Week 7 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Bergamo, Italy (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 7 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Bergamo, Italy (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Great win for Ed. If he can get past Panfil as well, he will certainly have earned his 5 points for qualifying.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Great win for Ed. If he can get past Panfil as well, he will certainly have earned his 5 points for qualifying.

And Panfil only managed to scrape past Martin in a third-set TB so fingers crossed . . .

indiana · Tennis legend

Panfil may be q1, but certainly in ranking terms there isn't much between them.

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

In tennis terms there is unfortunately.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Martin served 33 aces in that match

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ed takes the first set 7-5 !

DWH · Club Coach

and up a break in the second 4-1*

Its streamed by the way.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nice and neat - Ed proves his nay-sayers wrong and comes through in two sets. :)

DWH · Club Coach

GSM Ed Corrie. He breaks again at 5-2* to take the match. 7-5 6-2 biggrin Well done Ed!

Its on the new challenger streaming site so I think the match should be archived here

http://new.livestream.com/ATP/Bergamo2014Court1

TMH · Futures qualifying

Jeff Stelling wrote:
In tennis terms there is unfortunately.

Yeah?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thanks for that new stream link DWH - great stuff. Just had a coffee break and watched a 20 min edited version !

Ed thoroughly deserved is - better court coverage, excellent ball placement, and served well too. Panfil was too far back and 'lazy' (does he normally play on clay?).

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Ed's draw is arguably the worst he could have had! cry

L32: (Q) Ed Corrie WR 324 vs (5) Marco Cecchinato (ITA) WR 168 (CH 159 last October)

Drew · Feb 10, 2014

Hope he can carry on the run of Brits beating higher ranked players.

spud · Challenger qualifying

Fantastic from Ed, good to see the effort of trying challenger qualifying rewarded