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Week 36 - Challenger (€42,500) - Alphen aan den Rijn (Clay)


QR1: (q5) Daniel Smethurst WR 358 v (qwc) Romano Frantzen (NED) UNR

QR1: Oliver Golding WR 502 v (q2) Gerald Melzer (AUT) WR 327

 

First and second rounds of qualifying are on Sunday.



-- Edited by RJA on Saturday 1st of September 2012 10:09:15 PM



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 2nd of September 2012 09:19:25 AM

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RE: Week 36 - Challenger (€42,500) - Alphen (Clay)


OK. So this comment has nothing to do with the tennis, but I notice that the thread title says "Alphen (Clay)" when the tournament is actually in "Alphen aan de Rijn".

I remember many years ago driving for an hour around Alphen looking for my hotel before someone pointed out to me that Alphen and Alphen aan de Rijn were two completely different towns, many kilometres apart and I was in the wrong one !!

Just a silly personal memory of mine that sprung to mind and brought a smile to my face when I saw this. Sorry to bore you all.

Let's hope Daniel and Oli end up in the right town.


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Bob in Spain wrote:

OK. So this comment has nothing to do with the tennis, but I notice that the thread title says "Alphen (Clay)" when the tournament is actually in "Alphen aan de Rijn".

I remember many years ago driving for an hour around Alphen looking for my hotel before someone pointed out to me that Alphen and Alphen aan de Rijn were two completely different towns, many kilometres apart and I was in the wrong one !!

Just a silly personal memory of mine that sprung to mind and brought a smile to my face when I saw this. Sorry to bore you all.

Let's hope Daniel and Oli end up in the right town.


 

I was under the impression that Alphen aan de Rijn is often referred to simply as Alphen, even though there is another town of the same name, I have however edited the thread title.



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RJA wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:

OK. So this comment has nothing to do with the tennis, but I notice that the thread title says "Alphen (Clay)" when the tournament is actually in "Alphen aan de Rijn".

I remember many years ago driving for an hour around Alphen looking for my hotel before someone pointed out to me that Alphen and Alphen aan de Rijn were two completely different towns, many kilometres apart and I was in the wrong one !!

Just a silly personal memory of mine that sprung to mind and brought a smile to my face when I saw this. Sorry to bore you all.

Let's hope Daniel and Oli end up in the right town.


 

I was under the impression that Alphen aan de Rijn is often referred to simply as Alphen, even though there is another town of the same name, I have however edited the thread title.


I wasn't picking on you.  Honest. winkwink

It is just that my friends gave me stick over it for years afterwards and it brought back a funny memory.  If you are right, perhaps that fact that it is often referred to as just Alphen is something I can use as an excuse biggrinbiggrin

Mind you, now you have changed the title, people here are going to wonder what the hell I am going on about - so perhaps the time has come for me to change the subject.

GO DAN.  GO OLI



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All going wrong in the final set 0-4*



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Back to the Tennis, Smethurst won 4 and 2

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RJA wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:

OK. So this comment has nothing to do with the tennis, but I notice that the thread title says "Alphen (Clay)" when the tournament is actually in "Alphen aan de Rijn".

I remember many years ago driving for an hour around Alphen looking for my hotel before someone pointed out to me that Alphen and Alphen aan de Rijn were two completely different towns, many kilometres apart and I was in the wrong one !!

Just a silly personal memory of mine that sprung to mind and brought a smile to my face when I saw this. Sorry to bore you all.

Let's hope Daniel and Oli end up in the right town.


 

I was under the impression that Alphen aan de Rijn is often referred to simply as Alphen, even though there is another town of the same name, I have however edited the thread title.


And I've edited it again to add an "n" to the "de". wink



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smethurst won 6-4 6-2

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First set to Oli

6-4

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Stircrazy wrote:
RJA wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:

OK. So this comment has nothing to do with the tennis, but I notice that the thread title says "Alphen (Clay)" when the tournament is actually in "Alphen aan de Rijn".

I remember many years ago driving for an hour around Alphen looking for my hotel before someone pointed out to me that Alphen and Alphen aan de Rijn were two completely different towns, many kilometres apart and I was in the wrong one !!

Just a silly personal memory of mine that sprung to mind and brought a smile to my face when I saw this. Sorry to bore you all.

Let's hope Daniel and Oli end up in the right town.


 

I was under the impression that Alphen aan de Rijn is often referred to simply as Alphen, even though there is another town of the same name, I have however edited the thread title.


And I've edited it again to add an "n" to the "de". wink


 That's okay. I had just done a cut and paste from Bob in Spain's post so I hold him completely responsible for that error wink



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RJA wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
RJA wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:

OK. So this comment has nothing to do with the tennis, but I notice that the thread title says "Alphen (Clay)" when the tournament is actually in "Alphen aan de Rijn".

I remember many years ago driving for an hour around Alphen looking for my hotel before someone pointed out to me that Alphen and Alphen aan de Rijn were two completely different towns, many kilometres apart and I was in the wrong one !!

Just a silly personal memory of mine that sprung to mind and brought a smile to my face when I saw this. Sorry to bore you all.

Let's hope Daniel and Oli end up in the right town.


 

I was under the impression that Alphen aan de Rijn is often referred to simply as Alphen, even though there is another town of the same name, I have however edited the thread title.


And I've edited it again to add an "n" to the "de". wink


 That's okay. I had just done a cut and paste from Bob in Spain's post so I hold him completely responsible for that error wink


Guilty as charged.

COME ON OLI !!!



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Oli lost the second set on the tie break

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QR1: (q5) Daniel Smethurst WR 358 beat (qwc) Romano Frantzen (NED) UNR 6-4, 6-2
QR1: Oliver Golding WR 502 lost to (q2) Gerald Melzer (AUT) WR 327 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-1

QR2: (q5) Daniel Smethurst WR 358 v Wesley Koolhof (NED) WR 909

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QR2: (q5) Daniel Smethurst WR 358 lost to Wesley Koolhof (NED) WR 909 7-5, 6-1

Not happening for Dan at the moment.

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This is where I'd really like to see 1 point for a first round Challenger qualies win and 2 points for a QR2 win (as per Futures) if it's not the FQR. Yes, in this instance, it would have been a bit silly given the ranking of Mr Smethurst's first opponent. But the same thing could easily have happened in the first round of a Futures tournament, in which case Mr Smethurst would have had a point for the win. And what if, for the sake of argument, Mr Golding had beaten Gerald Melzer. It would have been the equivalent of a late-round Futures win ... and would have given him no points at all.



-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 3rd of September 2012 09:24:10 AM

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