Week 15 - Futures F12 ($10K) - Madrid, Spain - Clay

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

RE: Week 15 - Futures F12 ($10K) - Madrid, Spain - Clay

indiana · Tennis legend

The Magician Santoro wrote:
L32: (Q) Oliver Golding WR 1152 def. (WC) Roberto Ortega-Olmedo (ESP) WR 798 7-5, 6-1

He was 4-0 up in the first.

Good to see after my wafflings about Oli smile And it would certainly be folie to write him off in his next match.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 13th of April 2011 12:46:02 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

Better from Oli this week and a comprehensive win in the doubles to back it up. Have no idea how good his next opponent is but I would like to think an upset is well within his grasp.

JM1138 · Lower Club Player

L32: (LL) Jack Carpenter WR 1082 def. (WC) Abraham Gonzalez Jimenez (ESP) WR 694 6-3 6-2 biggrin

Lucky loser indeed! He'll play (5) Pablo Martin Adalia WR 453 in R2.

Slabba does get the second seed Clar Rossello.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (1) Miguel Angel López & Carlos Poch (ESP/ESP) WR 318 defeated Carl Bergman (SWE) & Alex Slabinsky WR 1318 by 4-6 6-3 [10-5] cry

1,000 ranking places apart, yet Slabba & partner nearly pulled it off...

QF: Daniel Coronado & Leonardo Gasparini (BRA/BRA) UNR lost to Ollie Golding & James Marsalek UNR by 1 & 0 smile

What a good day for Ollie! biggrin

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

awesome day for ollie!!!

Maza1987 · Challenger level

good stuff ollie

steven · Tennis legend

L16: (Q) Oliver Golding WR 1157 lost to (7) Alexandre Folie (BEL) WR 477 by 6-3 7-6(10)

L16: (LL) Jack Carpenter WR 1082 v (5) Pablo Martin-Adalia (ESP) WR 453 - awaiting result

L16: Alex Slabinsky WR 526 beat (2) Pedro Clar-Rossello (ESP) WR 261 by 3 & 4 biggrin

Both results tweeted by the players themselves. What a great result for Slabba on the devil dust! He plays the winner of Jack's match in the QFs.

Oli: "Played a very good match today but lost 63 76(10) .. Gutted not to take the second set after a few set points !"

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 14th of April 2011 12:41:22 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Very good looking win for Slabba and encouraging to see Oli's scores this week smile

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Great result for Slabba, Clar-Rossello has been sweeping up these Spanish futures and is around 155 in the race currently. So very good result.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Not sure how good that Belgian guy is, but certainly a bit better from Oli this week.

steven · Tennis legend

The Magician Santoro wrote:
Great result for Slabba, Clar-Rossello has been sweeping up these Spanish futures and is around 155 in the race currently. So very good result.

Yes, he's won 3 Spanish Futures so far this year and reached the Finals of 4 others!

Intriguingly, both my tweets about Slabba's win today have been retweeted by a Bollywood actress with nearly 40000 followers. A bit unusual (to say the least) but it turns out she was brought up in London, so perhaps she's a friend of Alex.

philwrig · Hall of fame

I also noticed that Judy Murray was now following you Steven. It seems that the news has got out that you are the man to follow on twitter for British tennis results.

-- Edited by philwrig on Thursday 14th of April 2011 04:24:28 PM

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Good effort from Jack going down 6-3 4-6 2-6 and so Slabba will face the 5th seed in the quarters.

steven · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:
I also noticed that Judy Murray was now following you Steven. It seems that the news has got out that you are the man to follow on twitter for British tennis results.

Yes, that was a bit of a (pleasant) shock. I wonder if she's hardcore enough to resist the temptation to unfollow when she sees how much I tweet about 10Ks and the like. wink

Actually, it always amazes me how few followers get fed up and unfollow - virtually all the unfollows I get are spammers (the ones I don't manage to block first!), so clearly there are plenty of people out there interested in the GB pros and looking for more info. If we're managing to reach more and more through a combination of the forum and twitter, that's really cool.

We seem to have outed another forum lurker too: biggrin

@alexslabinsky: "she is a very good friend indeed! :)"

It's very nice to have lurkers like this, just a little disconcerting when you realise this means they must read all this rubbish we write about them! (speaking only for myself when I say rubbish, obviously ... ashamed )