Week 20 - Futures F3 (10k) - Pitesti, Romania

freerider · Futures level

RE: Week 20 - Futures F3 (10k) - Pitesti, Romania

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

by my reckoning this moves him to 22 pts the week after and that will move him to 25th pos

but i am no expert on this and will leave the confirmation to others....

-- Edited by Jack Buxton on Friday 22nd of May 2009 08:10:34 PM

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

and thats why i should have left this answer to the experts.....coz i think i am wrong now. phillips will have 23pts the week after so he will move into 25th leaving smethurst 26th (depending on tomorrow obviously)

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Great wins for Marcus and Dan and hopefully one of them can produce an upset and make their first final.

Dan's win is probably the more impressive given that Sabau used to be top 100 and he lost the first set so easily, so great to see him fight back like he did.

Shame Josh lost, but another QF is still a good result for him - it seems the young Brits are all coming into form ahead of the grass court season, so it's going to be quite a fight for the qualifying WC's.

Drew · May 23, 2009

Re-posting this here on this page...

SF: Marcus Willis WR 893 Vs. (3) Arten Smirnov (UKR) WR 472
SF: (SE) Daniel Smethurst WR 1102 Vs. (2) Alexander Jakupovic (GRE) WR 491

Waiting to hear in the next few minutes on how they both got on...fingers crossed.

-- Edited by Drew on Saturday 23rd of May 2009 12:26:54 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Jack Buxton wrote:
and thats why i should have left this answer to the experts.....coz i think i am wrong now. phillips will have 23pts the week after so he will move into 25th leaving smethurst 26th (depending on tomorrow obviously)

I think Dan will be in the GB Top 25 on Monday, when he'll have 17 points to the Wardinator's 16 and Morgan's 9 (there are other Brits between Alex and Morgan too), but the running totals as at the end of RG are:

23 Phillips
22 Smethurst
15 A Ward

However, Bam Bam will drop 20 points (16 for GRE F3 r/u + 4 for Surb. Q+L32) at the end of RG to leave him with 22 as well, with Jonny Kinsella (dropping 4) and Ken Skupski (dropping 8 after dropping 24 this week as well) going down to 22 too, while Dr No will add 1 and drop 2 to give him 23. Of course, all this will change if any of these players score Futures points next week or Challenger points in e.g. Nottingham the week after.

I'm going to leave all of the players who are in contention on next week's GB Top 25 table (and I don't guarantee that any of the numbers above are correct until I've done that!) and hopefully that will give us some chance of following what's going on!

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 23rd of May 2009 01:42:45 PM

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 23rd of May 2009 02:33:12 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Scrap all that

SF: Marcus Willis WR 893 lost to (3) Artem Smirnov (UKR) WR 472 by 6-7(3) 6-4 6-4 cry
SF: (SE) Daniel Smethurst WR 1102 beat (2) Alexander Jakupovic (GRE) WR 491 by 4-6 6-3 6-4 biggrin

FI: (SE) Daniel Smethurst WR 1102 v (3) Artem Smirnov (UKR) WR 472

This is starting to become a bit like his "partner in crime" Evo's run last summer! I must admit, I thought if anyone had a slight chance of reaching the Final it was Marcus, though it's no disgrace to lose that one.

Edit: scores added - very close, with both winners coming from a set down!

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 23rd of May 2009 12:57:12 PM

Drew · May 23, 2009

Marcus lost 7-6 6-4 6-4 so very close !!!

helki · Futures qualifying

Fantastic win for Dan. smile

Shame Marcus couldn't make it a double, but perhaps that's being greedy. wink

Let's hope Dan can carry on downing seeds and win the final. The young guns are beginning to show us what they can do. I'm looking forward to following their progress more closely and reading of their upward mobility in the ranking stakes.

-- Edited by helki on Saturday 23rd of May 2009 01:00:22 PM

steven · Tennis legend

I think Dan is now headed for the GB Top 20 after RG, not just the GB Top 25!

Edit: In fact, Dan is the prospective GB no. 18 as at 8 June at the moment (taking into account points gained so far and points to come off at the end of RG), up from 26th at the start of this week, and Marcus is the prospective GB no. 19, up from 25th at the start of this week.

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 23rd of May 2009 02:30:52 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

FI: (SE) Daniel Smethurst WR 1102 v (3) Artem Smirnov (UKR) WR 472

Wow, no disrespect to Dan, but that's the last outcome I expected! biggrin

Well done to him & commiserations to young Marcus. Irrespective of the results, they both did British tennis proud today. smile

Onwards & upwards, lads!

Would love to think Dan can make it three titles this weekend in the final tomorrow, assuming Morgan adds the second later this afternoon...

Drew · May 23, 2009

Smethurst's May Form. Played 13 won 11 lost 2.

His wins were against players with the following rankings (Current)

Unranked x 3
1892
1806
1367
1111
749
567
491 (Today)
393

His losses...

335
306

For someone who is ranked 1102 he should be beating / being competetive to the unranked and those lower and around his own ranking.

Winning the matches against those ranked 749 to 393 does show he has potential to rise up the rankings himself. Losing to 2 players in the low 300's is no surprise either.

The final Sunday is against a player ranked 472. On current form I reckon he has a chance but Artem did win last weeks title and the lowest ranked player he has lost to this year is 848.

So I give him a 1 in 8 chance of winning. 1 in 2 chance of taking a set.

Whatever the outcome he is having a very good 'May'

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Brilliant win for Dan and hopefully he can claim his first futures title tomorrow, although it is going to be tough for him to do so.

Shame that Marcus couldn't make it and all-British final, but it was still a strong effort from him and hopefully he can have another good week next week.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

nice work dan, still a great week for marcus.

steven · Tennis legend

Smirnov made it two titles in Romania this year, sadly, but still a great week for Dan.

FI: (SE) Daniel Smethurst WR 1102 lost to (3) Artem Smirnov (UKR) WR 472 by 3 & 4 cry