Week 37 - Vietnam F4 ($10,000) - Binh Duong (Hard)

RJA · Hall of fame

Week 37 - Vietnam F4 ($10,000) - Binh Duong (Hard)

RJA · Hall of fame

Not a good start in the doubles however

L16: (1) Andrew Fitzpatrick / Hiroyasu Ehara (JPN) WR 1491 lost to Yang Lu / Jui Mao (CHN/TPE) UNR

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

RJA wrote:
L32: (1) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 464 v (Q) Seong-Gook Oh (KOR) WR 1537

I am guessing that Fitzy needs some good results over these 3 tournaments in order to make this trip pay so lets hope for the best.

He might be ok when his ebay auction ends in 9 days time. Fingers crossed for him!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130763880609

RJA · Hall of fame

Not sure what I think of that but fair play to him for at least trying something.

That being said, WTF is going on with that sales pitch? I know that he is not trying to win a literary prize but if you are looking for someone to invest in your career it might help to show sufficient professionalism to get someone with a basic knowledge of grammar and sentence structure to proof read your appeal for funds.

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

Not sure how serious it really is and what the ebay rules on things like that are anyway.

Sounds more like an attempt to make himself heard in a week when contracts are discussed for next year??

NotAClue · Lower Club Player

ebay is the wrong place for it, as it only allows a single winner.

He'd be much beeter off setting himself up as a Kickstarter (or a site similar) project with a tiered rewards system dependant on the amount of investment.

That way lot's of people can give £1 or more, rather than one person ahving to give £50K or something. Some great things have already been achieved this way.

For example see the astonishing success of something like OUYA

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

hi guys,
didnt mean to put it up there early with the grammar in the way it is. i have revised it and put it up how i want.
Just a different option.
Im 3rd round on tomorrow Vs a korean qualifier. Tough conditions out here with the heat but should be good.

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

good luck fitz :)

steven · Tennis legend

Good luck in Vietnam, Fitzy!

Good luck with the Ebay thing too, but it does leave me a bit confused as it stands. That doesn't matter in itself (and I'm more easily confused than most LOL), but it might put people off bidding, which does matter. It doesn't say what exactly people are buying - you mention a % of prize money, but no more than that. If the idea is to get people to contact you and then to discuss it with them, then no problem - but if so, I hope you have set a high reserve so you don't end up forced to sell yourself for £ 14.50 or whatever the top bid is now. (I have no idea how the Ebay rules work though)

Also, I doubt people expect tennis players to be able to write mistake-free English (tennis is the thing you are good at, after all), but I doubt it makes the best impression written and formatted as it is, so if you'd like a proof-read/corrected version, feel free to pm me and I'll send one right back.

I'd be more than happy to RT your tweet about the Ebay auction to my followers (1000+ tennis fans, including plenty of journos) but haven't done it yet in case (for the reasons mentioned above) this turns out not to be the final version.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Totally ridiculous scenes. How can someone with Fitzys talent be struggling for funding in a country with our financial wealth.

How about getting a petition going? Surely with Stevens connections and reposting across other forums we have a chance of getting the LTA to pull their fingers out. Its very disheartening to any supporter and I'm sure those of us without enough money to help would feel better at least doing something.

S&V · Club Coach

Good luck Fitz

John the Bowler · Social player

L32: (1) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 464 beat (Q) Seong-Gook Oh (KOR) WR 1537 6-2 6-4

Another Korean qualifier next.

L16: (1) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 464 v (Q) Woo-Ram Kim (KOR) WR 1279

LordBrownof · Futures level

Andrew's opponent has a Woo-Ram Kim of 1279? Should be easy!

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

scraping the barrel with that one i think! i think this guy is a dangerous floater in the draw from what ive seen so far, definitely under ranked.
We might as well be playing on clay courts with these balls we have.
They go dead after a few games and like bullets so it becomes very difficult to control the ball and serve. The way forward i found is to kick serves in and make sure you cover everything that you hit otherwise your going to hit the fence.
Thus is leads you into physical territory as no one can really hit winners. Well you can but its a massively low percentage shot.

Was seriously hot when i was playing earlier and since i came off it hasnt stopped raining!
They have indoor courts here 4, but only with a roof so it if rains the rain blows in from the sides onto the courts, with holes in the roof as well they might as well be outside. Hense why we got rained off for all of tomorrow.
See what i can do tomorrow.
Andy murray is a legend.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

murray_2k9 wrote:
Totally ridiculous scenes. How can someone with Fitzys talent be struggling for funding in a country with our financial wealth.

How about getting a petition going? Surely with Stevens connections and reposting across other forums we have a chance of getting the LTA to pull their fingers out. Its very disheartening to any supporter and I'm sure those of us without enough money to help would feel better at least doing something.

i think getting actual sponsorship is pretty hard for tennis players, as opposed to access to facilities etc, which is easier.

unfortunately the lack of exspoure lower ranked players get means it can be harder to get comanpies on board, compared with supporting a local sporting team who are based in one area etc.