On the other end of bizarre, just a little shout out to Jacques Moers - AGE 48 !!! - who has just beaten a German less than half his age (21 years old), ranked 1582.
R1: (7) Ed Corrie (GBR) WR 355 v (q) Constantin Bittoun Kouzmine (FRA) UNR, born 1999, JWR 25 (JCH 18)
Bittoun Kouzmine is a slightly strange profile of French player - chose to go to the Junior US Open instead of playing nationals (didn't really pay off - lost in R1), and has only played one adult event this year, even though he is doing tennis full time because he got his Bac one year early. (Don't think he's been injured because he's played a lot of juniors). He raised some money crowd funding to go to South America and play juniors - which worked quite well in terms of results but it hasn't converted to much once he got back.
In singles, Ed served for the first set at 5-4 but ended up losing the set 5-7 ::((
The young Frenchman scored 8 more points so the score seems fair - but Ed had 8 break points and only managed to covert 2 (as against to 3 out of 5 for CBK).
Wouldn't put it past Ed to stage another comeback though (and youngsters often can't manage to sustain the level). So here's hoping....
- who has just beaten a German less than half his age (21 years old), ranked 1582.
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