I know I'm tempting fate, but a chance for a SF for Josh as he'll face Herbert (WR 496) in the QF.

QF: (5) Josh Goodall WR 422 v Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) WR 492

Herbert beat Dan Cox in 3 sets in Poland last year.

Eaton/Goodall went down an early break but back on serve

*5-5

spud wrote:

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broke again straight away and lost set 7-5

5-7 *2-2

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Lost the second set, too, & with it the match, by 4-6.

Go'ed Josh. Well in

The Magician Santoro wrote:

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Just to let everyone know, Josh decided two weeks ago to concentrate on doubles and base his schedule around that. He will continue to play singles aslong as his ranking is high enough to enter the tournaments. Saying that hopefully a few deep runs in singles make him change his mind.

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I can understand that given recent singles and doubles form but it would be pity to lose yet another potential Challenger singles player, even if he hasn't shown great signs of being at that level recently.

This week can't have hurt anyway - in fact, this is the third time he's reached the semis of a Future since the start of November. Maybe taking the pressure off as far as singles is concerned has helped, though he has had a very nice draw this week, with the other seed in his quarter retiring in R1 - you still have to take advantage of course and recently, that wouldn't have been a foregone conclusion.

Eleskovic has just beaten Gojowczyk in 3 sets, so:

SF: (5) Josh Goodall WR 422 v (6) Ervin Eleskovic WR 414 - can Josh avenge Chris's R2 loss?

 

-- Edited by steven on Friday 4th of February 2011 09:33:12 PM