and hasn't been seen since, least of all by Stakh who looks somewhat annoyed ... (*)

Here's a detailed summary of the GB R1 results and what R2 looks like thus far ...

L32: (WC) Alex Slabinsky WR 334 trails (Q) Noam Okun (ISR) WR 271 by 4-6 *1-0
L32: (Q) Neil Bamford WR 802 lost to (5) Kevin Anderson (USA) WR 101 by 2 & 2 cry

L32: (WC) Josh Goodall WR 274 beat Brendan Evans (USA) WR 179 by 4 & 1 biggrin

L32: (WC) Alex Bogdanovic WR 242 beat (2) Mischa Zverev (GER) WR 81 by 4 & 3 biggrin

L16: (1/WC) Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) WR 18 v Robert Smeets (AUS) WR 166
L16: (WC) Slabba WR 334 or Okun WR 271 v (Q) Frank Dancevic (CAN) WR 111
L16: (3) Arnaud Clement (FRA) WR 95 v Stadler WR 168 or (Q) Bopanna WR 310
L16: Gary Lugassy (FRA) WR 222 v (8) Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) WR 131
L16: (5) Kevin Anderson (RSA) WR 101 v (WC) Josh Goodall WR 274
L16: Alex Kuznetsov (USA) WR 229 v Stephane Bohli (SUI) WR 144
L16: Petzschner WR 121 or Elgin WR 190 v Adrian Mannarino (FRA) WR 186
L16: Harel Levy (ISR) WR 159 v (WC) Alex Bogdanovic WR 242

(*) just a guess wink

-- Edited by steven at 20:50, 2008-06-04

gvhvhg · Improver

...yeah, im here for that reason!

Go Rohan!!!

Thanks for the updates, keep em coming!

steven · Tennis legend

Malteaser wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier if we could all watch British Futures and Challengers on the telly? Or at least on the internet - perhaps even on this site? Obviously we'd only be interested in those courts with Brits playing on!!!!!

Maybe this already happens?

In which parallel universe would that be? wink

steven · Tennis legend

I'm now getting pm'd for score updates (just in case I deliberately missed transcribing them from the last text, I guess ...)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

These people betting on challengers need their scores!

steven · Tennis legend

I see you're from India - do you happen to know a of a good young 13-year-old player from Bombay called Rahul who is training at Sanchez-Casal in Spain?

at the Count

gvhvhg wrote:

...yeah, im here for that reason!

Go Rohan!!!

Thanks for the updates, keep em coming!

gvhvhg · Improver

haha, well i actually live in the states. Im part of tennisindia.org and sports-india.com, the latter being a forum where we follow all the indian tennis players much like you folks here seem to for the Brits. And despite our thorough coverage, even WE have not heard of this Rahul wink

Seriously, though, any additional information would be welcome. We are starved for a champion. Let's make something out of this thirteen year-old!!

gvhvhg · Improver

Actually---I take that back. I realize I dont follow the juniors as much as some of the other people at sports-india. If this guy is legit I'm sure people at the forum do know about him....I'll bring him up at the forum later haha.

...hoping Rohan has finished Stadler off by now....

steven · Tennis legend

gvhvhg wrote:
haha, well i actually live in the states. Im part of tennisindia.org and sports-india.com, the latter being a forum where we follow all the indian tennis players much like you folks here seem to for the Brits. And despite our thorough coverage, even WE have not heard of this Rahul

Seriously, though, any additional information would be welcome. We are starved for a champion. Let's make something out of this thirteen year-old!!

I'm afraid you probably shouldn't expect a grand slam champion if he managed to drop 2 games against the Count. wink

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Thank god for Boggo's win. Didn't think he would take out the 2nd seed on current form but well done. Now keep it going.