Week 20 - Mexico F3 ($10,000) - Mexico City (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 20 - Mexico F3 ($10,000) - Mexico City (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

QR1: (q9) Farris Gosea WR 1216 def. Felipe Santamaria (COL) UNR 6-2 6-0

QR2: (q9) Farris Gosea WR 1216 v Oscar Carranza Ray (MEX) UNR

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

QR2: (q9) Farris Gosea WR 1216 def. Oscar Carranza Ray (MEX) UNR 6-1 6-0

FQR: (q9) Farris Gosea WR 1216 v (q1) Andrew Carter (USA) WR 1018 (CH 797 July 08)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nice one, Farris

FQR: (q9) Farris Gosea WR 1216 def. (q1) Andrew Carter (USA) WR 1018 (CH 797 July 08) 6-1 6-4

R1: (q) Farris Gosea WR 1216 v Hans Hach (MEX) WR 836 (CH 528 July 15)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And a point and a decent win for Farris:

R1: (q) Farris Gosea WR 1216 def. Hans Hach (MEX) WR 836 (CH 528 July 15) 6-3 6-3

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

For the record:

R1: Luis Britto & Ricardo Hocevar (BRA/BRA) CR 2029 (1334+695) defeated Farris Gosea & Tim Kopinski (USA) CR 1658 by 7-6(4) 6-3 bleh

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Farris leading *5-3 and serving for the set, against Mico Santiago (USA)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (Q) Farris Gosea WR 1216 defeated Mico Santiago (USA) WR 768 (CH = 684 last September) by 3 & 3 biggrin

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QF: (Q) Farris Gosea WR 1216 vs Luís Patiño (MEX) WR 870 (CH = 649 last June)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (Q) Farris Gosea WR 1216 defeated Luís Patiño (MEX) WR 870 by 3 & 4 biggrin

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SF: (Q) Farris Gosea WR 1216 vs (Q) Naoki Nakagawa (JPN) UNR (CH = 734 last May)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Great to see Farris back on the tour and on form.

steven · Tennis legend

Farris has just won 5 games from a set and 2-5 down to take Nakagawa into a decider

Edit: Make that 6 games in a row - he has now broken at the start of the 3rd ... but Nakagawa breaks back immediately.game.

6-7(6) 7-5 1-1*

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Farris one game away now leading 5-3*

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (Q) Farris Gosea WR 1216 defeated (Q) Naoki Nakagawa (JPN) UNR by 6-7(6) 7-5 6-4 (in just under three hours!)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

His efforts this week (so far) will see Farris climb about 200 places in the rankings to the 920s. If he can go on to win the tournament, he will rise another 100 places approx.

steven · Tennis legend

That was quite a win ... and quite a week

Bob in Spain wrote:

His efforts this week (so far) will see Farris climb about 200 places in the rankings to the 920s. If he can go on to win the tournament, he will rise another 100 places approx.

Your rankings estimate is about right but he is ranked 1216 at the moment, so it'll actually lift him nearly 300 places (or 400 if he wins the title)

He is also now figuring in the 'battle' for the last spot in the GB top 25 table - Jamie Whiteford will take it on Monday (assuming I've calculated the tiebreak among the 3 players who'll have 16 points correctly) despite not having played this year, since Toby Martin has a QF coming off, but at the end of RG, Toby and Dan Dowson will both have 17 points to Jamie's 16, while Farris will now have 16 too. All of these players could add points between now and the end of RG, of course, but if Farris wins tomorrow, he'll probably put the winner of that little contest beyond doubt.