Week 46 - Turkey F44 ($10,000) - Antalya - Kaya-Belek (hard)

steven · Tennis legend

Week 46 - Turkey F44 ($10,000) - Antalya - Kaya-Belek (hard)

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: Philip Sikman UNR lost to Tobias Simon (GER) WR 1921 by 0 & 0

QR1: (q14) Tom Farquharson WR 1216 beat Emile Gillot (BEL) UNR by 0 & 3

QR2: (q14) Tom Farquharson WR 1216 v Vicente Joli-Viera (ESP) UNR

steven · Tennis legend

QR2: (q14) Tom Farquharson WR 1216 beat Vicente Joli-Viera (ESP) UNR by 4 & 2

FQR: (q14) Tom Farquharson WR 1216 v Tobias Simon (GER) WR 1921

wolf · Tennis legend

FQR: (q14) Tom Farquharson WR 1216 beat Tobias Simon (GER) WR 1921 3-6 6-1 6-2 smile

R1: (Q) Tom Farquharson WR 1216 v (3) Aldin Setkic (BIH) WR 274
R1: George Morgan WR 844 v Vladimir Uzhylovsky (UKR) WR 714

steven · Tennis legend

Tom has only played 5 Futures this year but has managed to make it through qualifying in all of them.

korriban · Challenger level

live streaming available for this tournament on the following link http://www.tenistv.tv/wk/index.php I believe the 5 court numbers correspond to the court numbers given in the OOP on the ATP Challenger web page. So Tom shoukd be on 3 later, and George on 5. However dont quote me, this may be completely wrong. Some of the scores shown are from previous days matches, but some seem to be correct - so ignore or follow as appropriate If last tournament was anything to go by, may have to watch Geroge with some trepidation, but today IS another day

steven · Tennis legend

L32: George Morgan WR 864 lost to Vladimir Uzhylovsky (UKR) WR 643 by 4 & 5

... but he seems fairly upbeat nonetheless:

@georgemorgan10: "lost today 4nd5 best match of the trip and still lost. been a tough 7 weeks here. learnt a lot. looking forward to next year now! can't wait"

indiana · Tennis legend

Good that George remains positive. I do feel that next year will be a very important year in which he really needs to start making noticeable progress.

korriban · Challenger level

indiana wrote:
Good that George remains positive. I do feel that next year will be a very important year in which he really needs to start making noticeable progress.

Definitely. I'm super impressed that he has such a positive mental attitude. It can't be easy, as you don't turn from a promising player into a bad player overnight, but in George's case it's almost as if someone flipped the on switch to off. It may take someone from the outside with a critical independent eye, plus no attachments, to assess what he is now doing which has put the brakes on.

To context this, I suspect its a longer term issue than just 7 weeks. In fact, until last week's first round victory (which, lets face it was by retirement by injury anyway), George had not beaten a single player inside the top 1000 since March 2012, and had had only 4 wins in total during this period from LOTS of tournaments. So his ranking in the 800s will fall further soon without a big change of fortune.

I'm backing him to come out fighting early next year.

wolf · Tennis legend

R1: (3) Aldin Setkic (BIH) WR 274 beat (Q) Tom Farquharson WR 1216 6-0 7-5 cry