Week 5 Futures - USA F4 ($10K) - Palm Coast, FL - Clay

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Week 5 Futures - USA F4 ($10K) - Palm Coast, FL - Clay

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, those 128 draws are tough for our guys, but I was thinking it is rather tough for your average non ranked or low ranked American that so many players enter the USA futures and there are so many qualifying rounds to get through with probably one or twoi against ranked players.

From all accounts their college systenm is really good, but breaking through in seniors, certainly initially via home futures, must be difficult.

And OK, Americans have a reputation for being rather insular, but it generally is quite a travel for them to any other future.

RJA · Hall of fame

Ed has now played 14 days straight and 20 out of the last 21. Would have made main draw as a DA but looks like someone got an SE so he just missed out.

steven · Tennis legend

QR2: (q1) Ed Corrie WR 720 beat Luis Osio (USA) UNR by 0 & 1

QR2: (q5) Matthew Short WR 801 beat Mehdi Bouras (ALG) UNR by 3 & 2

QR3: (q1) Ed Corrie WR 720 v Nathan Rakitt (USA) UNR
QR3: (q5) Matthew Short WR 801 v Brett D Clark (USA) UNR

steven · Tennis legend

QR3: (q1) Ed Corrie WR 720 beat Nathan Rakitt (USA) UNR by 2 & 1

QR3: (q5) Matthew Short WR 801 beat Brett D Clark (USA) UNR by 6-2 3-6 6-3

FQR: (q1) Ed Corrie WR 720 v Benjamin Rogers (USA) UNR
FQR: (q5) Matthew Short WR 801 v (q10) Libor Salaba (CZE) WR 897

steven · Tennis legend

FQR: (q1) Ed Corrie WR 720 beat Benjamin Rogers (USA) UNR by 2 & 1

Included a 9-game winning streak in the middle of the match.

steven · Tennis legend

Btw that makes Ed 17-3 in the 20 matches (27 including doubles) he has played in the last 25 days (remember that very few players play more than 100 matches in these events in a whole year!), with just 2 singles ranking points to show for it so far. How tough is that?!

wolf · Tennis legend

FQR: (q10) Libor Salaba (CZE) WR 897 beat (q5) Matthew Short WR 801 2-6 6-1 6-4

Poor Ed cry

R1: Edward Corrie WR 711 v (2) Greg Ouellette (USA) WR 376 (CH 269 Sep 11)

R1: (1) Bangoura/Corrie (USA/GBR) WR 999 v Boluda-Purkiss/Salaba (ESP/CZE) WR 2678

steven · Tennis legend

Ed's draw may not be as bad as it looks - Ouellette's 2012 so far has consisted of a straight sets loss in R1 at USA F1 to a player ranked outside the top 800 and the loss by retirement at USA F2. A week off may have given him time to recover from whatever has been ailing him though - for his sake, I hope it has, but if so Ed may have a much harder time than those other two opponents.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (1) Sekou Bangoura (USA) & Ed Corrie WR 999 defeated Carlos Boluda & Libor Salaba (ESP/CZE) WR 2678 by 3 & 3

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QF: (1) Sekou Bangoura (USA) & Ed Corrie WR 999 vs Vahid Mirzadeh & Michael Shabaz (USA/USA) WR 2188

JM1138 · Lower Club Player

You were right, Steven:

R1: Edward Corrie WR 711 beat (2) Greg Ouellette (USA) WR 376 6-4 1-6 6-1 biggrin

R2: Edward Corrie WR 711 v (WC) Sekou Bangoura (USA) WR 876

Great win, but he's in a horrible section of the draw, Bangoura is 20 and probably well underranked (I'm pretty sure I remember him knocking out a seed in R1 of one of those US Challengers when he was unranked). He beat Ed 3 & 1 in Futures qualifying in October, but also lost 3 & 4 to Boggo last Newport qualies. The other seed is (6) Gabriel Moraru, who was in the top 250 back in 2005.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

JM1138 wrote:
You were right, Steven:
R1: Edward Corrie WR 711 beat (2) Greg Ouellette (USA) WR 376 6-4 1-6 6-1
R2: Edward Corrie WR 711 v (WC) Sekou Bangoura (USA) WR 876

Great win, but he's in a horrible section of the draw, Bangoura is 20 and probably well underranked (I'm pretty sure I remember him knocking out a seed in R1 of one of those US Challengers when he was unranked). He beat Ed 3 & 1 in Futures qualifying in October, but also lost 3 & 4 to Boggo last Newport qualies. The other seed is (6) Gabriel Moraru, who was in the top 250 back in 2005.

Bangoura is also Ed's doubles partner, but the pair of them have dipped out of the doubles competition, no doubt as a result of their exertions in the singles, though they gave it a go:

QF: (1) Sekou Bangoura (USA) & Ed Corrie WR 999 lost to Vahid Mirzadeh & Michael Shabaz (USA/USA) WR 2188 by 6-7(3) 6-2 [5-10] bleh

Reeltime · Satellite level

At least he's got a point this week. Now for a few more!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R2: (WC) Sekou Bangoura (USA) WR 847 lost to (Q) Ed Corrie WR 711 by 4 & 4

QF: (6) Gabriel Moraru (ROU) WR 441 vs (Q) Ed Corrie WR 711

chavkev · Intermediate Club Player

What is Ed's game like? Has he got a chance to get up to say Challenger level? He seems to be beating decent American players, so that must be a good sign. I know I could search the net, but I was hoping for some sort of first hand knowledge you only get on this fantastic site.