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

steven · Tennis legend

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

steven · Tennis legend

... and it looks like that's where it ended, ITF livescores is showing it as a win by retirement in what was probably going to be the last game anyway:

L32: (1) Alex Ward WR 380 beat Romain Barbosa (POR) WR 851 (CH 768 last month) by 6-4 5-7 6-2

L32: Toby Martin WR 700 beat Antoine Escoffier (FRA) WR 918 (CH 470 in 2012) by 6-1 1-6 5-3 15-0 ret.

L32: Josh Ward-Hibbert WR 783 beat (3) Jaime Pulgar García (ESP) WR 412 (CH 398 last month) by 4 & 3

L32: (4) Luke Bambridge WR 515 lost to Calvin Hemery (FRA) WR 677 (CH 614 last Nov) by 4 & 4

L16: (1) Alex Ward WR 380 v Toby Martin WR 700

The match to decide JWH's R2 opponent has just started

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Toby gets the win. In the end it was by retirement but he was on the verge anyway. There had been a couple of lengthy stoppages.

The score was 6-1 1-6 *5-3 15-0 win his opponent retired.

steven · Tennis legend

Btw that's GB 8 Rest of the World 0 in singles so far today

though Ed is living dangerously in Sweden.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

what an excellent trio of results to come home to ::))

Agree with Jaffa: seeing JWH last year, early this and now, the time spent at the NTC was most definitely a sad experience (Cameron Norrie obviously knew what he was doing). Now I just need Josh to shake a leg and get into the top 300 by year-end and my 'outsiders' prediction table will be looking a lot healthier ! (I blame the NTC quite pointedly, of course ! :) )

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 24th of September 2014 03:07:22 PM

steven · Tennis legend

L16: (1) Alex Ward WR 380 v Toby Martin WR 700
L16: Josh Ward-Hibbert WR 783 v (Q) Samuel Ribeiro Navarrete (ESP) WR 970 (CH 894 in May)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (2) Luke Bambridge & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 662 (273+389) defeated (WC) Alejandro Artunedo & Andrés Artunedo Martinavarr (ESP/ESP) UNR by 4 & 1

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Toby up a break on Alex in the 1st set. *3-2

paulisi · Tennis legend

Alex won the battle of the Brits in three sets.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Tough battle between Alex and Toby. Alex coming through 7-6(3) 6-7(3) 6-3

JWH was broken in the opening game but has since taken the next three games to lead *3-1

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: Viktor Durasovic & Edan Leshem (NOR/ISR) UNR vs (2) Luke Bambridge & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 662 (273+389)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
JWH was broken in the opening game but has since taken the next three games to lead *3-1

At which point, BLSP, I assume.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

In the quarter finals, Alex Ward gets to play Brechemier, the 18 year-old French player who beat Dan Cox back in Bahrain.

He's quite a dangerous young qualifier (far stronger than same-age Bonzi, for instance, who's playing Jack in Turkey). Brechemier made the semis in the National Championships, losing to Tatlot (who won it) and beat the sixth seed in round one.

steven · Tennis legend

Very close between Alex and Toby, wasn't it!

L16: (1) Alex Ward WR 380 beat Toby Martin WR 700 by 7-6(3) 6-7(3) 6-3

L16: Josh Ward-Hibbert WR 783 leads (Q) Samuel Ribeiro Navarrete (ESP) WR 970 (CH 894 in May) by 3-1 (to finish)

QF: (1) Alex Ward WR 380 v (Q) Thomas Bréchemier (FRA) WR 1116 (CH 1106 last month; 18yo JWR 120, CH 94 in May)

freerider · Futures level

nice to see Ward playing again. Really hope that he can have a few years injury free to really push on