Entries Week 42 - 18/10/21

dodrade · Satellite level

RE: Entries Week 42 - 18/10/21

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I don't know if there's any other comments about the Dubai Tie-break tens so we should have a bit because it was this week, it's a new format, very entertaining, good money (£100,000 to the winner) AND there were TWO Brits in the 8-man draw.

Dan Evans (who lives there, so was presumably very happy to be playing 'local')

And Simon Roberts - yes, who?

Roberts is a super lean, fit-looking 38 year-old who was 747 in the world in 2005, has won zillions of Lancashire titles, including in 2019, has 37 titles as Touch Tennis Champion, as in ex-World Number 1, and is currently a High Performance coach in Dubai.

Anyway, it's all great fun.

Simon lost his first TB to Taylor Fritz (not too surprising, but he won a few points too)

Dan beat Ramanathan 10-7 in his first one.

Gael put up a great show.

And then Dan lost to Taylor Fritz in the semis, 7-10, after leading all the first part of it, went from 4-2 up to 4-7 down

Gael lost his semi, suffering a real dodgy linecall, a mi****, a nasty let serve (there's no let in TB 10s), a linesman who was in the way, but it was all a laugh (sort of)

Great final, with Fritz losing to Zizou Bergs, who went pretty lights out, especially at the backend of the TB, to win 11-9

It's all on, for anyone who wants to skip through and get some highlights:

www.youtube.com/watch

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
I don't know if there's any other comments about the Dubai Tie-break tens so we should have a bit because it was this week, it's a new format, very entertaining, good money (£100,000 to the winner) AND there were TWO Brits in the 8-man draw.

Dan Evans (who lives there, so was presumably very happy to be playing 'local')

And Simon Roberts - yes, who?

Roberts is a super lean, fit-looking 38 year-old who was 747 in the world in 2005, has won zillions of Lancashire titles, including in 2019, has 37 titles as Touch Tennis Champion, as in ex-World Number 1, and is currently a High Performance coach in Dubai.

Anyway, it's all great fun.

Simon lost his first TB to Taylor Fritz (not too surprising, but he won a few points too)

Dan beat Ramanathan 10-7 in his first one.

Gael put up a great show.

And then Dan lost to Taylor Fritz in the semis, 7-10, after leading all the first part of it, went from 4-2 up to 4-7 down

Gael lost his semi, suffering a real dodgy linecall, a mi****, a nasty let serve (there's no let in TB 10s), a linesman who was in the way, but it was all a laugh (sort of)

Great final, with Fritz losing to Zizou Bergs, who went pretty lights out, especially at the backend of the TB, to win 11-9

It's all on, for anyone who wants to skip through and get some highlights:

www.youtube.com/watch

Thanks CD! Similar event in Vienna tonight, normal tie breaks though, Cam playing in that. No line judges or Umpires, all going to use Hawkeye tech.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I love the fact that tie-break tens starts with 'rock, paper, scissors', rather than a coin toss.

Really quite funny.

Lack of let serves was pretty good too. It's definitely coming.

Linespeople are going to be a thing of the past, that's for sure...