Week 34 - Portugal F17 ($15,000) - Sintra (hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Week 34 - Portugal F17 ($15,000) - Sintra (hard)

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Currently Ryan 60 16 24* (just been broken to 30)

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Then Ryan breaks back to love but is broken again

60 16 35*

-- Edited by goldfish on Friday 25th of August 2017 12:48:10 PM

goldfish · Futures qualifying

QF: (5) Altug Çelikbilek (TUR) WR 460 d. (SE) Ryan Peniston UNR 06 61 63

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (5) Altug Çelikbilek (TUR) WR 460 defeated (SE) Ryan Peniston UNR by 0-6 6-1 6-3 cry

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: Ed Corrie & Marcus Willis CR 1390 (1130+260) defeated (2) Nuno Deus & Bernardo Saraiva (POR/POR) CR 869 (480+839) by 7-6(2) 6-7(6) [10-3] biggrin

*****

Final: Yanais Laurent & Maxime Tchoutakian (FRA/FRA) UNR (278+0 [but a CH of 658 in October 2014]) vs Ed Corrie & Marcus Willis CR 1390 (1130+260)

The Frogs despatched the third seeds, Pérez & Jaime Pulgar, in their quarter-final & the top seeds, Boluda & Gil, in their semi...

Topemp · Strong Club Player

This Celikbilek guy isn't making any friends round here- Pauffers, then Storrie and now Ryan. Swine.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Our first s of the week:

Final: Ed Corrie & Marcus Willis CR 1390 (1130+260) defeated Yanais Laurent & Maxime Tchoutakian (FRA/FRA) UNR (278+0) by 1 & 4 smile

steven · Tennis legend

Topemp wrote:
This Celikbilek guy isn't making any friends round here- Pauffers, then Storrie and now Ryan. Swine.

As a former Chancellor from your party used to say, "what a Celik Bilek" (igmc)

It's possible that the first syllable is pronounced Che not Se, which would make it fall even flatter wink )

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Topemp wrote:
This Celikbilek guy isn't making any friends round here- Pauffers, then Storrie and now Ryan. Swine.
As a former Chancellor from your party used to say, "what a Celik Bilek" (igmc)
It's possible that the first syllable is pronounced Che not Se, which would make it fall even flatter )

smile smile

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Topemp wrote:
This Celikbilek guy isn't making any friends round here- Pauffers, then Storrie and now Ryan. Swine.
It's possible that the first syllable is pronounced Che not Se, which would make it fall even flatter )

It's more than possible, Steven: from my limited knowledge of Turkish pronunciation, a "c" is pronounced like "j" in English, e.g. like the "j" in "jam". A cedilla, however, softens it to a "tch" sound, like the "ch" in "chip". wink

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
steven wrote:
Topemp wrote:
This Celikbilek guy isn't making any friends round here- Pauffers, then Storrie and now Ryan. Swine.
It's possible that the first syllable is pronounced Che not Se, which would make it fall even flatter )
It's more than possible, Steven: from my limited knowledge of Turkish pronunciation, a "c" is pronounced like "j" in English, e.g. like the "j" in "jam". A cedilla, however, softens it to a "tch" sound, like the "ch" in "chip".

Yes, as in Cagla Buyukakcay's name (Activeboard will go crazy with some of the marks on her name, so I won't bother, but it does have cedillas under the Cs too) - I wasn't sure whether it might be different before e instead of a, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Turkic_dialects suggests not. I've got the hang of all the Slavic language diacritics now, I think (even the Czech/Slovak ones) but I've got a long way to go with the Turkish ones!

How to make a truly awful pun fall even flatter in one easy lesson wink

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Never let authentic pronunciation stand in the way of a good joke !

Or accent.

Just think of the old die-hard French trousers and Toulouse / Toulon joke.

Your 'Celik Bilek' made me smile and that's good enough for me

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
steven wrote:
Topemp wrote:
This Celikbilek guy isn't making any friends round here- Pauffers, then Storrie and now Ryan. Swine.
It's possible that the first syllable is pronounced Che not Se, which would make it fall even flatter )
It's more than possible, Steven: from my limited knowledge of Turkish pronunciation, a "c" is pronounced like "j" in English, e.g. like the "j" in "jam". A cedilla, however, softens it to a "tch" sound, like the "ch" in "chip".
Yes, as in Cagla Buyukakcay's name (Activeboard will go crazy with some of the marks on her name, so I won't bother, but it does have cedillas under the Cs too)

I've never attempted to reproduce the diacritic over the "g" in her first name (which means it itself isn't pronounced, but lengthens the pronunciation of the preceding "a"), but Activeboard will at least let you get away with "Çagla Büyükakçay", presumably because they're accents which are also used in French & German. We have a Turkish girl in the office who's married to a Brit & I've checked with her. wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Never let authentic pronunciation stand in the way of a good joke !

Or accent.

Except they generally work only if you're monolingual: I rarely get them because my linguistic training kicks in immediately & I just don't see the joke, but I don't suppose that matters to others...