Week 6 - UK F2 ($10,000) - Sunderland(hard - indoor)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 6 - UK F2 ($10,000) - Sunderland(hard - indoor)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Rich into a third set

paulisi · Tennis legend

Rich leads 3-1* and has multiple break points again.

Luke O has just started

Jaffa · Challenger level

Just home, not as much to report as yesterday on this side obviously but Evan v Teixeria was marred a bit by some poor line calling (unfortunately), there was a bad one in Teixeira's favour very early on when Evan had the initiative, but to be fair Teixeira was absolutely superb and I'd be surprised if he doesn't win the whole thing. In terms of Evan, he played well again, but today I was sat right behind his serve and it was actually fairly easy to read which meant he wasn't getting the free points like he was yesterday. His backhand could do with some improvement too.

I notice my pick from yesterday, Sarmiento is thrashing the 6th seed.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Jaffa wrote:
I notice my pick from yesterday, Sarmiento is thrashing the 6th seed.

He won by 1 & 2!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The "no great shakes" Pole leads Luke by 3-0* in the first set.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
The "no great shakes" Pole leads Luke by 3-0* in the first set.

Yes cry Good job I don't have a Polish brother-in-law.......

And it's more like 5-0 down now....

Luke may well be tired after the various long matches he's had day after day.

Or the guy is just a lot better than him, end of.

Got the feeling that jaffa wasn't too impressed by the Pole either yesterday though....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Brilliant result, richard !

That must be one of his best for a while - takes out the fourth seed, 6-4, in the third.

christ · Futures level

Coup Droit wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
The "no great shakes" Pole leads Luke by 3-0* in the first set.

Yes Good job I don't have a Polish brother-in-law.......
And it's more like 5-0 down now....

11-0 ...

... and the comeback has started!

-- Edited by christ on Wednesday 10th of February 2016 05:31:01 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, I'd call that practically a dead heat

Seriously, well done on four very good matches, Luke - a far better week than I expect you imagined. And, as to the last one, well, at least you didn't waste too much unnecessary effort !

Jaffa · Challenger level

Wasn't impressed by the lad luke was playing, CD. Not surprised by that result but still a good week!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jaffa wrote:
Wasn't impressed by the lad luke was playing, CD. Not surprised by that result but still a good week!

Yes. I thought you weren't. That's partly why I said the 'no great shakes' comment (that, and looking at the track records).

Which then came round to bite me on the bum. smile

But it's so difficult to know too much about any match when one's not there in person.

As you say, a good week.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And then there were two:

L16: (1) Maxime Teixeira (FRA) WR 333 defeated Evan Hoyt WR 583 by 5 & 2
L16: Hubert Hurkacz (POL) WR 618 defeated (Q) Luke Oakley WR 2086 by 0 & 1

L16: Richard Gabb WR 491 defeated (4) Peter Kobelt (USA) WR 383 by 6-2 2-6 6-4 biggrin

L16: Lloyd Glasspool WR 463 defeated (PR) Patrick Rosenholm (SWE) WR 1094 by 2 & 3

*****

QF: (5) Sam Barry (IRL) WR 397 vs Richard Gabb WR 491
QF: (Q) Raymond Sarmiento (USA) WR 731 vs Lloyd Glasspool WR 463 bleh

indiana · Tennis legend

Well at least we have two through to the QF when seeded to have none and Richard puts us 2-1 up over the peskies in ranking 'shocks' in the MD. Would be nice to have done a bit better at 'home', but not so bad.

Good to see Richard get at least 2 points this week to make a net gain. He has got at least a point in more tournaments than any British male so from a rankings point of view he didn't need another spare one pointer.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (4) Lloyd Glasspool & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 859 (391+468) defeated Joachim Bjerke & Fred Simonson (NOR/SWE) UNR (0+556) by 7-5 7-6(5)