Week 14 - Futures F9 ($15K) - Little Rock, AR, USA - Hard

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 14 - Futures F9 ($15K) - Little Rock, AR, USA - Hard

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Fairly impressive score from JB. Nice result for TB too.

indiana · Tennis legend

Re Jamie - what, what, what confuse Very good though biggrin

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Some decent news again this evening:
L32: (Q) Matthew Short WR 932 lost to (5) Nicholas Monroe (USA) WR 310 by 7-6(9) 1-6 3-6 (Matt obviously gave Nick a run for his money! )
L32: (Q) Andrew Gregory WR 1287 lost to (LL) Boris Nicola Bakalov (BUL) WR 810 by 2-5 rtd (hope it's not a serious problem)
L32: Jamie Baker WR 398 defeated (6) Adam el Mihdawy (USA) WR 366 by 0 & 0!
L32: (Q) Tim Bradshaw WR 1139 defeated (Q) Daniel Danilovic (SWE) WR 844 by 2 & 3
L16: (LL) Boris Nicola Bakalov (BUL) WR 810 vs Jamie Baker WR 398
L16: (7) Arnau Brugues (ESP) WR 375 vs (Q) Tim Bradshaw WR 1139
Just to complete the set, from yesterday:
L16: Alex Bogdanovic WR 396 vs Michael McClune (USA) WR 702*
* banana skin alert!

It's not often you see an unseeded Brit double bagel a seed! Unless el Mihdawy was injured/ill early on and was honourable enough to limp through the match anyway, that's quite a result! biggrin

That's a good win for Tim too - not only is Danilovic ranked about 300 places higher, he's also been top 500 and has beaten Bloomers (just last year), Baker and Flembo in the past. biggrin

It looks like Shorty did very well to edge that 1st set tiebreak, but the scoreline in the remaining two sets suggests that Monroe may have woken up after that! confuse

Just as it looked like Andrew was finally getting some luck (with Gregorc pulling out) after all the troubles he's had since his switch from AUS to GB last year, the poor guy has to retire - how unlucky can you get? cry

Still, some good should still come of Gregorc's w/d, with Bakalov playing Jamie next. The Bulgarian's ranking of 810 is a CH - at the age of 30!

Reeltime · Satellite level

What a result for Jamie B! I'll play optimist and say that it looks like he just played a lot better then his oppo.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
QF: Matt Short & Ty Trombetta (USA) WR 2544 vs (2) Nima Roshan & Artem Sitak* (AUS/NZL) WR 560

Mat-Ty lost by 2 & 0. cry

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Well, what do you know? Two out of three!

L16: Alex Bogdanovic WR 396 defeated Michael McClune (USA) WR 702 by 4 &2 smile

L16: (LL) Boris Nicola Bakalov (BUL) WR 810 lost to Jamie Baker WR 398 by 2 & 0 smile

L16: (7) Arnau Brugues (ESP) WR 375 defeated (Q) Tim Bradshaw WR 1139 by 3 & 4 cry

QF: Alex Bogdanovic WR 396 vs (5) Nicholas Monroe (USA) WR 310

QF: (4) Vasek Pospisil (CAN) vs Jamie Baker WR 398

indiana · Tennis legend

Disappointing to see James concede two more games than in his first round match, poor show wink

Seriously be really interesting to see now how he performs now against Pospisil.

Sure hope we see semi final points or better being won by at least one of the guys

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 8th of April 2011 12:20:02 AM

Count Zero · Tennis legend

another QF for Boggo, the most dangerous round.

steven do you still have those stats somewhere on Boggo's win % per round.

hopefully both guys can get the win here, so we're guaranteed a finalist (no prizes for guessing who i'm going for).
the shame is even if the guys lose today they may find they can't make Tallahassee Q sign in anyway. shame it's not a Sat final, at least then you'll have made the SF's to miss out on qualies next week.

steven · Tennis legend

Count Zero wrote:
another QF for Boggo, the most dangerous round.

steven do you still have those stats somewhere on Boggo's win % per round.

hopefully both guys can get the win here, so we're guaranteed a finalist (no prizes for guessing who i'm going for).
the shame is even if the guys lose today they may find they can't make Tallahassee Q sign in anyway. shame it's not a Sat final, at least then you'll have made the SF's to miss out on qualies next week.

They're both playing at 10 am local time and assuming Tallahassee sign-in closes at 9 pm, the only realistic option (based on a VERY quick search) appears to be the 1.01 pm flight from Little Rock via Atlanta (almost certainly too tight even if they lose in straight sets, since I doubt the airport is close to the tennis centre in Little Rock and they won't have tickets yet either) - that arrives in Tallahassee at 6.38 pm, everything else arrives at 8.48 pm or later.

It does seem a bit thoughtless to have a Sunday Final in a Futures event the week before a nearby Challenger, given that SEs to the higher level event won't be available however well players do here.

steven · Tennis legend

Count Zero wrote:
another QF for Boggo, the most dangerous round.

steven do you still have those stats somewhere on Boggo's win % per round.
In Challengers only, his round reached %s in 157 events are:
R1: 49%, R2: 21%, QF: 17%, SF: 5%, RU: 3%, WI: 6%
... and his win %s in each round are:
R1: 51%, R2: 59%, QF: 45%, SF: 62%, FI: 69%
So yes, in Challengers at least, the QF round still tends to be the biggest banana skin - his record when he reaches SFs and beyond is very good.
Oddly enough, his record in Futures this year shows a similar pattern (albeit based on just 5 events!) - win %s in each round are:
R1: 80%, R2: 75%, QF: 33%, SF: 100%, FI: 100%
Even in 2003/4 (the last time he played Futures before this year), the QF round seems to have been the biggest danger zone. I have no idea why this pattern has continued for so long though!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Thanks Steven, it's funny how the QF seem to be the biggest stepping stone, and we know generally it's not like those loses are generally to seeds etc, it could almost be anyone.

Btw when you checked those flight details did you check the cost. could be a factor too, esp for the guys that aren't on Aegon.

steven · Tennis legend

Count Zero wrote:
Btw when you checked those flight details did you check the cost. could be a factor too, esp for the guys that aren't on Aegon.

Yes, horrendous - over $600 for the Delta Airlines flight at 1 pm.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i can't remember the exact prize money breakdown, but i think $600 would be a fair chunk of even the winners check at one of these events.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Boggo won, don't know score.