Week 30 - Germany F9 ($10,000) - Essen (Clay)

Jaffa · Challenger level

Week 30 - Germany F9 ($10,000) - Essen (Clay)

indiana · Tennis legend

Dave on clay again. Aren't his general clay singles results rather err bad ?

sherbert · Lower Club Player

He's just won 7-5 in the 3rd. Rubbish windy conditions today! Don't start me on why Neil is in the doubles and not the singles!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (WC) Mark-Flavius (I kid you not!) Andres & Lars Martin (GER/GER) UNR vs (2) Neil Pauffley & Dave Rice CR 1732 (*)

(*) according to the ATP draw sheet, but technically, they should be UNR & thus not seeded at all. Dave is currently 216 in doubles, while Neil (again, according to the ATP) is unranked, but has a CH of 594 from January 2010... confuse

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (1) Dave Rice WR 537 defeated (WC) Sebastian Prechtel (GER) UNR (but a CH of 1349 from February last year) by 6-3 1-6 7-5

*****

L16: (1) Dave Rice WR 537 vs Marvin Netuschil (GER) WR 632 (CH = 624 earlier this month)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

sherbert wrote:
He's just won 7-5 in the 3rd. Rubbish windy conditions today! Don't start me on why Neil is in the doubles and not the singles!

Sorry to hear about the (presumed) officialdom c**k up in the inscription process . . .

Glad to see that the lads won their doubles nicely last night though smile

And then see that they've got a walkover into the semis too smile smile

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (2) Neil Pauffley & Dave Rice CR 1732 defeated (WC) Mark-Flavius Andres & Lars Martin (GER/GER) UNR by 4 & 2

QF: (2) Neil Pauffley & Dave Rice CR 1732 "defeated" Marcus Smith & Alex Solanki (GER/IND) UNR by a walkover

sherbert · Lower Club Player

Coup Droit wrote:
sherbert wrote:
He's just won 7-5 in the 3rd. Rubbish windy conditions today! Don't start me on why Neil is in the doubles and not the singles!

Sorry to hear about the (presumed) officialdom c**k up in the inscription process . . .
Glad to see that the lads won their doubles nicely last night though
And then see that they've got a walkover into the semis too

Yes it was a mess up with ipin...however it has been known to happen before and I was unsure why Neil didn't check it had gone through. Needless to say...I wasn't a happy bunny! It was a good win yesterday...think the real test will be tomorrow when I imagine they will play the 3rd seeds.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Dave lost, which is what he seems just now.

Dave and Tara seem similar in their random tournaments and results. The odd win for a point or 2 but generally going nowhere. A shame Dave should really be up with Josh and Ed

indiana · Tennis legend

Relatively weak field, but Dave is a relatively weak clay court player.

L16: Dave Rice WR 537 lost to Marvin Netuschil (GER) WR 632 (CH 624 earlier this month) 6-2 6-3

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 29th of July 2015 06:30:59 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

sherbert was right:

SF: (3) David Pel & Dennis van Scheppingen (*) (NED/NED) CR 1691 (672+1119) vs (2) Neil Pauffley & Dave Rice CR 1732

(*) Blimey! He's 40!

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Thursday 30th of July 2015 09:33:51 AM

sherbert · Lower Club Player

I'm pretty sure it's coach and player...which meant they actually played very well together. Surprised there's not more players travelling alone who do this...although there are less and less players travelling with coaches in the futures I think.

Spectator · All-time great

Interesting - that does sound like a good idea.

-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 30th of July 2015 10:13:25 AM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (2) Neil Pauffley & Dave Rice CR 1732 defeated (3) David Pel & Dennis van Scheppingen (NED/NED) CR 1691 (672+1119) by 4 & 4 smile

sherbert · Lower Club Player

That was very quick Stircrazy! With a rain delay in the middle...got there in the end. With David Rice and David Pel on the court, Neil actually looked quite small for a change.