Week 7 - Egypt F6 ($10,000) - Sharm El Sheikh (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 7 - Egypt F6 ($10,000) - Sharm El Sheikh (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Not a great clutch of results . . .

QR1: (q16) Robbie Riddout WR 1362 def. Vladislav Gorodetsky (UKR) UNR, age 32, (CH 1116 in 2001!) 6-3 6-1

QR1: Luke Power lost to Filipp Smalyanyy (RUS) UNR 6-3 6-4

QR1: (q11) Rob Carter WR 1129 lost to Vitaliy Sachko (UKR) WR 1567 age 17 6-1 7-5

QR1: (wc) Ross-Tiree Wilson lost to Djordje Djokovic (SRB) UNR (CH 1463 Sept. 13) 6-3 6-3

QR1: Jamie Caprice lost to Andrew Ruppli (SUI) WR 1402 (CH 1379 a couple of months ago) 6-1 6-1

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

QR2: (q16) Robbie Riddout WR 1362 v Khrys Shpilka (UKR) UNR

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

A second win for Robbie but unfortunately he now gets a wildcard who shouldn't be in qualies at all :::(((

QR2: (q16) Robbie Riddout WR 1362 def. Khrys Shpilka (UKR) UNR 6-4 6-1

FQR: (q16) Robbie Riddout WR 1362 v (WC) (q1) Nikola Milojevic (SRB) WR 383 (CH 352 09/14) Ex-junior no. 1

indiana · Tennis legend

Bah, such relatively high ranked qualifying WCs just so disrupt things for other players, whether taken up by Brits or anyone else.

I still think if they can't get a WC into the MD then tough, pity you never entered ...

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Presumably the proposed new ITF play-down rules will stop this sort of thing, if they are adopted.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

FQR: (q16) Robbie Riddout WR 1362 lost to (WC) (q1) Nikola Milojevic (SRB) WR 383 (CH 352 09/14) Ex-junior no. 1 6-4 6-2