Week 15 - Qatar F2 ($10,000) - Doha (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 15 - Qatar F2 ($10,000) - Doha (hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

No seeds left in the bottom half of the draw - unfortunately there are in the top half where the Brits are.

Dan Cox needs to win the tournament to break back into the top 500

indiana · Tennis legend

But tactically for the '20 in the top 500' maybe it's more desirable for James to push on to a strengthened position.

indiana · Tennis legend

Dan won the first set, but James has an early break in the second.

Dan 6-3 0-2*

paulisi · Tennis legend

Marzi took the second set tie break

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Dan Cox WR 551 defeated James Marsalek WR 652 by 6-3 6-7(5) 6-4

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SF: (6) Benjamin Bonzi (FRA) WR 503 (CH = 494 last month) vs Dan Cox WR 551

Bonzi progressed after the much more highly ranked top seed, Jan Hernych, retired at 6-1 3-6 0-1.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Dan is on court.

Etienne · Club Coach

He's getting a bit of a working over on his serve. Under 50% of first serves in and under 20% of points won on second serve. He's broken twice, but you can't win matches with those stats. 4-6, 1-4 at the moment.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (6) Benjamin Bonzi (FRA) WR 503 defeated Dan Cox WR 551 by 4 & 4 cry

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Well Dan's not going to get back to the top of the tree losing to players like that. Not even a small tree wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Well Dan's not going to get back to the top of the tree losing to players like that. Not even a small tree

I think you should get your coat now, Bob! wink

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

BiS, you're getting too clever by half.......it was about 10 mins after reading your pun that the penny suddenly dropped. If you hadn't put the smiley face I would have read straight over it! Ok, so I'm a bit slow today........