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

helki · Futures qualifying

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

Count Zero · Tennis legend

:(

any chance of a LL?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

helki wrote:

Good job there's plenty of action in the doubles. The dynamic duo of Col & Ken aren't playing together?

I did wonder, but for some reason better known to them, Skups has chosen to team up with Freddie Nielsen (who's also out of the singles qualies!). Equally confuse

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steven · Tennis legend

Arguably more heinous! Wouldn't have argued with the "-iy" ending for his surname, especially as the draw sheet spells his first name "Sergiy", which I presume is the Ukrainian variation on that particular theme, but you'd typed "Stackovsky"!

Count - it's a Challenger, so Josh will be first in line for a LL place, Poor result today, he needs to make a note to avoid playing girls in future ...

Nathaliia · Lower Club Player

I'll have reports from this event for the whole week. Here's only the Aucks match described but soon the others will follow... I got the 2nd round reports too but haven't read them in fact yet as I'm very busy. Maybe I'll also have the photos. Anyway you know where to go to read. Have a nice week people :)
http://www.tennisalternative.com/news.php?readmore=484

Smidster · Challenger level

Hope not an injury for Colin - don't see any other reason why the Flemski pertnership would break up after so much success...unless perhaps an indication Colin may be lining someone else up (Jamie?)

Shhh · Challenger level

Was there ranking high enough to make the draw or did they have to split up? Ken has the higher ranking of the two.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

maybe, like boggo doesn't like playing Israelis Josh doesn't like playing Ukrainians?

steven · Tennis legend

Smidster wrote:
Hope not an injury for Colin - don't see any other reason why the Flemski pertnership would break up after so much success...unless perhaps an indication Colin may be lining someone else up (Jamie?)

Colin's website gives a much less worrying/sinister explanation:

"Didnt get into doubles, as I didnt enter with Ken so I can make sure I get to Cremona to sign in for singles qualies on Friday, so I am bunking up in Kens free room and training before going to Cremona."

See http://www.colinflemingtennis.com/colinfleming/ - very new, info-rich, still a bit of a work in progress and I believe he would welcome comments. I've put a link in the usual column near the left-hand side of the GB Top 25 table if you need to find it quickly in future. (not that the www address isn't memorable enough!)

Smidster · Challenger level

Good news and thanks for the link.

freerider · Futures level

im glad that colin seems to be giving the singles a go over the doubles

johnnylad · Tennis legend

More insight form Nathii on the qualies debacle

http://www.tennisalternative.com/news.php?readmore=487

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Klein def Sirianni 6-4 6-1
Stoppini def Stakhovski 7-6 6-3
Niland def Beck 6-1 6-3

steven · Tennis legend

How much is JL paying Stakh to make sure there's no chance he ends up playing Boggo and potentially making it look like it was a mistake to leave him out of the DC team? evileye

(note to lawyers: joke biggrin )

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Shame that Josh couldn't qualify here - just isn't happening for him at all at the moment, and he just needs something to go his way.

Stakhovsky is doing a pretty good job on his own to ensure that he doesn't have to play Boggo - what has he ever done in his career other than the fluke run to the Zagreb title?