Week 7 - ATP 250 - Marseille, France - Indoor Hard

babybean · Junior player

RE: Week 7 - ATP 250 - Marseille, France - Indoor Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Hmm, interesting scheduling that that one QF is a day later ...

Jan · Hall of fame

Slightly late as I've been away, but thanks Bob for your insights and well done on the travelling!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Hmm, interesting scheduling that that one QF is a day later ...

My thoughts exactly!

babybean · Junior player

As a relative newbie , a question for you all. If you are injured/have a niggle, are you allowed to ask for a delay in your match...or was this really scheduled a day later than all the other QF's?

wolf · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
On a completely different note, as you know my opinions of internet connectivity in France are not very high to say the least. Whilst at the tournament, their Wifi was a joke - even with the players login and password. It simply didn't exist on court 1 and everywhere else it was very poor. You would literally log in to go to a web page, and as soon as you clicked to go to a different page you had to log in again. People were having to go through the login process 20-30 times per day. It meant that my onsite reporting was severely limited and I usually had to go back to the hotel to type anything.

The only plus that has come out of this is that for the rest of my life, I will never ever forget how to spell the word "Joueur" in French.
The Wifi was shocking in Budapest as well, basically impossible once there was more than 50 people trying to use it, and trying to send a picture with a tweet.......well, in fact my phone managed to delete a photo I'd taken of JoKo after her win against Liechtenstein whilst trying to tweet it, SO FRUSTRATING. The only option really is to take out a data-roaming package out, if you can be BOTHERED and of course to fork out the cash.

First world problems...

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Pretty generous calling France as First World. A country full of idle socialist lunatics (allegedly).

-- Edited by Jeff Stelling on Thursday 19th of February 2015 11:39:05 PM

Spectator · All-time great

First world problems...

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Indeed! And in more ways than one. I've found that the connectivity (wifi and general mobile phone coverage) in some non-"first-world" venues/cities can be far superior to that in many places in the UK and France.

-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 19th of February 2015 11:40:45 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Re asking for a delay for your match if you have an injury / niggle, no doubt sone might try asking. But I would have thought that any player's injury / niggle situation should have no effect on the schedule once the tournament is underway - just seems to me a bit dodgy and unfair to opponents if otherwise.

I think players can and do request late starts for their opening matches, more partucularly if coming from another say tournament final, not sure about injuries / niggles.

Anyway, I don't know the schedule facts in this case, so just raising the proverbial eyebrow. But like babybean I would be interested in what the general rules / guidelines are and any facts known for this case.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

babybean wrote:
As a relative newbie , a question for you all. If you are injured/have a niggle, are you allowed to ask for a delay in your match...or was this really scheduled a day later than all the other QF's?

I don't know what the rules are specifically but I am sure that commercial factors are also taken into consideration in situations like this - rightly or wrongly. With PHH and Mahut just coming off the back of their run to the AO Final and being local favourites, I am sure that schedules will be structured in such a way that they have every chance of competing rather than just giving a W/O. I am also sure that if push came to shove, the schedulers could argue that putting them on today was "always the plan anyway".

paulisi · Tennis legend

I know for ITF events, the schedule is pretty much preset and anyone playing doubles on the same day generally gets an earlier start.

For tour events they normally stagger the early singles rounds to allow people who are travelling or who have played deep the previous week. Doubles seems to be a bit of a lottery.

babybean · Junior player

And after all that speculation - the French duo have withdrawn, and Colin and Jonny have a walkover into the semis!

indiana · Tennis legend

Ah, it's kinda difficult to schedule a doubles QF any later than the Friday.

Seems pretty clear there was a fitness struggle, but an effort being made to make it, by the time it took to withdraw.

babybean · Junior player

Could they reschedule this semi for later today? Apart from the fact that Thiem is playing in the singles?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Colin Fleming & Jonny Marray CR 135 (76+59) "defeated" (1) Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Nicolas Mahut (FRA/FRA) CR 50 (30+20) by a walkover biggrin

*****

SF: Colin Fleming & Jonny Marray CR 135 (76+59) vs Lukas Rosol & Dominic Thiem (CZE/AUT) CR 302 (46+256)

It will be interesting to see how the boys fare against the Austro-Czech combo, which accounted for Messrs Golubev & Istomin in three yesterday. In fact, yesterday was a good day for young Herr Thiem: he went through to the quarter-finals of the singles when David Goffin (6) retired at 1-5 down!