Week 47 - Futures F5 ($10K) - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Week 47 - Futures F5 ($10K) - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: (q3) Sean Thornley WR 836 beat Ankit Sachdeva (IND) UNR by 2 & 5

QR1: (q12) Burnham Arlidge WR 1070 beat Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE) UNR by 7-6(2) 2-6 6-1

QR1: (WC) Ashwin Kuppusamy UNR lost to (q4) Weerapit Doakmaiklee (THA) WR 848 by 1 & 0 cry

QR1: Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1512 lost to Raphael Lustenberger (SUI) WR 1355 by 1 & 4 cry

QR2: (q3) Sean Thornley WR 836 v Gritaboon Prahmanee (THA) UNR
QR2: (q12) Burnham Arlidge WR 1070 v Evan Meltzer (USA) UNR

The winners of these two matches will play each other in the FQR.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

QR2: (3) THORNLEY, Sean def. PRAHMANEE, Grittaboon (THA) 7-5 6-3
QR2: (12) ARLIDGE, Burnham def. MELTZER, Evan (USA) 6-4 6-3

FQR: (3) THORNLEY, Sean def. (12) ARLIDGE, Burnham 7-5 2-6 2-0 ret.

L32: (7) RICE, David WR 537 v UZAKOV, Vaja (UZB) WR 733
L32: (Q) THORNLEY, Sean WR 823 v ZHYRMONT, Dzmitry (BLR) WR 669

winners play each other in R2.

updated with dave and sean's new rankings.

-- Edited by alex03maccy on Monday 23rd of November 2009 10:30:59 AM

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Doubles

L16: RICE/THORNLEY v BRUNKEN/EASTON (GER/AUS)

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Doubles

L16: RICE/THORNLEY lost to EASTON/BRUNKEN (AUS/GER) 6-2 3-6 4-10

The Hoose · Satellite level

L32: (7) RICE, David WR 537 beat UZAKOV, Vaja (UZB) WR 733 6-4 6-4 smile
L32: (Q) THORNLEY, Sean WR 823 beat ZHYRMONT, Dzmitry (BLR) WR 669 6-3 6-3 biggrin

L16: (7) RICE, David WR 537 v (Q) THORNLEY, Sean WR 823

-- Edited by The Hoose on Tuesday 24th of November 2009 10:52:44 AM

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Good to be getting these wins at the end of the season. Pity the Brits seem to be drawing each other this week.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (7) David Rice WR 537 lost to (Q) Sean Thornley WR 823 by 1-6 6-7(5) bleh biggrin

Great win for Sean, poor loss for David!

QF: (Q) Sean Thornley WR 823 vs (Q) Perakiat Siriluethaiwattana (yikes!) (THA) WR 878

Surely a reasonable chance for Sean to reach the semis, if he can but keep his momentum going...

Edited in: there's now only one seed left in the entire MD, Petar Jelenic (CRO/8), & he just happens to be in the same half as Sean, but in other quarter! hmm

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 25th of November 2009 11:25:45 AM

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

would much have preferred Dave to come through that won, Sean better make up for it by getting past another round.

helki · Futures qualifying

Just cannot understand David. disbelief

Appears to be progressing and then comes a cropper. Glad it was another Brit he lost to (at least I think I am ashamed

), but... Well done Sean, now make the most of it.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Sean lost 2-6 7-6 (6) 2-6 :(

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

right guys,
As you know im out in malaysia as well, doing as badly as i can, all be it not with the help of the draws but still going terrible.
Read a few posts on seans match against rice and think there pretty harsh on sean, yes rice might have been expected to win but thornly has been fighting his balls off in pretty much every match coming through qualis and then to the quaters. Thats a decent effort in these conditions, so being a british supporting site it would be better if you gave a less in your face bias opinion. thats from a players perspective.

steven · Tennis legend

Hi Fitzy. That's a very fair point. I think there's a tendency on here (and understandably so, I think) to hope the Brit who's seen as having the most potential wins any GB v GB match, unless we have a particular reason for preferring one player over the other, but it shouldn't be allowed to take away from the fact that, as you say, Sean has put in a really good effort this week to get his two ranking points and deserves the plaudits for that.

Good luck next week if you're going to be having another go.

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

yeah im here for the third week see if i can actually win a bloody match!!

cheers for that its just if i was on here and read those posts before i went on for my quater final match i would be a little gone, given i was GB Vs GB as you said. there is nothing to say that sean coming through qualis and getting matches had less of a chance of winning through than rice.