Week 16 - Qatar F3 ($10,000) - Doha (Hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Week 16 - Qatar F3 ($10,000) - Doha (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (2) Oli Golding & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 942 (631+311) "defeated" Pietro Licciardi & Federico Maccari (ITA/ITA) CR 2086 ((818+1268) by a walkover

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SF: Ivo Klec & Jonas Merckx (SVK/BEL) CR 1777 (379+1398 - +421 places in Monday's rankings!) vs (2) Oli Golding & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 942 (631+311)

The Belgo-Slovak pair were also the beneficiaries of a walkover, against the Spanish third seeds, the Pulgar brothers.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

JWH up a double break at *4-1

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

1st set JWH 6-2

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Bob in Spain wrote:
1st set JWH 6-2

I saw that. Went out side and when I came back it had disappeared. Did you catch any more?

steven · Tennis legend

It was 1-1 in the 2nd when the scores disappeared - one source (but only one, so I'm not relying on it) shows Olin retiring at that point, but it seems more likely that the livescores app gave up else it would probably show a win instead of vanishing.

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 16th of April 2014 05:37:27 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Still a doubles match (just started) to go before we're likely to be a definitive answer to the JWH question, so here's what we know so far:

Edit: it worked - results went up seconds later!

L16: Josh Ward-Hibbert WR 712 beat (Q) Robin Olin (SWE) WR 1492 (CH 590 last Apr) by 2 & 4
L16: (2) Oli Golding WR 352 v Ruan Roelofse (RSA) WR 756 (CH 357 in 2012) 7-5 3-6 7-6(4)

QF: Josh Ward-Hibbert WR 712 v (3) Antal van der Duim (NED) WR 360 (CH 290 in 2012)
QF: (2) Oli Golding WR 352 v Patrik Rosenholm (SWE) WR 647 (CH 362 in 2012)

H2H 1-0 - Oli beat Rosenholm 4 & 4 in last week's SFs

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 16th of April 2014 06:07:55 PM

TMH · Futures qualifying

Had to leave work at *6-4 in the 'breaker!

Glad to see he managed to squeeze it out in the end, especially having been 5-6* down in the third.

Great win for Josh too! Great to see him and Liam (last week) finally putting a few wins together.

-- Edited by TMH on Wednesday 16th of April 2014 06:32:47 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Looks like Oli's match will be the one to be livestreamed - yet again ! Maybe Oli's sponsors have got some arrangement with the Qatar tennis authorities . . . And then his doubles match with JWH will also be livetstreamed, for any one who fancies watching a little bit tomorrow, starting at 2 I think . . .

Bright Spark · Lower Club Player

Good win for Josh, is this his first QF of the year?

steven · Tennis legend

Bright Spark wrote:
Good win for Josh, is this his first QF of the year?

Yes it is - his last two singles QFs were in Israel last October.

indiana · Tennis legend

Just over a year since JWH's one SF appearance, Vietnam F3. The 6 points from that come off this coming Monday.

Would be great to get SF 2 this week, but it looks a tough task.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Oli up a break at 4-2*

JWH down a break at *1-4

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Thursday 17th of April 2014 01:39:59 PM

seagull · Hall of fame

JWH lost first set 6-1, but Oli is a set up (6-4)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Oli played extremely well to save three BPs at 5-4.

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