Week 34 - Futures F8(10k) - New Delhi, India - Hard

Drew · Aug 21, 2009

Week 34 - Futures F8(10k) - New Delhi, India - Hard

Drew · Aug 22, 2009

Update...

R1: JONES, Max (GBR) 1 WR1167 def WC KAPOOR, Vedant (IND) UNR 6-3 6-3

R2: JONES, Max (GBR) 1 WR1167 v SRIDHAR, Vinod (IND) 10 WR1398

Smidster · Challenger level

R2: JONES, Max (GBR) 1 WR1167 lost to SRIDHAR, Vinod (IND) 10 WR1398 6-1 6-2

Not good that!

R1: Sean Thornley WR 813 v (3) Young-Jun Kim (KOR) WR 520
R1: (5) Chris Eaton WR 577 v (WC) Vidhan Vyas (IND) UNR
R1: Kyle Brassington WR 945 v Ashutosh Singh (IND) WR 1130
R1: Tim Bradshaw WR 1036 v Yuki Bhambri (IND) WR 502

ugh!

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

poor Bradshaw

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (5) Chris Eaton WR 577 beat (WC) Vidhan Vyas (IND) UNR 3 & 0 smile

He will play Kyle B or Singh in round 2.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Mixed news so far in the doubles:

Kyle B & Yannick Nelord (IND) UNR lost to (1) Ashutosh Singh & Vishnu Vardhan (IND/IND) WR 634 2 & 0 cry

* Kyle will doubtless be sick of the sight of Singh once he's played him in Round 1 of the singles!

Tim Bradshaw & Max Jones UNR beat Mithun Murali & N Prasanth (IND/IND) WR 1966 6-4 4-6 [10-6] biggrin

* They play the unranked Indian WCs, Rohan Gajjar & Karan Rastogi, in the QF. The latter dumped out the Dutch fourth seeds, Lucassen & Roep, by 1 & 4 in the first round, so are obviously no slouches!

Chris & Sean (WR 1436) are again seeded second & kick off against an unranked Korean pair, Seong-Yoon Chung & Seung-Jae Lee, in the first round.

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 24th of August 2009 11:57:08 AM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The outstanding R1 matches involving Brits:

Sean Thornley WR 813 lost to (3) Young-Jun Kim (KOR) WR 520 1 & 3 cry
Kyle Brassington WR 945 beat Ashutosh Singh (IND) WR 1130 0 & 4 smile
Tim Bradshaw WR 1036 lost to Yuki Bhambri (IND) WR 502 5 & 4 cry

* Given the disparity in the rankings, neither loss entirely unexpected, methinks. hmm

R2: (5) Chris Eaton WR 577 vs Kyle Brassington WR 945,

so at least a guaranteed quarter-finalist. wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Chris & Sean, the second seeds, are out of the doubles, having lost 3-6 7-7(3) [8-10] to anunranked Korean pair. disbelief

That leaves only Tim & Max in the QFs. cry

spud · Challenger qualifying

Chris should come through that second round against Kyle.

Interesting how him and Thornley couldnt make it past the 1st round this week having had a great run last week pushing for the title in the doubles.

Tim Bradshaw got close to the second seed in the first round so whoever comes out winner of Chris and Kyle, it looks to be a good chance of maybe a semi spot for them if they play well.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (5) Chris Eaton WR 574 beat Kyle Brassington WR 930 by 2 & 2 smile

QF: (5) Chris Eaton WR 574 vs (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND) WR 499

Bhambri had an easy match against Shane La Porte in the previous round: he won 6-2 1-0 retired! Come on, Chris. He's not that far ahead of you in the rankings. Avenge Tim Bradshaw's defeat! pretty

Edit: missing set scores added and rankings updated to 24 Aug

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 26th of August 2009 01:17:44 PM

spud · Challenger qualifying

With Bradshaw pushing Bhambri to 5 & 4, surely we should expect Eaton to at least win a set or even the match really, if he can serve well.

Bhambri is still very young so hopefully Eaton can take the win, with a bit more experience in his favour.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

Edit: missing set scores added and rankings updated to 24 Aug

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 26th of August 2009 01:17:44 PM

The set scores weren't the only thing I forgot at lunchtime (can never be @rsed to look up the latest rankings. Much easier to do the lazy thing & rely on what the draw sheets say! wink

). There was also a doubles result worth reporting: Tim & Max beat Gajjar & Rastogi by 5 & 3! biggrin

They take on the Indian top seeds, Singh & Vardhan, WR 643, in the SF.

MAC · Junior player

Well, I'll start with the good news, Tim and Max have a shot at the title:

Semifinal
BRADSHAW (GBR) / JONES (GBR) defeated SINGH (IND) / VARDHAN (IND) (1) 6-4 4-6 [10-4]
ROY (IND) / SHOKEEN (IND) (3) defeated KIM (KOR) / KIM (KOR) 6-4 3-6 [10-4]

Sadly, it looks lke Chris' ranking is about where he's playing, he was competitive, but couldn't beat the Indian starlet:
Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) (2) defeated Chris EATON (GBR) (5) 7-6(5) 6-3

Still a solid trip so far for Chris if not spectacular.

wolf · Tennis legend

Final
BRADSHAW (GBR) / JONES (GBR) bt ROY (IND) / SHOKEEN (IND) (3) 4-6 6-2 10-4

helki · Futures qualifying

Excellent!