Week 6 - Portugal F1 ($10,000) - Vale Do Lobo (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: Week 6 - Portugal F1 ($10,000) - Vale Do Lobo (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Oli successfully serves out the set 6-4

TMH · Futures qualifying

Nice. Come on Oli.

RJA · Hall of fame

Oli walking away with second set

4-0*

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Blitzing it in fact - about to serve for a second set bagel.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

And a love service game to polish it all off! Good lad.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Impressive win, decent points - however this looks like running into Monday now as only 2 QF started.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Impressive win, decent points - however this looks like running into Monday now as only 2 QF started.

And the forecast for tomorrow is thunder storms and heavy rain.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Top seed has been knocked out today.

indiana · Tennis legend

That's 16 wins in a row so far for Oli ( ignoring his "loss" by withdrawal before the Doha SF ).

And he has shown good attitude again, both within matches and having to wait around so much in the rain.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

QF: (4) Oli Golding WR 400 beat (Q) Javier Pulgar-García (ESP) UNR 6-4 6-0

SF: (4) Oli Golding WR 400 v (7) Joao Domingues (POR) WR 549 (CH 542 in Nov 2013)

indiana · Tennis legend

So, not before time Oli will be well within the top 400 ( he was just there already, Tara :) )

This guy will be going very much higher though.

TMH · Futures qualifying

Lost the first three games then won 12 of the next/last 13. Stormed it.

RJA · Hall of fame

That might actually get the tournament done on time.

They are only using two courts tonight, not sure if that means they are indoors or outdoors under lights, but they plan to play all the singles QFs and then the remaining doubles QFs and then the doubles SFs.

That leaves Singles SFs and Final plus the doubles final for tomorrow.

RJA · Hall of fame

indiana wrote:
That's 16 wins in a row so far for Oli ( ignoring his "loss" by withdrawal before the Doha SF ).

And he has shown good attitude again, both within matches and having to wait around so much in the rain.

Most of last season was probably a pretty chastening experience for Oli but it might well have done him a lot of good in the long term. Going by his tweets he certainly comes across as much more mature than he once did. The near constant moaning about every little inconvenience that life throws up has mostly disappeared.

-- Edited by RJA on Saturday 8th of February 2014 09:07:11 PM