Week 40 - Greece F13 ($10,000) - Marathon (Hard)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

RE: Week 40 - Greece F13 ($10,000) - Marathon (Hard)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Problems here. Back to 4-4

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Perhaps just a blip. Gabb breaks to love and will serve for the match

johnnylad · Tennis legend

This is no longer a cakewalk. Kishi breaks for the third time this set and its now 5-5

paulisi · Tennis legend

Good win - done the difficult way.

wolf · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Good win - done the difficult way.

We can probably allow him that blip in the second set, the last 19 sets he has in won in reverse order are 6-3, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, 6-1, 6-1, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0, 6-2, 6-3, 6-0, 6-1, 6-2.

So only one set his opponent got 4 games! And a very similar picture in doubles.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Theodoros Angelinos (GRE) WR 292 vs (5) Richard Gabb WR 474

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
SF: (1) Theodoros Angelinos (GRE) WR 292 vs (5) Richard Gabb WR 474

Richard beat Angelinos in the QFs here in May but it was very close - he won (coincidentally, given today's 2nd set score) 9-7 in a final set tiebreak!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

What has been so impressive about Richard's form is how few slip ups he has made when he is clearly the better player. Often Brits don't dish out the bakery even when their opponent is soft but Richard has done that very well. That was what alarmed me as at 6-1 4-1 I worried he may have picked up an injury.

korriban · Challenger level

I was thinking along similar lines to the previous poster.

I think it's fair to say that the general opinion on Richard in 2012 was that he had a very well rounded, well produced game but without any real weapons to blow opponents away. He ended the year with a ranking around 750, good if unspectacular progression - only once I recall making a Futures SF, with a raft of single pointers and double pointers making up the balance. I also recall he entered a huge number of tournaments to amass his tally.

Given his 2012, I think it may have surprised many people the extent to which he has moved onwards and upwards in 2013. After all he was playing in qualifying in the early GB Futures this year. He has already reached 2 Futures Finals plus this week is his sixth SF of the year (8th including the 2 Finals). And his doubles performances have been very good as well. What is also noticeable is that he typically now beats the players he is seeded to beat (there are relatively few disappointments), and he often destroys weaker opponents (something that simply didn't happen in 2012).

What is missing from the resume is a Futures win. But like Tom F earlier in the year he is putting himself in the position regularly, I'm sure learning from every loss, and I'm sure he will get there very soon.......

Nothing yet to suggest he can be a top 200 player, but if he keeps on improving, perhaps that's not out of the question. Good stuff.

steven · Tennis legend

Richard really does have a very impressive/consistent record since the last time he went out in Futures qualifying on 1 February.

He has played in 23 tournaments since then, going deeper than he was seeded/ranked to in 9 and going out earlier than he was seeded to in just 2 - losing to Ashley in Sunderland and Liam in Felixstowe. That doesn't mean he hasn't lost to players ranked below him, e.g. JWH in R2 in Chiswick, but he wasn't seeded to make the QFs there - Josh had already knocked out 3rd seed Ed Corrie in R1.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Richard's profile is about the only one on Team Bath that doesn't have the date he joined. Does anyone know ?

paulisi · Tennis legend

Richard dropped the first set 6-1, but is 3-0 up second set.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Richard's profile is about the only one on Team Bath that doesn't have the date he joined. Does anyone know ?

September 2008 (see http://www.teambath.com/2011/03/10/richard-gabb/ )

Richard 1-6 5-0*

paulisi · Tennis legend

one set all. Winner set to meet Yann Marti