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

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

Salmon · Tennis legend

Well, I did rough check with respect to replies and noticed something bizarre. The two most active overseas Futures threads relate to tournaments played in Falun! They have 278 and 268 replies...

http://britishtennis.activeboard.com/t20885803/week-39-futures-f2-15k-falun-sweden/
http://britishtennis.activeboard.com/t13397673/week-37-futures-f5-m-falun-sweden/?page=1&sort=oldestFirst

Third on the overseas list, with 258 replies, is a Futures from Herzlia -

http://britishtennis.activeboard.com/t48325688/week-12-israel-f5-10000-herzlia-outdoor-hard/

And this one comes fourth. Of course, I was checking it manually, so there could be omissions.

-- Edited by Salmon on Monday 7th of October 2013 01:19:35 AM

Salmon · Tennis legend

Right, I had completely forgotten about the webcam that the Swedish Futures had! That explains it all.

Just to add some more fuel to this discussion (legitimate fuel, not spam), I see that getreading.co.uk regularly carries news updates on Aurelius's progess - http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/other-sport/willis-impressive-form-kuwait-continues-6131543

If it already weren't confusing enough, with the number of people called "Lewis" involved in this topic (I make it Burton, Thompson, A1, and at least one of A1's uncles!), this article was penned by Lewis Rudd.

-- Edited by Salmon on Monday 7th of October 2013 01:56:54 AM

steven · Tennis legend

Thought some people might be interested to know that having passed the 8000 views mark, this is now the 3rd most viewed thread for a Futures event outside the UK on the forum. It may yet overtake 2nd placed Cartagena 2013, a thread that turned from Kyle-watch to Busta-watch with Bob's reports direct from the tournament, but it is still thousands of views behind the thread for Herzlia 2012, where Fitzy won his first Futures singles title.

Threads for GB Futures (especially those held in Bath, for some reason) tend to get a lot more hits than threads for overseas Futures (hardly surprising given that a lot more Brits tend to be playing in each one) and Challenger threads tend to get more views than Futures threads even if there are only a couple of Brits in them, if the Brits do well.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Salmon wrote:
Well, I did rough check with respect to replies and noticed something bizarre. The two most active overseas Futures threads relate to tournaments played in Falun! They have 278 and 268 replies...

And the award for using the most number of adjectives to modify a noun goes to...

(There, another step closer to taking this thread to no. 1. )

steven · Tennis legend

Salmon wrote:
Well, I did rough check with respect to replies and noticed something bizarre. The two most active overseas Futures threads relate to tournaments played in Falun! They have 278 and 268 replies...

http://britishtennis.activeboard.com/t20885803/week-39-futures-f2-15k-falun-sweden/
http://britishtennis.activeboard.com/t13397673/week-37-futures-f5-m-falun-sweden/?page=1&sort=oldestFirst

Third on the overseas list, with 258 replies, is a Futures from Herzlia -

http://britishtennis.activeboard.com/t48325688/week-12-israel-f5-10000-herzlia-outdoor-hard/

And this one comes fourth. Of course, I was checking it manually, so there could be omissions.

There's always a reason - Falun 2007 & 2008 had a live webcam (probably one of the first Futures events ever to do so) and quite a few Brits taking part, so we were probably fascinated by the novelty of it all, with people gazing in awe and providing point by point commentary posts for those who couldn't watch at the time. That sounds like us, doesn't it? wink

The Herzlia thread is the one with the most views that I mentioned above, i.e. Fitzy's first title.