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Three out of three today smile :

R1:  Andis Juska (LAT) WR 528 lost to (6) Alex Ward WR 407 by 3-6 7-5 4-6

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R2: Gero Kretschmer (GER) WR 664 vs (6) Alex Ward WR 407



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 23rd of November 2011 07:17:57 PM

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Putting all the results together:

L32: (6) Alex Ward WR 407 beat Andis Juska (LAT) WR 528 (CH 226 in 2009) by 6-3 5-7 6-4
L32: (7) Dan Smethurst WR 431 beat Jan Satral (CZE) WR 665 by 4 & 4
L32: (2) Josh Goodall WR 307 beat Alexander Bury (BLR) WR 549 by 3 & 2

L16: (6) Alex Ward WR 407 v Gero Kretschmer (GER) WR 664 (CH 316 in 2010)
L16: (7) Dan Smethurst WR 431 v Matthias Kolbe GER WR 711 (H2H 2-0 (*))
L16: (2) Josh Goodall WR 307 v (Q) Jean Andersen (RSA) WR 1041 (CH 624 in 2010)

The winners of the last two matches meet in the QFs.

(*) Dan won 5 & 4 & 6-2 4-0 ret in successive weeks in Israel Futures qualies in 2008.



-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 23rd of November 2011 07:29:58 PM

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Not bad.  All three get lower ranked opponents in R2 than they beat in R1.



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indiana wrote:

Not bad.  All three get lower ranked opponents in R2 than they beat in R1.

You shouldn't have pointed that out, Indy!  It's bound to tempt fate...



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Stircrazy wrote:
indiana wrote:

Not bad.  All three get lower ranked opponents in R2 than they beat in R1.

You shouldn't have pointed that out, Indy!  It's bound to tempt fate...

 

Every silver lining has a cloud, eh ?   wink



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indiana wrote:
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indiana wrote:

Not bad.  All three get lower ranked opponents in R2 than they beat in R1.

You shouldn't have pointed that out, Indy!  It's bound to tempt fate...

 Every silver lining has a cloud, eh ?   wink

Indeed! wink  After years of bitter disappointment which have me into a card-carrying , I never underestimate a Brit sportsman's/-woman's/team's capacity to lose a match/race he/she/it is generally expected to win!



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You actually type it? There's a useful function you should try, and I think the techies call it Copy and Paste or something like that. wink

Yes, actually, I do.  I'm well versed in the art of copying & pasting, thank you very much, & indeed use the technique to save time whenever I can (including at work).  However, as I like to include players' Christian/first names when I post information about doubles draws & also foreign accents whenever possible & given that I find the ITF's format unspeakably messy & even slightly confusing, I have no alternative but to type it, however laborious the task (as far as I'm aware, it's impossible to copy information from a PDF document - I seem to recall that it did actually become possible, briefly, a while back, but Adobe appears to have put paid to that again cry ).



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L16: (6) Alex Ward WR 407 v Gero Kretschmer (GER) WR 664 (CH 316 in 2010) - should be in progress now
L16: (7) Dan Smethurst WR 431 lost to Matthias Kolbe GER WR 711 by 3 & 3 bleh 
L16: (2) Josh Goodall WR 307 beat (Q) Jean Andersen (RSA) WR 1041 (CH 624 in 2010) by 2 & 5

QF: (2) Josh Goodall WR 307 v Matthias Kolbe GER WR 711



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steven wrote:

L16: (6) Alex Ward WR 407 v Gero Kretschmer (GER) WR 664 (CH 316 in 2010) - should be in progress now
L16: (7) Dan Smethurst WR 431 lost to Matthias Kolbe GER WR 711 by 3 & 3 bleh 

Still no sign of Alex's result, but he & Dan have given Konecny & Stakhovsky a walkover in the first round of the doubles, which would seem to indicate that either he or Dan has picked up an injury. hmm  Hope not.



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Thursday 24th of November 2011 02:06:19 PM

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Alex has tweeted to say that he won 76 36 76.



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Alex has tweeted to say that he won 76 36 76.

Finally confirmed:

L16:  Gero Kretschmer (GER) WR 664 lost to (6) Alex Ward WR 407 by 6-7(3) 6-3 6-7(8) smile

Looks like quite a tussle!  Pity it wasn't three out of three again, but I assume Dan has had some kind of injury. cry

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QF:  (Q) Andriej Kapas (POL) WR 793 vs (6) Alex Ward WR 407



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R1:  (3) Daniel Glancy (IRL) & Josh Goodall WR 699 defeated Patrik Fabian & David Prokop (SVK/CZE) UNR by 4 & 2

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QF:  (3) Daniel Glancy (IRL) & Josh Goodall WR 699 vs Robin Stork & Jan Subota (CZE/CZE) UNR

There's got to be a joke in Robin Stork's name somewhere! wink  Something to do with margarine & starch springs to mind... biggrin



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Big matches for Josh & Alex today as the points for winning start to jump - every additional win for Josh makes him more likely to meet his goal of getting into AO qualifying, while a win for Alex today would definitely put him inside the top 350 (he might be there already but it is touch and go) and (barring unexpected tournament entries in December) see him end 2011 as the highest-ranked British man of those younger than Andy Murray.

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Stircrazy wrote:
There's got to be a joke in Robin Stork's name somewhere! wink  Something to do with margarine & starch springs to mind... biggrin

 I was thinking more on the lines that in singles, he should beat his opponent standing on one leg



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I was thinking along the lines that hopefully he will be bringing blessing biggrin to his opponents



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