Week 49 - Turkey F48 ($10,000) - Antalya - Kaya-Belek (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 49 - Turkey F48 ($10,000) - Antalya - Kaya-Belek (hard)

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
SF: Miles Bugby & Ed Corrie UNR vs (2) Florian Barth & Denis Yevseyev (GER/KAZ) CR 1438 (898+540)

In the semi-finals and having to play the 2nd seeds? Yes, that's a truly shocking draw wink

indiana · Tennis legend

Aww, be fair, it wasn't a disbelief smilie LOL

DWH · Club Coach

Ed broke to love at a crucial point to take the first set 6-4.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ed a break up in the second. Would be sort of nice to break another Austrian heart - talking of which, is this the Austrian Christmas outing or something ? There seem to be 8 (eight!) Austrian players taking part !!! Can't help wondering . . . :)

PS I assume the Trinkers are brothers ?

DWH · Club Coach

Haha Austrian Christmas.

Ed fends off the the only break point he's conceeded and gets it to 5-2* after a few deuces.

DWH · Club Coach

As in the first set Ed gets the chance to break for the set and he takes it. This time to 15 and with it the match. smile

Go Ed! 6-4 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And Ed wins 6-4 6-2 ! Very neat job. He'll now get frenchman, Julien Obry, who seems to be on a great run of form after beating Dave Rice last week and taking the title, hasn't lost since. Although today he won 6-0 1-0 retirement so that's not very indicative of anything.

And, unlike Dave, Dan C and Alex, nice to see Ed managind to take advantage of going back to the futures. That should be a new CH for Ed, right on the cusp of WR 300 (WR 302 ?)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 6th of December 2013 10:01:52 AM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (3) Ed Corrie WR 309 vs Julien Obry (FRA) WR 583 (CH of 274 in April last year) cry

Let's just hope that Ed can manage to spike the text-book GEM's guns...

steven · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
And Ed wins 6-4 6-2 ! Very neat job. He'll now get frenchman, Julien Obry, who seems to be on a great run of form after beating Dave Rice last week and taking the title, hasn't lost since. Although today he won 6-0 1-0 retirement so that's not very indicative of anything.

And, unlike Dave, Dan C and Alex, nice to see Ed managind to take advantage of going back to the futures. That should be a new CH for Ed, right on the cusp of WR 300 (WR 302 ?)

Obry didn't even lose more than 3 games in a set on his way to the title last week! He had a bit of bother in R1 this week (going a set down to WR 503) but then beat 2nd seed Reuter 2 & 4 in R2, so as matches against unseeded players for a place in the top 300 go, this is likely to be one of the tougher ones!

paulisi · Tennis legend

I get the impression that Ed is very much a confidence player. Had a great run at the start of the year in GB futures. Got injured and then never really got his confidence back until in the US Challenger and has kicked on again.

If he has a injury free year, he could have a big rankings jump. He is similar in type and ability to Dan Cox(i.e no big weapons), so could easily get to low 200's

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

First set doubles SF: Ed and Miles broke at 5-5 and served for the set at 6-5 but ended up losing the tie-break.

NB I thought it was supposed to be the loss in the Wimbledon Q1 round - when he most certainly wasn't injured - that made Ed lose his confidence ? - a thing I'd never really understood because, being there, he played great, really great, but the other guy just pipped him.

paulisi · Tennis legend

I think he was either ill or injured in Crete in April/May(taken to hospital on a drip?) and then hardly won a match after that.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (2) Florian Barth & Denis Yevseyev (GER/KAZ) CR 1438 (898+540) defeated Miles Bugby & Ed Corrie UNR by 7-6(4) 6-4

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ed gets an early break.