Week 34 - ATP 250 - Winston-Salem Open, Winston-Salem, NC, USA (hard) - doubles

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Week 34 - ATP 250 - Winston-Salem Open, Winston-Salem, NC, USA (hard)

EddietheEagle · County player

Never be afraid of the No 1 seed!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Don't look now but Aljaz has just WON in the 3rd set breaker 8-6.

Dirk Thrust · Improver

Oh my word he's only gone and done it!!!!!

Rustie · Junior player

Great win for Aljaz really stuck in there.

Simon should never have lost that match really though.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yay !!!!

Takes the TB 8-6 on his second MP.

Didn't see any of it and just latterly followed live scores, so be great to hear more about it.

I see he took 5/6 BPs, though with DFs from Simon on at least 2 of these, and Simon took 5/10 BPs, two he missed being MPs when Aljaz was *3-5 15-40 in the final set.

indiana · Tennis legend

Herbert has beaten Baghdatis 7-5 in the third so we have :

R2/L32 : Aljaz Bedene WR 58 beat (1/WC) Gilles Simon (FRA) WR 11 (CH 6 01/09) 6-7(5) 7-6(5) 7-6(6)

R3/L16 : Aljaz Bedene WR 58 vs (Q) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) WR 140 (CH 107 01/15)

rich81 · Social player

BBC coverage of Aljaz's win worth reading:

www.bbc.com/sport/0/tennis/34059597

Headline is "Aljaz Bedene shocks Gael Monfils in Winston-Salem Open". Bet that was a shock for Gael...

indiana · Tennis legend

rich81 wrote:
BBC coverage of Aljaz's win worth reading:

www.bbc.com/sport/0/tennis/34059597

Headline is "Aljaz Bedene shocks Gael Monfils in Winston-Salem Open". Bet that was a shock for Gael...

Superb biggrin evileye ( I am past being shocked / horrified by some of the stuff that eminates from BBC Sport ) although in truth I probably shouldn't laugh, and this follows I thought a worse than ever performance by their commentary teams at Wimbledon with regards to facts / fiction ( research ? - that's old hat ). Not that this online offering is really research, it's just ... it's too late to find a word that does it justice ..

The headline and accompanying bumph regarding Aljaz's defeat of the WR 16, Gael Monfils, sort of makes the caption accompanying the picture of Aljaz pale into insignificance : "Aljaz Bedene secured a straight set victory over Italy's Marco Cecchinato in the second ( sic ) round".

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 26th of August 2015 03:29:40 AM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

It appears that the BBC have now corrected their error. They got there in the end.

indiana · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
It appears that the BBC have now corrected their error. They got there in the end.

We saw it though ( thanks, rich ) and the picture caption's still wrong as I write.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 26th of August 2015 03:36:05 AM

Spectator · All-time great

Oh, that is priceless. But what a win! Fabulous work by Mr Bedene.

TMH · Futures qualifying

I'm not sure how that level of incompetence is even possible.

EddietheEagle · County player

From what I saw, Bedene's game has upped a notch, notably serve, forehand, very positive in his overall approach. I'm not sure how hard Simon was trying though. Was he getting paid appearance money?

DF · Tennis legend

Brilliant !