Week 7 - Futures F2 (15k) - Trento, Italy

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

RE: Week 7 - Futures F2 (15k) - Trento, Italy

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Thing is there arent any challengers Josh can play at the moment, and with the way the ranking works its better to go to a futures than try and qualify for a challenger. Then the Dc means he wil miss the ones he had a chnace of getting into! i am sur he will start playing some more soon.

Disappointing for the other 2 tho. its not be a great start to the year for the men has it.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Whats up with the guys this year? They are going backwards.

steven · Tennis legend

The first two QFs have now finished and there's a real Brit-basher look to the bottom half semi, with our old friend Stéphane Robert due to play another old friend Martin Fischer!

steven · Tennis legend

Yesterday (recap)

L16: (1) Josh Goodall WR 197 beat Leonardo Azzaro (ITA) WR 557 by 3 & 3

L16: (3) James Ward WR 285 lost to (Q) Yann Marti (SUI) WR 759 by 6-7(5) 6-3 7-6(4) bleh

Today

QF: (1) Josh Goodall WR 197 beat (Q) Jiri Krkoska (CZE) WR 840 by 7-6(2) 7-6(3) smile

Saturday

SF: (1) Josh Goodall WR 197 v (Q) Yann Marti (SUI) WR 759

Wardy's conqueror Marti beat Slabba's conqueror Jebavy today and is the only player stopping the SFs being contested only by the top 4 seeds.

-- Edited by steven at 17:46, 2009-02-20

Drew · Feb 20, 2009

Is the final on sat ?
Josh is playing mon at the dc poff.

helki · Futures qualifying

Drew wrote:

Is the final on sat ?
Josh is playing mon at the dc poff.

Doesn't appear so, the OoP only has the two semi-finals listed and Josh's doesn't start until 16.00 local time.

Drew · Feb 21, 2009

Josh won 64 62 and wil play robert in the final.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Good win. This week more important than next week

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Interesting: the tournament site, which is where I checked first, is showing the result of the Robert/Fischer SF only, while the ITF site has the Goody/Marti result as well! confuse

P.S. Almost forgot: well done, Josh, on reaching the final.

All you need to do now is justify your seeding & take the title away from the serial Brit-basher! No pressure, then... wink

-- Edited by Stircrazy at 17:58, 2009-02-21

seagull · Hall of fame

Well done Josh - ever more likely he will soon be British number 2

Smidster · Challenger level

Well done Josh - though really in an event like this he needed to match the seeding.

Surely someone has to beat Robert sooner or later?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Good win for Goodall and another strong week for him at futures level - it seems that it is finally starting to happen for him this season and a title here would be a good way to cap it off.

steven · Tennis legend

One thing I had somehow failed to notice before about Stéphane Robert is that not only does he have an 11-match ongoing winning streak against Brits, he also managed a 15-match completed Brit-bashing streak between 2001 and 2006.

His overall record against Brits, then, is 26-1, with Boggo's comprehensive 3 & 2 victory against him in the 2006 Wrexham Challenger Final the only time a Brit has beaten him.

Vandenburg · Futures level

on that note from steven im putting goodall at odds 5/1.