Week 21 - Challenger (€35,000+H) - Fergana, Uzbekistan

steven · Tennis legend

Week 21 - Challenger (€35,000+H) - Fergana, Uzbekistan

Salmon · Tennis legend

RE: Week 21 - Challenger (€35,000+H) - Fergana, Uzbekistan

johnnylad · Tennis legend

RE: Week 21 - Challenger (€35,000+H) - Fergana, Uzbekistan

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Slabba has drawn Dekel Valtzer who I think is over ranked and a good draw.

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Alex Slabinsky WR 344 v Dekel Valtzer (ISR) WR 408

Valtzer snapped a 6-match losing streak by reaching the QFs of last week's Uzbek Future. He lost to Chris Eaton in 3 sets in Israel just over a year ago and to Richard Brooks, Morgan Phillips and Alan Mackin (2 & 1 in a DC dead rubber) in 2006. He hasn't lost to every Brit he's played in the last two years though - he beat Amadeus 6-1 7-6(5) in 2006 too. Over 80% of his points come from Futures & Challengers in Turkey and Asia, so like JL says, it's a pretty good draw for Slabba given that this is a Challenger.

Nice convincing wins for Chris, even if the opponents probably weren't up to much.

steven · Tennis legend

Another very convincing win for Chris, this time against someone who is also in the top 700, nets him 2 points. smile

Unfortunately, he has drawn a seed in R1. cry

FQR: (q4) Chris Eaton WR 648 beat (q5) Alexander Yarmola (UKR) WR 680 by 1 & 2 biggrin

L32: Alex Slabinsky WR 349 v Dekel Valtzer (ISR) WR 406
L32: (Q) Chris Eaton WR 660 v (5) Alex Satschko (GER) WR 318

Edit: changed WRs to 19 May rankings.

-- Edited by steven at 06:23, 2008-05-19

helki · Futures qualifying

Eaton won 1 & 2

He's drawn against Satschko, the German 5th seed in round 1, second match, court 5, tomorrow. He and Slabba are in the doubles, too.

Happycynic · Pro player

On the plus side, 2 ranking points already for Chris for qualifying- so the equivalent of a 10K QF.

Best of luck to both..

steven · Tennis legend

Someone on MTF called the tournament office and was told that Satschko beat Chris (but isn't certain ... hmm), while Alex plays tomorrow.

seagull · Hall of fame

Are the LTA running this event? Still no scores from yesterday or an OOP for today!

seagull · Hall of fame

Eaton lost 6-3, 6-3

Slabba plays today and both in doubles.

seagull · Hall of fame

Slabba won 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 :)

Plays 6th seed Snobel in 2nd Round

seagull · Hall of fame

Squeeked through in the doubles as well 7-6(8), 7-6(3)

Second seeds up next

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Slabba really needs a win here if he is to finish the year inside top 400 rather than back closer to 500. He just hasn't been picking up enough points in 2008. 24 points available to semi-finalists here so a couple of unlikely wins would be very handy, even the 13 for quarter finalists would be a big boost. Sadly, I rather expect Snobel will crush him but you never know.

steven · Tennis legend

Summary and R2 preview

L32: Alex Slabinsky WR 349 beat Dekel Valtzer (ISR) WR 406 by 7-5 3-6 6-2 smile

L32: (Q) Chris Eaton WR 660 lost to (5) Alex Satschko (GER) WR 318 by 3 & 3 cry

L16: Alex Slabinsky WR 349 v (6) Pavel Snobel (CZE) WR 314

Snobel, who reached a career high of 178 in 2005, reached the Final of the Namangan Future last week (beating Valtzer in stright sets on the way) but managed to lose it despite bagelling Ilhan in the 1st set.The last time he played a Brit was when he beat Jonny Marray in Wimby qualifying two years ago. He has an alarmingly good record against Brits, including two straight sets wins against Boggo, though they were both back in 2004.