Week 21 - Futures F3 (10k) - Kalamata, Greece

The Hoose · Satellite level

RE: Week 21 - Futures F3 (10k) - Kalamata, Greece

XCW4EVA · County player

Nice win lads, Hopefully they can add to our Greek successes!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Hard fought win from Illingworth against a higer ranked opponent..always brings a

to my face. Perhaps he wants to salvage his place in the GB top25 and (more importantly) on Steven's table!

Nice solid win from Bamfs as well.

steven · Tennis legend

Nice to see two of our boys outside the top 1000 (Thornley last week, Illingworth this) do the double on Heyl. I see neither of them will know their R2 opponents until tomorrow.

The German-with-the-English-name Richard Waite who knocked out Thornley made it to R2 as well, as did Irish qualifier Tristan Farron-Mahon.

Happycynic · Pro player

It'll put Matt into the top 1000. Which is nice.

steven · Tennis legend

Patient lost,missing his best chance yet to get a ranking point (though it has still been a good tournament from him) and the other two now know their R2 opponents:

Recap

L32: Matt Illingworth WR 1023 beat Heinrich Heyl (RSA) WR 938 by 4-6 6-3 6-3 biggrin

L32: (7) Neil Bamford WR 799 beat (WC) Charalampos Kapogiannis (GRE) WR 1491 by 1 & 4 smile

L32: (Q) Timothy Patient UNR lost to (WC) Konstantinos Mikos (GRE) WR 1491 by 4 & 4 cry

L16: Matt Illingworth WR 1023 v (6) Bart Beks (NED) WR 773
L16: (7) Neil Bamford WR 799 v Marco Sattanino (ITA) WR 1490

34-year-old Beks was once in the top 600 but is very up and down (mostly down) these days. The last Brit he played was Nick Crawley, who beat him 4 years ago when ranked around 600.

Sattanino ended a 5-match losing streak with his R1 win. He is most notorious to us for inflicting Bloomers' most embarrassing moment last year (possibly ever, if you forget the time he agreed to play doubles with Adam L wink

), beating him 6-1 4-6 6-2 on clay in San Remo almost exactly a year ago but he has suffered three separate losing streaks of 5 matches or more in Futures since then and I think Bammy has been quite jammy with his draw here.

-- Edited by steven at 16:03, 2008-05-20

-- Edited by steven at 16:12, 2008-05-20

wolf · Tennis legend

R1
BAMFORD (GBR) / ILLINGWORTH (GBR) (4) defeated MASHIACH (ISR) / YITZHAKI (ISR) 6-2 7-5

Hopefully 3 wins tommorow for the guys...

DJ · County player

steven wrote:

L32: Matt Illingworth WR 1023 v (6) Bart Beks (NED) WR 773
L32: (7) Neil Bamford WR 799 v Marco Sattanino (ITA) WR 1490

Your typing finger slipped, Steven - 'last 16' matches.

steven · Tennis legend

Thanks, changed - guess which bit of copy / paste / amend the round / change the opponent I forgot ...

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Good couple of wins for Illingworth and Bamford in the first round and it's always good to see the Brits pick up another ranking point.

I think they both have a good chance of winning again and making the QF's, especially Bamford with the lovely gift of a draw he has been given which he must be loving. Tougher assignment for Matt but I think he has a shout of winning the match which would be huge for him if he could do so

Drew · May 20, 2008

Matt is first up court 1 - 10.30am followed by Bammy not before noon - local time.

They also play their dubs last on court 3

GEMOUCHIDIS (GRE) / JAKUPOVIC (GRE) v BAMFORD (GBR) / ILLINGWORTH (GBR) 4

Grundon · Intermediate Club Player

Good news from R2 (including bakery!)

L16: Matt Illingworth d. (6) Bart Beks (NED) 6-4 6-0

L16: (7) Neil Bamford d. Marco Sattanino (ITA) 6-1 6-0

-- Edited by Grundon at 15:00, 2008-05-21

john · Top national player

Wow, great result from Illingworth!

XCW4EVA · County player

Wow, a really good pair of results there, definately making up for Slabba's loss

wolf · Tennis legend

Q/F
BAMFORD (GBR) / ILLINGWORTH (GBR) (4) defeated GEMOUCHIDIS (GRE) / JAKUPOVIC (GRE) 7-6(4) 7-5

S/F
BAMFORD (GBR) / ILLINGWORTH (GBR) (4) Vs BOBUSIC (AUS) / LINDNER (AUS)