Week 23 - Mozambique F2 ($10,000) - Maputo (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 23 - Mozambique F2 ($10,000) - Maputo (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

QR1: Jack Oswald def. (wc) MAPOSSE, Calvin (MOZ) age 16 6-1 6-0

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Two more wins:

QR1: Curtis Clarke def. FIGUEIREDO, Bruno (MOZ) UNR age 36 6-0 6-2

QR1: Jay Clarke v TROLLIP, Reinhardt (RSA) UNR 7-6(4) 6-0

Worth noting that the guy that Curtis came within a whisker of beating last week, has gone on and beaten the top seed and made the final. So I'm hoping fro a good run from Curtis.

FQR: Jay Clarke v Luis Crocco (ARG) UNR age 17

FQR: Curtis Clarke v Carlos Capel (ESP) UNR (CH 1894 Jan 14)

FQR: jack Oswald v Anderson Reed (USA) UNR

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Both Clarke boys through to the main draw

FQR: Jay Clarke def. Luis Crocco (ARG) UNR age 17 6-1 6-0

FQR: Curtis Clarke def. Carlos Capel (ESP) UNR (CH 1894 Jan 14) 6-3 6-3

FQR: jack Oswald lost to Anderson Reed (USA) UNR 6-2 6-3

And both get fellow Qs in the first round

R1: (Q) Jay Clarke v (Q) Stefan Vujic (AUS) UNR age 17

R1: (Q) Curtis Clarke v (Q) Anderson Reed (USA) UNR

And both playing in the doubles together this week, with a WC, but get the second seeds. Jack, too, with a play.

BradMarx90 · County player

Could Curtis add to his solitary point and Jay find his first? Very kind draws there for the Brothers Clarke. Good luck lads!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: William Bushamuka (USA/COD (*)) & Jack Oswald UNR vs Matías Franco Descotte & Lloyd [George!] Harris (ARG/RSA) UNR
R1: (WC) Curtis Clarke & Jay Clarke UNR vs (2) Duncan Mugabe & Hassan Ndayishimiye (UGA/BDI) CR 2253 (1402+851) bleh

(*) There seems to be some confusion about Bushamuka's nationality: the ITF says he's a Yank, while the ATP has him as Democratic Republic of Congo!

paulisi · Tennis legend

Curtis came through in a third set tie break - another point in the bag

Spectator · All-time great

Bushamuka intrigued me, too, SC, so I Googled a bit. I think, trying to put together the disparate bits of information, that he is from the DRC ... trained for a while at the ITF centre in Senegal (did others know that the ITF had a centre in Senegal? I certainly didn't) ... and then came to the US, where he appears to have found sponsors who helped him market himself to US universities. He's now playing for the University of Kentucky, I think. Bios put together in this fashion are distinctly dodgy, so I don't know how accurate any of that is, but one can see where confusion amongst the various bodies could arise.

Does look as if there's a strategy of trying to get promising young players from sub-Saharan Africa to the US for university - interesting.

-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 8th of June 2015 11:56:26 AM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Just for the record:

L32: (Q) Curtis Clarke UNR defeated (Q) Anderson Reed (USA) UNR by 6-1 6-7(4) 7-6(2)

Looks like a bit of a battle!

BradMarx90 · County player

Curtis was serving at *4-2 in the second, so definitely could have been over a lot more quickly than it was! Good lad for hanging on for the win.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jack Oswald+ lost his doubles 2&2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And little brother gets his first ranking point too

R1: (Q) Jay Clarke def. (Q) Stefan Vujic (AUS) UNR age 17 6-2 6-4

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (Q) Jay Clarke UNR defeated (Q) Stefan Vujic (AUS) UNR by 2 & 4
L32: (Q) Curtis Clarke UNR defeated (Q) Anderson Reed (USA) UNR by 6-1 6-7(4) 7-2(2)

*****

L16: (Q) Jay Clarke UNR vs (5) Matías Franco Descotte (ARG) WR 822 (CH = 776 in April) bleh
L16: (3) Evan Song (USA) WR 586 (CH = 522 last November) vs (Q) Curtis Clarke UNR bleh

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Tuesday 9th of June 2015 11:08:03 AM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (Q) Jay Clarke UNR vs (5) Matías Franco Descotte (ARG) WR 822 (CH = 776 in April)
L16: (3) Evan Song (USA) WR 586 (CH = 522 last November)

Assume that Curtis is the one playing the Nº3 seed ?

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Congrats to Jay on his first ranking point.