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Bob in Spain


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QR1: (q9) Max Andrews WR 1571 v Jesus Garcia Pardo (ESP) UNR

QR1: Richard Brooks UNR v Arturo Torregrosa Velilla (ESP) UNR

Both start their qualifying matches tomorrow.

 

So.  Do I go or not.  Truth is, I am interested to see the facilities and the level of organisation.  They are running a "pre qualifying" tournament each week where the prize for the winner is a WC for the MD and the runner up gets a WC for the Qualies.

During the 2nd week they will also be running junior tournaments for "Benjamin, Alevin, Infantile, Cadete and Junior" (translated as U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18) over nine days and ALL at the same venue as the main tournament.  It must be a massive club.

In addition, they have adverts on the website for volunteer line judges, ball boys/girls etc.  I am thinking that this could be an exceptionally well organised three week block and I am interested to see how it goes.

Hoping Slabba has made it over this week for the main draw.

 



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Friday 15th of March 2013 09:56:26 PM

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It being Spain, I thought "carpet" must be the error, but apparently it really is on carpet!

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Brooks is a coach

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Has there ever been a Mohammed vs Jesus match in tennis history?

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Not in recent tennis history.

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steven wrote:

It being Spain, I thought "carpet" must be the error, but apparently it really is on carpet!

Why they call it "carpet" I will never know.  After all, we all know it as Astroturf, don't we ?

http://www.hoteleurotennis.com/contenido.aspx?lang=GB&idarea=10&idnodo=42&idparrafo=63

Looks good though.



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QR1: (q9) Max Andrews WR 1571 beat Jesus Garcia Pardo (ESP) UNR : 6-0 6-1
QR1: Richard Brooks UNR beat Arturo Torregrosa Velilla (ESP) UNR : 6-1 6-4

QR2: (q9) Max Andrews WR 1571 v Jose Maria Hidalgo Salgado (ESP) UNR
QR2: Richard Brooks UNR v (q6) Ryota Kishi (JPN) WR 1295



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Sunday 17th of March 2013 04:10:59 PM

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steven wrote:

Not in recent tennis history.

 I smiled.



-- Edited by Maza1987 on Sunday 17th of March 2013 04:43:13 PM

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QR2: (q9) Max Andrews WR 1571 beat Jose Maria Hidalgo Salgado (ESP) : 6-4 6-0
QR2: Richard Brooks UNR beat (q6) Ryota Kishi (JPN) WR 1295 : 6-2 6-4

FQR : (q9) Max Andrews WR 1571 v Richard Brooks UNR

So we are now guaranteed a GB qualifier into the main draw to join Slabba.

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Do you beat the player you coach because you are clearly the better player or do you roll over to get him into the main draw?

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johnnylad wrote:

Do you beat the player you coach because you are clearly the better player or do you roll over to get him into the main draw?

I would say that you have to give the match your best effort. Rolling over and letting your young pupil beat you isn't going to do him any good in the long term and assuming that he is smart enough to realise that you have gifted him a win actually undermines the coach/player relationship.



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Pupil beats coach.

FQR : (q9) Max Andrews WR 1571 beat Richard Brooks UNR : 4-6 6-2 6-4

And in the main draw

L32: (Q) Max Andrews WR 1573 v (WC) Mario Vilella Martinez (ESP) WR 1372
L32: Alex Slabinsky WR 513 v Adam Sanjurjo Hermida (ESP) WR 765

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Not before Coach showed him who was boss in set 1

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L32: Alex Slabinsky WR 513 lost to Adam Sanjurjo Hermida (ESP) WR 765  4-6 6-2 3-6



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R1:  Alex Slabinsky & Ferran Ventura (ESP) WR 2612 vs (3) Piotr Gadomski & Maciej Smola (POL/POL) WR 1236



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