Week 34 - Futures F27 (15K+H) - Est Padova, Italy

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

Week 34 - Futures F27 (15K+H) - Est Padova, Italy

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

Full draw here

http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/drawsheetbyround.asp?tournament=1100018046

Salmon · Tennis legend

Glad that he is not in Tenconi's section. He's playing exceptionally well after remaining out of the game for 18 months (played for a few weeks in between, though).

A lot of points on offer here. Even a quarters appearance will get him 4 points and a semifinal (which won't be easy) will get him a full 8 points!

Should win his first match easily. I think he will play David Novak in the second because Yan Bai is too inexperienced on clay, despite being quite a talent.

-- Edited by Salmon at 16:33, 2008-08-17

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

Salmon wrote:

Glad that he is not in Tenconi's section. He's playing exceptionally well after remaining out of the game for 18 months (played for a few weeks in between, though).

A lot of points on offer here. Even a quarters appearance will get him 4 points and a semifinal (which won't be easy) will get him a full 8 points!

Should win his first match easily. I think he will play David Novak in the second because Yan Bai is too inexperienced on clay, despite being quite a talent.

-- Edited by Salmon at 16:33, 2008-08-17

He should cruise through the first round and im sure he'll hope to play Yan Bai in the second as he beat him in Indonesia last year 6-1 6-3, i'd expect Novak to beat Bai though.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Not a bad draw for Ward, and he should be able to reach the Quarter Finals here, which would be a decent result for him, although he should be looking to do better than that if he can.

Hopefully he can the same as he did last time when he returned to clay after a break and wins the title!

Shhh · Challenger level

From ITF:

1st Round
James WARD (GBR) (5) defeated Francesco BORGO (ITA) 6-0 6-4

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Easy first round win for Ward, and he looks to be back into the habit of playing on clay.

XCW4EVA · County player

about half a year ago i doubt that would ave been so easy for Ward, underlines his improvement over the year.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

looks like it will be Yan Bai as his opponent has been replaced by a Lucky Loser

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

With the draw he's got he should defo be looking at the Semis and 8 valuable points but he'll have to beat the top sead Tom Tenconi if he gets there.

Tenconi is on fire at the moment and has taken a few titles this year without even dropping a set so he'd be a tough one to beat!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Bai won by 0 and 0.

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

Another win on Clay for Wardy

He beat Yan Bai 3-6 7-5 6-1 to secure a place in the quarters against 3rd seed Luca Vanni

Salmon · Tennis legend

Wow, I didn't think Bai would take a set off him.

Vanni is most beatable by the look of his results, although it won't be easy.

XCW4EVA · County player

Come on James, any ideas on why James has gone back down to futures his week?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Well done James for another good win, and he's proving himself to be very comfortable on the clay at the moment.

I guess he's dropped back to the Futures because he wouldn't have made the cut for any of the challengers, and as this is a 15K+H event (24 points for the winner), winning here would give him more points than a challenger semi, so it's still a pretty decent event to play in