Week 16 - Challenger (€85,000) - Sofia, Bulgaria

wolf · Tennis legend

Week 16 - Challenger (€85,000) - Sofia, Bulgaria

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Jamie & Paul should've played their first-round match this afternoon, but I believe the weather did a Wimby (as in that memorable inscription on a spectator's brolly in the year of Sir Cliff: Merde! Il pleut!) & the scheduled doubles matches had to be postponed...! hmm

They don't feature in tomorrow's OoP, so I guess both they & Aucks/Luczak won't now be in action until Wednesday! disbelief

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 20th of April 2009 07:28:02 PM

daisy · County player

I understand that some of the Singles matches were postponed as well so they'll probably give those priority tomorrow ahead of any doubles matches.
Only 4 Singles and 1 Doubles were completed today.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Assuming Mother Nature doesn't have other ideas, both our boys will finally be in action in Bulgaria tomorrow: Jamie & Paul first, as 10.00 BST on Court 4 & Aucks & Luczak following another doubles encounter on the same court (Moser/Rosol vs Mladenov/Traykov), which will kick off no earlier than noon BST, + a "suitable rest" for both Luczak & Sidorenko, who are involved in consecutive matches on Court 1, starting at 09.00 BST (Luzcak actually plays Rosol...).

helki · Futures qualifying

Mother Nature decided to have her wicked way again. The guys are now due on tomorrow, Jamie & Paul are first to play on court 7 at noon, local time. James & Peter, same court but third match. Providing the sun finally shows its face they just might get to play these matches. disbelief

Lets hope the waiting will not have been in vain.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

No "death by Machado" (an old one of steven's, if memory serves, though that referred to the young man's penchant for cutting a swath through Futures singles competitions last year! wink

) for Hanley & Murray. At last they're off the mark & Jamie's got another win under his belt: according to his web site, he & Paul administered a sound thrashing to the Brazilian/Portu-goose partnership, 1 & 0! biggrin

steven · Tennis legend

I think Death By may have replaced his tennis shoes with caterpillar tracks today - he suffered a shock loss to de Bakker in R1 of the singles here and probably can't wait to get out of cold wet Sofia and into Tunis, where's he's a DA for the super-Challenger this week. I think Jamie would have won anyway (Death By has never played doubles with this week's partner before and is very much a singles specialist) but 1 & 0 seems just a bit too extreme a margin to me.

helki · Futures qualifying

Good 'on the guys.

At last some play and a win. smile

I'd've been mucho disappointed had they not won. In fact I'm hoping they win the whole thing.

Nothing less & I'll be dissatisfied. No pressure on them, though. wink

Hope it's Aucks & PL next round.

Josh · Challenger level

steven wrote:

1 & 0 seems just a bit too extreme a margin to me.

A Bulgarian on MTF said she saw them win the 1st set 6-1 and when she came back half an hour later they were just leaving the court, so that scoreline is probably right.

steven · Tennis legend

I'm sure it is right, I just meant that the scoreline suggests that Machado wasn't giving the match his full attention, shall we say.

helki · Futures qualifying

Oh for goodness sake, steven give the guys a bit of credit. Can they only win a doubles match if the opposition are only going through the motions.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

result from mtf apparently

Auckland/Luczak def. Montcourt/Sidorenko 61 64

so itll be GBR/AUS vs GBR/AUS in the next round

helki · Futures qualifying

'Twould appear to be correct, too, smile

as they are on tomorrow's OoP. Kickoff at noon local time. Now who do I want to win. confuse

Also confirmed on ATP site. smile

-- Edited by helki on Thursday 23rd of April 2009 06:29:45 PM

steven · Tennis legend

helki wrote:
Oh for goodness sake, steven give the guys a bit of credit. Can they only win a doubles match if the opposition are only going through the motions.

No, of course not, I predicted (elsewhere) that they'd win in straights anyway, though I thought they'd be close sets, I was just trying to be realistic about how a scoreline that extreme might have come about against someone who won the Athens Challenger singles and doubles the previous week.

I respect Jamie's decision to drop down to Challengers for a bit and I hope it works out for him.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 23rd of April 2009 06:34:30 PM

helki · Futures qualifying

Didn't Junaid & Marx win the doubles in Athens? confuse