Week 47 - Challenger (€106,500+H) - Helsinki, Finland - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Week 47 - Challenger (€106,500+H) - Helsinki, Finland - Hard

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

from Sean's Twitter: 'Just took a win first round bangers. 4 in the third. Credit to my opponent. He played really well but I managed to scrounge a break at 4-4.'

indiana · Tennis legend

Looks a good effort by Sean in his QR2 against Timo Nieminen but lost in 3 sets.

As per his Twitter : "Lost 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Played well but got pretty tired in my 6th set of the day."

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 20th of November 2010 08:22:40 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (1) Johan Brunström (SWE) & Ken Skupski vs (WC) Micke Kontinen (Henri's brother?) & Freddie Nielsen (FIN/DEN)

R1: Jamie Delgado & Jonny Marray vs (4) Leos Friedl & David Skoch (CZE/CZE)

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 22nd of November 2010 07:18:01 PM

Salmon · Tennis legend

Good to see the tournament offer wild cards to talented players like Marko Djokovic.

How odd is it that the three guys who are in with a chance of making AO qualies, but are not guaranteed (i.e. Coxy, Evo and Baker), are skipping the last two weeks of the challenger season.

I'm not saying that skipping AO is a bad move, but it's not very likely that three good hard court players want to skip a big money+big experience event, is it?

P.S. I am not including Bloomers since he is injured (I think).

Smidster · Challenger level

Ken will look to get back into winning ways tomorrow 4th match on centre

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Salmon wrote:

........................ P.S. I am not including Bloomers since he is injured (I think).

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Hopefully bloomers can recover, he;s had a lot of back problems hasn't he and they do take ages to get over, of course i had 1st hand experience recently watching Boggo try and come back and there;s very little you can do save Phyiso and yoga etc.

hopefully if Rich can recover well over Xmas there's no reason to believe he cant have a good 2011, if he can get some decent points b4 Newport at least.

daisy · County player

HELSINKI 2010
The website has just one page in English but when you click on links given for draws and OOP the rest is all in Finnish so you have to live with the titles.

There is livescoring but nothing on the board just yet.

This is the OOP. Times are local, Helsinki is 2hrs ahead of the UK

KESKUSKENTTÄ alkaen klo 14.00
Ivan Navarro, Espanja - Edouard Roger-Vasselin, Ranska
Ruben Bemelmans, Belgia - Jurgen Zopp, Viro
Aikaisintaan klo 17.30 (15.30 UK time)
Timo Nieminen - Michal Przysiezny, Puola
Johan Brunström, Ruotsi / Ken Skupski, Iso-Britannia - Micke Kontinen / Frederik Nielsen, Tanska

KENTTÄ 3 alkaen klo 14.00
Blaz Kavcic, Slovenia - Franco Skugor, Kroatia
Denis Gremelmayr, Saksa - Jan-Lennard Struff, Saksa
Aikaisintaan klo 17.00
Tomasz Bednarek, Puola / Igor Zelenay, Slovakia - Marko Djokovic, Serbia / Antony Dupuis, Ranska
Teymuraz Gabashvili, Venäjä - Richard Berankis, Liettua

wolf · Tennis legend

Live scores on bwin - https://www.bwin.com/livebets.aspx?eventId=2127703&zoneid=in10300

Ken's match just started.

-- Edited by wolf on Monday 22nd of November 2010 05:46:46 PM

DavidC · Tennis legend

Ken & partner win 7-6(1) 7-6(4)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

They did it: 7-6(?) 7-6(4). smile

I may be wrong (my Finnish is non-existent), but I think there was some technical problem preventing the live scoreboard from working today. If so, let's hope it's resolved tomorrow, as Delgo & Jonny M are on in the first match on one of the "outer" courts.

helki · Futures qualifying

DavidC wrote:

Ken & partner win 7-6(1) 7-6(4)

Looks to have been a close one,

but at least the gods favoured a Brit for a change. smile

A day off tomorrow while their future opponents battle it out. Fingers crossed for Jamie and Jonny.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

R1: Jamie Delgado & Jonny Marray vs (4) Leos Friedl & David Skoch (CZE/CZE)

Sadly, Jamie & Jonny couldn't quite make the Czechs bounce: they lost by 6-7(0) 3-6! cry

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (1) Johan Brunström (SWE) & Ken Skupski vs Dustin Brown & Martin Emmrich (GER - though the ATP site persists in describing him as Jamaican! wink

- /GER)

Final match on Court 4 tomorrow.