Week 5 - Israel F3 ($10,000) - Eilat (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 5 - Israel F3 ($10,000) - Eilat (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Now 4-4 in the 2nd set

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (5) Mate Delic (CRO) WR 387 defeated (3) Marcus Willis WR 383 by 3 & 5

Mr cheese · Improver

Regression to mean.....hehehe

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (2) Lewis Burton & Marcus Willis CR 595 (293+302) "defeated" (4) Igor Smilansky & Mikhail Vaks (ISR/RUS) CR 1503 (857+646) by a walkover

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Final: (1) Claudio Grassi & Amir Weintraub (ITA/ISR) CR 556 (141+415) vs (2) Lewis Burton & Marcus Willis CR 595 (293+302)

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Thursday 30th of January 2014 11:28:05 AM

paulisi · Tennis legend

4pts from 3 weeks is not what the doctor ordered, especially when this was supposedly the easier option.

spud · Challenger qualifying

Thought Willis might have a bit more to his game than from what I saw, although it looked like it might be windy with the occasional slice forehand required

plankton · Social player

Willis has had a new training regime and new coach who he may be working with to change his game a bit. This could mean some bum periods while he adapts.. Most positive spin I can put on it!
Still, would be good to develop his game rather than chasing points - would like to see him playing likes of Delic every game to really push his ability forward.
He was competitive. Got to keep positive.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Doubles final is underway - on serve 3-2*

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Very nice stream (as usual) on e-tennis - and the boys are doing well 5-2*

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Three service winners from Lewis and an easy point makes set 6-3

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

A break up in the second too.

Never seen the lads play doubles - interesting they both take the backhand side . . .

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Lewis & Marcus capture their second doubles crown in Israel with an excellent straight-sets win over the top seeds & avenge their defeat last week at the hands of Weintraub & his Taiwanese partner:

Final: (2) Lewis Burton & Marcus Willis CR 595 (293+302) defeated (1) Claudio Grassi & Amir Weintraub (ITA/ISR) CR 556 (141+415) by 3 & 5 biggrin s

RJA · Hall of fame

Another doubles title is nice but it doesn't really compensate for the lack of singles points on this trip.

steven · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
Another doubles title is nice but it doesn't really compensate for the lack of singles points on this trip.

Agreed. However, a bit of a milestone for Lewis - it's his 20th Futures doubles title (8 of them with Marcus)