Boys: Asuncion Bowl, Paraguay - Grade 1 (Week 9)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys: Asuncion Bowl, Paraguay - Grade 1 (Week 9)

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

there's a fourth Argentine!??!?!! ARGH their talent pool is scary

Edit: Ah Renzo Olivo is the one i didn't know about, although he's only been as high as 16 yawn

-- Edited by The Knight on Monday 1st of March 2010 07:34:06 PM

DavidC · Tennis legend

Robert took advantage of a good draw, but finds himself against a top 50 player who beat Jack Carpenter, Tom Allen and James Marsalek in one clay court tournament last year. George and Andrew resume their doubles pairing as seventh seeds

R1 (L64)

(12) George Morgan (GBR) BYE
Robert Carter (GBR) d. Yuki Maramatsu (JPN) 6-4 6-2
Alvaro Nazal (CHI) d. Andrew Bettles (GBR) 6-2 7-5

R2

(12) George Morgan (GBR) v Manuel Agustin Belda (ARG)
Robert Carter (GBR) v (9) Jiri Vesely (CZE)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Judging from tomorrow's oop both must have lost cry

indiana · Tennis legend

Bah, so one of the Argie snipers got George even before he reached any of their musketeers cry

philwrig · Hall of fame

George didn't react well to losing his final last week.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

Least he gets more rest for the tourny next week.
It's difficult to keep having deep runs in these swings.

DavidC · Tennis legend

The upside of being taken out by an Argentine sniper is that George (and Andrew) can concentrate on the doubles before the cavalry (Ashley, Jack et al) arrive for the Brazilian tournaments wink

Doubles points will be very valuable for George, as his last 'counter' is currently zero. We are guaranteed British involvement in the semis.

R2

Manuel Agustin Belda (ARG) d. (12) George Morgan (GBR) 6-4 6-3
(9) Jiri Vesely (CZE) d. Robert Carter (GBR) 6-0 6-2

Doubles QF

Carter/Sawicki (GBR/POL) v (7) Bettles/Morgan (GBR)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Doubles QF

(7) Bettles/Morgan (GBR) d. Carter/Sawicki (GBR/POL) 6-2 6-2

SF

(6) Coria/Mena (ARG) v (7) Bettles/Morgan (GBR)

That's Guillermo's brother Federico, currently making waves (through to the quarters in singles) He is coached partly by G and sycophantically claims G to be his favourite player (few players register a favourite on the ITF site).

Maza1987 · Challenger level

^^Bonus points for managing to use "sycophantically" on BT smile

DavidC · Tennis legend

....very useful bonus points for George ensuring that he will climb past Jack Carpenter to the British number 2 spot. If they win the final that will be the first boys Grade 1 doubles success since Neil Pauffley and Marcus Willis in Croatia 2 years ago.

No bonus points for the ITF who have reversed a QF result to give different semi opponents

SF

(7) Bettles/Morgan (GBR) d. (1) Olivo (ARG) / Uchiyama (JPN) 6-4 7-6(6)

Final

(7) Bettles/Morgan (GBR) v (8) Dellien/Hidalgo (BOL/ECU)

indiana · Tennis legend

Great couple of week for George with his singles last week and then, after his singles reverse this week, going so far with Andrew in the doubles.

Hopefuly they can take the title.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

Very nice.

DavidC · Tennis legend

With the ITF again on 'junior results strike' this weekend I've eventually found the final score on a Paraguayan website. Unfortunately there's no title joy

Final

(8) Dellien/Hidalgo (BOL/ECU) d. (7) Bettles/Morgan (GBR) 4-6 6-3 [10-6] cry

Maza1987 · Challenger level

D'oh.