Spiel des Tages

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

RE: Week 5 - Futures F5 ($15K+H) - Germany

jezzauk · Lower Club Player

Silver wrote:

Great stuff from Jonny, good to see him back winning like this! I would say it'd be nice to see him in Nottingham this year again BUT IT DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE.

The Open, that is, not the city... it still exists. Somehow.

*WITTY REMARK*

funny you should say that, last time i looked it was just white, all white, everywhere, a bit like when the island in 'lost' vanished.

Grundon · Intermediate Club Player

Sadly Jonny lost 2-6 6-7(3) to Reister

Grundon · Intermediate Club Player

Also a w/o in the doubles gave the Romanians the title

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Wonder if he was injured then? Making good progress though on his comeback trail.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Pity Jonny drew a complete blank today. Like goldfish, I sincerely hope that the fact that the Romanians had a walkover in the doubles doesn't mean that he's picked up another injury. hmm

Just for the record, the singles final was billed (unsurprisingly) as the match of the day on the German Tennis Federation's page for the tournament & was very complimentary about Jonny:

Spiel des Tages

08.02.09: MARRAY (GBR) vs. Julian REISTER (GER)

Im heutigen Finale stehen sich Jonathan MARRAY (GBR) und Julian REISTER (GER) gegenüber.

MARRAY überzeugte die ganze Turnierwoche in Nussloch mit klassischem und sehr elegantem Serve-and-Volley und bezwang auf dem Weg ins Finale unter anderem den an Position 1 gesetzten Joshua GOODALL.

REISTER seinerseits zog mit souveränen Siegen ohne Probleme ins Finale ein und begeisterte die Zuschauer in all seinen Matches.

Da sich beide Finalisten neben ihren tollen Leistungen auf dem Platz sich auch abseits äusserst sympathisch präsentierten, wünscht das Team des MLP-Cups beiden Akteuren viel Erfolg und den Zuschauern ein spannendes und faires Finale!

For those who don't read German, here's an unofficial translation (apologies for the slightly purple prose - ashamed - but I thought it was worth passing on for Jonny's sake!):

"Match of the day

Jonathan Marray and Julian Reister face one another in today's [singles] final.

Marray has impressed all week in this tournament in Nussloch with his classic [the German term could also mean "traditional", but I think that's unlikely] and very elegant serve-and-volley [game] and among the players he beat on his way to the final was the top seed, Joshua Goodall.

Reister made untroubled progress to the final with [a series of] confident victories and thrilled spectators at all his matches.

Since both finalists came over as very likeable, in addition to performing so well on court, the MLP Cup team wishes them every success and the spectators a fair and exciting final."

James · Satellite level

As a student of German I give your translation my stamp of approval Lynne wink

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, full marks from me too - very impressive, and well worth translating.

steven · Tennis legend

Neil Harman has now jumped into the "Marray should be in the DC playoffs" camp too:

From another wide-ranging 'Net Post' today - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article5691421.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2 :

Davis Cup travesty

Should not Jonny Marray, arguably among Britain's finest fast court players, have been included in the Davis Cup play-off at the NTC later this month for the tie against Ukraine in March?

Marray serves and volleys like no other (on almost every point), he is playing well again and yesterday, reached the final of a $15,000 ATP hard court futures in Germany.

En route to the final, the Yorkshireman defeated Josh Goodall, the top seed in the event, whose name does appear in six who will cross swords for the right to be Andy Murray's No 2 in Glasgow. The selection process for Britain's one-off play-off is beginning to look a trifle ****-eyed.

It won't surprise anyone but a newbieh here that I agree with this assessment, but of course, Jonny hadn't played this year when JL selected the playoff six - that's because he kept on going until late last year.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Thanks, chaps. Nice to know I haven't totally lost my professional touch, even after several years of unused German translation skills! smile

* I'll second OEM's sentiments. wink

indiana · Tennis legend

Whatever "****" was in Neil Harman's report, thare are quite a few variations of "****" with varying hidden letters that I would use to describe John Lloyd and his whole Davis Cup (non ) selection process that is starting to unravel well before it even gets underway !!

-- Edited by indiana at 00:26, 2009-02-10