Week 46 - Greece F19 ($10,000) - Heraklion (hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 46 - Greece F19 ($10,000) - Heraklion (hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Liam and Gran... Oops. Let's try that again.

Liam and Mark lose their doubles 10-7 in the MTB

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Oli finishes off Malouli 6-2 6-1

So wanted to put the Headline "British Teenagers on Rampage in Greece" but Oli has spoiled that one by being 20.

But a fabulous day for the young guns. And if Marcus comes out of it without suffering further injury, I will take that as well.

Oli kept it more simple:

oliver golding @oli_golding 6m

Deeecent day at the office! 2 wins, one a bit easier than the other but no complaints. Semis tomoro! #britsonarampage

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Marcus and Lewis complete their win however by 6-4 6-3

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (1) Lewis Burton & Marcus Willis CR 727 (357+370) defeated Tim Nekic & Antun Pehar (GER/CRO) UNR by 4 & 3 smile

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (4) Luke Bambridge & Oli Golding CR 1562 (666+896) vs (2) Nikola Cacic & Alexandros Jakupovic (SRB/GRE) CR 997 (381+616)

indiana · Tennis legend

So when was the last time in the same week we had 3 players in the QF of the same foreign challenger and 3 players in the SF of the same foreign future ?

No hurry LOL

indiana · Tennis legend

Great to see the form that Oli has returned with, playing on hard courts and apparently feeling better overall than for a long time, particularly for these of us who have kept the faith that this guy really has a certain something that should mean he will go pretty far.

I suspect he will still have inconsistencies and maybe still taking time to mature as a player, but the omens for 2014 are good.

steven · Tennis legend

Sounds like quite a morning for the Brits on Crete smile - I haven't got time to trawl back through the last half dozen pages or so, and no doubt all the results have been posted before, but I just want to pull all the scores/CH/H2H info together here to help me put some coherent tweets together!

L16: (3) Marcus Willis WR 357 lost to Laurent Malouli (FRA) WR 689 (WR 571 in Apr) by 4 & 5 bleh
L16: Oli Golding WR 575 beat (5) Adrien Bossel (SUI) WR 460 (CH 317 in 2012) by 7-6(5) 6-1 biggrin
L16: Luke Bambridge WR 860 beat (4) Dimitar Kuzmanov (BUL) WR 446 (CH 428 in Oct) by 6-4 1-0 ret. biggrin

QF: Oli Golding WR 575 beat Laurent Malouli (FRA) WR 689 (WR 571 in Apr) by 2 & 1
QF: Luke Bambridge WR 860 beat Tim Nekic (GER) WR 576 (=CH) by 4 & 3 biggrin
QF: (8) Liam Broady WR 531 beat Nikola Cacic (SRB) WR 655 (CH 350 in 2012) by 7-6(6) 6-2

SF: Oli Golding WR 575 v Miki Jankovic (SRB) WR 585 (CH 584 in Sep)
SF: (8) Liam Broady WR 531 v Luke Bambridge WR 860 - H2H 0-1, Edinburgh 2012, 7-6(3) 7-6(5)

Spectator · All-time great

Can there be higher praise? From our GEM equivalents (or so they would appear):

FrenchiesTennis ‏@FrenchiesTennis 1h

Laurent Malouli s'est qualfié pour les 1/4 du Future d'Heraklion #tennis

Julien Hoferlin ‏@JulienHoferlin 1h

@FrenchiesTennis où il a sèchement perdu ! #updates

FrenchiesTennis ‏@FrenchiesTennis 49m

@JulienHoferlin En effet ! D'ailleurs ça cartonne bien pour les britanniques cette semaine !

I'll leave it to someone whose slang (English and French) is better than mine to approximate a translation ....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

'cartonner' or 'faire un carton' is slang for 'do really, really well' ('prendre un carton' is the opposite and means 'to get thrashed')

I think I'd write : mind you, the Brits are on a roll this week,

or something like that.

Spectator · All-time great

Thanks, CD! Bizarrely, I'd got the French (didn't know prendre un carton, though - thanks for that, too!) but for some reason couldn't think up an English equivalent ... or at least not one that didn't sound like something out of Boys Own from 1920. Very grateful.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
I think I'd write : mind you, the Brits are on a roll this week,

or something like that.

I'd agree with that.

I was intrigued by the first bit (Laurent Malouli s'est qualfié pour les 1/4 du Future d'Heraklion #tennis/Julien Hoferlin ‏@JulienHoferlin 1h/@FrenchiesTennis où il a sèchement perdu). Sèchement in standard French means (literally) "drily" or "curtly" & I've not come across it in a more colloquial sense, but I think I'd render the statement as "Laurent Malouli qualified for the quarter-finals of the Heraklion Futures where he promptly lost"! wink

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
I think I'd write : mind you, the Brits are on a roll this week,

or something like that.
I'd agree with that.
I was intrigued by the first bit (Laurent Malouli s'est qualfié pour les 1/4 du Future d'Heraklion #tennis/Julien Hoferlin ‏@JulienHoferlin 1h/@FrenchiesTennis où il a sèchement perdu). Sèchement in standard French means (literally) "drily" or "curtly" & I've not come across it in a more colloquial sense, but I think I'd render the statement as "Laurent Malouli qualified for the quarter-finals of the Heraklion Futures where he promptly lost"!

I've come across sèchement in a few tennis reports and it seems to be mainly used to denote a clear victory, i.e. "where he was beaten convincingly" or "where he got thrashed" in this case - nice comeback from the Hof anyway

I've heard various forms of "cartonner" a lot on the radio, where it tends to mean "it's a big hit" so CD's tennis equivalent makes sense. "Prendre un carton" is new to me too - thanks for that

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes. 'Sèchement' (in the context) just means clearly, briskly, no question.

SC's version is good. I'd might have put something like : '. . where he lost in two seconds flat.'

The 'prendre un carton' is, in my experience, more common than 'faire un carton' and you often hear 'il a pris un carton' for 'he got thrashed'.

Not really connected but the one that threw me a few years ago was when I was watching a French girl, about 15, and her trainer said something along the lines of she plays well but 'elle est très sèche'. I thought is she thirsty ? Dry ? What ? Turns out it means she's very skinny (or more precisely, he explained, that you've got muscles but absolutely no fat on you).