Week 40 - Kuwait F3 ($10,000) - Meshref (Hard)

RJA · Hall of fame

Week 40 - Kuwait F3 ($10,000) - Meshref (Hard)

Salmon · Tennis legend

This thread should be fun.

korriban · Challenger level

Salmon wrote:
This thread should be fun.

smile

DWH · Club Coach

Lewis takes his match 6-2 6-1

-- Edited by DWH on Saturday 28th of September 2013 08:11:34 AM

freerider · Futures level

he can't have entered on time - if you're not on the entry list you aren't eligible for a SE, and if the kuwait tennis federation didn't want to give him a WC then he would have to qualify

-- Edited by freerider on Saturday 28th of September 2013 12:01:58 PM

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Well done "burtie" !

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

A1 tennis academy wrote:
Well done "burtie" !

Except for the fact that the "Lewis" being referred to is Lewis Thompson who won his FQR

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Seems strange that Klec, who has just won last weeks tournament, is having to play Qualies again this week.

freerider · Futures level

Looking at his draw I would be suprised if Klec dropped a game in qualifying! I notice also that the 36 year old 'yugoslavian' qualified for the main draw today. I wonder if they would change his nationality if he got a ranking point?

RJA · Hall of fame

For the sake of clarity

FQR: Lewis Thompson UNR beat Ali Al-Qallaf (KUW) UNR : 6-2, 6-1

DWH · Club Coach

Sorry should have been more clear. Forgot Burton was Lewis Burton.

RJA · Hall of fame

Coup Droit wrote:
I was the one who mentioned it - don't know why - it just jumped out at me. I think everyone's right and it's just a question of age but I liked the idea of him being some die-hard nationalist !

I am not sure how someone could be a die-hard Yugoslav nationalist. Serbian nationalist yes, Croatian nationalist yes, but a Yugoslav nationalist doesn't make much sense since the country was a completely artificial creation.

-- Edited by RJA on Saturday 28th of September 2013 07:50:45 PM

Spectator · All-time great

freerider wrote:
Looking at his draw I would be suprised if Klec dropped a game in qualifying! I notice also that the 36 year old 'yugoslavian' qualified for the main draw today. I wonder if they would change his nationality if he got a ranking point?

Fascinating. Is this a political statement on his part? Or just a consequence of the fact that he started playing as a Yugoslav (the first tournaments that he's listed as playing on the ITF website are the Yugoslav Masters in 1996 and 1997) and no one has ever changed his affiliation?

freerider · Futures level

I've got no idea, but I remembered Steven bringing it up at kuwait F1 I think. Probably just been inactive for so long that it hasnt been updated.

steven · Tennis legend

freerider wrote:
I've got no idea, but I remembered Steven bringing it up at kuwait F1 I think. Probably just been inactive for so long that it hasnt been updated.

Someone did bring it up on a previous thread, though it wasn't me. It looks like he simply wasn't playing at the time they all had to pick a new country and nobody noticed (or nobody cared) when he did start playing again. Another odd thing is that there is no record for him at all on the ATP site - if you search for Uros Lukic, it returns one result ... Marcos Baghdatis!