Week 7 - Sri Lanka F3 ($10,000) - Colombo (Clay)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 7 - Sri Lanka F3 ($10,000) - Colombo (Clay)

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

A surprisingly one-sided score.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (Q) David Agung Susanto (INA) WR 1484 (CH = 998 in May 2012) vs Andy Bettles WR 1021

The Indonesian took out the Indian seventh seed in straight sets in the first round...

steven · Tennis legend

With updated rankings:

L16: Andy Bettles WR 1021 v (Q) David Agung Susanto (INA) WR 1500 (CH 988 in 2012; upset 7th seed in R1)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nice work by Andy B. Now it gets really tough though:

L16: Andy Bettles WR 1021 def. (Q) David Agung Susanto (INA) WR 1500 (CH 988 in 2012; upset 7th seed in R1) 3-6 6-4 6-2

QF: Andy Bettles WR 1021 v (2) Rui Machado (POR) WR 270 (CH 59 in 2011)

freerider · Futures level

Well done andy for making qf. What a horrendous draw though for a futures! Is machado coming back from injury or something?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Andy and Evan lose their doubles 6-4 6-4

But Andy will be nicely up into the top 1000 in the singles, following this week's points. :)

steven · Tennis legend

freerider wrote:
Well done andy for making qf. What a horrendous draw though for a futures! Is machado coming back from injury or something?

No, it doesn't look like it - he played a pretty full schedule last year but suffered a lot of early losses at the higher levels.

It is definitely a horrendous draw though - Machado won F1 and F2 here without dropping a set and is on a 17-match winning streak in Futures (he has also played a Challenger in that time, making the QFs)

Jaffa · Challenger level

QF: Andy Bettles WR 1021 lost to (2) Rui Machado (POR) WR 270 (CH 59 in 2011) 6-2 6-1

indiana · Tennis legend

That was a bit of a roadblock, but good to get two MD wins and two points from the week.