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

philwrig · Hall of fame

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

Spectator · All-time great

But he's not any more - ousted by Bautista Agut. All the best to Mr Fleming and Mr Marray. Finals would be very nice; winning the tournament even nicer!

I do hope for both poor Mr Herbert's sake and Mr Mahut's that the former becomes less illness/injury prone (and the latter stays free of illness and injury). Must be so frustrating for them both, these alternating bursts of excellence and inability to play.

RJA · Hall of fame

indiana wrote:
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.

The organisers are not supposed to schedule based on requests of players, apart from when they have travelled from other tournaments, but obviously it does sometimes happen.

In this case playing one of the QFs on a Friday might have happened anyway. ATP guidelines are that 1 doubles SF should be played on Friday but it is frequently the case that 1 of the QFs in the other half are also played on the Friday.

spud · Challenger qualifying

Any streams for the Fleming/Marray match on right now?

They're down an early break 2-3*

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

First set down the pan by 4-6. cry

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Broken to 40 in the opening game of the second...

spud · Challenger qualifying

Winning a lot of points on return but just not managing the break...

...but finally they do!! And they're back in this second set!

4-6 *2-2

-- Edited by spud on Saturday 21st of February 2015 12:04:12 PM

spud · Challenger qualifying

Looks like they have finally found their range with another break, come on lads!

4-6 *4-2

greatunclebulgaria · Lower Club Player

5-2 com'mon boys

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Colin & Jonny redress the balance, taking the second set by 6-3. smile MTB time!

greatunclebulgaria · Lower Club Player

Hate MTB's

greatunclebulgaria · Lower Club Player

7-3 com'mon boys you can do this

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: Colin Fleming & Jonny Marray CR 135 (76+59) defeated Lukas Rosol & Dominic Thiem (CZE/AUT) CR 302 (46+256) by 4-6 6-3 [10-4]

Never in doubt... wink

*****

Final (doesn't that sound good?!! wink ): Colin Fleming & Jonny Marray CR 135 (76+59) vs (2) Marin Draganja & Henri Kontinen (CRO/FIN) CR 73 (24+49)

greatunclebulgaria · Lower Club Player

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

babybean · Junior player

Super result!! And not quite as a nerve shredding MTB as they often are!
Let's just hope for streaming for the final!