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

Smidster · Challenger level

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

Reeltime · Satellite level

Mind you. From David's Facebook page. "Won my first match in singles at Challenger level. Pumped!!"

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Reeltime wrote:
Mind you. From David's Facebook page. "Won my first match in singles at Challenger level. Pumped!!"

The thick plottens! wink Maybe the ATP just couldn't conceive of a Rice victory... Let's hope so. That said, the results section on the site now gives both options...! disbelief

freerider · Futures level

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWeG5bSvups&feature=player_embedded#!

some footage in there of dan evans match yesterday towards the end.

Nice to see the stands full with local children, presumably a school trip? No wonder there are so many decent french tennis players.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

ERV is on bet365 playing Matsukevich, so that's that matter settled, but it does still leave the unresolved mystery of David's Facebook comment! confuse He couldn't possibly have been referring to his qualy matches, could he?

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Thursday 8th of September 2011 10:36:58 AM

freerider · Futures level

Have we got to the bottom of the rice mystery yet, bet365 livescores is showing ERV vs. Matsukevitch now. i am bewildered

Reeltime · Satellite level

Most bizarre

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
ERV is on bet365 playing Matsukevich, so that's that matter settled, but it does still leave the unresolved mystery of David's Facebook comment! He couldn't possibly have been referring to his qualy matches, could he?

No, he has won Challenger qualifying matches before, so that wouldn't make sense.

Maybe he lost, got very drunk, came back, saw it posted on th St Rémy site that he had won, decided in his drunken haze that he must have won after all and then done the Facebook post. (I'm joking, of course, but I can't imagine what else would be consistent with him losing then making that post)

It may be that ERV is playing Dave and bet365 have just taken the names off the OoP, while getting their man on the ground to update scores "from the Roger Vasselin" match and nobody has noticed the mistake - if so, I wonder what they'll do with any bets!

Or maybe Dave is playing an elaborate trick on everybody, but I can't really see a tennis player making a joke of a loss like that!

One last (crackpot) theory - the Russian saw the mistake, decided to take his chance and got away with it ... disbelief

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 8th of September 2011 11:13:13 AM

SMC1809 · All-time great

I now find myself watching the live score and cheering for a Russian I'd never heard of before just in case its Big Dave.

steven · Tennis legend

The St Rémy site says "ROGER VASSELIN bat MATSUKEVICH 6-4 6-4" today, so now even they seem to think Dave lost yesterday. It gets weirder and weirder, though obvious if it hadn't been for the Facebook post, we'd have been sure by now that he had lost yesterday.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Reeltime wrote:
Mind you. From David's Facebook page. "Won my first match in singles at Challenger level. Pumped!!"

I can see no sign of that post on his Facebook page & this would appear to confirm that he was in fact beaten by the pesky Russkie: http://www.tennislive.net/atp/david-rice/ . hmm

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Reeltime wrote:
Mind you. From David's Facebook page. "Won my first match in singles at Challenger level. Pumped!!"
I can see no sign of that post on his Facebook page & this would appear to confirm that he was in fact beaten by the pesky Russkie: http://www.tennislive.net/atp/david-rice/ .

I doubt that tells us anything new - they probably got their info from the ATP drawsheet. Odd if it no longer says that on Dave's Facebook page - I wonder if it ever did, though more than one person reported it to me on Twitter, so I assume it did, unless of course everyone else was just repeating what the first person said.

Next crazy theory - someone else updates the Facebook page and they based what they wrote on the tournament site (or based on us reporting the win based on what it said there) and then they quickly deleted it when they found out it wasn't true.

I bet someone out there is having a good laugh at us over this wink

RJA · Hall of fame

Rice and Thornley lost 2 and 5. Going by his tweet Sean is not a happy bunny.

indiana · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
Rice and Thornley lost 2 and 5. Going by his tweet Sean is not a happy bunny.

Just because Sean himself reported the loss and is unhappy doesn't convince me that they've actually lost wink

Reeltime · Satellite level

Yes, post mysteriously deleted from FB. Makes me suspect David idn't the person running the page, and someone took the result off the tourney website.