Week 29 Futures - Ireland F1 ($15k) - Dublin - Carpet

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 29 Futures - Ireland F1 ($15k) - Dublin - Carpet

steven · Tennis legend

L32: (1) Josh Goodall WR 356 lost to Daniel Glancy (IRL) WR 971 by 6-4 5-1 ret. bleh

L32: Dan Cox WR 784 beat Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM) WR 754 by 4 & 4 smile

L32: (Q) Stefan Sterland-Markovic UNR beat Jarryd Maher (AUS) WR 741 by 6-3 ret. biggrin

L32: (WC) Chris Priddle WR 1076 lost to (7) Andrea Falgheri (ITA) WR 611 by 6-3 3-6 6-3 cry

L32: Burnham Arlidge WR 911 lost to Barry King (IRL) WR 713 by 5-7 7-5 7-5 cry

L32 (Mon): (Q) Philip Barlow WR 1224 lost to (Q) Antoine Escoffier (FRA) UNR by 6-7(2) 6-4 7-6(6) bleh

Those last three losses were all very close.

L16: Dan Cox WR 784 v Daniel Glancy (IRL) WR 971
L16: (Q) Stefan Sterland-Markovic UNR v Carl Bergman (SWE) WR 660

Winners to play each other in the QFs.

RJA · Hall of fame

In some ways it is re-assuring that Josh had to retire. If the result was down to injury it isn't as bad as it seems.

Let's just hope it isn't too bad and that he will be okay by next week.

indiana · Tennis legend

Well, it's reassuring if Josh was really quite signficantly struggling with injury / illness for a long time in the match.

It does seem perhaps quite strange to go to the point of defeat at 6 - 4 5 - 1 down ( I am assuming that score is the right way round ) and then retire . Then again once defeat has become absolutely clear maybe best to save an injury one has been trying to fight on with, if that was the problem.

I just recall an opponent to a Brit retiring on the point of a shock defeat and this in some ways being disapproved of by some in this forum.

At the moment we don't really seem to know what has occurred here, so it would just be interesting to know a bit more detail about the circumstances.

As RJA says, hopefully any injury problems do not prove too serious or longlasting.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 21st of July 2010 12:04:03 AM

RJA · Hall of fame

indiana wrote:

Well, it's reassuring if Josh was really quite signficantly struggling with injury for a long time in the match.

It does seem perhaps quite strange to go to the point of defeat at 6 - 4 5 - 1 down ( I am assuming that score is the right way round ) and then retire . Then again once defeat has become absolutely clear maybe best to save an injury one has been trying to fight on with.

I just recall an opponent to a Brit retiring on the point of a shock defeat and this in some ways being disapproved of by some in this forum.

At the moment we don't really seem to know what has occurred here, so it would just be interesting to know a bit more detail about the circumstances.

As RJA says, hopefully any injury problems do not prove too serious or longlasting.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 20th of July 2010 11:59:53 PM

In someways I disagree with retiring at 1-5 but I would say it depends on who is serving next. If you are receiving you should probably just let your opponent serve it out as you are unlikely to do any more damage to yourself. If you are serving it is a bit different.

Of course if you are badly hurt the abobe goes out of the window.

Josh · Challenger level

That was Lopez in the first round of Eastbourne who retired 6-3 5-4 down just when Ward was about to serve for the match. Obviously we don't just how hurt Goodall was but the scoreline doesn't look good on the face of it.

steven · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:

indiana wrote:

Well, it's reassuring if Josh was really quite signficantly struggling with injury for a long time in the match.

It does seem perhaps quite strange to go to the point of defeat at 6 - 4 5 - 1 down ( I am assuming that score is the right way round ) and then retire . Then again once defeat has become absolutely clear maybe best to save an injury one has been trying to fight on with.

I just recall an opponent to a Brit retiring on the point of a shock defeat and this in some ways being disapproved of by some in this forum.

At the moment we don't really seem to know what has occurred here, so it would just be interesting to know a bit more detail about the circumstances.

As RJA says, hopefully any injury problems do not prove too serious or longlasting.
In someways I disagree with retiring at 1-5 but I would say it depends on who is serving next. If you are receiving you should probably just let your opponent serve it out as you are unlikely to do any more damage to yourself. If you are serving it is a bit different.
Of course if you are badly hurt the abobe goes out of the window.

The issue indiana is referring to is when F-Loppy retired when Wardy was about to serve for the match in Eastbourne, thus denying him the chance to celebrate the biggest win of his career properly in front of his home crowd. Many of us thought that was a graceless thing to do when he clearly hadn't suddenly badly hurt himself and all he'd have had to do is stand there and watch four serves go past him. A Futures event with hardly anybody watching is a different matter, though I guess if it's the only ATP-ranked event in Ireland this year maybe it did attract a bit of a crowd.

In any case, we don't know what happened here to make Josh retire or who was about to serve.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Wow, Matthew Asciak has gone up to 924 during my last hiatus from tennis. Good to see!

Cox will be tired but he needs to reach the final here. No one left in his half that I'm particularly concerned about, although he'll need to play like last week.

According to the ITF site, this is the world's second oldest tennis tournament. Impressive, isn't it?

SMC1809 · All-time great

SMC1809 wrote:

Stefan & his partner also won their doubles match.

Well, maybe 'won' wasn't exactly correct.

L16: GARANGANGA (ZIM) / STERLAND-MARKOVIC (GBR) defeated LUDLOW (USA) / MAHER (AUS) Walkover smile

L16: DANIS (SVK) / KRKOSKA (CZE) defeated BANT (GBR) / ROSENZWEIG (FRA) 6-4 6-4 cry

QF: EBELTHITE (AUS) / KING (IRL) (3) Vs LA PORTE (USA) / SEATOR (GBR)
QF: GARANGANGA (ZIM) / STERLAND-MARKOVIC (GBR) Vs CREPALDI (ITA) / GRASSI (ITA) (4)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Dan Cox won 1-6 6-4 6-2 and plays Bergman next

Akhenaten · Pro player

2nd Round

Daniel COX (GBR) defeated Daniel GLANCY (IRL) 1-6 6-4 6-2
Carl BERGMAN (SWE) defeated Stefan STERLAND-MARKOVIC (GBR) 6-3 6-2

Quarterfinal

Daniel COX (GBR) Vs Carl BERGMAN (SWE) WR:660

Akhenaten · Pro player

Quarterfinal

EBELTHITE (AUS) / KING (IRL) (3) defeated LA PORTE (USA) / SEATOR (GBR) 6-4 6-4
CREPALDI (ITA) / GRASSI (ITA) (4) defeated GARANGANGA (ZIM) / STERLAND-MARKOVIC (GBR) 3-6 6-3 [10-5]

Akhenaten · Pro player

Akhenaten wrote:

Daniel COX (GBR) Vs Carl BERGMAN (SWE) WR:660

Bergman is probably under-ranked as he was out of action from Oct '09 to May '10.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, although Bergman was only actually WR 778 before his time off, he has been in pretty decent form since he came back.

Had three pretty good results on clay : two futures semi finals in Bulgaria, beating top 500 players and last week reaching Q3 in ATP qualifying in Bastad, beating Henri Kontinen WR 235 in 3 sets in Q2.

He also beat Igor Sijsling WR 154 on hard 6 - 0 6 -1

in the first round of Norway future at the end of June before losing in 3 sets to Alex Ward.

Shhh · Challenger level

Cox bt Bergman 4-6, 6-4, 6-4