Week 15 - USA F11 ($15,000) - Little Rock, AR (Hard)

TMH · Futures qualifying

RE: Week 15 - USA F11 ($15,000) - Little Rock, AR (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

Dan takes the 1st set 6-2

Josh loses the 1st set 6-2

Ed leads 5-3* in the 1st

Dave has now won the first 9 games

- can he 'do an Oli'?

steven · Tennis legend

No he (Dave) can't - McCarthy won the 10th game - it's now 6-0 4-1*

Ed broke again to win the 1st set - 6-3 1-0*

Josh now a set and a break down - 2-6 1-3*

Dan a set and a break up - 6-2 3-0*

steven · Tennis legend

A race to see who'll finish first ...

Agar seems to have turned to jelly (igmc) in the 2nd set - Dan leads 6-2 5-0*

Dave leads 6-0 5-2* deuce

Ed leads 6-3 *2-2

... but it's top seed Krajinovic who actually finishes first, beating Josh 2 & 2

- rough draw

steven · Tennis legend

Dan wins 2 & 0

Dave wins 0 & 2

Ed's a bit of a slowcoach

6-3 3-2*

steven · Tennis legend

Ed goes a break up in the 2nd set

... until ITF livescores takes the break back

- 6-3 *3-3 (having shown *4-2 in the 2nd a moment earlier) - given his 0-2 H2H against Dadamo at this level, it would be great if he could close this out.

steven · Tennis legend

Ed continues to get better against Dadamo each time they play, and this time it's enough to finally beat him!

L32: Josh Milton WR 530 lost to (1) Filip Krajinovic (SRB) WR 223 (CH 170 in 2010) by 2 & 2

L32: (4) Dave Rice WR 286 beat (WC) Devin McCarthy (USA) WR 788 (= CH) by 0 & 2

L32: (8) Ed Corrie WR 348 beat Jeff Dadamo (USA) WR 592 (CH 480 in 2012) by 3 & 4

L32: (SE) Danny Manlow UNR lost to (WC) Chris Wettengel (USA) UNR (CH 548 in 2007) by 4-6 6-4 7-5

L32: (2) Dan Smethurst WR 272 beat Ryan Agar (AUS) WR 729 (CH 685 in Sep) by 2 & 0

In R2, Ed will play Danny's conqueror Wettengel, with the other opponents still to be decided.

Spectator · All-time great

Looks as if Mr Agar rather petried out at the end. (Sorry, but one bad pun deserves another) More seriously, congratulations to the various victors.

-- Edited by Spectator on Wednesday 9th of April 2014 05:18:36 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (1) Dave Rice & Sean Thornley CR 439 (220+219) defeated Danny Manlow & Antso Rakotondramanga (MAD) UNR by 2 & 4

The top seeds were less dominant in the second set: there were three service breaks in all!

*****

QF: (1) Dave Rice & Sean Thornley CR 439 (220+219) vs Kyle McMorrow & Tucker Vorster (USA/RSA) CR 1213 (723+490)

steven · Tennis legend

L16: (4) Dave Rice WR 286 v (Q) Kyle McMorrow (USA) WR 796 (= CH)
L16: (8) Ed Corrie WR 348 v (WC) Chris Wettengel (USA) UNR (CH 548 in 2007)
L16: (2) Dan Smethurst WR 272 v Jean-Yves Aubone (USA) WR 692 (CH 475 in 2009)

steven · Tennis legend

Ed is 2 breaks up against Wettengel *4-1

Dave is an early break down against McMorrow (who upset Ed last week then lost to Danny) *0-2

steven · Tennis legend

Ed takes the 1st set 6-4 but Dave is 2 breaks down 2-5*

paulisi · Tennis legend

Ed is a break down in second set, Dave lost the first set 6-2

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Dave and Ed both lost poor results

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Down to Dan S again this week

steven · Tennis legend

Awful-looking results, though the US tournaments are the worst in the world for knowing whether rankings are at all accurate.

Better news - Dan is a set and a break up

6-4 *2-0