Week 47 Futures - Israel F4 ($15k) - Ramat Hasharon

freerider · Futures level

RE: Week 47 Futures - Israel F4 ($15k) - Ramat Hasharon

The Hoose · Satellite level

Quite possibly: easy to get your champs and chumps mixed up!

It's nice to see GB packing a strong group of young players into an overseas Futures tournament - hopefully one of the guys will come up trumps this week.

-- Edited by The Hoose at 09:58, 2008-11-17

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Aha. I was thinking of Poldma!

No idea as to Zopp's chumpiness though

helki · Futures qualifying

In the doubles Cox & Milton are due to play Mashiach & Steele (ISR), while Rice and his partner, Martin Klizan, have already won their first-round match 6-3 3-6 [10-8]. smile

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

helki wrote:

In the doubles Cox & Milton are due to play Mashiach & Steele (ISR), while Rice and his partner, Martin Klizan, have already won their first-round match 6-3 3-6 [10-8].

They follow Marcus Willis & Amir Weintraub on to Court 15. Kick-off is no earlier than 13.30 local time, so 11.30 GMT.

For the record, Dan Cox gets proceedings under way on that same court with his first-round encounter with Siarhei Betau (BLR), a fellow qualifier, at 07.30 GMT. Fingers crossed for all the boys...

seagull · Hall of fame

Not great news I'm afraid

Rice lost 6-3, 6-4
Milton lost 6-4, 6-3 :(
Cox lost 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(2)

But Marcus Willis won 6-1, 3-6, 6-1

Shame he has second seed Mertl in R2

The Hoose · Satellite level

Another good win for Marcus: he's definitely ready to kick on from his current ranking.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Some consolation for Dan Cox in the doubles: he & Josh Milton won by 1 & 4, but face the fourth seeds, Amir Hadad & Andreas Haider-Maurer (ISR/AUT), in the QFs. Rice & Klizan could have been expected to have to do battle with the fourth seeds, Pierre-Ludovic Duclos & Yannick Mertens (CAN/BEL), in their quarter, but they were well beaten today by the more lowly-ranked Dmitri Sitak & Dzmitry Zhyrmont (RUS/BLR) (1 & 1!), who are more on R&K's level (1318 compared with 1883)...

steven · Tennis legend

Just to put those results into context (rankings changed from those shown on page 1 to those on Monday's list):

L32: (LL) David Rice WR 969 lost to (1) Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT) WR 332 by 3 & 4 cry

L32: (Q) Joshua Milton WR 751 lost to (Q) Jurgen Zopp (EST) WR 662 by 4 & 3 cry

L32: (Q) Daniel Cox WR 820 lost to (Q) Siarhei Betau (BLR) WR 679 by 6-2 3-6 7-6(2) cry

L32: (Q) Marcus Willis WR 999 beat Amir Weintraub (ISR) WR 544 by 6-1 3-6 6-1 biggrin

L16: (Q) Marcus Willis WR 999 v (2) Jan Mertl (CZE) WR 364

Happycynic · Pro player

Well done to Marcus, a strong result (with quite a second round to follow.....).

Of the others, David Rice's show is pretty good really - giving away 600 ranking places. I'm sure Dan C will be annoyed to have closed out that tight three setter.

Smidster · Challenger level

Very good for Marcus...certainly one of the ones to watch for in 2009

Lets just hope the draws are a touch kinder next week!

freerider · Futures level

i think its good marcus is playing the second seed will really show us his potential

steven · Tennis legend

L16: (Q) Marcus Willis WR 999 lost to (2) Jan Mertl (CZE) WR 364 by 3 & 2 cry

James · Satellite level

Although expected I am slightly disappointed that it wasn't closer, for some reason I had a feeling that Marcus would take a set at least [Unfounded optimism isn't usually one of my traits..]. Oh well, playing against such opposition can only be a good experience for Marcus

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

Some consolation for Dan Cox in the doubles: he & Josh Milton won by 1 & 4, but face the fourth seeds, Amir Hadad & Andreas Haider-Maurer (ISR/AUT), in the QFs. Rice & Klizan could have been expected to have to do battle with the fourth seeds, Pierre-Ludovic Duclos & Yannick Mertens (CAN/BEL), in their quarter, but they were well beaten today by the more lowly-ranked Dmitri Sitak & Dzmitry Zhyrmont (RUS/BLR) (1 & 1!), who are more on R&K's level (1318 compared with 1883)...

But neither pair survived, Cox & Milton losing by 5 & 2 & Rice & Klizan by 5 & 4.