Week 7 Futures- Turkey, Antalya ($10k)- Hard

SMC1809 · All-time great

RE: Week 7 Futures- Turkey, Antalya ($10k)- Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

SMC1809 wrote:

Not sure what's going on at the LTA, but they've got these results out quickly.

"Dan Smethurst and Alex Ward have both won their second round matches in Antalya. Smethurst beat Jiri Vesely 6-4, 6-0 whilst Ward won 6-3, 7-5 against the world No.364 and fourth seed Marcin Gawron."

They are wins wink

seagull · Hall of fame

Good wins

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Results confirmed on the ITF site:

L16: (Q) Jiri Vesely WR 865 lost to Dan Smethurst WR 442 by 4 & 0 smile

L16: Alex Ward WR 486 defeated (4) Marcin Gawron (POL) WR 364 by 3 & 5 biggrin

In the next round, another qualifier for Dan & another seed for Alex, whose result I really didn't see coming!

QF: Dan Smethurst WR 442 vs (Q) Andrei Gorban (MDA) WR 684
QF: (7) Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER) WR 404 vs Alex Ward WR 486

I hope they can both keep their momentum going.

Meanwhile, Denys Molchanov (UKR) did for Roelofse in the second round. smile

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Good day for Alex the Seed-basher:

R1: (1) Siarhei Betau & Denys Molchanov (BLR/UKR) WR 816 lost to George Morgan & Alex Ward WR 1422 by 3 & 3 biggrin

QF: George Morgan & Alex Ward WR 1422 vs Marcus Daniell & Michael Venus (NZL/NZL) WR 1131

* Gawron was the second seed in the doubles along with his compatriot, Grzegorz Panfil, but he lost that, too, to young Vesely & his compatriot, Roman Jebavy, by 1 & 2, so bad day for him!

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Thursday 17th of February 2011 02:28:47 PM

steven · Tennis legend

The Wardinator has played Stebe twice before, losing 3 & 3 to him way back in 2008 in qualifying for a Futures event in the Dominican Republic, and 6-2 7-6(6) in R1 of the Vicenza Future on clay last year. However, Stebe was in the middle of a long winning streak, having won his previous event as a qualifier, when Alex played him in Vicenza.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Dan Smethurst WR 442 defeated (Q) Andrei Gorban (MDA) WR 684 by 6-4 3-6 6-3 smile

Sadly, Steven's (implied) optimism was misplaced:

QF: (7) Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER) WR 404 defeated Alex Ward WR 486 by 5 & 5 cry

SF: Denys Molchanov (UKR) WR 428 vs Dan Smethurst WR 442

They look fairly evenly matched, but...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

After the good day for Alex came the bad:

QF: George Morgan & Alex Ward WR 1422 lost to Marcus Daniell & Michael Venus (NZL/NZL) WR 1131 by 1 & 4 cry

steven · Tennis legend

Im not really surprised the Wardinator lost to Stebe - I was really implying that I didn't expect him to get beaten as easily as the previous times, and both sets were very close, just a pity he wasn't able to nick one of them.

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

Semifinal

Denys MOLCHANOV (UKR) defeated Daniel SMETHURST (GBR) 6-3 6-4 cry

Cedrik-Marcel STEBE (GER) (7) defeated Valery RUDNEV (RUS) (2) 6-0 3-0 Retired