Week 11 - Spain F6 ($10,000) - Badalona (Clay)

korriban · Challenger level

RE: Week 11 - Spain F6 ($10,000) - Badalona (Clay)

bartman2099 · Lower Club Player

If Careno makes the final again maybe he might face Pere Riba who I was surprised to see in the draw. He has a CH in thr 60's I think but had hip surgery last year and is starting to play again now. Would be an interesting match.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

korriban wrote:
Another win for Carreno. 28 now.

Strange. I have literally just looked for his result and came here to post. You beat me by about 30 secs.

I notice he has "round 3" against Carballes Baena in the semi, who took him to three sets in Murcia and then lost 0 & 1 last week or was it the week before?. (Bob is losing all track of time !!)

These guys must be sick of the sight of him

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Friday 15th of March 2013 07:01:18 PM

korriban · Challenger level

Another win for Carreno. 28 now.

steven · Tennis legend

Just noticed on the ITF live scores that Buster is cruising to victory again (6-2 4-1) but Riba has just been thrashed 0 & 1 by Jordi Samper!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

29

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

And I predict an easy 30th victory tomorrow. I saw Samper Montana in Cartagena and he quite simply doesn't have the game to match "Busta".

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Never in doubt !!

Carreno Busta comes back from 3-0 down in the 3rd set and from 5-1 down in the final tie break to extend his winning run.

Carreno Busta beats Samper Montana : 2-6 6-1 7-6

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Sunday 17th of March 2013 01:30:27 PM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Well this will teach me to keep my big mouth shut in future.

Samper Montana currently 3-0 up in the deciding set against King Busta.

korriban · Challenger level

The other guy has won his last 9 matches in a row in straight sets without losing more than 6 games in any match. He has been amazing this week by scorelines. Always going to be a little bit tougher for Busta and I still wouldnt write him off

korriban · Challenger level

Crossing the finishing line is pretty tough isn't it!

Well done Buster - who hung on by his fingertips throughout the entire match it would seem and only got ahead in the last 2 or 3 points.

korriban · Challenger level

http://www.tennisalternative.com/pablo-carreno-busta-wins-badalona-futures-2013-report-and-photos-rn2117.html

Thought I'd post this web report from Tennis Alternative which includes some interesting comments from our friend "Buster" (Pablo Carreno), and some amusing english.

One little aside is that Pablo decided to stay in Spain for the "final" local Futures even though it was on carpet (a surface he clearly doesn't relish), because it would simply cost too much to go to the only clay Futures this week in Europe (in Croatia). I thought this was extremely interesting - especially in the context of Oli being able to fly out to Badalona on his own (i.e. there were no other Brits there as part of a "squad" sharing coaches, rooms, etc) with a coach in tow for 1 week, then in his own words go on a long "trains, planes and automobiles....[and TAXIs!!]" trip from Spain to the very same Croatian futures tournament for just 1 more week, before (presumably) flying back home again. If you look at it objectively, this is an extraordinarily privileged position for our young players to be in, and this particular 2 week programme does appear to be pushing the bounds of common sense a bit.......perhaps travel plans were affected by his injury.......but the sheer cost of all this travel and accomodation for 2 people for just 2 $10k tournaments seems a bit odd from the outside in.

The Spanish approach is broadly to let their players sink or swim after 18 years of age (I think it's not quite as black and white as this, but it certainly appears to push the financial onus to succeed much more onto the player from a young age), whereas the GB way is to support players financially with travel and accomodation for Team Aegon players, and prize money top ups for other LTA performance players.

I do believe both approaches have their merits. But the Spanish are doing OK!!!

Bob · Social player

korriban wrote:
http://www.tennisalternative.com/pablo-carreno-busta-wins-badalona-futures-2013-report-and-photos-rn2117.html
Thought I'd post this web report from Tennis Alternative which includes some interesting comments from our friend "Buster" (Pablo Carreno), and some amusing english.
One little aside is that Pablo decided to stay in Spain for the "final" local Futures even though it was on carpet (a surface he clearly doesn't relish), because it would simply cost too much to go to the only clay Futures this week in Europe (in Croatia). I thought this was extremely interesting - especially in the context of Oli being able to fly out to Badalona on his own (i.e. there were no other Brits there as part of a "squad" sharing coaches, rooms, etc) with a coach in tow for 1 week, then in his own words go on a long "trains, planes and automobiles....[and TAXIs!!]" trip from Spain to the very same Croatian futures tournament for just 1 more week, before (presumably) flying back home again. If you look at it objectively, this is an extraordinarily privileged position for our young players to be in, and this particular 2 week programme does appear to be pushing the bounds of common sense a bit.......perhaps travel plans were affected by his injury.......but the sheer cost of all this travel and accomodation for 2 people for just 2 $10k tournaments seems a bit odd from the outside in.
The Spanish approach is broadly to let their players sink or swim after 18 years of age (I think it's not quite as black and white as this, but it certainly appears to push the financial onus to succeed much more onto the player from a young age), whereas the GB way is to support players financially with travel and accomodation for Team Aegon players, and prize money top ups for other LTA performance players.
I do believe both approaches have their merits. But the Spanish are doing OK!!!

The French and the Spanish have the right formulas as can be seen by the amount of highly ranked players they continuously produce year in, year out. For .0001% of his earnings, I could replace Roger when he leaves and simply say to my team at the LTA "Go forth and copy the French and Spanish" Job done!!

RJA · Hall of fame

Bob wrote:
korriban wrote:
http://www.tennisalternative.com/pablo-carreno-busta-wins-badalona-futures-2013-report-and-photos-rn2117.html
Thought I'd post this web report from Tennis Alternative which includes some interesting comments from our friend "Buster" (Pablo Carreno), and some amusing english.
One little aside is that Pablo decided to stay in Spain for the "final" local Futures even though it was on carpet (a surface he clearly doesn't relish), because it would simply cost too much to go to the only clay Futures this week in Europe (in Croatia). I thought this was extremely interesting - especially in the context of Oli being able to fly out to Badalona on his own (i.e. there were no other Brits there as part of a "squad" sharing coaches, rooms, etc) with a coach in tow for 1 week, then in his own words go on a long "trains, planes and automobiles....[and TAXIs!!]" trip from Spain to the very same Croatian futures tournament for just 1 more week, before (presumably) flying back home again. If you look at it objectively, this is an extraordinarily privileged position for our young players to be in, and this particular 2 week programme does appear to be pushing the bounds of common sense a bit.......perhaps travel plans were affected by his injury.......but the sheer cost of all this travel and accomodation for 2 people for just 2 $10k tournaments seems a bit odd from the outside in.
The Spanish approach is broadly to let their players sink or swim after 18 years of age (I think it's not quite as black and white as this, but it certainly appears to push the financial onus to succeed much more onto the player from a young age), whereas the GB way is to support players financially with travel and accomodation for Team Aegon players, and prize money top ups for other LTA performance players.
I do believe both approaches have their merits. But the Spanish are doing OK!!!
The French and the Spanish have the right formulas as can be seen by the amount of highly ranked players they continuously produce year in, year out. For .0001% of his earnings, I could replace Roger when he leaves and simply say to my team at the LTA "Go forth and copy the French and Spanish" Job done!!

Yeah sure, it is so simple. We just copy what France and Spain do. The circumstances here are exactly the same aren't they?