Week 46 Futures - Czech Rep F4 ($15K) - Roznov

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 46 Futures - Czech Rep F4 ($15K) - Roznov

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Dan gets an early break and leads 2-0*

Miriambee · Futures level

http://www.protenis.cz/ls/scoreboard.php?t=9957
score board live link again.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

2 bp's saved, 4-2*

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

5-3*

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

serves it out to 15, 6-4 0-0*

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

takes another early break, 3-1*

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

long game there with Dan missing a few chances for a double break, *3-2

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

5-3*

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

dan serves it out for a comfortable 6-4 6-4 win :)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

A golden opportunity for young Dan? If he can find a way to beat Rumler & reach the final, there he'd face either the only seed left standing, Jan Mertl (CZE/5), who is currently ranked 403, but has a career high of 163 (July 2007!), & who put out the Russian top seed, Matsukevitch, in three sets earlier, or the Czech WC, Jiri Vesely (WR 1231), who's just thrashed Luca Vanni (3) by 3 & 0 & also saw off Pavel Snobel (7) by 2 & 1 in the second round yesterday. Not to be underestimated, I think...

Well done, Dan! biggrin

Vesely finally met his match: Mertl beat him by 6-3 7-6(5), so

Final: (5) Jan Mertl (CZE) WR 403 vs Dan Smethurst WR 547

It would be a good one for Dan to win, but I fear Mertl may have just a bit too much for him.

SMC1809 · All-time great

That matches his best points haul of the year and will put him back into the top 500.

steven · Tennis legend

Mertl is the defending champion here - he beat Josh Goodall on his way to the title here last year, but lost a 3-setter to Boggo last month.

Drew · Nov 20, 2010

Well done to Dan....fingers crossed

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I daren't use the crossed fingers emoticon again, I might upset Indy - but yes, fingers crossed!