Week 20 - Spain F14 ($10,000) - Vic (clay)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: Week 20 - Spain F14 ($10,000) - Vic (clay)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Aswin still hanging in there and into a 2nd set TB.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Aswin on the tie break - into the decider

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Aswin 2-2 in the third - still fighting hard !

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Max Taba. served for the match at 5-3 but Aswin broke back.

Got good guts, that lad - all that clay court and hard drill stuff in Barcelona obviously standing him in good stead - has made good progress since starting out on the pro circuit, it seems to me.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Got back to 5-5.

Had breaks points. But Max won.

Aswin serving at 5-6

At least two MPs for Max - Aswin saved them

Now a tie-break - - - -

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

But Max took the t-b easily 7-1

But great match, Aswin - keep it up . ..

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (3) Alex Ward WR 406 defeated (Q) Igor Zubov (RUS) WR 1653 by 2 & 0
L32: (6) Maxime Tabatruong (FRA) WR 508 defeated (Q) Aswin Lizen WR 1299 by 6-4 6-7(3) 7-6(1)

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L16: (3) Alex Ward WR 406 vs (WC) Sergi Fontcuberta (ESP) UNR

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Alex on his way towards regaining his doubles ranking:

QF: Roberto Affonso (BRA) & Alex Ward UNR defeated (4) Soichiro Moritani & Takashi Saito (JPN/JPN) CR 1590 (921+669) by 5-7 6-3 [10-8] biggrin

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SF: Roberto Affonso (BRA) & Alex Ward UNR vs David Pel & Maxime Tabatruong (NED/FRA) CR 2109 (744+1365)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Alex obviously hungry this morning and starts his breakfast with a bagel.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (3) Alex Ward WR 406 defeated (WC) Sergi Fontcuberta (ESP) UNR by 0 & 4 smile

Served for it at 5-3 & needed three or four match points in the tenth game, but got there in the end!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

L16: (3) Alex Ward WR 406 beat (WC) Sergi Fontcuberta (ESP) UNR 6-0 6-4

paulisi · Tennis legend

That's more like it. Alex is due for a good run.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Well battled through in 2nd set. One more win and back in top 400.

indiana · Tennis legend

Good stuff.

Alex could certainly do with at least one more win and getting at least futures SF points for just the second time this year ( the only time so far is when he was runner up in the Sunderland 10K at the end of January ).

I always think the week must seem so much more worthwhile when you get SF points as against the 2 and 3 from 10K and 15K QFs. Pays more too!

In the short term re his ranking position Alex will be dropping 18 points post the French Open, on 08/06, from his Portugal futures title last year so actually all being equal he needs to win the title this week just to stand still.

He has two further future title points coming off in June and July ( 27 + 18 ) so for maintaining his ranking in the short term all wins and points will be very eelcome.