Week 17 - Turkey F16 ($10,000) - Antalya - Belconti (Hard)

RJA · Hall of fame

RE: Week 17 - Turkey F16 ($10,000) - Antalya - Belconti (Hard)

RJA · Hall of fame

L32: George Coupland WR 1064 beat (Q) Antoine Richard (CAN) WR 1188 : 6-2, 6-3

Finishes off a good day in Turkey. Neil plays tomorrow.

paulisi · Tennis legend

The draw looks really weak. The seed in Jamie's quarter has already been toppled and there is nothing to frighten Jamie in this draw. I expect him to win the tournament.

I would expect Tom to get past George and then the Brazillian no.3 seed would stand in the way of a Baker v Farquharson semi final

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

wow, yet again Tom dispatches another player ranked considerably higher than himself, and has to be considered favourite to make another QF. Impressive stuff - but I was under the impression Tom was going to a US college, is he now playing full time on tour ?

Reeltime · Satellite level

Tom has one point to come off in May, then nothing until November. Good chance to rocket up the rankings :)

steven · Tennis legend

4/4 for GB in R1 here

L32: (6) Neil Pauffley WR 471 beat (Q) Barkin Yalçinkale (TUR) WR 1566 by 3 & 3

L16:(1) Jamie Baker WR 237 v Sean Berman (USA) WR 623 (ex-top 25 junior)
L16: Tom Farquharson WR 803 v George Coupland WR 1064
L16: (6) Neil Pauffley WR 471 v Ilija Vucic (SRB) WR 819

Edited to add the "ç" in Yalçinkale. wink

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 24th of April 2013 01:29:28 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Neil P won the first set 6-3 with serve in the second

RJA · Hall of fame

R1: George Coupland / Juan Cruz Estevarena (ARG) WR 2781 beat Tiago Fernandes / Bruno Sant'anna (BRA/BRA) WR 1376 : 6-4, 7-6(4)

QF: George Coupland / Juan Cruz Estevarena (ARG) WR 2781 v (1) Juan Ignacio Londero / Mateo Nicolas Martinez (ARG/ARG) WR 998

steven · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Edited to add the "ç" in Yalçinkale.
-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 24th of April 2013 01:29:28 PM

LOL - ah yes, I forgot that's one Turkish character that might work on here because it's used in French as well. I find the central/east European characters are usually too flaky to bother with on this board.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
steven wrote:
Edited to add the "ç" in Yalçinkale.
-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 24th of April 2013 01:29:28 PM
LOL - ah yes, I forgot that's one Turkish character that might work on here because it's used in French as well. I find the central/east European characters are usually too flaky to bother with on this board.

I know what you mean! The German, Spanish & Italian ones generally work OK, too, the German also being used in Turkish (e.g. Cagla Büyükakçay, although in that it doesn't like the capital "c" cedilla & the little hooked accent [breve] over the "g" in her first name) & Finnish (Henrik Sillanpää). wink

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Do you all have multi-lingual keyboards? If typing on a Forum, I'm far too lazy to use "Character Map" all the time!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Madeline wrote:
Do you all have multi-lingual keyboards? If typing on a Forum, I'm far too lazy to use "Character Map" all the time!

I certainly haven't. I use ALT + a series of codes on the number pad to reproduce French, German (Finnish/Turkish), Spanish, Italian & Portuguese accents (e.g ALT+130 = é, ALT+138 = è, ALT+135 = ç, ALT+129 = ü, ALT+164 = ñ & ALT+0227 = ã). I can also reproduce "upside-down" question & exclamation marks that way for Spanish. No idea how to reproduce eastern European accents: I'd copy & paste when necessary, if only the bloody board would let me! evileye

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, though SC's method sounds cumbersome, it's not if you are typing in other languages a lot - those codes quickly become imprinted on your memory and it becomes as routine to do this as it is to press shift + a letter to capitalise it. For vowels, AltGr+a letter produces that letter with an acute accent, so that's even simpler.

Tweeting or posting from an iPhone, it's simpler still - if you hold down a letter, a list of accented forms of that letter pops up and you simply pick from that and/or you can add international keyboards in the language setting and flick between them at the touch of a button (the little globe button near the bottom left), in which case the spell checker/autocorrect defaults to the relevant language too.

Why do we bother? Er, that's a good question wink partly answered by the "it becomes as routine as" in the last paragraph. I find doing it reminds me how to pronounce the names correctly and a few accents on the top 25 tables gives a nice international flavour to them (or so it seems to me, because I'm odd like that LOL)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Why do we bother?

Because years of professional linguistic training mean that I know how to do it, because I often still need to know how to do it in the course of my work &, last, but not least, because I inherited a perfectionist streak from my father which won't let me "get it wrong"! wink I'd add that I, too, am odd like that! biggrin

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
steven wrote:
Why do we bother?
Because years of professional linguistic training mean that I know how to do it, because I often still need to know how to do it in the course of my work &, last, but not least, because I inherited a perfectionist streak from my father which won't let me "get it wrong"! I'd add that I, too, am odd like that!

I see those damned question marks within a diamond are back & all over the place! furious

Edit: how very odd! I quoted myself because there was one showing after the "wink"!

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Thursday 25th of April 2013 09:28:39 AM