Week 38 Futures - Sweden F5 ($10,000) - Danderyd (Hard)

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

RE: Week 38 Futures - Sweden F5 ($10,000) - Danderyd (Hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

Indeed, that's good for George. I'd still be expecting James to beat him in R2 though.

RJA · Hall of fame

Golding and Ward won their doubles match 6-3, 7-6(0)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Round-up:

R1: (3) Alex Ward WR 469 defeated Bart Brons (NED) WR 1180 by 4 & 4

R1: Lewis Burton WR 811 defeated Sandro Ehrat (SUI) WR 809 by 7-6(2) 6-4

R1: (8) Oli Golding WR 792 lost to (Q) Pablo Figueroa (SWE) WR 1153 by 4 & 0 ( bleh , though understandable in the circumstances)

R1: (Q) Viktor Odenbrink (SWE) UNR lost to James Marsalek WR 847 by 0 & 1

R1: (Q) George Morgan WR 1911 defeated (4) Juho Paukku (FIN) by 7-6(4) 4-6 1-2 rtd biggrin

There are only three seeds remaining in the draw after the first round, one of them "our" Alex. wink Timo Nieminen (1) & Yannick Jankovits (7) are the others.

R2: (3) Alex Ward WR 469 vs Stefan Borg (SWE - where else? wink ) WR 1047

R2: Lewis Burton WR 811 vs (7) Yannick Jankovits (FRA) WR 780

R2: James Marsalek WR 847 vs (Q) George Morgan WR 1911

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Doubles QFs:

(1) Lewis Burton & George Morgan WR 1471 vs (WC) Stefan Milenkovic & Oskar Wikberg (SWE/SWE)

Oli Golding & Alex Ward WR 2207 vs (3) Bart Brons & Xander Spong (NED/NED) WR 1888

Maza1987 · Challenger level

Comon George. Good performance.

RJA · Hall of fame

Apparently George's opponent twisted his ankle.

philwrig · Hall of fame

What about the argument that Oli's confidence must be at an all time high.
I remember Hev was able to kick on straight after her US open junior win, to me it just shows a lack of focus and something which he needs to sort out ASAP.

Spectator · All-time great

Some nice results in singles and doubles. Mr Golding's loss, however, is what it is ... a loss to a lower-ranked player that shouldn't (at least by the rankings) have happened. Unless there's something special about his opponent -- or some illness or difficulty on his own part that we're unaware of -- I'm sure (or at least I hope?) that's how he sees it. Be interesting to see how he and Mr Ward (A) do against the Dutch doubles team.

Akhenaten · Pro player

Pablo Figueroa (who beat Oli) has won 2 Futures before, he just doesn't play many of them.

He beat Frederik Nielsen in the final of Sweden F2 in Sep 2009, and this is only his 9th tournament since then.

Akhenaten · Pro player

Really good by t'other four. biggrin

steven · Tennis legend

Oli: "Tough day today, the other guy played a joke and I didn't really enjoy the conditions at all ! I'll try and win dubs now ..."

... followed by harsh but funny banter (well, it made me laugh, but then so do some of the puns here, so I must be easily pleased LOL) from a couple of the others:

Lewis: "@oli_golding yeah conditions was tough today mate so windy aint seen a day like that in a while...."

James: "Got to watch out for hurricane Irene out there @oli_golding"

This tournament is being played indoors of course, hence the digs, but of course 'conditions' can be more than just about the weather outside - e.g. the way it was a bit too hot and muggy in the Braehead arena at the weekend, which may have contributed to some of the conditioning problems we saw there.

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 20th of September 2011 09:02:03 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Good banter. I think being with that lot will more quickly bring Oli back to earth.

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

good starts for burton and ward this morning. come on boys!

SMC1809 · All-time great

In the race to win the first set, Lewis wins by taking it 6-2