Week 33 - Summer Universiade - Shenzhen, China

steven · Tennis legend

Week 33 - Summer Universiade - Shenzhen, China

steven · Tennis legend

L64: Kyle Brassington WR 1421 lost to Pedro Zerbini (BRA) UNR by 7-6(2) 6-3 bleh
L64: Edward Corrie WR 1252 v Bongani Ndimande (ZIM) UNR - Monday

DL32: (8) Edward Corrie & Daniel Cochrane beat Vatzy & Antso Rakotondramanga (MAD) by 4 & 3
DL16: (8) Edward Corrie & Daniel Cochrane v Jun Ito & Sho Katayama (JPN) UNR

Although the Japanese pair is unranked in doubles, they are both ranked in singles - Ito has a singles ranking of 867, having reached the Final of Guam F1 (nice work if you can get it wink ) and Katayama has a singles ranking of 864, having qualified for the Kyoto Challenger then won a round.

steven · Tennis legend

It turns out that Kyle was a break up in both sets yesterday ... oops.

Edward, meanwhile, did not disappoint as far as bakery goes and with today's 499-place rise in the rankings, he is ranked higher than his next opponent too, despite the latter being seeded:

L64: Edward Corrie WR 753 beat Bongani Ndimande (ZIM) UNR by 0 & 0

L32: Edward Corrie WR 753 v (16) Bruno Rodriguez (MEX) WR 860

steven · Tennis legend

DL16: (8) Edward Corrie & Daniel Cochrane WR 2031 beat Jun Ito & Sho Katayama (JPN) UNR by 5 & 2

DQF: (8) Edward Corrie & Daniel Cochrane WR 2031 v (3) Siarhei Betau & Alexander Bury (BLR) WR 669

-- Edited by steven on Monday 15th of August 2011 10:56:26 AM

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Sorry Steven, Im confused by what this event is!?

steven · Tennis legend

It's often known as the "World Student Games" over here, as it was when it was held in Sheffield in 1991 (the reason why most of the good sports facilities Sheffield now enjoys were built) and got lots of coverage in the media - it's held like a student Olympics with winter and summer versions every two years and seems to be very big in Asia, where the majority of the recent ones have been held and where many of the tennis gold medallists have come from.

At the last one in Belgrade in 2009, Max Jones and Dominic Inglot won the silver medal in the men's doubles, while Dominic teamed up with Samantha Murray to win a bronze medal in the mixed.

So it's of some interest, though I might not have bothered to start threads for it had there been a few more Brits in action elsewhere this week!

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

What is Ed Corrie's next move after his stellar performance in that Futures event? Playing a university event at the age of 23 is a bit crap, but I don't imagine he is paying for it (must be expensive!).

It'll be interesting to see how he performs next time out, whenever that might be.

Smidster · Challenger level

stevemcqueen wrote:
What is Ed Corrie's next move after his stellar performance in that Futures event? Playing a university event at the age of 23 is a bit crap,

Think that is a bit harsh. It is likely the biggest event they have ever been part of and simply being part of it (22 sports and 150 countries) will, at the very least, be an opportunity you would be stupid to pass up.

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Edward Corrie WR 753 lost to (16) Bruno Rodriguez (MEX) WR 860 by 3-6 6-1 1-0 ret.

I can understand why he might have wanted to play in this too (his last and biggest event as a student, I assume) but I doubt it was worth risking injury for. I hope whatever forced him to retire today isn't too serious.

Spectator · All-time great

Likewise hope that his injury isn't serious. But I wouldn't say the trip hadn't been worth risking injury for: there was, presumably, no reason to think the risk of injury there was any greater than it would have been in an obscure futures somewhere ... and the opportunity costs of missing a one-off chance to be in China with students from around the world in a huge event would have been much higher than the opportunity costs of missing said hypothetical obscure futures tournament (assuming that ranking points aren't the only things that matter).

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, all true, and I didn't mean to imply that there was a greater risk of injury at this tournament than at any other (I'm sure there wasn't), though there is an argument that once you're on the pro tour and making progress up the rankings, ranking points should be the main thing that matters.

Having said that, there's a lot to be said for keeping tennis fun too - a major reason why a lot of players still play County Cup, for example.

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity for Edward, but everything that Spectator said, and congratulations on kinda swinging Steven round smile

Smidster · Challenger level

Oh dear - Not the ideal result.

It could well be heat related - Caught a bit of the athletics and at the end of the 10,000m a couple of the athletes collapsed.

steven · Tennis legend

Judy Murray: "World Student Games? I did that in Bucharest 1981 + played Virginia Ruzici, world top 10 at the time + certainly not a student!"

steven · Tennis legend

Smidster wrote:
Oh dear - Not the ideal result.

It could well be heat related - Caught a bit of the athletics and at the end of the 10,000m a couple of the athletes collapsed.

You were right, fortunately! From the LTA blog at http://www.lta.org.uk/fans-major-events/Tennis-blogs/World-University-Games/World-University-Games---Team-GB-Tennis/ - "The heat has proved an on-going challenge for the outdoor sport athletes at the Universiade in Shenzhen. At the Longgang Tennis Centre a combination of heat and illness caused Ed Corrie to retire from his mens singles second round match against Mexicos Bruno Rodriguez. Corrie won the first set 6-3 and battled on against the strong Mexican through to a third set before having to call it a day.

Were pretty sure that Corrie will be able to play tomorrow and hoping its just a 24 hour bug. He didnt eat enough food yesterday and just ran out of energy. I think he needs a good rest today and time to refuel, said team manager James Andell."

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