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

DWH · Club Coach

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

steven · Tennis legend

L32: (Q) Lewis Thomson UNR lost to Matías Castro (ARG) WR 1129 (CH 975 in 2009) by 0 & 1
L32: (6) Lewis Burton WR 694 beat Ali Ghareeb (KUW) WR 1528 (CH 1345 in 2003) by 0 & 3
L32: (2) Marcus Willis WR 414 beat (Q) Ken Onishi (JPN) UNR by 3-6 6-3 6-2

L16: (6) Lewis Burton WR 694 v (Q) Punn Bodhidatta (THA) WR 2110 (CH 1966 in Jul)
L16: (2) Marcus Willis WR 414 v (WC) Dawood Sayed Hasheem (KUW) UNR

Sayed Hasheem double bagelled a lucky loser today but lost 0 & 1 to a Brit (Rob Carter) here last year.

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 1st of October 2013 04:51:21 PM

DWH · Club Coach

Marcus now leads 4-1 in the second set (2 breaks to 1)

DWH · Club Coach

Haha I was just about to ask are your scores ahead of mine.

Looks like Marcus pulled through that game for 5-2

DWH · Club Coach

In to a decider they go 3-6 6-3...

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Onishi ( Nippon ) 6 3 1

Willis ( GB ). 3 6 3

Bomb a break up 7 aces so Serving ok !

Spoke last night said expected tough match As Kendo is talented ITF junior and would have learnt lessons from previous encounter - lets hope not too much .

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Uncle harry Lewis is loving this ! Lol

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Marcus a break up , 3*-2

assuming it's all correct now (!)

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

It's quite tense and indeed addictive watching on live scoring .

MW - played 23 ITF tournaments in 2013

6 without points

11 consecutive tournaments with points (new PB )

Last QTR 51 points Projection ( New PB )

On this form Projected ranking end sept 2014 -singles ATP 250 ranking

Final QTR 1St point ?

DWH · Club Coach

Missed what happened in terms of scoring but the important thing is that Marcus takes the match 3-6 6-3 6-2 over young Ken.

smile

Salmon · Tennis legend

A1 tennis academy wrote:
Uncle harry Lewis is loving this ! Lol

Is he the war veteran uncle? Or someone else?

plankton · Social player

Hi - I though it rude as a new poster to start a new thread but noticed that, with points coming off by the end of the year, it's a pretty even battle from here to year end for the final top 5 spot.
With Marcus's progress and other players points coming off there's about 7 players including boggo that have a similar chance of GB number 5. Marcus has a chance to go deep here and challenge for that spot and would be good to see the Brits having a real go to outdo each other to get there.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lewis Burton already 3-0 up

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And Lewis takes the first set 6-0

Salmon · Tennis legend

plankton wrote:
Hi - I though it rude as a new poster to start a new thread but noticed that, with points coming off by the end of the year, it's a pretty even battle from here to year end for the final top 5 spot.
With Marcus's progress and other players points coming off there's about 7 players including boggo that have a similar chance of GB number 5. Marcus has a chance to go deep here and challenge for that spot and would be good to see the Brits having a real go to outdo each other to get there.

I dearly wish a certain new member would think along the same lines, but it definitely is not rude! Welcome to the board, and it's always a pleasure seeing people with marine-themed usernames.

Boggo has mysteriously disappeared, so I'm not too confident that he'll end the year below the 300 mark (which I think will be a prerequisite for being number 5), but otherwise there are quite a few players who could get there and (hopefully) that will persuade the LTA to have more home Challengers in 2014.