Week 39 - Futures F2 (15k) - Falun, Sweden

Drew · Sep 23, 2008

RE: Week 39 - Futures F2 (15k) - Falun, Sweden

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Slabba & his Ukrainian ( wink

) doubles partner, Denys Molchanov, the second seeds, lost their QF match (they had a bye in R1) to the unranked Swedish pair, Figueroa & Nord, 5 & 2, but as Molchanov (5) had retired earlier from his singles match against Rickard Holmstrom (SWE) at 0-6 1-2, it's probably not entirely unexpected. In fact, I'd expected a walkover...

Sheddie · administrator

Apparently the guy was a cannonball server so was a little tricky. He was two breaks down in the 1st set and then a break down in the 3rd so had to come from behind !

all the swedes there have quite decent games so there'll be no underestimating tomorrow's opponent

-- Edited by The Shedman at 09:49, 2008-09-24

Drew · Sep 23, 2008

The Shedman wrote:

Apparently the guy was a cannonball server so was a little tricky. He was two breaks down in the 1st set and then a break down in the 1st so had to come from behind !

all the swedes there have quite decent games so there'll be no underestimating tomorrow's opponent

Two breaks in the first...and then a break down in the first ?

Do you mean a break down in the second also ?

steven · Tennis legend

Slabba must be counting his lucky stars here - 2nd round against the winner of unranked WC v unranked Q, the other seed in his quarter retired from his R1 match against another unranked qualifier ... I've seen worse draws!

Sheddie · administrator

lol typing too fast, he was a break down in the 3rd

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Huuari was a tricky draw, so at least he won the match, and now hopefully he can move through the next 2 rounds easily, as that is a good a draw as you can possibly get.

Sheddie · administrator

Easier today for Slabba.....a 7-6, 6-2 win sees him into the quarters

john · Top national player

Nice one Slabba, should move comfortably into the semis now. Anyone tried the livestream out this year yet? Was Slabba on it today?

James · Satellite level

No unfortunately not, so far all of his matches have been on court 2 whilst the livestream court is 3. I've been watching it on and off though for the past couple of days and all considered the quality is great..

Sheddie · administrator

Alex said the 7-6, 6-2 win today was one of the toughest matches he's had in ages.....in difficulty he felt it was similar to facing Kunitsyn but today he played a lot better than against the Russian a couple of weeks ago, one of his best matches of recent

The Swede was a baseliner with big shots off both sides, not a big serve but just very, very good from the back, hitting the corners with hard, flat groundies.

He got broken twice in set 1 but came back and played a great second set

He'll need to produce similar against Goransson tomorrow who's also good, has made a futures final and two semis this summer in Eastern Europe and won his first 2 comfortably.

Unfortunately the scheduling has been a little w*nky, all the quarter-finals tomorrow are on courts 1 and 2....and the webcam is on court 3 !

steven · Tennis legend

The Shedman wrote:
Unfortunately the scheduling has been a little w*nky, all the quarter-finals tomorrow are on courts 1 and 2....and the webcam is on court 3 !

If the LTA ever set up a webcam, what's the betting they'd manage that sort of scheduling every day. ashamed

Maybe the Swedes will move the webcam tomorrow.

Sheddie · administrator

I have emailed the Swedes and they have promised to move the webcam to ct 2

James · Satellite level

Well done Sheddie! How's your swedish?

steven · Tennis legend

Väl gjort Skjulbesätta!

(that'd be "Well done Shedman" in Swedish

)