Week 20 - Greece F7 ($10,000) - Marathon-Athens (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: Week 20 - Greece F7 ($10,000) - Marathon-Athens (Hard)

RJA · Hall of fame

Bob in Spain wrote:
A comfortable hold.

6-5*

Now why couldn't he do that last time ?

I blame your negativity in response to Scottie's comments wink

steven · Tennis legend

0-40 ... 7 points in a row now, his best run of the match ... 3 MPs

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Another break and this time Dave takes GSM 6-3 7-5

(And scottie1 breaths a huge sigh of relief)

DF · Tennis legend

Well Done!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
A comfortable hold.

6-5*

Now why couldn't he do that last time ?
I blame your negativity in response to Scottie's comments

LOL. If in doubt, blame the "foreigner" !!

paulisi · Tennis legend

Congratulations and lets hope Dave can take the form into next week's event.

scottie1 · Futures level

i never doubted it lol but dave is a good player but it shows that josh is not in a good place just now

steven · Tennis legend

Make that 8 points in a row

FINAL: Dave Rice WR 691 beat (Q) Alexios Halebian (USA) WR 1386 (CH 1044 last year) by 3 & 5

Winning this tournament without dropping a set biggrin Dave will return to the singles top 600 for the first time in 8 months. This is his 2nd Futures singles title, the first having been won in Zacatecas, Mexico in 2010, before he started concentrating more on doubles.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

scottie1 wrote:
i never doubted it lol but dave is a good player but it shows that josh is not in a good place just now

Yeah - right biggrin

But at least you are now officially forgiven.

Just got to wait for RJA to forgive me now and we are both in the clear wink

korriban · Challenger level

biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

Well played all week Mr Rice!!!!

Never in doubt, and good luck for the follow-up - why not? Would show all those other singles specialists on the top 25 table a thing or two!

blob · All-time great

Well done indeed David Rice! Heartiest congratulations.

RJA · Hall of fame

Coup Droit wrote:
He was just playing with you all . . . .

Well done,, my man . . .

NB quote from a US website about yesterday's win :

"I wouldn't be too disappointed by Peliwo's loss as this was a deceptively tough match up for him. Rice is a seriously underrated player and his singles career has suffered because of his focus on doubles but he should easily be top 400, if not higher. He has a very good serve volley game and plays with a lot of spin and variety. Pelwio will not have played that many matches against someone like him".

Although maybe, in fact, that was posted by someone from this forum (Brit Tennis Fan ???? anyone ?)

I don't know who said that but it strikes me as a pretty accurate assessment.

korriban · Challenger level

Just noticed ONCE AGAIN (as is the case almost every week), the LTA's round up of the week's results contains glaring factual errors, implying they don't check their information, or just don't care. Either way it's the sort of lack of attention to detail that sets a dreadful example to the very players who they are trying to support in being ultra professional and looking for every small advantage to beat the opposition.

Apparently David Rice beat Halebian in 3 sets (by the same score that Josh G lost to Halebian) - he won easily in 2; and apparently, Naomi captured the doubles title in India last week - the country is called Indonesia. Would have been nice to give a bit more flavour on Dan's win (first on clay, first outside GB/Ireland); or David's win (first for over a year); or Tom F's 4th or 5th SF in 2013 (he was only mentioned for losing to Jack in Turkey).

I've stopped bothering to let them know about their factual errors (I did try for a while) as it is such a regular occurance, and it's clear they aren't really that bothered - I presume the top brass don;t even look at the website.

scottie1 · Futures level

i rarely go into lta website i find it not very user friendly and the tennis draws oop are not updated timeously