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Week 42 - Vietnam F7 ($10,000) - Thu Dau Mot City (hard)


One DA, one qualifier and both Brits play wild cards in R1

QR1: (q8) Rhett Purcell WR 1970 beat Alex Espositos (AUS) UNR by 0 & 1

FQR: (q8) Rhett Purcell WR 1970 beat (q9) Wang Aoran (CHN) WR 2057 (CH 1276 in 2015) by 5 & 3

L32: Matthew Brooklyn WR 1364 v (WC) Thien Nguyen Hoang (VIE) WR 2002 (CH 1368 in 2012)
L32: (Q) Rhett Purcell WR 1970 v (WC) Hoa Tran Van (VIE) UNR



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L32: Matthew Brooklyn WR 1364 lost to (WC) Thien Nguyen Hoang (VIE) WR 2002 (CH 1368 in 2012) 6-3 6-4

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A welcome 'easy' point for Rhett

L32: (Q) Rhett Purcell WR 1970 def. (WC) Hoa Tran Van (VIE) UNR 6-1 6-0




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Wow. That's another welcome result

R2: (q) Rhett Purcell WR 1970 def (6) Rishab Agarwal (IND) WR 761 7-6(2) 6-4

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His opponent graduated this year from Mississippi State, a fairly highly ranked university so a very good win indeed.



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QF: (Q) Rhett Purcell WR 1974 vs (2) Laurent Rochette (FRA) WR 453 (CH 202 in October 2012)

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Don't forget Rhett was a highly ranked junior and never really transitioned to seniors. He only seems to be playing sporadically, but hopefully this might be the incentive to give it a proper go.

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He was only ranked JWR 71 - it's not that high (given that junior rankings revolve every two years or so and therefore a junior top 100 ranking bears no relationship at all with an adult ranking i.e. because there are zillions of top 100 youngsters over a decade say, and comparatively few adults).

I'd be interested to know his training base and set-up.

He played pretty much non-stop for the first half of the year - 10 tournaments over 5 months. And then a big gap. Similar things last year (although different time period).

And almost exclusively in China (little bit of India/Australia/Vietnam thrown in). Hasn't played in Britain since late 2014.

Linked to having Jamie Greenhalgh as his coach maybe...

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Got a feeling be is based in NZ whjch explains travelling to asian tournies

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Rhett takes another career best ranking scalp just a day after taking the last one to make his first 10K semi-final, and he did it from a set and 2-4 down AND an early break down in the 3rd!

QF: (Q) Rhett Purcell WR 1974 beat (2) Laurent Rochette (FRA) WR 453 (CH 202 in 2012) by 3-6 7-6(5) 6-3

SF: (Q) Rhett Purcell WR 1974 v (3) Masato Shiga (JPN) WR 577 (CH 576 last week) or (5) Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) WR 634 (=CH)


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Golly Moses

Now that's a result worthy of note....

Well done, Rhett.

Tx, freerider, I believe that his coach is from New Zealand, and Rhett was born there/went to school there. Quote from an article last Decemeber:

"Purcell, 19, was born in Gisborne, schooled in Hawke's Bay, London and Sacred Heart in Auckland and plays tennis under the British flag, including at Junior Wimbledon last year. Although he's not getting into any debate about who he should represent if his tennis takes off on the professional circuit."


Still don't quite understand why it's practically 99% China where he plays. Maybe Greenhalgh works at an academy there and Rhett is based with him and a group go round the events in China ?

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China is surely an easy place live cheaply. Food doesn't cost much, I'd imagine you might be able to get fairly cheap accommodation as well. Also could you argue the fields are weaker than Europe/America?

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Reaching the semi final means Rhett has a SE for next week's event.

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So a double bonus. A good week indeed.

And the SF, too, was a good, competitive match:

(3) Masato Shiga (JPN) WR 577 (CH 576 last week) d. (Q) Rhett Purcell WR 1974        7-5 6-4



-- Edited by Spectator on Saturday 22nd of October 2016 05:47:14 AM



-- Edited by Spectator on Saturday 22nd of October 2016 05:47:40 AM

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Rhett's junior ranking is not one to scoff at if you value college tennis in any way. At CH of 71 he would have had his pick of American elite college tennis programs although I agree not a weighty starting position for transition to the main tour via the futures route.

Recently had a chat with a coach in the U.S. who despite being relatively mature loves playing (fair to say lives to play) as high a level of competitive tennis as possible, has won regional Southern California tournaments and generally coaches to earn money to eat and play. He was raving about the Vietnamese futures events in terms of opportunity, affordability and a generally fantastic experience for him.

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