Week 21 - Futures F5 ($10k) - Ramat Hasharon, Israel - Hard

British_is_Best · County player

Week 21 - Futures F5 ($10k) - Ramat Hasharon, Israel - Hard

British_is_Best · County player

These two are in opposite halfs of the draw this week. Thornley has a likely QF match up with top seed and last week's champion (1) Amir Weintraub (ISR) WR 246. Rice, meanwhile, has a pretty favourable draw, the nearest seeded player being (8) Tal Eros (ISR) WR 907

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Sean won 3 & 4 and Dave won 0 & 4.

wolf · Tennis legend

R1: RICE (GBR) / THORNLEY (GBR) (2) defeated ALCABAS (ISR) / BRANZBERG (ISR) 6-3 6-3

QF: DAXHELET (BEL) / DE WEERDT (BEL) Vs RICE (GBR) / THORNLEY (GBR) (2)

SMC1809 · All-time great

R2: Or RAM-HAREL (ISR) UNR Vs Sean THORNLEY (GBR) (5) WR 620

R2: Daniel SKRIPNIK (ISR) UNR Vs David RICE (GBR) (2) WR 461

British_is_Best · County player

R16: (5) Sean Thornley (GBR) WR 620 beat (Q) Or Ram-Harel (ISR) UNR, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 smile

R16: (2) David Rice (GBR) WR 461 beat (Q) Daniel Skripnik (ISR) UNR, 6-2, 6-3 smile

QF: (5) Sean Thornley (GBR) WR 620 v (1) Amir Weintraub (ISR) WR 244

QF: (2) David Rice (GBR) WR 461 v (8) Tal Eros (ISR) WR 915

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Laurent-Olivier Daxhelet & Olaf de Weerdt (BEL/BEL) UNR lost to (2) David Rice & Sean Thornley WR 607 by 1 & 3 smile

SF: Yann Minster & Stanislav Poplavsky (SUI/UKR) UNR vs (2) David Rice & Sean Thornley WR 607

steven · Tennis legend

Sean says he got a beatdown from Weintraub today - not a big surprise, that'll be the 8th match in a row Weintraub has won without getting taken past 6-4 in a set.

steven · Tennis legend

I tweeted that Weintraub stat to back up Sean's tweet, and he must have seen it and replied:

"thanks for support it's always rough getting taken to the cleaners when the match is never really in your hands!"

steven · Tennis legend

It really was a beatdown - Weintraub has only lost 4 games in 3 matches this week!

QF: (5) Sean Thornley WR 620 lost to (1) Amir Weintraub (ISR) WR 244 by 0 & 1

QF: (2) David Rice WR 461 beat (8) Tal Eros (ISR) WR 915 by 2 & 2

SF: (2) David Rice WR 461 v (3/Q) Noam Okun (ISR) WR 558 (CH 95 in 2002) - Dr No gets Boggo's old nemesis

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: Yann Minster & Stanislav Poplavsky (SUI/UKR) UNR lost to (2) David Rice & Sean Thornley WR 607 by 0 & 1 smile

Final: (1) John-Paul Fruttero & Amir Weintraub (USA/ISR) WR 589 vs (2) David Rice & Sean Thornley WR 607

steven · Tennis legend

A tweet Sean sent to Freddie Nielsen makes it pretty clear that they are going all out for a top 250 place by the WC cutoff:

"@freddienielsen yeah all good. You? It's looking tight mate. Up to about 263 or something, in final so could go higher. Nervous times! U ok?"

JM1138 · Lower Club Player

More good news from Israel:

SF: (2) David Rice WR 461 beat (3/Q) Noam Okun (ISR) WR 558 6-3 2-6 6-4 smile

steven · Tennis legend

Not so good news from Sean, but impressively close:

"Lost 6-7, 7-6, 14-12. Had 3 mps! Will be devestated if our Wimby dreams have been shattered because of 1 point! #Gutted"

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Not so good news from Sean, but impressively close:

"Lost 6-7, 7-6, 14-12. Had 3 mps! Will be devestated if our Wimby dreams have been shattered because of 1 point! #Gutted"

That's heart-breaking. cry Any chance they'll still be given a wild card? Not hard to see how much it would mean to Sean & David...