Week 22 - Futures F5 (10k) - Craiova, Romania

Drew · May 23, 2008

Week 22 - Futures F5 (10k) - Craiova, Romania

john · Top national player

Priddle should win that one, he's won 7 matches in his last 4 tournaments yet still never gained a ranking point. It's an injustice I tell you!

His opponent is 16 but has already won a few matches in qualifying. From what I've seen I don't think Priddle's game isn't great for clay but he's done OK last few weeks. He might be able to do some damage in qualifying for some of the grass court tournaments. Will be interesting.

Grundon · Intermediate Club Player

PRIDDLE, Chris (GBR) d. STEFAN, Vlad (ROU) 6-4 5-7 6-2

He plays IONESCU, Dragos Alexandru (ROU) in QR2

john · Top national player

Well Ionescu is only 15 and lost his only Futures qualifying match 1 & 2. I'm going for another win for Chris

Drew · May 25, 2008

QR2 :

PRIDDLE, Chris (GBR) def IONESCU, Dragos Alexandru (ROU) 6-2 6-4

QR3 :

MORARU, Gabriel (ROU) 1 v PRIDDLE, Chris (GBR)

Moraru has been ranked in the low 200's back in 2005 and is ranked 425.

He obviously missed the sign in as he is the highest ranked seed in the MD also !!!

I hate this....Priddle has little hope !

johnnylad · Tennis legend

This is the kind of situation where I think Priddle should be made 1st in line for a LL spot.

steven · Tennis legend

FQR: Chris Priddle UNR lost to (q1) Gabriel Moraru (ROU) WR 449 by 0 & 4

L32: Myles Blake WR 782 v Ilie-Aurelian Giurgiu (ROU) WR 954

Remember the name? Myles faced him in R1 last week too, winning 7-5 4-6 6-3! smile

The winner is likely to play Moraru in R2, who having qualified by beating Chris is now the no. 2 seed in the main draw, thus preventing Myles himself from being seeded. furious

-- Edited by steven at 19:17, 2008-05-26

freerider · Futures level

blake won i think it was 7-5 6-2 definately in straights though, good day in the futures today

XCW4EVA · County player

Well Done Myles, hopefully he will start winning a few more now obviously not this week though!

DJ · County player

Consecutive single points in Romania will help recoup some of the ground Myles has lost this season, taking him back to the mid 750s when the new lists come out on June 9.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Well done to Myles, and winning in straights this week shows some improvement - hopefully he can carry on his good form in the next few weeks, but I don't see him winning another round here

DJ · County player

According to Seagull's aye-accurate lists, Myles isn't entered anywhere next week, unfortunately.

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Myles Blake WR 782 v (2/Q) Gabriel Moraru (ROU) WR 425

Apart from being the ringer in the qualifying draw here who beat the unfortunate Chris Priddle 0 & 4, Moraru thashed Morgan Phillips 3 & 0, albeit two years ago, as as far back as 2002, he lost to Miles Maclagan in the Final of a Romanian Future after beating Igor Andreev in the semis! He had a hat-trick of wins against Alan Mackin and was in the top 250 three years ago.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

L32: Myles Blake WR 782 v (2/Q) Gabriel Moraru (ROU) WR 425

Apart from being the ringer in the qualifying draw here who beat the unfortunate Chris Priddle 0 & 4, Moraru thashed Morgan Phillips 3 & 0, albeit two years ago, as as far back as 2002, he lost to Miles Maclagan in the Final of a Romanian Future after beating Igor Andreev in the semis! He had a hat-trick of wins against Alan Mackin and was in the top 250 three years ago.

Myles lost 3-6 6-7(5). cry

Dare I say it, not entirely unexpected! hmm