Week 13 - Challenger ($35,000+H) - San Luis Open, San Luis Potosí, Mexico (red clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 13 - Challenger ($35,000+H) - San Luis Open, San Luis Potosí, Mexico (red clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Both boys will have to play twice today if they win their respective QR1 matches: David kicks off at 16.00 GMT & then at possibly about 21.00, Sean at about 20.00 &, potentially, at some time after 22.00, give or take.

steven · Tennis legend

Believe it or not, 8 of the first 9 games of Sean's match were breaks! (*)

7-6(3) 3-3*

Edit: (*) oops, I've just realised that's obvious from the previous post, just expressed slightly differently!

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 24th of March 2013 10:45:20 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

David coasting at the moment: he leads by 6-1 *2-1...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QR1: David Rice WR 788 defeated (qWC) Jorge Aramburo (MEX) UNR by 1 & 1 in 41 minutes 37 seconds

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QR2: David Rice WR 788 vs (5) Alessio di Mauro (ITA) WR 394

It took the Italian 11 minutes longer than David to win, but he got there in the end by 2 & 0.

steven · Tennis legend

QR2: David Rice WR 788 lost to (5) Alessio di Mauro (ITA) WR 394 by 2 & 2

It would have been a minor miracle for Dave to beat di Mauro on red clay! His QR1 win was his first singles win on red clay since Antalya Futures qualifying 4 years ago (not quite as big a gap as Sean!)

-- Edited by steven on Monday 25th of March 2013 12:41:16 AM

LHarvey89 · Social player

Now *1-3 as Michalicka holds to 40 - unfortunately Thornley had two BPs but did not convert them. You can't knock his effort here though. Fighting in every single game.

Argh. I think that'll be that. Michalicka breaks to 15 after Thornley affords him three BPs; and he takes the second of them.

1-4*

-- Edited by LHarvey89 on Monday 25th of March 2013 02:36:05 AM

LHarvey89 · Social player

Sean Thornley has taken the first set 7-6(3) against Alejandro Moreno Figueroa. Made a bit of a meal of it, mind - was *5-3 40-0 up, ended up being broken to 40, before AMF held (his first hold of the match) to take it to five all.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QR1: Sean Thornley WR 1024 defeated Alejandro Moreno (MEX) UNR by 7-6(3) 7-5

SMC1809 · All-time great

Dave's QR2 match now underway.

steven · Tennis legend

Sean: "Been a long time since I won a match after seeing this on my socks. #clay #dirt #grind #adidas http://t.co/PU96FGrhJy"

Couldn't resist checking - I make it his first singles win on red clay since he beat Marcelo Demoliner in a junior event in Mar del Plata, Argentina almost exactly 7 years ago. Demoliner went on to win a clay court Challenger 3 years later and is now WR 255 ...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
QR2: David Rice WR 788 vs (5) Alessio di Mauro (ITA) WR 394

First set down the pan by 2-6.

steven · Tennis legend

Michalicka won the 1st set 6-3 (4 breaks to 2) but Sean is a break up in the 2nd, 2-0*

LHarvey89 · Social player

I saw Thornley posting a few things up on Twitter, so assumed he was done for the day. Twenty minutes later he's out on court!

He was a double break up against Michalicka and serving for the second set at *5-2, but his tenth double fault gave MM two breaks points and the Czech duly converted. So now 5-3*

Michalicka is a pretty decent clay courter too, and has won a few Futures titles on his favoured surface. If I remember correctly, he came back from no where against Kyle Edmund earlier this year in one of the clay events in Florida, was something like 2-6, 3-5 to 2-6, 7-5, 6-1.