Week 21 - Futures F2 (10k) - Bucharest, Romania

steven · Tennis legend

Week 21 - Futures F2 (10k) - Bucharest, Romania

steven · Tennis legend

Feaver safely through and Priddle impales Vlad on two breadsticks!

QR1: (q3) James Feaver WR 1017 beat (WC) Patrick Grigoriu (ROU) UNR by 4 & 2

QR1: Chris Priddle UNR beat Vlad-Cristian Smighelschi (ROU) UNR by 1 & 1

QR2: (q3) James Feaver WR 1017 v Radu-Traian Ionescu (ROU) UNR
QR2: Chris Priddle UNR v (q11) Adrian Belei (ROU) WR 1485

steven · Tennis legend

QR2: (q3) James Feaver WR 1017 beat Radu-Traian Ionescu (ROU) UNR by 2 & 2

QR2: Chris Priddle UNR beat (q11) Adrian Belei (ROU) WR 1485 by 2 & 3 biggrin

FQR: (q3) James Feaver WR 1017 v (q15) Valentin Palas (ROU) WR 1719
FQR: Chris Priddle UNR v (q5) Ilya Belyaev (RUS) WR 1154

Back after a few weeks off, Myles Blake is a DA for the main draw which will be made on Monday after qualifying finishes.

The Hoose · Satellite level

Jamie ruins Valentin's day and is through to the main draw - no result for Chris yet.

FQR: (3) James Feaver (GBR) defeated (15) Valentin Palas (ROU) 3-6 6-0 6-3 smile

-- Edited by The Hoose at 12:09, 2008-05-19

steven · Tennis legend

Oh my, it's catching and it's all my fault. LOL I quite like that one actually, more subtle than most ...

It's very odd to see ITF updated part way through a session, so maybe this means play was suspended for rain and they've given up for the day. They were both 2nd match on though, so Chris must have at least started.

The Hoose · Satellite level

Priddle went down 6-1 6-3 cry

Main draw looks pretty good
R1: BLAKE, Myles (GBR) WR706 v GIURGIU, Ilie-Aurelian (ROU) WR980
R1: Q FEAVER, James (GBR) WR1017 v WC VODISLAV, Adrian (ROU) UNR

Feaver's opponent, Vodislav, was thrashed 6-1 6-1 by Chris Priddle in last week's qualifying event.

-- Edited by The Hoose at 14:18, 2008-05-19

steven · Tennis legend

Myles gets his first point of the year

He will probably play the no. 6 seed next, but this is another of those tournaments this week, like Kalamata, that is insisting on playing adjacent matches in the draw on different days, thus giving one player a rest between R1 & R2 and not the other.

L32: Myles Blake WR 736 beat Ilie-Aurelian Giurgiu (ROU) WR 949 by 7-5 4-6 6-3

L32: (Q) James Feaver WR 1019 v (WC) Adrian Vodislav (ROU) UNR - Wednesday

XCW4EVA · County player

Nice One Guys, hopefully more to come from Myles

freerider · Futures level

at last myles is scoring points again

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Good to see Myles picking up points again after his start to the season, and Feaver really should get another point as well against an unranked Romanian WC.

Still don't understand why Feaver seems to try and play on the clay all the time when he has a game that looked to be suited more to the faster courts, with good attacking groundstrokes and good touch at the net?

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Myles Blake WR 736 beat Ilie-Aurelian Giurgiu (ROU) WR 949 by 7-5 4-6 6-3

(from yesterday)
L32: (Q) James Feaver WR 1019 beat (WC) Adrian Vodislav (ROU) UNR by 1 & 4

L16: Myles Blake WR 736 v (Q) Nicolas Renavand (FRA) WR 1210
L16: (Q) James Feaver WR 1019 v (7) Federico Torresi (ITA) WR 630

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Well done Feaver for getting another point which must count as a successful week for him so far.

There's a good chance that Myles can make the QF's here if he can find some of the form he had last year, and Brits have been pulling up upsets all over the place over the last few weeks so that must give Feaver a chance of winning as well...

That said... I'm not expecting either of them in the quarter finals

Count Zero · Tennis legend

surely miles has a great chnace of making the qf?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Count Zero wrote:

surely miles has a great chnace of making the qf?

He probably should win the match but hasn't been having any real good results this year, and has lost to worse ranked players this year, but hopefully he can win this match

steven · Tennis legend

Count Zero wrote:

surely miles has a great chnace of making the qf?

That's Myles to you (to avoid confusion with Miles Kasiri!), but yes, hopefully.

However, I remember Renavand from GB Futures a couple of years ago when we was ranked in the 300s, so he's probably under-ranked ... on checking, he only played 6 matches last summer and was then out between September and January. He did lose 5 & 1 to Lee Childs last year, but back in 2005/6 he beat players like Bloomers, Del, Sherwood & Matt Smith, who was good back then!

Looking at his results this year, he's nowhere near his best, but it's going to be a much harder match than the comparative rankings make it look.