Week 26 - Spain F18 ($15,000+H) - Palma del Rio (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

Week 26 - Spain F18 ($15,000+H) - Palma del Rio (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Josh Milton WR 467 v (Q) Agustín Boje-Ordóñez ESP WR 1125

Could be a tricky one - the Spaniard has been ranked as high as 333 (in 2010)

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Josh Milton WR 467 beat (Q) Agustín Boje-Ordóñez ESP WR 1125 (CH 333 in 2010) by 4-6 7-5 6-3

L16: Josh Milton WR 467 v (4) Brydan Klein (AUS) WR 302 (CH 174 in 2009)

It is necessary to win 2 matches to get any points advantage from playing in a 15K+H rather than a 10K or a 15K and this will be a tough one - they met twice in 2007, once at Bournemouth where the Aussie won 5 & 5 and then at Wimbledon Juniors, where Klein won in a MTB.

steven · Tennis legend

3rd time lucky for Josh against Klein, easily his best win of a rather quiet 2012 for him so far:

L16: Josh Milton WR 467 beat (4) Brydan Klein (AUS) WR 302 (CH 174 in 2009) by 2-6 6-4 6-2 biggrin

QF: Josh Milton WR 467 v (5) Michael Look (AUS) WR 372 (CH 323 in Feb)

H2H 1-0 - Josh edged 'the Look' 9-7 in a 3rd set tiebreak in Durban last year.

steven · Tennis legend

Josh completes the double Oz-bash, making this his biggest points haul (10) since reaching that Challenger QF in China last September.

QF: Josh Milton WR 467 beat (5) Michael Look (AUS) WR 372 by 4 & 4 biggrin

SF: Josh Milton WR 467 v (7) Mohamed Safwat (EGY) WR 416 (CH 390 in Feb)

Safwat reached the Final of last week's Spanish Futures event, beating the Look in the semis, though it took him 3 sets!

steven · Tennis legend

Quite a turnaround from Josh, and it takes him into his first Futures Final since Durban just over a year ago

SF: Josh Milton WR 467 beat (7) Mohamed Safwat (EGY) WR 416 (CH 390 in Feb) by 0-6 6-4 6-2 biggrin

FI: Josh Milton WR 467 v (1) Arnau Brugues-Davi (ESP) WR 166 (CH 135 last Nov)

When Brugues-Davi lost in the Final of Turkey F18 last month, he was on a 44-match winning streak in Futures main draw matches, which is an all-time record.

RainDelay · Pro player

Well done Josh

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

When I was in Tulsa, Arnau was treated as a god there. He went something ridiculous like 26-0 in one season. I can't see Josh beating him unfortunately

steven · Tennis legend

Brugues-Davi won the last 5 games of the 1st set to take it 6-1 and is now *2-1 up in the 2nd. Not unexpected.

wolf · Tennis legend

Josh lost 6-1 6-1