Week 45 - Greece F18 ($10,000) - Heraklion (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 45 - Greece F18 ($10,000) - Heraklion (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Despite all our pessimism, I am of course hoping that both Oli and Luke brieze through into the final.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I'm for Luke - 'e dam well plays a good game of tennis !

Jan · Hall of fame

Let's hope they both play a cracker of a match in the next round!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Oli was 5-2 up and served but got broken back to 5*-4. Time to serve for the set again . . .

Luke 3-3

edit: and they both get broken within seconds of each other. 5-5 in Ol's match. 5*-4 to Evgeny

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 8th of November 2013 09:00:31 AM

Priesty · Challenger level

Now come on folks, enough of all this. Let's all start being a bit more Mature wink

Salmon · Tennis legend

Well, I won't be able to find a better occasion to post this...

Mr cheese · Improver

Straight answers are far more to my liking than fantasy opinions. I find it really hard to garner information on british tennis beyond Murray, so when I found this site a couple of months ago, I was really impressed with all of the information that I suddenly have on the up and coming players as well as a couple of floaters, waiting to get overtaken! Next week looks interesting to me with all of the challenger entires!

-- Edited by Mr cheese on Friday 8th of November 2013 12:40:28 PM

Spectator · All-time great

What did I start! Mr C, welcome to the board. You will by now have gathered, if you hadn't already, that we have two key attributes: we support British tennis players, and delight when they do well. And we support appalling puns, and delight when they get worse and worse. And if the players' results were as good as our puns are bad, we'd have pushed all those pesky Spaniards, Swiss, Serbs, etc out of the top ten!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

But they turned it round, which is more than the Skupskis could do in Bratislava! wink

SF: Luke Bambridge & Oli Golding CR 1640 (737+903) defeated (1) Victor Baluda & Evgeny Karlosvskiy (RUS/RUS) CR 922 (172+750) by 5-7 6-4 [10-8] biggrin

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Final: Luke Bambridge & Oli Golding CR 1640 (737+903) vs Marko Djokovic & Carlos Gómez (SRB/ESP) CR 2233 (1034+1197)

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Friday 8th of November 2013 02:04:59 PM

korriban · Challenger level

Oli was 5-1 up, but lost set 1 on a TB. Well up again (was 5-0) in set 2, so ordinarily one would assume a final set decider. He has no aces and 10 DFs already, so must be having a very poor serving day - a win when below par would be very encouraging.

Luke has gone down 4&4, unable to break once from his 6 BPs in the match - stats suggest apart from that, there was very little in it.

DWH · Club Coach

Luke goes out 4-6 4-6 cry

Oli lost the first set (1)6-7 but just took the second set 6-1

10 double faults though... the wind?

Mr cheese · Improver

There goes my dream for an all British final. Still hope for an all British winner though!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Mr cheese wrote:
There goes my dream for an all British final. Still hope for an all British winner though!

Never mind. Hope you're not too cheesed off. Maybe poor Luke was a bit cream-crackered ? (This WILL die a death soon, honestly . . . )

Not only 11 DF from Oli but conceded 9 BPs and no aces - does look as though he's having trouble serving today (or maybe he was, and now he's got it sorted out . . .crosses fingers).

steven · Tennis legend

QF: Luke Bambridge 863 lost to (Q) Evgeny Karlovskiy WR 974 (=CH) by 4 & 4 bleh
QF: Oli Golding WR 577 beat (5) Dimitar Kuzmanov (BUL) WR 431 (CH 428 last week) by 6-7(1) 6-1 6-4 biggrin

SF: Oli Golding WR 577 v (4) Yann Marti (SUI) WR 384 (= CH)

Marti won Marathon Futures last month then qualified and won a round at the Geneva Challenger before retiring in R2, though whatever made him retire last week doesn't seem to be affecting him here - he beat 6th seed Bossel in straight sets this morning.