Week 48 - Futures F2 (15K) - Fujairah, UAE

Shhh · Challenger level

RE: Week 48 - Futures F2 (15K) - Fujairah, UAE

steven · Tennis legend

Today's results, still showing 17 Nov rankings because the ATP still hasn't published the correct 24 Nov ones.

L32: Jonathan Kinsella WR 961 beat (WC) Ali-Sherif al Marzooqi (UAE) UNR (CH 1345 in 2003) by 2 & 0

L32: (5) Chris Eaton WR 386 beat (Q) Mark Verryth (AUS) UNR by 5 & 2 smile

L32: (Q) Burnham Arlidge WR 887 v Tobias Klein (GER) WR 974 - Tuesday
L32: (2) James Ward WR 291 v (Q) Oliver Borsos (HUN) UNR - Tuesday

L16: Jonathan Kinsella WR 961 v (7) Denis Molchanov (UKR) WR 453
L16: (5) Chris Eaton WR 386 v Alexander Jakupovic (GRE) WR 489

Burnham is now on the ATP draw as well as the ITF draw (though Smidster was right about Chiudinelli, who was a DA on the original list, being in his place on the ATP draw this morning) and is shown as an LL, so I think he really is playing after all, and as Craven says, he's on the OoP for tomorrow too. smile

steven · Tennis legend

Shhh wrote:
Where are you getting the OOP from? My ATP page for challengers and futures is stuck at two weeks ago, is that the same for everyone or is it just my PC?

Mine's stuck at a week ago and if I click on the "next week" tab, UAE F2 isn't there yet, so I assumed that people had been clicking the link on the top 25 table, where I 'guessed' what the tournament code number would be.

Is that how Smidster and Craven got to the main draw that didn't have Burnham in it earlier (i.e. assume because it hadn't been update after Chiudinelli's w/d) and the OoP respectively? It's the only way I can get there at the moment.

Craven91 · Lower Club Player

Press F5 on when you get on challenger and futures page and it will update

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Eaton & Ward must have felt they'd had their fingers burnt twice too often in the UAE doubles, as only Arlidge & Jonny K are playing this week - & they've only gone & drawn the Ukrainian top seeds, Denys Molchanov & Ivan Sergeyev!

Molchanov was also the top seed last week, though playing then with a Kazazh partner, Alexey Kedryuk, & they did for Arlidge & Kinsella 1 & 1 in the SFs. (The title, however, went to the unseeded Chiudinelli & Klec! wink

)! Better luck this week, fellas!

steven · Tennis legend

Craven91 wrote:

Press F5 on when you get on challenger and futures page and it will update

... and it did, thank you! I don't understand why it got stuck without doing that, but it's nice to get it fixed anyway

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

johnnylad wrote:

Klein bt Ward last week.

He's turning into something of a serial Brit-basher: he beat Arlidge by 1 & 1!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

First bit of good news of the day from the UAE: James Ward stuffed Oliver Borsos (HUN) by 1 & 4 & will play the Ukrainian, Alexsandr Agafonov (WR 956), in Round 2. Surely a place in the QFs beckons...

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I Klein is one of those players Arka used to like to call "underranked" - kind of like Jonny Marray when he was coming back from injury

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:

[...] only Arlidge & Jonny K are playing this week - & they've only gone & drawn the Ukrainian top seeds, Denys Molchanov & Ivan Sergeyev! [...] Better luck this week, fellas!

It wasn't to be: they duly got stuffed 4 & 2! cry

Few more games than last week, though... wink

-- Edited by Stircrazy at 13:28, 2008-11-25

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Wardy back on track

Couple more wins should guarantee a spot in AO qualies methinks

helki · Futures qualifying

All our guys on court tomorrow. JW up first at 10.00 local time, 06.00 GMT, *eek* on court 1, Jonny K against the 7th seed, same time but on court 4, and Chris on 4, not before 11.00 local time. Will we have three through to the QFs?

-- Edited by helki at 19:47, 2008-11-25

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Mixed news from the UAE:

Jonny K dumped out Molchanov (7) 6-2, 2-6 6-1 ( biggrin

) and Ward did for Agafonov 6-2 6-7(6) 6-0 ( smile

), but Chris Eaton crashed out 0 & 2 against Jakupovic, rather offsetting the upset of the Kinsella result - very bad loss for him! cry

QF: (3) Ivo Klec (SVK) WR 361 v Jonathan Kinsella WR 961
QF: Mohammed Ghareeb (KUW) WR 521 v (2) James Ward WR 291

Edited in: P.S. On a day of shocks all round, in the top half of the draw (Jonny's), Laurent Rochette (FRA/WR 756, but a PR), thrashed the Russian top seed, Pavel Chekhov (WR 274) by 2 & 2, while James's QF opponent, Ghareeb, did for the 8th seed, Insausti (FRA/WR 484) by 2 & 5! I'd like to think that puts Chris' defeat into some kind of perspective...

-- Edited by Stircrazy at 13:04, 2008-11-26

Vandenburg · Futures level

a title for ward to end the year would be good result
and he still reamins my fav to be british number 2 next year.........
your thoughts guys.

steven · Tennis legend

That's a really good win for Jonny and should take him into the top 900 on Monday week.

A bad loss for Chris, but then again if he had qualified for Wimby but got a tougher draw in R1, he'd be just outside the top 500 (i.e. lower-ranked than the player who beat him) now, so maybe it's not such a shock. The real shock is how he hasn't managed to push on at all since Wimbledon despite it getting him seeded for some of these events - what a waste. cry

He's got another half year left to capitalise on the boost he gave himself at Wimby, of course, but ideally I'd have liked to see him take his chance in the 6 months just past, which has more tournaments on the faster surfaces that ought to suit him.