Week 11 Futures - Kazakhstan F1 ($15k) - Astana

steven · Tennis legend

Week 11 Futures - Kazakhstan F1 ($15k) - Astana

Ratty · County player

Wow, what a weird place to go, costs £800 minimum for the flight, why not play at Bath for half the cost?

steven · Tennis legend

Because he scraped a DA here (he'd have had to qualify in Bath) and the draw will be weaker.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

First Round
(1)Alexander Peya/Alexander Slabinsky (AUT/GBR) vs (WC)Kaysar Bekimov/Daniyar Junussov (KAZ)

Fairly good doubles partner there

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

johnnylad wrote:

First Round
(1)Alexander Peya/Alexander Slabinsky (AUT/GBR) vs (WC)Kaysar Bekimov/Daniyar Junussov (KAZ)

Fairly good doubles partner there

And it shows: they thrashed the Kazakhs by 1 & 0! biggrin

QF: (1) Alexander Peya (AUT) & Alex Slabinsky WR 428 vs Aleksandr Agafonov & Andrei Ciumac (UKR/MDA) WR 1418

steven · Tennis legend

Zhyrmont is now 0-5 against Brits but what a weird scoreline!

L32: Alex Slabinsky WR 735 beat Dzmitry Zhyrmont (BLR) WR 689 by 0-6 7-6(4) 6-0

L16: Alex Slabinsky WR 735 v (6) Ilya Belyaev (RUS) WR 404

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 16th of March 2010 02:46:31 PM

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Not sure what to make of that scoreline but at least Slabba won and has made some use of this trip to Kazakhstan.

Looks like it all hinged on the second set tiebreak and judging by the capitulation I would suggest that Zhyrmont was either a break up at some point in the second set or wasted a ton of match points and just lost his head.

Slabba at his best should be able to beat Belyaev so if he is back towards that level then another win could be on the cards.

Silver · County player

LOL! Strangest scoreline ever... aside from 0-6 6-0 6-0 maybe...

indiana · Tennis legend

Rice had a 0 - 6 6 - 1 7 - 6 ( 5 ) win in Canada QF last week.

At least a 0 - 6 7 - 6 ( 4 ) 6 - 0 is kind of following a trend in one direction smile

Certainly some strange scores around lately.

Josh · Challenger level

Didn't Venus Williams and Clijsters both bagel each other in the US Open last year? Not sure what the final scoreline was though.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

i think it was 6-0 0-6 7-6

steven · Tennis legend

L16: Alex Slabinsky WR 735 lost to (6) Ilya Belyaev (RUS) WR 404 by 6-2 4-6 6-3 cry

... and to save SC a trip to the drawsheet:

QF: (1) Alexander Peya (AUT) & Alex Slabinsky WR 428 beat Aleksandr Agafonov & Andrei Ciumac (UKR/MDA) WR 1418 by 7-6(2) 6-4

SF: (1) Alexander Peya (AUT) & Alex Slabinsky WR 428 v (3) Ivan Anikanov (UKR) & Murad Inoyatov (UZB) WR 577

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

... and to save SC a trip to the drawsheet:

QF: (1) Alexander Peya (AUT) & Alex Slabinsky WR 428 beat Aleksandr Agafonov & Andrei Ciumac (UKR/MDA) WR 1418 by 7-6(2) 6-4

SF: (1) Alexander Peya (AUT) & Alex Slabinsky WR 428 v (3) Ivan Anikanov (UKR) & Murad Inoyatov (UZB) WR 577

You didn't: I always check the draw sheets before I come on here!

That almost invariably means, however, that I find I've been pipped at the post. bleh

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Shame for Slabba to lose and it hasn't been the greatest start to the year but he is looking better and hopefully the points will start to come at some point.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Alexander Peya (AUT) & Alex Slabinsky WR 428 defeated (3) Ivan Anikanov (UKR) & Murad Inoyatov (UZB) WR 577 by 6-4 3-6 [10-2] smile

Final:

(1) Alexander Peya (AUT) & Alex Slabinsky WR 428 vs (2) Evgeny Kirillov & Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS/RUS) WR 429

The pairs could hardly be more evenly matched, though the Alexanders would appear to outnumber the Evgenys! wink I hope Slabba's learning some useful new tricks from Peya.