Week 29 - Serbia F5 ($10,000) - Belgrade (Clay)

RJA · Hall of fame

Week 29 - Serbia F5 ($10,000) - Belgrade (Clay)

RJA · Hall of fame

QR1: (q2) Toby Martin WR 1017 beat Ivan Sabanov (CRO) UNR : 6-4, 3-6, 6-1

QR2: (q2) Toby Martin WR 1017 v Quentin Rich (SUI) UNR

RJA · Hall of fame

QR2: (q2) Toby Martin WR 1017 beat Quentin Rich (SUI) UNR : 6-2, 6-1

FQR: (q2) Toby Martin WR 1017 v (q15) Petar Tomic (SRB) WR 1985

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

FQR: (q2) Toby Martin WR 1017 defeated (q15) Petar Tomic (SRB) WR 1985 by 2 & 1 smile

steven · Tennis legend

L32: Matt Short WR 792 v (Q) Grégoire Jacq (FRA) WR 1208
L32: (Q) Toby Martin WR 1020 v (6) Denis Bejtulahi (SRB) WR 654

No less than 4 LLs made it into the main draw here (unfortunately, 3 of them in the top half of the draw with the Brits in the bottom half) and Toby is one of a run of 5 qualifiers next to each other in the draw, but unfortunately he was the one who got the seed in R1

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

In the doubles, Matt is playing with Djoko's kid brother, Djordje, and Toby is playing with Antun Vidak and are number two seeds.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Tuesday 16th of July 2013 07:30:35 AM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (4) Sasa Stojisavljevic & Arsenije Zlatanovic (SRB/SRB) CR 2806 vs Djordje Djokovic (SRB) & Matt Short UNR bleh
R1: Stepan Khotulev & Gleb Sakharov (RUS/FRA) UNR vs (2) Toby Martin & Antun Vidak (CRO) CR 1831

steven · Tennis legend

Serving at 3-6 *1-5 down, Toby saved 3 match point and held for 2-5* - probably not the start of an amazing comeback, but where there's life ...

steven · Tennis legend

Then again, he just got one of the breaks back to love

3-6 *3-5

steven · Tennis legend

4-5* but Bejtulahi now has another chance to serve it out and gets another match point ... but Toby saves it and breaks again - now it's *5-5!

steven · Tennis legend

Holds to love - 3-6 6-5*

steven · Tennis legend

Bejtulahi was ahead in his service game and it looked like they were heading for a tiebreak, but no - Toby breaks again, winning his 6th game in a row and taking the 2nd set 7-5 from *1-5 0-40 down!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Steven, you have to be the world's best 'one man believer' !

Now, if you could keep sending the same vibes ALL the way through the third set . . .

korriban · Challenger level

So Toby won 8 games in a row from 3-6 1-5 0-40, to be 1 set all and *2-0 in the third.

Then loses 6 games in a row.

2 options. I think it could be the second.

1. James Ward-itis: in a winning position by playing with nothing-to-lose freedom, then gets ultra defensive/safe as soon as the winning line approaches, giving the opponent back the initiative.

2. Something happened to Toby early in the third set. I noticed the scores stopped moving for ages at 2-1*, so I wonder if Toby sustained an injury.....he barely won a point from 2-2.

steven · Tennis legend

I had to leave when Toby was *2-0 up in the 3rd - guttted to get back and find out what happened

L32: (Q) Toby Martin WR 1020 lost to (6) Denis Bejtulahi (SRB) WR 654 by 6-3 5-7 6-2