clayfan, have you seen much of Slabba's matches over the past few days ? How do you think he's playing especially on clay ? I haven't watched any of his matches for some time so would be interested to know
I saw most of his 2nd round match last week and he was looking good, not too far off his form from Queens last year. His opponent looked pretty handy too, although he lost in qualies this week and Slabba had to play well to win.
R1: (1) Josh Goodall & Alex Slabinsky WR 503 defeated Ahmed El Menshawy & Stefan Sterland-Markovic UNR by 6-4 7-6(4) R1: Julien Obry & Adrien Puget (FRA/FRA) UNR defeated Burnham Arlidge & Chris Priddle WR 2311 by 2 & 2 R1: (3) Barry King (IRL) & Marcus Willis WR 898 defeated Neil Pauffley & Alex Ward WR 1514 by 6-2 3-6 [11-9] R1: Antoine Escoffier & Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA/FRA) UNR defeated Jack Carpenter & George Morgan by a w/o R1: David Rice & Sean Thornley WR 1461 defeated (4) Colin Ebelthite & Jarryd Maher (AUS/AUS) WR 1006 by 7-6(5) 7-6(1) R1: Enrique López & Roberto Ortega (ESP/ESP) UNR defeated Richard Chaudry & Ben Pritchard UNR by a w/o R1: Richard Gabb & Ashley Hewitt UNR defeated (2) Nacho Coll & Alexander Sadecky (ESP/SUI) by a w/o
Quarter-finals:
(1) Josh Goodall & Alex Slabinsky WR 503 vs Julien Obry & Adrien Puget (FRA/FRA) UNR (3) Barry King (IRL) & Marcus Willis WR 898 vs Antoine Escoffier & Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA/FRA) UNR James Cluskey & Colin O'Brien (IRL/IRL) WR 1362 vs David Rice & Sean Thornley WR 1461 Enrique López & Roberto Ortega (ESP/ESP) UNR vs Richard Gabb & Ashley Hewitt UNR
Slabba has been looking back at his best. Fighting for every point and really up for it. Great result today. Sadly Cox could not get the better of Rodrigues but Rodrigues is an excellent player. Grassi will be a good test for Ward. I wasn't there today but I expect Eysseric will be the guy to watch here. Slabba with an outside chance.
ITF has Rodrigues winning the 2nd round match 2 and 1, not Obry as Stircrazy must have mis-read.
It was the BBC who had Obry beating Rodrigues (and haven't corrected it since) - the results didn't appear onthe ITF or LTA sites until this morning and on the ATP site, even the draw hasn't appeared yet
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I was getting the impression that Slabba was recently getting back to something nearer his best form after seeming to take a long time after his time out last year.
It's good to see Josh and clayfan confirming this at first hand