Week 7 Futures - Turkey F6 ($10K) - Antalya-Belconti - hard

SMC1809 · All-time great

RE: Week 7 Futures - Turkey F6 ($10K) - Antalya-Belconti - hard

RJA · Hall of fame

Broady just tweeted

"Rained off court against the no.5 seed 6-4 down but 3-0 up serving. Come in to the room and the maid has left me a card and a rose."

Probably explains Dan's match as well.

steven · Tennis legend

De Greef holds to love so it's tiebreak time, Dan serving first:

1-0*
1-1*
*2-1 m/b
*3-1
3-2* m/b
4-2* m/b

*4-3
*5-3
5-4* m/b
5-5*
*6-5 m/b match point
*6-6 m/b

That's 3 times Dan's been a mini-break up but de Greef has got it back!

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 15th of February 2012 11:44:48 AM

steven · Tennis legend

7-6* match point 2
7-7*
*7-8 match point for de Greef
*8-8
9-8* match point 3 for Dan

Yes!

L32: (7) Dan Smethurst WR 457 beat Arthur de Greef (BEL) WR 538 by 6-4 3-6 7-6(8)

Kindlmann, still lurking in draws unseeded, may well be his opponent in R2.

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 15th of February 2012 11:50:13 AM

SMC1809 · All-time great

Ed Corrie has just taken the first set 6-1.

steven · Tennis legend

A very convincing win for Ed against a higher-ranked player

L32: (Q) Edward Corrie WR 681 beat Marc Rath (AUT) WR 460 by 1 & 3

L32: (7) Dan Smethurst WR 457 leads Arthur de Greef (BEL) WR 538 by 6-4 *1-2

About to restart:

L32: Liam Broady WR 692 trails (5) Gleb Sakharov (FRA) WR 384 by 4-6 2-0 (according to the OoP - 3-0 in the 2nd according to Liam himself)

steven · Tennis legend

Dan lost the 2nd set and went a break down in the 3rd but recovered it straight away and now leads 6-4 3-6 6-5*

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The final set's gone to a tie-break, which Dan leads by *4-3.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (7) Dan Smethurst WR 457 defeated Arthur de Greef (BEL) WR 538 by 6-4 3-6 7-6(8) smile

Bit of ding-dong battle in the tie-break! wink

SMC1809 · All-time great

Phew! That's was a tense way to win 1 ranking point.

indiana · Tennis legend

Liam did say he was * 3 - 0 up, serving in the second set when it was called off yesterday so to lose the set 3 - 6 would have been very disappointing. ITF score must be wrong, Liam can't be that mistaken !!

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 15th of February 2012 08:48:58 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Sakharov won 6 of the last 7 games:

L32: Liam Broady WR 692 lost to (5) Gleb Sakharov (FRA) WR 384 by 4 & 3

L16: (Q) Ed Corrie WR 681 v (3) Riccardo Ghedin (ITA) WR 340 (CH 222 in 2009)
L16: (7) Dan Smethurst WR 457 v Dieter Kindlmann (GER) WR 657 (CH 130 in 2004)

... trying to stop the German KOing a Brit for his third tournament in a row!

steven · Tennis legend

Strange - the ITF drawsheet definitely says Sakharov won 4 & 3 but Liam says "Lost today 4-6 6-2 6-7 (5). Tough match. Wouldn't mind getting a few more matches going again soon"

philwrig · Hall of fame

steven wrote:
Sakharov won 6 of the last 7 games:

L32: Liam Broady WR 692 lost to (5) Gleb Sakharov (FRA) WR 384 by 4 & 3

L16: (Q) Ed Corrie WR 681 v (3) Riccardo Ghedin (ITA) WR 340 (CH 222 in 2009)
L16: (7) Dan Smethurst WR 457 v Dieter Kindlmann (GER) WR 657 (CH 130 in 2004)

... trying to stop the German KOing a Brit for his third tournament in a row!

Much better showing from Liam though, a few wins and I expect Liam to start moving up the rankings again soon.

RJA · Hall of fame

indiana wrote:
Liam did say he was * 3 - 0 up, serving in the second set when it was called off yesterday so to lose the set 3 - 6 would have been very disappointing. ITF score must be wrong, Liam can't be that mistaken !!

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 15th of February 2012 08:48:58 PM

Draw sheet on the ATP site (signed by the tounament referee) agrees with the ITF site. Very, very strange. I can only assume that these are errors that they come from the same source as the only other possibility is that Liam is lying about his score and that strikes me as being extremely unlikely.