Week 16 - Challenger ($100,000): Sarasota Open, Longboat Key, FL (green clay, HarTru)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 16 - Challenger ($100,000): Sarasota Open, Longboat Key, FL (green clay, HarTru)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Cheers Sc. My other post said 'so now Dave'll probably go to sleep . .. ' AND he's been broken ! Hopefully, just short-term . . .

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Dave up against it in the second set: *0-4. disbelief Must've gone to sleep... hmm

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Wakey, wakey, Dave. 0-4 down - now's the time .. .

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Dave bagelled in the second set! disbelief The only smidgeon of consolation is that he'll start the decider on his own service.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Perez breaks for *3-2 in the decider, Dave unable to convert points to break back. cry *2-4, looking like "bye bye, Dave" as things stand at the moment.

Spectator · All-time great

Oh dear. And I've just looked up Perez and discovered that he's not an underranked university graduate ... he's a local 16 year old. Admittedly a very good one, but one would rather hope that Mr Rice could win this.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Dave eventually does another of his Houdini turns:

QR1: (q2) David Rice WR 286 defeated (qWC) Alfredo Perez (USA) WR 1697 by 6-2 0-6 6-4 smile

Mitch Krueger or Jeff Dadamo in QR2, probably the latter.

Spectator · All-time great

And he did! Phew. Everybody wins. Young player shows that his QWC was justified and gains a sense that he can compete with a professional ... and Mr Rice goes on to the next round.

-- Edited by Spectator on Saturday 12th of April 2014 04:15:06 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Our Dave, bless him - the king of making the 'easy' seem 'unbearably difficult' :)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QR2: (q2) David Rice WR 286 vs Jeff Dadamo (USA) WR 592

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
QR2: (q2) David Rice WR 286 vs Jeff Dadamo (USA) WR 592

Dadamo (CH 480 in 2012) won Houston Futures in October, beating Ed Corrie in the semis, then reached the QFs in Mansfield the following week before going on a 5-match losing streak, including his R1 loss in straight sets to Ed earlier this week.

steven · Tennis legend

L32: James Ward WR 162 v (7) Facundo Bagnis (ARG) WR 132 (CH 112 in Feb)

They have never met in singles before, though James beat him in doubles in Cuba in 2008. This one might be a bit harder, though James was the 2009 champion here so hopefully the courts suit him.

steven · Tennis legend

Good start from Dave against Dadamo *3-1

steven · Tennis legend

1st set Dave 6-3