Week 50 - Tunisia F36 ($10,000) - El Kantaoui (Hard)

Hoppy · Junior player

RE: Week 50 - Tunisia F36 ($10,000) - El Kantaoui (Hard)

sherbert · Lower Club Player

Bob in Spain wrote:
sherbert wrote:
Woohoo! Bit close for comfort in the first set though! Be up to around 550 now. Been a while since we've seen that.
And moving in the right direction which is great to see.
Well done Neil.

Nearly in that magic 500 hey Bob? biggrin

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

sherbert wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
sherbert wrote:
Woohoo! Bit close for comfort in the first set though! Be up to around 550 now. Been a while since we've seen that.
And moving in the right direction which is great to see.
Well done Neil.
Nearly in that magic 500 hey Bob?

Counting on him wink

indiana · Tennis legend

QF: (4) Neil Pauffley WR 604 beat (WC) Skander Mansouri (TUN) WR 1449 (CH = 1257 in January 2014) 7-5 6-1

QF: (2) Lloyd Glasspool WR 492 lost to (5) Anis Ghorbel (TUN) WR 692 (= CH) 4-6 6-1 6-3

SF: (4) Neil Pauffley WR 604 vs (5) Anis Ghorbel (TUN) WR 692 (= CH)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Neil is going to have to wait a bit longer to get his semi under way as the first semi looks like it is going to 3 sets.

Ghorbel has had some good results recently and is clearly on form, but he has been beaten twice by Evan over the last couple of months. As for Neil, playing good players seems to bring the best out of him, so really hoping for a positive result today. No ulterior motive - honest wink

paulisi · Tennis legend

Neil will start shortly as the top seed took the tie break.

indiana · Tennis legend

Underway and Neil breaks immediately,

*1-0

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Then holds to love

2-0*

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Back to 2-2*

paulisi · Tennis legend

Broken again 4-2 down

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Ghorbel survives yet another monster service game with multiple deuces. Most telling stat so far is BP conversions: Ghorbel 2/2 Neil 1/8

Neil to serve *2-5

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Neil holds for 3-5*

To give and idea of how tight Ghorbel's service games have been, here is another stat.

Neil : 4 services games - 19 points played

Ghorbel : 4 service games - 51 points played.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Serving for the set, another BP for Neil not converted and we have deuce AGAIN.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Another BP goes begging. Deuce again.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Get in there. 4 deuces and 3 BPs in that game and Neil finally takes one. We are back on serve.

Neil *4-5