British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Week 33 - ATP Challenger 75 - Kia Open - Barranquilla, Colombia (hard)

Priesty · Challenger level

Nice surprise to wake up to - Arthur succeeds where Jacob recently failed and beats Ficovich 3 and 3. Now up to 262 in the live rankings.

Plays Tomic in the final tonight. Should be an interesting one.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jeff Stelling wrote:
Apparent pariah of the board Arthur won. Well done young man.

Sorry, that is lost on me

Why's he a pariah?

He's always been rather a little fave, as far as I'm concerned, being a Frenchie and not really part of the LTA when he was younger

Mervatron2 · Challenger level

Thats a cracking win. Only joy this week outside of the uk.

Hopefully he can take the title.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Well done Arthur! Great to see. Tomic is back in a bit of form and seems to be taking his tennis seriously right now; I saw an article saying he had an aim of top 100 again and he was actually buckling down. Could be a tough battle.

Danny1312 · Strong Club Player

This cheered me up! Fery is one of my favs and without injury would imo be top 150 by now at least :)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Jeff Stelling wrote:
Apparent pariah of the board Arthur won. Well done young man.
Sorry, that is lost on me
Why's he a pariah?
He's always been rather a little fave, as far as I'm concerned, being a Frenchie and not really part of the LTA when he was younger

Everything Jeff says is to be taken as tongue in cheek! We all know that by now!?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: Arthur Féry WR 314 defeated (1) Juan Pablo Ficovich (ARG) WR 127 by 3 & 3 biggrin

*****

Final: Arthur Féry WR 314 vs (3) Bernard Tomic (AUS) WR 184 (CH = 17 in January 2016) bleh furious

Jajon · Club Coach

Does Fery have much to defend for the rest of the year? A win here would put him very close to being ranked high enough for AO qualies, I think?

Danny1312 · Strong Club Player

Jajon wrote:
Does Fery have much to defend for the rest of the year? A win here would put him very close to being ranked high enough for AO qualies, I think?

Barely any if I'm right it's 8 but if it's not then it's still very few!

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Coup Droit wrote:
Jeff Stelling wrote:
Apparent pariah of the board Arthur won. Well done young man.
Sorry, that is lost on me
Why's he a pariah?
He's always been rather a little fave, as far as I'm concerned, being a Frenchie and not really part of the LTA when he was younger

The young man mounts a superb run to a Challenger final to be met by collective tumbleweed. A thread that was contained on one page until I thought someone should post semi-final congratulations.

Apologies if I jumped to the wrong conclusion. Seemed the only plausible explanation when you have lower calibre events running to ten pages with posters breathlessly discussing who has the better cross-court backhand out of James Marsalek and Marshall Tutu. My apologies if I misunderstood the underlying reasons.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Jeff Stelling wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Jeff Stelling wrote:
Apparent pariah of the board Arthur won. Well done young man.
Sorry, that is lost on me
Why's he a pariah?
He's always been rather a little fave, as far as I'm concerned, being a Frenchie and not really part of the LTA when he was younger

The young man mounts a superb run to a Challenger final to be met by collective tumbleweed. A thread that was contained on one page until I thought someone should post semi-final congratulations.
Apologies if I jumped to the wrong conclusion. Seemed the only plausible explanation when you have lower calibre events running to ten pages with posters breathlessly discussing who has the better cross-court backhand out of James Marsalek and Marshall Tutu. My apologies if I misunderstood the underlying reasons.

biggrin

definitely Tutu. And his Dad, Desmond.

Danny1312 · Strong Club Player

I somewhat think it's because of the amount of GB players elsewhere! And some of his matches being late, but I know lots share my liking of Arthur :) also sometimes I think it's not been that positive on those long threads... I can't talk for all but think you've miss read the room a little! Easy to do though.

octagonclock · Social player

I think the thing is that prior to this (excellent, great job Arthur) win, his run has consisted of 3 comfortable wins against players we would expect him to win comfortably against. Theres only so much people are going to say when results are as expected.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jeff Stelling wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Jeff Stelling wrote:
Apparent pariah of the board Arthur won. Well done young man.
Sorry, that is lost on me
Why's he a pariah?
He's always been rather a little fave, as far as I'm concerned, being a Frenchie and not really part of the LTA when he was younger

The young man mounts a superb run to a Challenger final to be met by collective tumbleweed. A thread that was contained on one page until I thought someone should post semi-final congratulations.
Apologies if I jumped to the wrong conclusion. Seemed the only plausible explanation when you have lower calibre events running to ten pages with posters breathlessly discussing who has the better cross-court backhand out of James Marsalek and Marshall Tutu. My apologies if I misunderstood the underlying reasons.

If an event takes place at 3 am in the morning, and no one's watching it because we're all asleep, you don't need a whole list of ten pages of people saying vacuously, 'well done Arthur' because they can't say anything else because what else IS there to say, in that situation?

If you wish to post 'well done, Arthur' then fine, and everyone agrees. But we don't need to double the forum's data usage by everyone posting the same thing.