Members Login
Username 
 
Password 
    Remember Me  
Link Back -> Andrew Murray message board -> British men discussion section -> Week 38 - Challenger (€30,000+H) - Kenitra, Morocco (Clay)
Post Info TOPIC: Week 38 - Challenger (€30,000+H) - Kenitra, Morocco (Clay)
steven


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 34418
Date:
Week 38 - Challenger (€30,000+H) - Kenitra, Morocco (Clay)
Permalink  

Looks like Alex has indeed (see week 38 entries thread) opted to go through qualifying rather than take a main draw place here:

QR1: Alex Ward WR 346 v Houssam Sbaii (MAR) UNR



__________________

GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!

GB top 25s (ranks, whereabouts) & stats - http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html
Coup Droit


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 55489
Date:
Permalink  

Alex wins. He'll have little trouble with Michael Bois (said touching wood) but Alexis Musialek is a handy player and in good form at the moment. (That said, Calvin Hemery is one of the 'great new hopes' who's done nothing yet but, 'supposedly', is getting his act together so maybe he'll push Alexis and they'll all be exhausted !)



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 14th of September 2013 09:37:04 AM

__________________
steven


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 34418
Date:
Permalink  

QR1: (q3) Alex Ward WR 346 beat Houssam Sbaii (MAR) UNR by 0 & 1

QR2: (q3) Alex Ward WR 346 v Michael Bois (FRA) WR 614 (CH 582 in Jul)



-- Edited by steven on Saturday 14th of September 2013 09:50:57 AM

__________________

GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!

GB top 25s (ranks, whereabouts) & stats - http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html
Coup Droit


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 55489
Date:
Permalink  

Alex wins the first set 6-0 :)

__________________
Coup Droit


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 55489
Date:
Permalink  

QR2: (q3) Alex Ward WR 346 def. Michael Bois (FRA) WR 614 (CH 582 in Jul) 6-2 6-2

All as hoped for/expected - very nice tidy result.

Musialek is up in his match but still only in the first set.

(NB irrelevant now but to be fair to Hemery (which maybe I wasn't) he's only 18 and played juniors this year (made the QF at Roland Garros) but he's been so hyped for the past couple of years, and not done anything in the seniors, that it seems like he's 'failing' when, of course, it's just taking some time . . .)



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 14th of September 2013 04:33:43 PM

__________________
steven


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 34418
Date:
Permalink  

Alex has lost 1 game now (6-0 3-1*) ... the player likely to meet him in QR2 (Bois) still hasn't lost any (6-0 *2-0)

__________________

GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!

GB top 25s (ranks, whereabouts) & stats - http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html
steven


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 34418
Date:
Permalink  

Coup Droit wrote:

Alex wins. He'll have little trouble with Michael Bois (said touching wood) but Alexis Musialek is a handy player and in good form at the moment. (That said, Calvin Hemery is one of the 'great new hopes' who's done nothing yet but, 'supposedly', is getting his act together so maybe he'll push Alexis and they'll all be exhausted !)

 

Hemery has taken Musialek to 3 sets yet got thrashed 1 & 1 by Bois last week, though whether anything useful can be read into that about the relative threats of Bois and Musialek, I don't know. It may just tell us that a young GEM (i.e. Hemery) is even more erratic than the older GEMs, which would be saying something!

 



__________________

GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!

GB top 25s (ranks, whereabouts) & stats - http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html
RJA


Hall of fame

Status: Offline
Posts: 9639
Date:
Permalink  

For first round of a challenger that is about as good as it gets.

 



-- Edited by RJA on Sunday 15th of September 2013 03:34:46 PM

__________________
RJA


Hall of fame

Status: Offline
Posts: 9639
Date:
Permalink  

If Alex can beat Musialek there are two very nice looking qualifying spots against local wild cards. The other two are tough, Stebe and Beck.

__________________
steven


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 34418
Date:
Permalink  

FQR: (q3) Alex Ward WR 346 v (q7) Alexis Musialek (FRA) WR 478 (CH 476 in Jul)

__________________

GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!

GB top 25s (ranks, whereabouts) & stats - http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html
paulisi


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 17420
Date:
Permalink  

Alex has the early break 3*-1

__________________
john


Top national player

Status: Offline
Posts: 3413
Date:
Permalink  

Qualifying spots:

Andreas Beck
Cedric-Marcel Stebe 6th seed WR 206
Morrocan wildcard Mehdi Jdi
Morrocan wildcard Yassine Idmbarek


Quite a contrast, would be nice to get one of the wildcards but Stebe or Beck would be tough

__________________

Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive....  those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience

Coup Droit


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 55489
Date:
Permalink  

Alex's blog said he was a bit sore and whatever after Seville (and so was glad to have won the two matches yesterday so 'easily').

And he's on fine form (cross fingers) here too, 5-2* up

__________________
paulisi


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 17420
Date:
Permalink  

Alex has played a lot of matches recently. Must be due a few weeks off soon.

__________________
john


Top national player

Status: Offline
Posts: 3413
Date:
Permalink  

Just noticed you'd already posted the qualifying spots RJA, not sure how I missed that

__________________

Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive....  those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience

1 2 3 … 6  >  Last»  | Page of 6  sorted by
 
Quick Reply

Please log in to post quick replies.
Link Back -> Andrew Murray message board -> British men discussion section -> Week 38 - Challenger (€30,000+H) - Kenitra, Morocco (Clay)
Tweet this page Post to Digg Post to Del.icio.us


Create your own FREE Forum
Report Abuse 		Powered by ActiveBoard