Week 14 - Challenger (€85,000+H) - Athens, Greece

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

RE: Week 14 - Challenger (€85,000+H) - Athens, Greece

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Here's hoping Jamie M has taken his first faltering steps along the road to rehabilitation with that win today. The fact that he & Delgo got themselves into a bit of a hole, but succeeded in digging their way back out, will surely help to boost his confidence.

* I bet the tournament organisers are relieved he won, too. If the comments I saw on the web site are anything to go by, the fact that he's Andy's brother seems to make him practically royalty! wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Aeneas wrote:

Middelkoop/Sirianni or Istomin/Siderenko up next.

The Uzbek-French partnership of Istomin & Sidorenko, who have just beaten the other two 6-4 7-6(1). They won't be a pushover, either!

helki · Futures qualifying

Well, that's a relief! smile

A win, albeit with a MTB needed, but... A rest day for them tomorrow. One tiny step for Jamie... wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Teehee! It would appear that the tournament organisers have discovered a member of the Celtic diaspora in far-away Portugal, one Rui MacHado - if the LS is to be believed! biggrin

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

Aeneas wrote:

Middelkoop/Sirianni or Istomin/Siderenko up next.

The Uzbek-French partnership of Istomin & Sidorenko, who have just beaten the other two 6-4 7-6(1). They won't be a pushover, either!

Both Istomin & Sidorenko have won their Round 1 singles matches in straight sets today, so they've obviously got their eye in! hmm

Definitely no pushover...

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

It's good to see Jamie finally getting a win and hopefully he can have a good run here - think dropping back to challengers may be the answer in the short term just to get some wins under his belt.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The Jamies are scheduled to do battle with the Uzbek & the Frog on the central court (the royal treatment for Jamie M! wink

) no earlier than 12.30 BST tomorrow. Istomin & Sidorenko both have their second round singles matches, one after the other, on the other court in use, starting at 08.00 BST, so let's hope that they'll still be a wee bit tired, come the start of their doubles encounter...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The doubles partners both won their second-round singles matches in straight sets (as did the Portuguese Celt, MacHado, who took out the 8th seed, Rosol, by 2 & 5! wink

), but whereas Istomin was kept on court for 16 seconds shy of 2 hours by Marc López (ESP), eventually winning by 7-5 7-6(5), Sidorenko wrapped up his match with Bozo in 1:18:34 (3 & 2)! The match preceding the main doubles match of the day from the British perspective (Ivo Minar (1) vs Dominik Hrbaty) is in the early stages of a third set after an hour & 12 minutes...

wolf · Tennis legend

Jamie M has just starved off 2 bps on his serve and it is 3-3.

wolf · Tennis legend

The first set went to a TB and despite the Jamie's being 5-3 up and having a set point at 6-5* they lost it 8-6.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:

The first set went to a TB and despite the Jamie's being 5-3 up and having a set point at 6-5* they lost it 8-6.

And they bow out after also losing the second set, 4-6. cry

helki · Futures qualifying

Don't really know what to make of this. confuse

On the face of it it looks to have been a close match, but if Jamie was hoping for a confidence boost I can't see him having gained much from the experience. If they'd pinched it at least it would have meant two matches won in the same tournament. Is he wanting court time, or filling in until he can find a new partner, or...?

-- Edited by helki on Thursday 9th of April 2009 03:24:19 PM