Week 34 - Spain F25 ($10,000) - Ourense (Hard)

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Week 34 - Spain F25 ($10,000) - Ourense (Hard)

RJA · Hall of fame

L16: (2) James Marsalek / Erik Crepaldi (ITA) WR 1066 beat Antoine Escaffier / Bastien Favier (FRA/FRA) WR 2369 6-2, 6-3

QF: (2) James Marsalek / Erik Crepaldi (ITA) WR 1066 v Rafael Mazon-Hernandez / Borja Rodriguez Manzano (ESP/ESP) WR 2564

steven · Tennis legend

A really tough draw for James - Checa Calvo is on a 10-match winning streak and has won 3 of his last 4 Futures. However, his lone loss in his last 16 matches was a R1 loss, and to a player ranked around 1300, so perhaps if you catch him cold ...

Salmon · Tennis legend

Ironic last name. "Checo" means Czech and "Calvo" means bald, and this guy seems to be neither.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Salmon wrote:
Ironic last name. "Checo" means Czech and "Calvo" means bald, and this guy seems to be neither.

It's worse than that: the paternal surname (therefore the one usually used in practice) is actually ChecA, as per Steven's post, which means Czech woman, while Calvo, the maternal surname (therefore the one normally dropped, except in legal & other formal matters) as a noun (grammatically, it won't work as an adjective, because of the absence of agreement) means bald man. Make of that what you will... wink

Salmon · Tennis legend

Aha, I was just going by the first post.

steven · Tennis legend

L32: James Marsalek WR 664 lost to (1) Jose Checa-Calvo (ESP) WR 333 by 5-7 6-3 6-1

L32: (2) Joshua Milton WR 422 beat (WC) Cristian González Méndez (ESP) UNR by 5 & 1

L16: (2) Joshua Milton WR 422 v (Q) Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND) WR 1257

James may have lost but he is one of just two players to have taken a set off Checa-Calvo in the Spaniard's 11=match winning streak. The other was last week's losing finalist.

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L16: (2) Joshua Milton WR 422 beat (Q) Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND) WR 1257 6-2, 6-2

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QF: (2) Joshua Milton WR 422 v David Perez Sanz WR 730

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QF: (2) James Marsalek / Erik Crepaldi (ITA) WR 1066 beat Rafael Mazon-Hernandez / Borja Rodriguez Manzano (ESP/ESP) WR 2564 6-0, 6-1

SF: (2) James Marsalek / Erik Crepaldi (ITA) WR 1066 v (4) Alexander Rumyantsev / Denis Yevseyev (RUS/KAZ) WR 1642

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Milton lost the first set 6-1

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QF: (2) Joshua Milton WR 422 lost to David Perez Sanz WR 730 6-1, 6-3

Reeltime · Satellite level

Ouch! That looks like a horrible result!

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SF: (2) James Marsalek / Erik Crepaldi (ITA) WR 1066 beat (4) Alexander Rumyantsev / Denis Yevseyev (RUS/KAZ) WR 1642 6-3, 6-0

Final: (2) James Marsalek / Erik Crepaldi (ITA) WR 1066 v (3) Ricardo Ojeda Lara / Oriol Roca Batalla (ESP/ESP) WR 1289

steven · Tennis legend

Pérez Sanz is an up and coming 18-year-old, so might well be better than his ranking, whereas Josh seems to be playing at a level well below his ranking.