Week 15 - USA F9 ($15,000) - Oklahoma City (Hard)

RJA · Hall of fame

Week 15 - USA F9 ($15,000) - Oklahoma City (Hard)

SMC1809 · All-time great

QR2: (q1) David Rice WR 721 beat Maxx Lipman (USA) UNR 6-1 6-1

QR2: (q2) Sean Thornley WR 1025 v Bret Berryman (USA) UNR 6-0 6-3

FQR: (q1) David Rice WR 721 v Paul C. OOSTERBAAN (USA) UNR

FQR: (q2) Sean Thornley WR 1025 v Sasha ERMAKOV (USA) UNR

korriban · Challenger level

FQR: (q1) David Rice WR 721 beat Paul C. OOSTERBAAN (USA) UNR 6-2 6-0

FQR: (q2) Sean Thornley WR 1025 beat Sasha ERMAKOV (USA) UNR 6-3 6-4

L32: David Rice WR 721 vs (Q) Artem Baradach (BLR) 1774

L32: Sean Thornley WR 1025 vs (1) Tennys Sandgren (USA) 211

L32: (4) Alex Bogdanovic WR 305 vs (Q) Dean O'Brien (RSA) 1028

-- Edited by korriban on Monday 8th of April 2013 07:00:34 PM

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Tough one for Sean. Alex with a chance for a 2nd rd match vs Nevolo and hopefully a opportunity to get 'revenge' for that surprising loss last year. Same quarter as Saville. Rice may meet Mitchell in the 2nd Rd too.

fingers crossed Alex can have a couple of decent weeks here, wonder if he has an outside chance of making the top 250 by Wimby time, needs about 40 points i think. he's not defending anything between now and then i believe.

steven · Tennis legend

Updated with new rankings (not that any of them have changed much in this case, but given that it was a Monday draw, there's a risk I'll assume the rankings were already updated and tweet them as such if I don't change it now)

L32: (Q) David Rice WR 720 vs (Q) Artem Baradach (BLR) WR 1764
L32: (Q) Sean Thornley WR 1024 vs (1) Tennys Sandgren (USA) WR 213
L32: (4) Alex Bogdanovic WR 301 vs (Q) Dean O'Brien (RSA) WR 1027

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 9th of April 2013 02:33:13 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Surprise, surprise! wink

R1: (1) David Rice & Sean Thornley WR 439 vs Hassan Ndayishimiye & Mico Santiago (BDI/USA) WR 2637

RJA · Hall of fame

Count Zero wrote:
fingers crossed Alex can have a couple of decent weeks here, wonder if he has an outside chance of making the top 250 by Wimby time, needs about 40 points i think. he's not defending anything between now and then i believe.

He has nothing to defend until July, when he has a mega 71 points (nearly half his total) to defend in the space of 4 weeks. He needs around 40 points between now and Wimbledon to make the top 250 which is clearly possible. However I reckon that the LTA would still decline to give him a main draw wild card.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

oh yeah, but last year he didn't even get given a QWC (although I'm not 100% if he asked for one).

I don't think he was having much fun last summer, he only attempted the 1 grass event at queens, and was well below par in the opening round, although going in he hadn't been able to practice on grass at all, which was hardly ideal. fingers crossed things go a bit better this year.

wolf · Tennis legend

R1: (1) David Rice & Sean Thornley WR 439 beat Hassan Ndayishimiye & Mico Santiago (BDI/USA) WR 2637 6-4 2-6 [10-3]

steven · Tennis legend

No play today by the looks of it - all three Brits are on the OoP for tomorrow at 9 am local (15.00 BST) with R2 matches starting n/b 1 pm local (19.00 BST) if they win.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

1st rds starting on a Thursday! Always going to get hectic. Surely they could see the forecast, so why leave so many till Wednesday

steven · Tennis legend

Count Zero wrote:
1st rds starting on a Thursday! Always going to get hectic. Surely they could see the forecast, so why leave so many till Wednesday

The 1st rule of scheduling in the US always seems to be "put the players last"

Another annoying thing about it is that the two Brits with the most winnable matches will, if they do win, end up playing against opponents who got their R1 matches finished today.

RJA · Hall of fame

steven wrote:
Count Zero wrote:
1st rds starting on a Thursday! Always going to get hectic. Surely they could see the forecast, so why leave so many till Wednesday
The 1st rule of scheduling in the US always seems to be "put the players last"
Another annoying thing about it is that the two Brits with the most winnable matches will, if they do win, end up playing against opponents who got their R1 matches finished today.

Not to mention that when you think of players most suited to playing two singles matches in one day Boggo would be unlikely to make the list.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

yeah it's not ideal - unless you can get into the zone :)
i think alex has won simultaneous matches before tho, and actually he is probably has better stamina/endurance now than at any point in his previously, the problem is picking up niggley injuries etc.

have to see even if the weather holds out enough, wonder if they have indoor facilitates nearby just in case.

Edit brain fog has just cleared - queens qualies is always 2 matches on the saturday, and i think several other ATP qualies do that too so they do have experince of this thing.

-- Edited by Count Zero on Thursday 11th of April 2013 08:59:10 AM

Count Zero · Tennis legend

But i did find this fairly interesting gizmo

http://scores.itftennis.com/?alias=itf&layoutid=72&versionid=1&language=en

-- Edited by Count Zero on Thursday 11th of April 2013 03:12:58 PM