Week 15 Futures - Turkey F5 ($10k) - Antalya 5 - Belek

steven · Tennis legend

Week 15 Futures - Turkey F5 ($10k) - Antalya 5 - Belek

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

all winnable matches for the boys.

Sheddie · administrator

Tough schedule for Willis, 6 matches in as many days and now he's gotta go through qualies all over again

wolf · Tennis legend

...plus he has Sluiter (who has a QWC) in his section. Ouch!

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

As expected Evans has pulled out of the main draw.

paddy3883 · Social player

Smethurst won 6-2 6-1 and faces top seed Sanon in 2nd round, Pauffley lost a close match 7-6 (6) 7-6 (5), Ward got beat 6-4 6-4, Illingworth lost 6-3 3-6 4-6 . No results for Milton or Willis...not a great return so far!

Smidster · Challenger level

Josh is at least a set to the good.

Ward and Pauffley seem to have battled fairly well in tough matches.

Matt just isn't having a great time at the moment

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: Dan Smethurst WR 1065 beat (WC) Ilhan Mutlu (TUR) UNR by 2 & 1

QR1: Neil Pauffley WR 1374 lost to (q16) Henrik Norfeldt (SWE) WR 823 by 7-6(6) 7-6(5) cry

QR1: Alexander Ward WR 849 lost to (q10) Martin Emmrich (GER) WR 766 by 4 & 4 cry

QR1: (q5) Matt Illingworth WR 707 lost to Nikolai Soloviev (RUS) WR 1641 by 3-6 6-3 6-4 bleh

QR1: (q6) Josh Milton WR 716 leads Matthias Kolbe (GER) WR 1366 by 6-3
QR1: Marcus Willis WR 945 v Goncalo Falcao (POR) WR 1293 - not started

QR2: Dan Smethurst WR 1065 v (q1) Valentin Sanon (CIV) WR 631
QR2: Milton or Kolbe v Aleksandr Agafonov (UKR) WR 908
QR2: Willis or Falcao v (q12) Rodrigo Perez (CHI) WR 787

Not a nice combination - a dreadful result for Matt who was seeded to qualify, the Wardinator seems to be having a lull again, our one definite winner so far faces the no. 1 seed and the other two possible winners have to complete (or in Meatball's case) start their QR1 matches tomorrow and then potentially play rested opponents in QR2. doh

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 11th of April 2009 06:39:51 PM

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Can I ask if anyone knows why Alex Ward bothered turning up for the Qualies this week? I was under the impression that this tournament is on hard courts (or am I mistaken?).

Surely Alex is more at home grinding it out on the clay courts?

Lilly · Social player

marcus won both his first and second round qualifying . 6-1 6-1 and 6-4 6-2.

paddy3883 · Social player

Excellent...great to see Marcus get some results on the senior circuit this year...gonna be interesting watching him, Cox and Evans push on over the next 12/18 months!

Sheddie · administrator

Good results for Milton and Willis and a good display from Dan Smethurst who looks to have only narrowly missed out on taking out top seed Sanon, shame he got such a **** draw

QR1: (q6) Josh Milton WR 716 bt Matthias Kolbe (GER) WR 1366 6-3, 6-2
QR1: Marcus Willis WR 945 bt Goncalo Falcao (POR) WR 1293 6-1, 6-1

QR2: Dan Smethurst WR 1065 lost to (q1) Valentin Sanon (CIV) WR 631 6-3, 2-6, 5-7
QR2: (q6) Josh Milton WR 716 bt Aleksandr Agafonov (UKR) WR 908 6-3, 6-4
QR2: Marcus Willis WR 945 bt (q12) Rodrigo Perez (CHI) WR 787 6-4, 6-2

Unfortunately both have tough final round qualies matches.....Milton's opponent Jaymon Crabb has been top 200 in the past though he's now outside top 1000 and Willis could play Sluiter

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

good results josh and marcus, keep going.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Good job guys, and congrats on pushing the top qualy seed Dan :D

helki · Futures qualifying

alex03maccy wrote:

good results josh and marcus, keep going.

Unfortunately, they couldn't: Josh losing in three, 6-4 5-7 6-7(5) and Marcus in two, 5-7 6-7(4). Another good effort from Marcus, and although a close match it was disappointing to see Josh lose one he should have won.

This leaves Coxy as the only representative in the MD and he's drawn Thomas Oger, the 6th seed.