Week 17 - Futures F5 ($10K) - Bournemouth, Great Britain - Clay

philwrig · Hall of fame

RE: Week 17 - Futures F5 ($10K) - Bournemouth, Great Britain - Clay

philwrig · Hall of fame

*6-5

philwrig · Hall of fame

Liam lost 8-6, will be tough even for Liam to come back from given he looked the more likely winner for most of that first set.

indiana · Tennis legend

Darn, Liam had a set point in the tiebreak there at 6 - 5 on his own serve but then lost both service points.

All been very close. Although Liam was twice a break ahead, he was immediately broken back both times, the second time when serving for the set, and generally he has had just a bit more pressure put on his serve than vice versa.

Hopefully he'll just keep playing his game and still give himself a chance.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 27th of April 2011 01:16:10 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Liam serving at * 1 - 4 in the secoind set, was broken to 30 in game 4.

Needs a break, and not yet got past 15 in Torresi's 3 service games this set so far.

indiana · Tennis legend

Broken again, this time almost certainly to make it too much to ask, losing the last 3 points from 40 - 30.

Torresi will serve for the match. 1 - 5 *

indiana · Tennis legend

Torresi serves out to 30 and wins 7 - 6 (6) 6 - 1

Such a pity Liam couldn't have nicked the first set, serving for it at 5 - 3 and with a set point on his serve at 6- 5 in the TB.

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Think Josh got beat, he's not in a good mood quoting 'Ive had it with this dump'

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The Magician Santoro wrote:
Think Josh got beat, he's not in a good mood quoting 'Ive had it with this dump'

Yep, by 0-4 retired, so he didn't even see out the match! bleh Slabba's the only survivor:

R2: (Q) Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA) WR 804 lost to Alex Slabinsky WR 528 by 4 & 3 smile

QF: (5) Michal Schmid (CZE) WR 454 vs Alex Slabinsky WR 528

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

A better set of results in the doubles (good day for Slabba! smile ):

QF: James Marsalek & Marcus Willis UNR lost to Liam Broady & Ollie Golding WR 2342 by 3-6 6-3 [9-11] cry smile

QF: (4) Carlos Poch (ESP) & Alex Slabinsky WR 858 defeated Arthur de Greef & Germain Gigounon (BEL/BEL) UNR by 5 & 2 smile

QF: Jack Carpenter & Hiroyasu Ehara (JPN) UNR lost to (3) David Rice & Sean Thornley WR 722 by 1 & 3 cry smile

SF: Liam Broady & Ollie Golding WR 2342 vs (4) Carlos Poch (ESP) & Alex Slabinsky WR 858

SF: (3) David Rice & Sean Thornley WR 722 vs (2) Claudio Grassi & Federico Torresi (ITA/ITA) WR 593

wolf · Tennis legend

I can't see the results anywhere, so from yesterday, Marsalek lost to Sakharov 1 & 2 and Feaver lost to Folie 2 & 4.

indiana · Tennis legend

QF: Alex Slabinsky WR 524 beat (5) Michal Schmid (CZE) WR 457 7 - 6 (6) 6 - 1 smile

SF: Alex Slabinsky WR 524 vs (Q) Enrico Burzi ( ITA) WR 740

Burzi who beat Dan Smethurst in R1 has since fairly comfortably beaten the no 3 and 7 seeds. He also had some pretty decent wins in the Napoli Challenger last week.

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
QF: Alex Slabinsky WR 524 beat (5) Michal Schmid (CZE) WR 457 7 - 6 (6) 6 - 1
SF: Alex Slabinsky WR 524 vs (Q) Enrico Burzi ( ITA) WR 740
Burzi who beat Dan Smethurst in R1 has since fairly comfortably beaten the no 3 and 7 seeds. He also had some pretty decent wins in the Napoli Challenger last week.

Burzi also beat Slabba the only other time they played, at Udine back in 2006. He hit a career high of 269 in 2008.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 28th of April 2011 02:13:22 PM

SMC1809 · All-time great

Slabba & Poch-Gradin lead Oli & Liam *4-1 in the first set.

SMC1809 · All-time great

P-G & Slabba win 6-2 6-1.