Week 41 - Israel F13 ($10,000) - Akko (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

Week 41 - Israel F13 ($10,000) - Akko (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: Toby Martin & Jonny O'Mara CR 1905 defeated Lance Cohen & Oran Reznik (RSA/ISR) UNR by 2-6 7-6(4) [13-11]
R1: Luke Bambridge & Evan Hoyt CR 2546 defeated Mor Bulis & Tal Goldengoren (ISR/ISR) UNR by 3 & 1

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QF: (1) Liam Broady & Joshua Ward-Hibbert WR 844 vs (WC) Yum Adiv & Ron Klain (ISR/ISR) UNR
QF: (3) Dekel Bar & Jui-Chen Hung (ISR/TPE) CR 1484 vs Toby Martin & Jonny O'Mara CR 1905
QF: Luke Bambridge & Evan Hoyt CR 2546 vs (4) Gleb Alekseenko & Alexandr Kushakov (UKR/UKR) CR 1849

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Tuesday 8th of October 2013 09:16:35 PM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

What - no live scores ? cry

korriban · Challenger level

Bob in Spain wrote:
What - no live scores ?

Normally Israeli Futures have their own livescore webpages even if it's not on ITF livescore itself, but I can't find any? Maybe someone else knows if it still exists somewhere deep on the web!

steven · Tennis legend

I think it may only be Futures at Ramat Hasharon that have live scores but I was going to have a proper hunt later!

Miriambee · Futures level

I've had a good look at this new (ish) tennis centre in Akko, and it's website - and it doesn't even mention this competition.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Miriambee wrote:
I've had a good look at this new (ish) tennis centre in Akko, and it's website - and it doesn't even mention this competition.

Me too. There were some nice pictures but even their "upcoming events" list doesn't mention it.

DWH · Club Coach

Strange that is is not on their events. There is a page for this tournament and the next one I think if you click on the itf pro circuit logo.

No lives scores though. Just the order of play and the draws.

http://www.tennis.org.il/future_Akko_and_RamatHasharon2013

Tennisnow · Lower Club Player

R32: Jonny O'Mara WR 1037 beat (3) Liam Broady WR 563 by 2 & 3

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

that's impressive ! I mean, Tennisnow - that's impressive !!! Good sleuthing - where did you get that from ?

RJA · Hall of fame

It's also an impressive win for Jonny.

paulisi · Tennis legend

I wonder if Liam is still struggling with all those injuries - shoulder and ankle?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
I wonder if Liam is still struggling with all those injuries - shoulder and ankle?

I've no idea, obviously, but I wouldn't have thought that he'd gone to Israel for three weeks and inscribed for doubles and singles if he was worried about his injuries.

Maybe Jonny just played very well ? He's got it in him . .

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jonny O'Mara ‏@Jonny_OMara 21m

Managed to sneak a 13-11 win in doubles with @TobyMartin93 from 62 51 down. Good encouraging words from @HoytEvan #painful #harsh #clutcg

Luke and Evan won 6-3 6-1 too

korriban · Challenger level

Coup Droit wrote:
paulisi wrote:
I wonder if Liam is still struggling with all those injuries - shoulder and ankle?
I've no idea, obviously, but I wouldn't have thought that he'd gone to Israel for three weeks and inscribed for doubles and singles if he was worried about his injuries.
Maybe Jonny just played very well ? He's got it in him . .

I'm inclined to think precisely that - Jonny probably just played better than Liam.

When Liam won his maiden Futures a few weeks back (I think it was in Sheffield) the few video highlights suggested he was playing a steady and safe game with very little power indeed. I commented at the time that it looked like he was playing in slow motion, rather like one of those films showing pro tennis from the 1960s - something that might deliver him a Futures title or two (and I think he needed a win; was realy pleased for him) but would be completely inadequate to make any real progress towards the top 250. I do hope he is playing the long game here and building his gamestyle around the attributes that most of the the top guys employ (power, aggression, positivity, killer patterns of play) just like Kyle seems to be doing.

Will be interesting if Liam tweets later.