Week 36 - Challenger (€42,500) - St Remy, France - Hard

RJA · Hall of fame

RE: Week 36 - Challenger (€42,500) - St Remy, France - Hard

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

Big Dave won this morning 2 in the third.

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

Evo is a set down and 3-2 down in the second.

freerider · Futures level

And has drawn Denis MATSUKEVICH in r1 of the main draw

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

Evo 2nd set tie break

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

Come On Dan

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

Evo got beat .3 and 6.

RJA · Hall of fame

Not really a surprise. His recent form has been pretty poor and aside from his SF in Bath early in the year it is nearly 2 years since he won a main draw match at challenger level.

RJA · Hall of fame

Walkover for Rice and Thornley as Evo is feeling ill.

freerider · Futures level

From MTF

David RICE (GBR) bt Denis MATSUKEVITCH 7 / 6 (2) 6 / 2

Lets hope they are right, superb result

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Get a load of this:

L32: (Q) David Rice WR 430 defeated Denis Matsukevich WR 257 (RUS) by 7-6(2) 6-2! biggrin

Unfortunately:

L16: (3) Edouard Roger-Vasselin WR 110 (FRA) vs (Q) David Rice WR 430 bleh

steven · Tennis legend

That's a great win - especially when you realise he was W 0 L 3 in Challenger main draw singles matches before this week!

Of course, he's still facing a 50-place drop in the rankings because of his two Futures Finals (including one title) in Mexico last year that are due to come off, which will seem a bit odd after making such a breakthrough here.

Can he beat ERV? It'll be though - only one Brit (Josh Goodall) has managed it in 13 attempts, and he counts a number of our Challenger-level players among his victims.

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 7th of September 2011 03:09:45 PM

wolf · Tennis legend

According to the drawsheet on the ATP site Matsukevich won by the same scoreline.

RJA · Hall of fame

wolf wrote:
According to the drawsheet on the ATP site Matsukevich won by the same scoreline.

Also tomorrows OOP has Matsukevich playing ERV. The drawsheet might have been a mistake but I can't imagine that the OOP would be wrong.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
According to the drawsheet on the ATP site Matsukevich won by the same scoreline.

The site definitely has it the other way round, but tomorrow's OoP shows ERV playing Matsukevich, so I presume the site's got it wrong & it's certainly less of a surprise! cry What a shame.