Week 7 - ATP 500 - ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Rotterdam, Netherlands (hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

Week 7 - ATP 500 - ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Rotterdam, Netherlands (hard)

Julia Carrot · All-time great

indiana wrote:
If Istomin wins, they should then play best of 3 !

Good idea !

wolf · Tennis legend

Aljaz about to start. Not really confident about this one, when a lucky loser draws the player that beat them in qualifying they always win. It's an unwritten rule, like when a footballer plays against their former club they have to score.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
Aljaz about to start. Not really confident about this one, when a lucky loser draws the player that beat them in qualifying they always win. It's an unwritten rule, like when a footballer plays against their former club they have to score.

Unless he can find a way of turning it round, looks as though that's exactly what's going to happen: first set down the pan by 3-6. cry

theemptyvessel · Club Coach

Lost 3-6 6-7 doh

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
wolf wrote:
Aljaz about to start. Not really confident about this one, when a lucky loser draws the player that beat them in qualifying they always win. It's an unwritten rule, like when a footballer plays against their former club they have to score.
Unless he can find a way of turning it round, looks as though that's exactly what's going to happen: first set down the pan by 3-6.

Unfortunately, he couldn't. He served for the second set at 5-3, but couldn't hang on!

L32: (LL) Denis Istomin (UZB) WR 77 defeated (Q) Aljaz Bedene WR 109 by 6-3 7-6(3) furious

wolf · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
wolf wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
FQR: (qWC) Tallon Griekspoor & Niels Lootsma (NED/NED) CR 787 (335+452) defeated (q1) Dom Inglot & Florin Mergea (ROU) CR 66 (43+23) by 4-6 6-3 [13-11]
Oh boy!
I really don't see this partnership lasting. Mergea has already dumped Dom once and as of now their combined ranking is probably not good enough for them to get into Masters events and Mergea could easily get in with a better ranked partner.
That thought went through my mind when I saw the result!

Further to this Mergea has entered Dubai 500 in two weeks with Victor Troicki with Dom being third alternate with Scott Lipsky. They would have been the last direct acceptance had they entered together. Especially with the random nature of Mergea's partner I would suggest they ended their partnership after this latest result.