Week 38 - Spain F27 ($10,000) - Madrid (Hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 38 - Spain F27 ($10,000) - Madrid (Hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Marcus has another break and leads 3-1 in the second set.

steven · Tennis legend

FINAL: (1) Marcus Willis WR 347 beat Mick Lescure (FRA) WR 974 (CH 953 last week) by 3 & 2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And closes it out very nicely 6-3 6-2 :::)))

steven · Tennis legend

That's Marcus's 6th Futures singles title btw

paulisi · Tennis legend

smile GSM - Marcus wins 6-3 6-2

18pts in the bag. Well done Marcus.

DF · Tennis legend

Well done,Marcus!

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

steven wrote:
That's Marcus's 6th Futures singles title btw

Means now matched his 3 titles of 2013 and hopefully can now build on this and have a new record year end ranking

Shhh · Challenger level

steven wrote:
That's Marcus's 6th Futures singles title btw

I think they are all 10k's.....3 last year and 3 this?

If so, and just setting little goals for the fun of it, be nice to see a 4th this year to go one further.....or a first 15k.....or a first challenger 1/4 final? Either way, well done on this title Marcus, hope there more to come.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Marcus' CH is 322, so will need to get to around 138pts.
Guaranteed 102pts to end of year, so needs to pick up net 36pts. 3 or 4 decent tournaments should be enough.

steven · Tennis legend

Shhh wrote:
steven wrote:
That's Marcus's 6th Futures singles title btw
I think they are all 10k's.....3 last year and 3 this?

Yes, that's right.

steven · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Marcus' CH is 322, so will need to get to around 138pts.
Guaranteed 102pts to end of year, so needs to pick up net 36pts. 3 or 4 decent tournaments should be enough.

He'll actually have exactly 138 points when the 18 points he gets for winning the title here get added on Monday week and 2 points from Kuwait F1 come off. However, he will then have 28 points coming off from Kuwait F2 (RU) & Kuwait F3 (title) over the following two weeks. You're right about what he needs in order to get back to 138 points by the end of the year.

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done to Marcus. It does seem that he has really found form this week.

indiana · Tennis legend

Those 102 points for this year so far make Marcus the 12th GB guy over 100 points for the year, compared to 7 at this stage last year, again emphasising how relatively well our top ten to a dozen are doing.

They are also tending to stretch away a bit. After these 12, Josh Milton has 86 points for the year and noone else is above the 50s.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I like this stat. Gives a nice clear picture of how the guys are doing in absolute terms, and not relative to last year, which might have been unexpectedly good, or bad through injury or whatever . . .

As you say, though, it's a big gap down to the next lot.