Week 39 - Portugal F7 ($10,000) - Castelo Branco (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 39 - Portugal F7 ($10,000) - Castelo Branco (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

QR1: Christopher Reynolds defeated Antonio Sabugueiro (POR) UNR age 17 (CH 1698 June 2013) 6-2 6-2

QR2: Christopher Reynolds v (8) Rafael Mazon Hernandez (ESP) WR 1259 (CH 660 Aug 2011)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

An excellent win for Chris Reynolds:

QR2: Christopher Reynolds def. (8) Rafael Mazon Hernandez (ESP) WR 1259 (CH 660 Aug 2011) 6-3 6-2

FQR: Christopher Reynolds v (9) Viktor Durasovic (NOR) WR 1281 age 17

NB the main draw isn't out yet but in the doubles, Josh and Luke are seeded two, playing together. and Chris has a wildcard entry with a Portuguese player but they've drawn the top seeds.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Sunday 21st of September 2014 06:10:21 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Unlike the Swedish 15k where all the Brits (bar Joe) seem to have nice first round draws, I don't think the gods have really smiled here:

R1: (1) Alex Ward WR 380 v Romain Barbosa (POR) WR 851 (CH 768 a month ago)

R1: Toby Martin WR 700 v Antoine Escoffier (FRA) WR 918 (CH 470 Dec. 2012) -

R1: Josh Ward-Hibbert WR 783 v (3) Jaime Pulgar Garcia (ESP) WR 412 (CH 398 a month ago)

R1: (4) Luke Bambridge WR 515 v Calvin Hemery (FRA) WR 677 (CH 614 Nov 13) - 19 year-old who lacks consistency/application but has bucket loads of talent

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

FQR: Christopher Reynolds lost to (9) Viktor Durasovic (NOR) WR 1281 age 17 6-4 6-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Josh WH and Luke race through their first round doubles match, winning 6-1 6-1

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Alejandro Artunedo & Andrés Artunedo Martinavarr (ESP/ESP) UNR vs (2) Luke Bambridge & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 662 (273+389)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

as feared, Hemery is proving a bit of a handful for Luke: 6-4 in the first set to the French guy (he's a bit up and down though, so not over yet . . )

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

R1: (4) Luke Bambridge WR 515 lost to Calvin Hemery (FRA) WR 677 (CH 614 Nov 13) 6-4 -6-4

Calvin is one of the top handful of under-21s currently based at the NTC equivalent place in Paris. His results have never been quite as great as talent dictated, partly due to problems settling in Paris ?, but the authorities believe in him
He comes from Guadeloupe and is often touted as the 'New Monfils' and there's quite a lot of Gael in him - similar 'cool', charismatic style of play - brilliant when on-form but sometimes completely 'absent'

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

In the doubles (the lower one has been posted before):

1st Round

Ivan ARENAS-GUALDA (ESP) / Jaime PULGAR-GARCIA (ESP) [1] def. Christopher REYNOLDS (GBR) / Miguel SEMEDO (POR) 7-5 6-0

Luke BAMBRIDGE (GBR) / Joshua WARD-HIBBERT (GBR) [2] def. Diogo LOURENCO (POR) / Alex MOLINA (ESP) 6-1 6-1

Jaffa · Challenger level

That move away from NTC really seems to be doing JWH some good:

R1: Josh Ward-Hibbert WR 783 beat (3) Jaime Pulgar Garcia (ESP) WR 412 (CH 398 a month ago) by 4 & 3

However, Alex is a break down in the decider of his match

paulisi · Tennis legend

Excellent win for Josh. I think he has a decent coaching set up now and a good group of guys to work with.

Alex 3-2 up final set, Toby started well 4-0 up.

paulisi · Tennis legend

R1: (1) Alex Ward WR 380 bt Romain Barbosa (POR) WR 851 (CH 768 a month ago) 6-4 5-7 6-2

Toby won the first set 6-1

steven · Tennis legend

That means 6 singles matches involving Brits have finished so far today and they have won all of them

paulisi · Tennis legend

Toby is 4-1 down in the second set