Week 29 Futures - Ireland F1 ($15,000) - Dublin (Carpet)

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

RE: Week 29 Futures - Ireland F1 ($15,000) - Dublin (Carpet)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Not Stefan's day, but he & his Kiwi playing partner certainly gave the third seeds in the doubles a run for their money:

R1: Anton Bettink (NZL) & Stefan Sterland-Markovic UNR lost to (3) Daniel Glancy & Miloslav Mecir (IRL/SVK) WR 1137 2-6 7-6(3) [11-13] hmm

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
A better result

Short beat Pel 3-6, 7-6(8), 7-5

Nice to see one of our lads getting the better of that pesky Dutchman!

RJA · Hall of fame

Bloody good job Short won, otherwise there would have been a British loser in all 8 singles matches played today.

steven · Tennis legend

A round-up of R1 - * means it was played today:

L32: (WC) Oliver Hudson WR 1243 lost to (4) Michael Look (AUS) WR 463 by 6-3 6-7(6) 6-3
L32: Matthew Short WR 1007 beat (Q) David Pel (NED) WR 1590 by 3-6 7-6(8) 7-5
L32: (Q) Keelan Oakley WR 1793 v lost to (WC) Ciaran Fitzgerald (IRL) UNR by 1-6 6-4 6-2 bleh
L32: (Q) Stefan Sterland-Markovic WR 1744 lost to (7) James McGee (IRL) WR 516 by 1 & 4
L32: (Q) Joshua Miller UNR lost to Emilien Firmin (FRA) WR 923 by 6-7(1) 7-6(6) 6-3
* L32: Marcus Willis WR 677 beat (Q) Anton Bettink (NZL) UNR by 3-6 6-4 6-1
L32: Richard Gabb WR 1196 beat (3) Chris Eaton WR 424 by 7-6(7) 6-1 biggrin bleh
L32: (Q) Harry David Meehan UNR lost to (3) Fabrice Martin (FRA) WR 505 by 4 & 4 cry
L32: Neal Skupski WR 949 lost to (Q) Mark Bowtell (IRL) UNR by 6-4 5-7 6-3 bleh
* L32: Lewis Burton WR 877 beat (Q) Tom Farquharson WR 1264 by 6-2 2-6 7-6(10) smile cry

L16: Matthew Short WR 1007 v (4) Michael Look (AUS) WR 463
L16: Marcus Willis WR 677 v Richard Gabb WR 1196
L16: Lewis Burton WR 877 v (2) Miloslav Mecir (SVK) WR 303

steven · Tennis legend

Albano Olivetti(FRA)/Neal Skupski(GBR) def Richard Gabb/Keelan Oakley (GBR) in 1st rd doubles 67(4) 63 11-9
Barry King / Fiachra Lennon (IRL) win first set v Oliver Hudson / Nikolai Snapes (GBR) 6-1, 1-0 up in the 2nd

steven · Tennis legend

King/Lennon def Hudson/Snapes (GBR) 61 63

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

^^^^^^

Not like you to bother reporting doubles results from a Futures event, Steven!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
L16: Matthew Short WR 1007 v (4) Michael Look (AUS) WR 463

An early opportunity for Matt to avenge his defeat last week at Look's hands! wink

By the way, Steven, I think you may have got your maths a bit wrong in your tweet to Tennis Ireland: surely only three Brits are through to the second round, as witness the rest of your round-up... confuse

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Doubles round-up:

R1: Oliver Hudson & Nikolai Snapes UNR lost to Barry King & Fiachra Lennon (IRL/IRL) UNR by 1 & 3

R1: Albano Olivetti (FRA) & Neal Skupski WR 1536 defeated Richard Gabb & Keelan Oakley WR 2664 by 6-7(4) 6-3 [11-9] (ding-dong battle there! disbelief )

R1: Anton Bettink (NZL) & Stefan Sterland-Markovic UNR lost to (3) Daniel Glancy & Miloslav Mecir (IRL/SVK) WR 1137 by 2-6 7-6(3) [11-13]

R1: Matt Short & Marcus Willis UNR defeated Sam Barry & Ciaran Fitzgerald (IRL/IRL) UNR by 6-4 4-6 [10-6] smile

QF: (4) Michael Look (him again! furious ) & Ruan Roelofse (AUS/RSA) WR 1297 vs Albano Olivetti (FRA) & Neal Skupski WR 2664

QF: Matt Short & Marcus Willis UNR vs (2) James Cluskey & James McGee (IRL/IRL) WR 1110

C'mon, Neal & "Typewriter Man" & Matt & Marcus!

Salmon · Tennis legend

These days every alternate post seems to contain "Michael Look"! And I hadn't even heard of the guy a month back.

Josh · Challenger level

Stircrazy wrote:
steven wrote:
L16: Matthew Short WR 1007 v (4) Michael Look (AUS) WR 463

An early opportunity for Matt to avenge his defeat last week at Look's hands!
By the way, Steven, I think you may have got your maths a bit wrong in your tweet to Tennis Ireland: surely only three Brits are through to the second round, as witness the rest of your round-up...

Short, Willis, Gabb and Burton = 4 smile

steven · Tennis legend

Re. doubles - Tennis Ireland tweeted the doubles updates @ me, so it would have been rude not to post them. They also keep RTing my GB v Ireland type tweets, which seems to have got me some new Irish followers LOL

Re. counting - phew, I'm glad I can still count correctly when it only needs the fingers of one hand

Re. 'the Look' - yes, I had noticed him a few times before but he seems to be making a bid to be the new 'the Groth' the last few weeks. (in Aussie frequent Brit-basher terms)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Josh wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
steven wrote:
L16: Matthew Short WR 1007 v (4) Michael Look (AUS) WR 463

An early opportunity for Matt to avenge his defeat last week at Look's hands!
By the way, Steven, I think you may have got your maths a bit wrong in your tweet to Tennis Ireland: surely only three Brits are through to the second round, as witness the rest of your round-up...
Short, Willis, Gabb and Burton = 4

Oops! ashamed Sorry, yes, I freely admit it: it was my own maths that was at fault! I think my eye must have been misled by the sight of only three Round 2 encounters Steven posted & interpreted them as only three Brits through, totally overlooking the fact that one match involved a Brit vs another Brit (hadn't for some reason got round to highlighting Marcus' name on my draw sheet, either!)... In my defence, maths was never my strong suit at school. Took me all my time to scrape a 6 at "O" Level. Should've known better than to take this MB's premier statistician to task!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Took me all my time to scrape a 6 at "O" Level. Should've known better than to take this MB's premier statistician to task!
I thought O level grades went from A-E then U and it was only CSEs that had numbered grades? Or were O-level grades numbered at some point in time too?

Have no recollection whatsoever of when the switch from numbers to letters at that level occurred (never needed to know), but when I was at school (late 60s/early 70s), pass marks at O (for Ordinary) Level went from 1 to 6. That said, my most recent formal national qualification at that level (an A in Spanish following evening classes at my local FE college) was attained in the last year in which O Levels were awarded (summer of 1987). Picked up an A at A Level a couple of years later, too... wink