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

RJA · Hall of fame

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

korriban · Challenger level

James retires *1-2 first set. At the changeover presumably.

Scores looked normalish to that point. Strange.

RJA · Hall of fame

Gabb lost 2 and 2

Pretty shocking scoreline.

RJA · Hall of fame

korriban wrote:
James retires *1-2 first set. At the changeover presumably.
Scores looked normalish to that point. Strange.

Maybe it was jet lag wink

More seriously lets hope it is nothing to bad. After winning his first title last week it would be a shame if he was to be out for a few weeks or more.

steven · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
RJA wrote:
steven wrote:

L16: (3) Joshua Milton WR 371 v (SE) Boris Nicola Bakalov (BUL) WR 1441 (CH 621 in 2011)
Only just noticed this blunder by The Steven.
Josh is actually playing Nick Lindhall (AUS) WR 855
Cheek! Apart from the fact it's Lindahl not Lindhall, a quick check of yesterday's ITF livescores shows that it wasn't me who got it wrong (an easy assumption to make, admittedly), but instead of 6-4 to Bakalov in the 3rd as shown below, it actually finished 7-5 to Lindahl!
The other results look ok.

A few more thoughts - this isn't the first time a problem like this has occurred but they do seem to be pretty rare. The problem is, they tend to occur at the end of very close sets, almost as if an overrule or input error on set point 'closes' the set so it cannot be corrected. Although it's not a frequent problem, it's going to be very annoying if a Brit ever wins a close match that we've been following closely 6-4 in the 3rd only for us to find out later they actually lost 7-5 or something like that!

Also, under normal circumstances I would pick something like this up when I look at the following day's OoP in order to put the details on the top 25 table. I usually check the opponent's name when I do that, but with 5 Brits left here, I just skimmed the OoP and picked up "V playing at 8, W & X at c. 9.30, Y & Z at x. 11" or whatever it was. I'll try to remember to check more carefully in future.

paulisi · Tennis legend

That's a disappointing start in Greece. I thought Mr Gabb might put up more of a fight, Josh Milton i'm suprised has lost and I hope Marzi is not too seriously injured.

Lets hope Mr Goodall and Rice can turn things around.

paulisi · Tennis legend

David Rice has taken the first set against the top seed.

Josh Goodall has started well and is a break up.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Josh won the first set 6-4 and is a break up in the second.

Reeltime · Satellite level

Josh won 4&3 Rice serving for the match

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Reeltime wrote:
Josh won 4&3 Rice serving for the match

which he does successfully to beat the top seed 6-3 7-5

Reeltime · Satellite level

And David Rice wins 3&5.

Good win there!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Took a while but Rice won 6-3, 7-5 against the number one seed.

Really pleased for David. He's one of my new 'pet faves' (lucky him!), having watched his recent doubles matches in the US (thanks to whoever on this forum highlighted the livestream) and mentioning then that he seemd to have a nice, strong, modern game of tennis and it'd be a shame (in my opinion) if he only played doubles.

He must have served very well in this match too, and when it mattered - Martin only converted 1 out of 11 BP

steven · Tennis legend

Fab Rice beats Fabrice ... again biggrin

Actually, I like Bob's pun on Feo better! smile

paulisi · Tennis legend

No reason why David Rice cannot beat our Canadian friend and pick up some decent points this week. The last position in Steven's top 25/26 position could get quite interesting. I reckon Richard Gabb may well be the one to suffer(Burn not due to defend points for a while, Bloomers back on British tour this week)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
QF: David Rice WR 691 v Hugo di Feo (CAN) WR 1252

This match could get ugly

Clever! I've been wondering how I could make use of that surname since last week!