Week 32 Futures - Austria F3 ($10k) - Bad Waltersdorf (Clay)

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 32 Futures - Austria F3 ($10k) - Bad Waltersdorf (Clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

Vandenburg wrote:
WTF even with my fluency in the german language i have never ever heard of a place with the word bad in it before
The first half of that sentence surely isn't connected with the second?!?!

Having challenged the accuracy of his claim to mastery of German, Steven, I decided that a little discretion would be the better part of valour & forbore to draw attention to the non sequitur! I'm glad somebody else did, though. wink

Vandenburg · Futures level

Stircrazy wrote:

Vandenburg wrote:

WTF even with my fluency in the german language i have never ever heard of a place with the word bad in it before,is this a joke or something?

It's anything but a joke! Your German can't be all that fluent if you don't know that Bad (pronounced with a long "a") is the German word for "bath" & that German & Austrian (& Swiss, for all I know) towns with Bad in their names (Bad Godesberg, Bad Mergentheim, Bad Ischl, to name but three) are places which were once Roman baths & are now, in all probability, spa towns.

Herzlichen Gluckwunsch, verstehen sie benrath?

This causes much argument with english people who dont understand the german language variations.. I am flunet in low german, which is so different from the german they would speak in swiss austria or even central germany. Imagine, how the furthest apart dialects in the united kingdom, for example, south london accent and broad glaswegian accent, imagine that but ten times worse,the dialects in germany are so diiferent they are different languages and cannot communicate in conversation.

If roger federer was to walk around on the streets on hamburg,no one would be able to have a conv with him as its totally different german language and spellings.

indiana · Tennis legend

Oh, that's pretty bad.

steven · Tennis legend

I have to admit, Vandenburg does have a point there, though I still can't understand why someone who speaks low German (benrath) doesn't know 'bad'. There's huge variation from north to south, plus there are dialects like Schwäbisch that are almost different languages in part, and Schwyzertütsch (Fed's native dialect) which pretty much IS a different language. Austrian German is far more like southern German 'hochdeutsch' but they have an accentthat never fails to make me laugh.

Most of the 'Bad' places are in the south of Germany and in Austria, so I guess that's another point in Vandenburg's defence.

British_is_Best · County player

L32: (6) Joshua Milton WR 622 beat Daniel Gieb WR 1147 (AUT) 6-4, 6-2 smile
L32: (7) James Feaver WR 764 beat Gibril Diarra UNR (AUT) 7-6(2), 7-6(10) smile

L16: (6) Joshua Milton WR 622 v Pascal Brunner WR 1092 (AUT)
L16: (7) James Feaver WR 764 v Claudio Fortuna WR 968 (ITA)

helki · Futures qualifying

British_is_Best wrote:

L32: (6) Joshua Milton WR 622 beat Daniel Gieb WR 1147 (AUT) 6-4, 6-2
L32: (7) James Feaver WR 764 beat Gibril Diarra UNR (AUT) 7-6(2), 7-6(10)

L16: (6) Joshua Milton WR 622 v Pascal Brunner WR 1092 (AUT)
L16: (7) James Feaver WR 764 v Claudio Fortuna WR 968 (ITA)

Well done boys.

I shall refrain from any other comment this time round.

Smidster · Challenger level

The top seed, who Josh was seeded to meet in QF, has also been knocked out by an Australian Qualifier so draw may be opening.

SMC1809 · All-time great

R2: Pascal BRUNNER (AUT) defeated Joshua MILTON (GBR) (6) 3-6 6-2 6-3 cry

R2: James FEAVER (GBR) (7) defeated Claudio FORTUNA (ITA) 6-3 6-3 smile

Maybe, just like Dan, Josh has ran out of steam after two weeks of exertion.

QF: James FEAVER (GBR) (7) Vs Michal KONECNY (CZE)

steven · Tennis legend

Smidster wrote:

The top seed, who Josh was seeded to meet in QF, has also been knocked out by an Australian Qualifier so draw may be opening.

Never tell a Brit their draw has opened up, it's guaranteed to make them freeze cry

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Fortuna favours the brave

indiana · Tennis legend

Do you not mean - Fortuna feavers the brave biggrin

SMC1809 · All-time great

QF: FEAVER (GBR) / MILTON (GBR) (2) defeated KOCEVAR-DESMAN (SLO) / PETELINSEK (SLO) 6-3 6-2 smile

SF: KONECNY (CZE) / URBANEK (CZE) (4) defeated FEAVER (GBR) / MILTON (GBR) (2) 7-6(5) 7-6(2) cry

steven · Tennis legend

James was one of just two seeds left in the QFs but unfortunately fell just short of reaching his first SF since finishing up as runner-up in Kigali (RWA) last September.

QF: (7) James Feaver WR 764 lost to Michal Konecny (CZE) WR 924 by 6-4 4-6 7-5 bleh

However, this was his first Futures QF outside Africa for over a year and his first Futures QF in Europe since Ukraine F1 in June 2008, so I guess that's progress

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 12th of August 2010 03:38:33 PM