Week 46 Futures - Czech Republic $15K

SMC1809 · All-time great

RE: Week 46 Futures - Czech Republic $15K

SMC1809 · All-time great

The match has disappeared from Bet365. I wonder if Josh has retired?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SMC1809 wrote:
The match has disappeared from Bet365. I wonder if Josh has retired?

Ah! That would explain why I can't find it on there! confuse

freerider · Futures level

josh on twitter:

3-6 0-1 rtd. Back spazams. GUTTING!!! need to try and do well next week if i can, to make aussy open quals! Congrats to @alexward1990

steven · Tennis legend

FI: (5) Alex Ward WR 409 beat (1) Josh Goodall WR 297 by 6-3 1-0 ret. biggrin bleh

Josh: "3-6 0-1 rtd. Back spazams. GUTTING!!! need to try and do well next week if i can, to make aussy open quals! Congrats to @AlexWard1990!"

That is Alex's second Futures title (the first was on 1 Oct) and his first 15K. It should lift him to a career high of around WR 350 (possibly just inside the top 350) on 28 November and to GB no. 7 ahead of Eaton and Milton unless the latter wins two more rounds in Helsinki.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

Josh: "3-6 0-1 rtd. Back spazams. GUTTING!!! need to try and do well next week if i can, to make aussy open quals! Congrats to @AlexWard1990!"

That's a very creative spelling of "spasms"!

P.S. Well done, Alex!

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 20th of November 2011 11:17:56 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

Oh, err well done smile and hard luck cry

Great to see Alex getting another title and only Evo now going to be ahead of him in the rankings from the 89 / 80 guys, with Evo's current ranking points total of 125 points being just a little ahead of Alex's points of 120 ( on Monday week ).

Josh has done really well to get himself into a position of having a realistic chance of getting into the Aussie Open qualifiers. Probably does need to do really well next week ( I'm not sure what remaining chances he has ). The title would take him to 186 ranking points which is currently equivalent to about WR 260 and from a very reliable source, speaking the other day with regards to Jamie Baker, we have :

steven wrote:

This year, the original cut for AO qualifying was 255, moving out eventually to 287, so Jamie should have already done enough to get into qualifying straight away, or at worst after a few withdrawals.

However that falls out though, Josh like Jamie, has had a relatively really strong second half to this year, which gives both a chance to significantly improve their rankings in the first half of next year.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 20th of November 2011 12:15:47 PM