Week 25 - Futures F2 (15k) - Gausdal, Norway

Drew · Jun 19, 2009

Week 25 - Futures F2 (15k) - Gausdal, Norway

steven · Tennis legend

QR2 is the FQR here so not a great deal for Matt to do if he wants to get into the main draw!

Vandenburg · Futures level

Kidahl was a very good junior reaching 200 i the world i think, so he could eb tricky match in front of the home crowd.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

"Home Crowd" - one man and his reindeer?

Salmon · Tennis legend

^

Too bad that they can't get Coxy to fake his age and play Wimbly Juniors. He'll play Felixstowe and Manchester after this.

Vandenburg · Futures level

true Gausdal only has a popualtion of a few hundred people, so ive no idea where the tennis courts are, but reindeers are found futher east, not really massive in that part.

steven · Tennis legend

FQR: (q1) Matt Illingworth WR 720 beat Martin Kildahl (NOR) UNR by 3-6 6-1 6-0

L32: Marcus Willis WR 824 v (Q) Ricardo Urzua-Rivera (CHI) WR 962
L32: (Q) Matt Illingworth WR 720 v James Feaver WR 878
L32: (6) Dan Cox WR 627 v (Q) Gilad Ben Zvi (ISR) WR 1829
L32: (Q*) Alex Ward WR 1007 v (2) Fabrice Martin (FRA) WR 443

Not a great draw, with the Wardinator facing the no. 2 seed, the winner of Marcus's match likely to play no. 1 seed Michael Ryderstedt in R2 and the winner of the all-GB match likely to play no. 4 seed Timo Nieminen. However, if Cox wins, he'll play another qualifier.

(*) it says Q on the main draw sheet but he wasn't in qualifying!

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 21st of June 2009 09:24:41 PM

Drew · Jun 21, 2009

The ITF site has been slightly crazy over the last few days with several incorrect links....this one also. Seems to be okay now though.

Good luck to the guys....

Ryderstedt was badly beaten in last weeks SF by Mclune so perhaps he is carrying an injury ?

steven · Tennis legend

Yes I know, it's been showing the main draw for Norway F1 in Norway F2 since at least Friday, but this does seem to be a new draw today. Still odd that Alex has a (Q) next to him though!

Vandenburg · Futures level

its because Norway is actaully in Minus gmt (-30) so the events that happend last week have only just happend to the world.

polly · Junior player

Marcus won 4 and 4

Smidster · Challenger level

In Dubs

R1: WARD (GBR) / WILLIS (GBR) (2) defeated FORBERG SKOGENG (NOR) / JOHANSSON (NOR) 6-0 6-3

QF: BRUNSTROM (SWE) / ERIKSSON (SWE) Vs WARD (GBR) / WILLIS (GBR) (2)

Salmon · Tennis legend

Nice draws in the first two rounds for once! McClune is a bad person to have in your quarter, though, and I would much rather have the second seeded Fabrice Martin or Timo. Still, a good week and finals is quite possible.

steven · Tennis legend

On the ATP Challengers page, Norway F2 now links to the main draw for a Challenger in Milan. It gets better every day ...

Smidster · Challenger level

L32: Marcus Willis WR 824 def (Q) Ricardo Urzua-Rivera (CHI) WR 962 6-4 6-4
L32: (Q) Matt Illingworth WR 720 def James Feaver WR 878 6-1 7-6
L32: (6) Dan Cox WR 627 def (Q) Gilad Ben Zvi (ISR) WR 1829 6-1 6-2
L32: (Q*) Alex Ward WR 1007 lost to (2) Fabrice Martin (FRA) WR 443 6-1 6-3

L16: Marcus Willis WR 824 v (Q) Sami Huurinainen (FIN) WR 1784 (Beat LL in R1)
L16: (Q) Matt Illingworth WR 720 v (4) Timo Nieminen (FIN) WR 541
L16: (6) Dan Cox WR 627 v (Q) Matthias Wolf (ITA) UNR (Won all UNR match in R1)