Week 2 - Futures F1 ($15K) - Glasgow, GBR - indoor hard

spud · Challenger qualifying

RE: Week 2 - Futures F1 ($15K) - Glasgow, GBR - indoor hard

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

To put some flesh on the above bones:

QF: (1) Chris Eaton & Dominic Inglot WR 532 beat Stefano Galvani & Yannick Mertens (ITA/BEL) WR 1091 by 1 & 0 smile

QF: (WC) Richard Bloomfield & Will Gray UNR lost to Uladzimir Ignatik & Milos Raonic (BLR/CAN) WR 970 by 3-6 6-3 [4-10] cry

, but at least they made a fight of it!

QF: Josh Goodall & David Rice WR 1073 beat Matwé Middelkoop & Bart Monsjou (NED/NED) WR 1848 by 3-6 6-4 [10-8] smile

SF: (1) Chris Eaton & Dominic Inglot WR 532 vs Uladzimir Ignatik & Milos Raonic (BLR/CAN) WR 970
SF: Josh Goodall & David Rice WR 1073 vs (2) Olivier Charroin & Alexandre Renard (FRA/FRA) WR 563

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Thursday 14th of January 2010 12:41:50 PM

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

RESULT

Baker beat Nieminen by walkover

Nieminen took ill during the night so Baker is through to tomorrow's semis

LATEST

Goodall loses first set 6-4 to Lugassy

indiana · Tennis legend

Baker has found his tough looking section of the draw much less troublesome than expected biggrin

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

RESULT

Lugassy beat Goodall 6-4 6-4

indiana · Tennis legend

I see that stevegtennis.com shows the points from a 15K in 2010 as

1 / 3 / 8 / 15 / 27 http://stevegtennis.com/rankpoints.txt

ATP site Ranking FAQs still shows as :

1 / 3 / 7 / 14 / 25 http://www.atpworldtour.com/Rankings/Rankings-FAQ.aspx

Similarly the 10K points have slightly improved on the stevegtennis site from the semis onwards.

The stevegtennis site does actually say that there are slight changes for 2010.

I presume Jamie is now on 8 points and that stevegtennis have not made this up ( they showed the same as the ATP site last year ) ?

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 14th of January 2010 12:30:11 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stuart Fraser wrote:

RESULT

Lugassy beat Goodall 6-4 6-4

B*gger!

Let's see whether/hope JB can tame the Frog in the semi...

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

indiana wrote:

I see that stevegtennis.com shows the points from a 15K in 2010 as

1 / 3 / 8 / 15 / 27      http://stevegtennis.com/rankpoints.txt

ATP site Ranking FAQs still shows as :

1 / 3 / 7 / 14 / 25       http://www.atpworldtour.com/Rankings/Rankings-FAQ.aspx

Similarly the 10K points have slightly improved on the stevegtennis site from the semis onwards.

The stevegtennis site does actually say that there are slight changes for 2010.

I presume Jamie is now on 8 points and that stevegtennis have not made this up ( they showed the same as the ATP site last year ) ?

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 14th of January 2010 12:30:11 PM

Points this week are as follows:

1 / 3 / 7 / 14 / 25

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
I see that stevegtennis.com shows the points from a 15K in 2010 as

1 / 3 / 8 / 15 / 27      http://stevegtennis.com/rankpoints.txt

ATP site Ranking FAQs still shows as :

1 / 3 / 7 / 14 / 25       http://www.atpworldtour.com/Rankings/Rankings-FAQ.aspx

Similarly the 10K points have slightly improved on the stevegtennis site from the semis onwards.

The stevegtennis site does actually say that there are slight changes for 2010.

I presume Jamie is now on 8 points and that stevegtennis have not made this up ( they showed the same as the ATP site last year ) ?

Well spotted! I hadn't realised there were any changes except the points for reaching the FQR of an ATP 250, but the points for going deep in Futures have indeed changed according to the 2010 ATP Rulebook. I'll adjust the GB top 25 table accordingly.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/Corporate/Rulebook.aspx

I don't know if Stuart asked in Glasgow, but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the organisers and players there aren't aware of the change - it seems to have sneaked in under the radar to put it mildly!

What all this means. of course, is that unlike last year when just having no points to defend each week was enoughto keep moving up the rankings, this year players whose points totals don't change are likely to gradually slide down. (the number of tournaments at each level relative to last year has an effect too, and from that point of view the cancellation of the Besancon Challenger is not a good sign!)

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 14th of January 2010 12:59:59 PM

Count Zero · Tennis legend

now I'm sure I remember reading recently about an amnesty on pointing out others errors, so I'll make no comment on the fact Steven got it wrong

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

LATEST

Eaton is a set up against Renard

johnnylad · Tennis legend

C'mon Chris.

Nice news for Baker.

I wish Lugassy would s*d off...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stuart Fraser wrote:

LATEST

Eaton is a set up against Renard

Keep it up, Chris.

Let's see you keep the (doubtless impossible) dream of an all-Brit final going for one more day at least! wink

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

steven wrote:
I don't know if Stuart asked in Glasgow, but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the organisers and players there aren't aware of the change - it seems to have sneaked in under the radar to put it mildly!

Yeah, I asked and for this week, the ITF supervisor here is using the 2009 rulebook so that's why the old points have been listed. He imagines though that when the points go through, the new 2010 points will be awarded!

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

RESULTS

Eaton beat Renard 7-5 6-1
Goffin beat Galvani 6-3 2-6 7-5

So semi-final line-up tomorrow is as follows:

Baker V Lugassy
Eaton V Goffin