Week 15 - USA F13 ($25,000) - Little Rock (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 15 - USA F13 ($25,000) - Little Rock (hard)

Spectator · All-time great

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Last week's top dogs are toppled in the first round this week:
R1: Alejandro Gómez & Roberto Quiroz (COL/ECU) CR 1581 (494+1087) defeated (3) Luke Bambridge & Darren Walsh CR 571 (307+264) by 5 & 3
All Brit hope in the doubles extinguished after only one round:
R1: Jonas Lütjen & Nicolaas Scholtz (GER/RSA) CR 2285 (1666+619) defeated (WC) Matthew Brooklyn & Andrew Dottino (USA) UNR by 2 & 2
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The one loss goes with the rankings - and the other is less surprising than it might look. I don't know anything about Alejandro Gomez, but Roberto Quiroz won the junior French and USO doubles, went to university and won all manner of tennis honours. He finished last year and has only been playing full time for a little over half a year - for much of which he hasn't played doubles at all (this is his sixth or seventh doubles tournament). A good background, and very underranked.

-- Edited by Spectator on Wednesday 13th of April 2016 03:02:53 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Last week's top dogs are toppled in the first round this week:
R1: Alejandro Gómez & Roberto Quiroz (COL/ECU) CR 1581 (494+1087) defeated (3) Luke Bambridge & Darren Walsh CR 571 (307+264) by 5 & 3
All Brit hope in the doubles extinguished after only one round:
R1: Jonas Lütjen & Nicolaas Scholtz (GER/RSA) CR 2285 (1666+619) defeated (WC) Matthew Brooklyn & Andrew Dottino (USA) UNR by 2 & 2
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The one loss goes with the rankings - and the other is less surprising than it might look. I don't know anything about Alejandro Gomez, but Roberto Quiroz won the junior French and USO doubles, went to university and won all manner of tennis honours. He finished last year and has only been playing full time for a little over half a year - for much of which he hasn't played doubles at all (this is his sixth or seventh doubles tournament). A good background, and very underranked.

Ah, thanks for shedding some light, Spectator. smile

TMH · Futures qualifying

Spectator wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Last week's top dogs are toppled in the first round this week:
R1: Alejandro Gómez & Roberto Quiroz (COL/ECU) CR 1581 (494+1087) defeated (3) Luke Bambridge & Darren Walsh CR 571 (307+264) by 5 & 3
All Brit hope in the doubles extinguished after only one round:
R1: Jonas Lütjen & Nicolaas Scholtz (GER/RSA) CR 2285 (1666+619) defeated (WC) Matthew Brooklyn & Andrew Dottino (USA) UNR by 2 & 2
___________________________________________________________________________________
The one loss goes with the rankings - and the other is less surprising than it might look. I don't know anything about Alejandro Gomez, but Roberto Quiroz won the junior French and USO doubles, went to university and won all manner of tennis honours. He finished last year and has only been playing full time for a little over half a year - for much of which he hasn't played doubles at all (this is his sixth or seventh doubles tournament). A good background, and very underranked.

-- Edited by Spectator on Wednesday 13th of April 2016 03:02:53 PM

For a moment I thought Alejandro was a former junior prodigy as well, but I was getting him confused with Juan Sebastian Gomez who finished the year junior #1 the same year Quiroz won those titles, and then faded into obscurity.

-- Edited by TMH on Wednesday 13th of April 2016 05:39:39 PM

Spectator · All-time great

And, in a similar vein, I had a moment where I misread the first name and wondered whether Mr Quiroz' French Open-winning uncle had come out of retirement to play with his nephew! Though a moment's thought and another look recognised that (a) different first name and (b) it's unlikely that someone who won a Grand Slam in 1990 would be the strongest of partners at present.

-- Edited by Spectator on Wednesday 13th of April 2016 07:16:55 PM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Luke on serve at 2-2*
Andrew an early break down at 1-2*

paulisi · Tennis legend

Luke took the first set, but lost the second.
Andrew was broken immediately and lost the opener. Went a double break up in the second, but pegged back to a tie breaker

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (7) Nicolaas Scholtz (RSA) WR 393 defeated (WC) Matthew Brooklyn UNR by 6-3 7-6(2)

L32: Sebastian Fanselow (GER) WR 477 defeated Luke Bambridge WR 492 by 4-6 6-3 6-4

L32: (8) Evan King (USA) WR 401 defeated (Q) Andrew Watson WR 1582 by 6-3 7-6(?)

cry cry cry

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Thursday 14th of April 2016 09:34:22 AM

Spectator · All-time great

None of them bad losses given that all involved significant rankings differentials (though Watson is underranked). Not been the happiest of hunting grounds, though.

DF · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L32: (7) Nicolaas Scholtz (RSA) WR 393 defeated by (WC) Matthew Brooklyn UNR by 6-3 7-6(2))

Brooklyn won? Sorry,must have misread the above. All three lost-3 sad faces.

-- Edited by DF on Thursday 14th of April 2016 06:42:09 AM