Week 16 - France F8 ($15,000 + H) - Ajaccio (Clay)

steven · Tennis legend

Week 16 - France F8 ($15,000 + H) - Ajaccio (Clay)

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Alex Ward WR 456 beat (8) Nikola Ciric (SRB) WR 349 (CH 151 in 2011) by 3 & 4 biggrin

Excellent win ... and as a reward, he will get a qualifier or a wild card in R2.

-- Edited by steven on Monday 15th of April 2013 11:01:14 AM

korriban · Challenger level

Very nice win. Tricky first match on clay, and few dramas.

There is a fairly large discrepancy between that ITF livescore match stats and the tennis ticker match stats (see link on top 25). If the latter is correct (which I have to say seems unlikely in this case), Alex served 95% first serves in set 1, and won 20 out of 20 points on his serve, and didn't face a single BP in the entire match.

Either way few dramas at all. Plenty of time to admire the scenery......a combination of tennis courts, mountains and sandy beaches sounds good to me.

-- Edited by korriban on Monday 15th of April 2013 11:49:38 AM

steven · Tennis legend

Alex has won the 1st set 6-3

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
L32: Alex Ward WR 456 v (8) Nikola Ciric WR 349 (CH 151 in 2011)

Alex is going to be sick of the sight of Ciric, whose doubles ranking is higher than his singles ranking, by the time he's finished:

R1: Dan Smethurst & Alex Ward WR 1092 vs (2) Mirza Basic & Nikola Ciric (BIH/SRB) WR 586 bleh

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Alex has won the 1st set 6-3

*4-3 in the second... smile

RainDelay · Pro player

Alex wins 6-3 6-4

blob · All-time great

Very well done Alex. The march of the Wards continues apace.

Crofte · Improver

I was following the scores on Bet365, he did face a couple of Bps, but not too many. also, saw that his serve was around the 65% mark. Anyone know what time the doubles is on?

steven · Tennis legend

Re. SC's edit in the first post - Hoang is playing in his first Futures main draw, having qualified at his 8th attempt. He has played in two ITF junior event this year but did manage to make the Final of the second one, a G3.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Alex does the double over Ciric! biggrin

R1: Dan Smethurst & Alex Ward WR 1092 defeated (2) Mirza Basic & Nikola Ciric (BIH/SRB) WR 586 by 4-6 6-3 [10-8]

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QF: Antoine Hoang & Jonathan Kanar (FRA/FRA) UNR vs Dan Smethurst & Alex Ward WR 1092

RJA · Hall of fame

First set to Dan

6-4

RJA · Hall of fame

Dan won 4 and 2

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: Quentin Halys & Johan Sébastien Tatlot (FRA/FRA) UNR vs Dan Smethurst & Alex Ward WR 1090

The unranked Frogs took out the third seeds, their compatriots, Jouan & Sidorenko, by 6-2 5-7 [10-7] earlier...

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Tuesday 16th of April 2013 06:37:58 PM

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Dan Smethurst WR 371 beat (Q) Antoine Hoang (FRA) UNR by 4 & 2

L16: Dan Smethurst WR 371 v (1) David Guez (FRA) WR 194 (CH 116, 2010)

H2H 0-1, 5&2, Newcastle Fut. SF 2009

In a bizarre bit of scheduling, despite the fact that Alex played yesterday, it looks like the match to decide his R2 opponent isn't due to be played until tomorrow.