Week 43 - USA F28 ($10,000) - Birmingham, Al (Clay)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 43 - USA F28 ($10,000) - Birmingham, Al (Clay)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
A lone Brit in the doubles this week, but in theory in with a chance:
R1: Cédric de Zutter (BEL) & Joe Salisbury CR 2052 (936+1116) vs Philip Bester & Kamil Pajkowski (CAN/CAN) UNR

I think that David Fox has got a place too, playing with Vlad Victor Cornea (now THERE'S a name . .. ) but are coming up directly against the number one seeds.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
A lone Brit in the doubles this week, but in theory in with a chance:
R1: Cédric de Zutter (BEL) & Joe Salisbury CR 2052 (936+1116) vs Philip Bester & Kamil Pajkowski (CAN/CAN) UNR
I think that David Fox has got a place too, playing with Vlad Victor Cornea (now THERE'S a name . .. ) but are coming up directly against the number one seeds.

You're quite right, CD: completely missed it!

R1: (1) Romain Arneodo & Benjamin Balleret (FRA/MON) CR 725 (423+302) vs Vlad Victor Cornea ( - definitely a name with which to conjure. There has to be a joke in there somewhere...) (ROU) & David Fox CR 2430 (902+1528)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Joe Salisbury has also made it through qualifying so that's two into the MD :::)))

FQR : Joe SALISBURY (GBR) [2] def. David ZIMMERMANN (GER) 6-4 6-1

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

But life is kinder to Stuart than Joe ..

R1 (Q) Stuart Kenyon v Connor Farren (USA) WR 908
R1 (Q) Joe Salisbury WR 1577 v (2) Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI) WR 279 CH 237

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

No luck on the doubles front though:

R1:

Romain ARNEODO (FRA) / Benjamin BALLERET (MON) [1] def Vlad Victor CORNEA (ROU) / David FOX (GBR) 6-0 6-3
Philip BESTER (CAN) / Kamil PAJKOWSKI (CAN) def Cedric DE ZUTTER (BEL) / Joe SALISBURY (GBR) 7-6(2) 7-6(6)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 23rd of October 2013 07:28:41 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Joe loses the first set 6-4 against the WR 270.

Another British player putting in a very decent score against someone vastly higher ranked.

I do hope Joe is seriously thinking of turning pro when he graduates - he showed a lot of potential here in the couple of summer tournaments he played.

steven · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Joe loses the first set 6-4 against the WR 270.

Another British player putting in a very decent score against someone vastly higher ranked.

I do hope Joe is seriously thinking of turning pro when he graduates - he showed a lot of potential here in the couple of summer tournaments he played.

Now he's serving for the 2nd set! He's had 13 break points to HPC's 3 - they've taken 2 each.

steven · Tennis legend

HPC breaks back unfortunately but will have to serve to stay in the set - 65 points to 64 at the moment.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

C'mon Joe. The Chilean has GOT to be nervous, serving to stay in the set when he's already conceded 13 BPs !

steven · Tennis legend

4-6 6-5* 30-30 ...

steven · Tennis legend

Tiebreak time and the Chilean is an early mini-break up 2-3*

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Joe was two points away from teh second set on a couple of occasions but eventually loses the TB 7-4. :(

Think he's playing next week though . ..

steven · Tennis legend

Pity but a good effort ... and kind of makes you wish he'd got Stuart's draw, given that he has just lost the 1st set 6-1 to Farren.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Pity but a good effort ... and kind of makes you wish he'd got Stuart's draw, given that he has just lost the 1st set 6-1 to Farren.

Yeah, exactly. This is the problem when you only do one tournament here or there - not that it's his fault, obviously, he's got commitments - but you're really at the whim of the one draw.

And I think I'm wrong - he's not playing next week, which is a shame.

But as long as he keeps playing and training at college, he'll be around in the future, if he wants to be . .. .