Boys: Matan Gafniel Raanana Open, Israel - Grade 3 (Week 45)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Boys: Matan Gafniel Raanana Open, Israel - Grade 3 (Week 45)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Josh and Julian won sets off their seeded opponents but couldn't manage an upset

R1 (L32)

Christos Hadjigeorgiou (CYP) d. Joshua Paris (GBR) 6-0 3-6 6-4
(Q) Clay Crawford (GBR) d. Oleg Kurbatov (RUS) 6-1 6-2
(7/Q) Peter Ashley (GBR) d. Edan Leshem (ISR) 5-7 6-1 rtd
(5) Igor Smilansky (ISR) d. Julian Cash (GBR) 7-5 4-6 6-1
(2) Daniel Windahl (SWE) d. Joshua Sapwell (GBR) 6-1 4-6 6-3

R2

(Q) Clay Crawford (GBR) v (WC) Mor Bulis (ISR)
(7/Q) Peter Ashley (GBR) v (Q) Anatoliy Petrenko (UKR)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Comfortable progress for Clay and Peter, but Clay next faces one of two Romanians in last year's TE14 top 3

R2

(Q) Clay Crawford (GBR) d. (WC) Mor Bulis (ISR) 6-2 rtd
(7/Q) Peter Ashley (GBR) d. (Q) Anatoliy Petrenko (UKR) 6-1 6-3

QF

Nicolae Frunza (ROU) v (Q) Clay Crawford (GBR)
(7/Q) Peter Ashley (GBR) v Giovanni Rizzutti (ITA)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Clay and Peter continue to prosper impressively but now have the two strong home players to overcome.

QF

(Q) Clay Crawford (GBR) d. Nicolae Frunza (ROU) 6-2 6-1
(7/Q) Peter Ashley (GBR) d. Giovanni Rizzutti (ITA) 6-2 6-0

SF

(1) Or Ben-Harel (ISR) v (Q) Clay Crawford (GBR)
(7/Q) Peter Ashley (GBR) v (5) Igor Smilansky (ISR)

DavidC · Tennis legend

A marvellous tournament for the two of them - Clay chalking up the result of the tournament with a comfortable win over an opponent who has won several Futures matches and beat Mitchell Krueger at the US Open - thus making his first final above Grade 4

SF

(Q) Clay Crawford (GBR) d. (1) Or Ben-Harel (ISR) 6-1 6-4
(7/Q) Peter Ashley (GBR) d. (5) Igor Smilansky (ISR) 6-7(2) 6-4 6-1

F

(Q) Clay Crawford (GBR) v (7/Q) Peter Ashley (GBR)

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Great stuff

I think the juniors have won mroe titles this last month or so than than the rest of the year put together

indiana · Tennis legend

Mervatron wrote:
Great stuff

I think the juniors have won mroe titles this last month or so than than the rest of the year put together

Maybe not counting all grades, but certainly been doing well at Grade 3 and above smile

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

6 G2/G3 singles in the last 2 months. 1 prior to that this year.

steven · Tennis legend

A pretty one-sided Final, which finished in less than an hour, gives Clay his 4th ITF title of 2012 and GB's 6th singles title at G3 or above in 8 weeks, with Lana Rush still going strong in the G3 in France too!

F: (Q) Clay Crawford (GBR) beat (7/Q) Peter Ashley (GBR) by 2 & 0

DavidC · Tennis legend

Highly impressive from Clay, who lost more games in qualifying than the main draw (17 vs 15). Having now won his last 3 junior ITFs (Edinburgh/Newcastle being the others) he is on an 18 match ITF winning streak, and there is one more Grade 3 to come here to try and extend the run.