Rennes 50K challenger

Sheddie · administrator

Rennes 50K challenger

Sheddie · administrator

Goodall will surely either play qualifying here or in Vienna. Auckland and Delgado will also probably play here.

Tournament website:

http://www.openderennes.org

No live scoring but there may be match reports so we'll have to hope that Martin and Richard play quite a few French players.

Sheddie · administrator

No Brits in qualies here, I thought Lee Childs might enter as he's not down for any futures. Maybe he'll ask for a wildcard into the Jersey 15K.

Drew · Oct 7, 2006

Thought I would re-float this..........

We have Martin Lee and Bloomfield in the MD....not draw info yet......!

Drew · Oct 7, 2006

The Main Draw is out....

Dick Norman (Bel) (WR98) (1) v Martin Lee

R Bloomfield v Lukas Lacko (SVK) (WR 204)

Both bad draws....Lukas has made the final of the Binghamton Challenger and another QF...he has won 2 futures and a semi and 2 QF this year !!!! He has beaten B Becker and Sam Warburg this year.

Would be shocked in either of them made R2 !!!

goldenboy · Club Coach

Perhaps martin can take inspiration from his victory at wimbledon!
Unfortunately can't really see it tho

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Martin Lee plays today. 4th match on what appears to be Court2.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Link to live scores

http://open-de-rennes.51pegasi.com/scoring/livescore.html

Not working yet but hopefully will later

Drew · Oct 9, 2006

johnnylad wrote:

Link to live scores

http://open-de-rennes.51pegasi.com/scoring/livescore.html

Not working yet but hopefully will later

now working...lee v norman !

goldenboy · Club Coach

if only the brit challengers had live scoring (with surbiton losing it this yr!)

and why are all brit challengers a stingy 25k +h...

goldenboy · Club Coach

after waxing lyrical about live scores, its frozen for the past ages... at least i know that dick norman was due to servie first...

Sheddie · administrator

Hopefully Martin can secure a good win here, beating the top seed could spark a return to the form he showed earlier this year, since mid-July he's been out of sorts, hasn't won any main draw challenger matches and in the indoor tournaments he's had some really tough draws so far.

He's got quite a few points to defend in November from the GB 4 satellite in 2005, so he could do with some good runs in some of the challengers this month.

He's played Norman twice before, losing 6-3, 6-4 on clay in 2000 and this year winning 6-2, 7-6, 7-6 at Wimbledon. Norman hasn't been at his best the last two weeks, losing in rd2 of Grenoble and Mons to Faurel and Chiudinelli.

Richard opted to spend last week practising at home, hopefully the break from the treadmill of tournament action will have left him feeling more refreshed. Lacko had those great challenger wins earlier in the summer but he's yet to find his form indoors, losing his two matches so far to Carrazin Grenoble and Verkerk in Mons qualies.

Sheddie · administrator

Unfortunately the live scores page is still not working but according to the website, Martin and Dick are still in action which suggests it must be a 3 setter.

Martin is also in doubles action, he and American Chris Drake are top seeds. Some good wins here could see Martin into the top 150 doubles.

Sheddie · administrator

Confirmation from MTF:

Norman-Lee is into a 3rd set

Sheddie · administrator

goldenboy wrote:

if only the brit challengers had live scoring (with surbiton losing it this yr!)

and why are all brit challengers a stingy 25k +h...

Bladetiger was going to try and sort some live scoring for Manchester but unfortunately that didn't happen this year. At least Manchester has a website with really good match reports.

I've complained to Surbiton for the last two years about them not doing the live scoring, in 2005 they said they would try to bring it back for 2006. This year, I didn't get any response