Week 19 - Challenger (Euro 64K) - Izmir, Turkey

helki · Futures qualifying

RE: Week 19 - Challenger (Euro 64K) - Izmir, Turkey

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

QF: GOODALL, Joshua v JOHANSSON, Joachim

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Josh and James will play there doubles quarter third on center court, nb 4pm local time. Skuppers quarter is not nb 3pm on the other court.

-- Edited by alex03maccy on Wednesday 13th of May 2009 04:06:23 PM

Vandenburg · Futures level

JOHANSSON, Joachim! huge serve, possibly the biggest to come out of scandinavia??:?

Sheddie · administrator

I've lost patience with the member fart1....I'm giving him an official warning regarding his posts

Unless they become less lavatory obsessed and insulting about players his account will be deleted (I don't think a ban would be necessary)

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I have already given him one (unofficial) warning, Sheddie, that I would delete any more such posts. Unfortunately I'm rarely on the board when the posts are made.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

from Nathii's site:

Bogdanovic d. Akkoyun

As Nathi requested, I looked closer at Brits, which is tough to not do that since there is a group of Brits either playing a match or practising lol.

Bogdanovic is a player I have found crap for years, but his draw this year in R1 was lucky. Even though Akkoyun is Turkish #2, still Bogdanovic was a big favourite. Akkoyun's tactic was to go BH of Alex to get space for his own FH, did that pretty well actually, especially after geting 2-5 down to get 5-5.

Alex was quite poor especially on the BH, either missing or letting the ball drop at the middle of the service box; too short.

In the TB quality was crap; Akkoyun had chances to win but he made two crucial UEs and 2nd set followed at pretty much same pattern. Alex got one break and it was enough. He was FAR from impressive though.

He was delighted at the end, trying to get claps from the crowd like he is at US Open stadium court, of course leaving with nothing lol

Goodall d. Dorsch 76 64

Joshua got into MD as LL, Ram strangely played his doubles, won, and withdrew from singles.

Joshua could actually qualify but he unluckily run into Sergeyev in the final round so it was no shame to see him in MD. Dorsch on the other side, one of the few Germans here, played hard baseline game with nothing special in it. His BH when it works, can be nice to watch but it didn't in this match.

Goodall in this match came to the net a lot more than he did in quallie; ,looked to take ball early and come in afterwards, and some classic slices to use as an approach to the net. Both sets were close all the way, just one or two points here and there made the difference. Dorsch made one two errors too many at the important moments and that cost him the match. Goodall was lot more positive and looked to be aggressive and it was crucial.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The sixth seed, Gucci, is now the only one still standing in the singles: Pavel Snobel (CZE) beat Prakash Amritraj (8) by 3 & 4 this morning! disbelief

By the way, Count, there is an English language version of the site, you know: here! wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Something tells me Erlich & Levy (combined ranking 182) were just too much of a step-up in class for Aucks & Goody - this time round: they've just lost by 2 & 3. cry

With a bit of luck, though, they'll learn from the experience & be the stronger for it next time they find themselves in a similar position...

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

more bad news, skuppers and nielsen were defeated 3 & 4.

The Hoose · Satellite level

Boohoo. Nielsen's just not phlegmatic enough for our Ken.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

The sixth seed, Gucci, is now the only one still standing in the singles

Now Gucci's gone, beaten 4-6 6-7 by the local boy/favourite, Marsel Ilhan! biggrin

helki · Futures qualifying

Goody first up tomorrow, not before 13.30, local time, so 11.30 here. The outstanding doubles SF is on before the singles matches begin. One of only two men left in the Challenger' singles. Go Goody.

-- Edited by helki on Thursday 14th of May 2009 06:32:50 PM

Count Zero · Tennis legend

more from nathii, looks like Josh has a rival now :), not much on boggo, its clear he is playing well below par, lets hope when he hits the grass he can find some form:

Goodall d. Sergeyev

For the contrast it was a quality and actually intense match. They played at quallies and the Ukrainian won the match on Sunday, so to see them play again is strange but it happens I guess lol.

Goodall actually learned his lesson from his qualiie match; straight away you could notice it, he was trying to rally from back of the court on Sunday, today he was geting into net lot more, looking to be aggresive and clearly trying to avoid getting into long rallies with his opponent.

Sergeyev on the other hand was trying to empose his gamestyle to him to actually get into long rallies with the Brit.

First set was close all the way and eventually it went to the TB, it was close again, but Goodall's aggressive brave tactic worked out, just a few points here and there made the difference.

In the 2nd set Sergeyev got into 4-1 lead with some mistakes from the Brit but from then on the Brit levelled the match and got even more fired up with both shouting "come on"s to each other's face and complaining to the umpire about each other's attitude. Umpire was in control of things though. In the TB again Goodall was better and won the points followed by more shouts at the face of Sergeyev and after the MP he did "shhh" a'la Berdych lol.

Of course they didn't shake hands and Sergeyev was complaining to the Supervisor. Sergeyev is far from an angel but I would say immature attitude from the Brit.

Meffert d. Bogdanovic

Just watched the first set and from the first set and from the expression I got of their earlier matches it was obvious that Meffert is a better player and he exposed Bogdanovic's weakness to get the first set quite easily, there was no change after I left as you can see.

Nathaliia · Lower Club Player

sorry for the crap edition of mine, I'm getting these reports in horrible English and I'm too busy to really work on them, i hope they're readable