Week 44 - ATP 1000 - BNP Paribas Masters, Paris (indoor hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 44 - ATP 1000 - BNP Paribas Masters, Paris (indoor hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Ali has lost the first set 7-6(3)
Don't you mean 6-7(3), CD?

No, that's just how you and some folk would say it. CD does it that way ( as do I and some others ). It's unambiguous either way with "Ali has lost ..."

We've been here before

indiana · Tennis legend

Personally, I don't say football teams lost 1-3 and I don't say tennis players, albeit talking about our own, lost 6-7.

Anyway, each to their own

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 1st of November 2015 02:36:52 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Aljaz redresses the balance, bagging the second set by 6-2 to take the match into a decider.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Ali has lost the first set 7-6(3)
Don't you mean 6-7(3), CD?
[...] to me, it's not right and seems really weird

Sorry, but to me it seems equally weird, not to mention illogical, to do it the way you do it!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, I can see that.

But it's the way tennis federations insist you record it.

So it's ingrained and standard. Hence, I prefer it/am used to it like that.

But we can all agree that Ali is one set-all now

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Personally, I don't say football teams lost 1-3 and I don't say tennis players, albeit talking about our own, lost 6-7.

Anyway, each to their own

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 1st of November 2015 02:36:52 PM

Yes. Not wishing to prolong it ..... but it's interesting that I think everyone would say 'Chelsea got hammered five nil' and never say 'Chelsea lost nil five'.

So the logic would/should/could be the same for tennis matches.

Seems so to me.

But I can see the other way round.

indiana · Tennis legend

And as has been mentioned before the player activity records in the ATP and WTA sites have the ATP doing it one way ( relevant player score first ) and the WTA ( the other, the good way, I mean winner score first ).

indiana · Tennis legend

*5-5, and Aljaz starts the next game with his 19th ace.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Aljaz qualifies! biggrin Have to say I feared that JJ might just get the better of him! That said, there was a flurry of service breaks at the end of the third set, including when Aljaz served for the match at 5-3!

FQR: (q1) Aljaz Bedene WR 48 defeated (q7) Jerzy Janowicz (POL) WR 60 by 6-7(3) 6-2 7-5

He'll face a fellow qualifier, Big Ivo, GGL, Dimi or Mahut (WC) in the first round of the main draw.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yay, Aljaz breaks for 7-5, game, set and match

Into the main draw ...

Jan · Hall of fame

Hooray!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Aljaz qualifies! Have to say I feared that JJ might just get the better of him! That said, there was a flurry of service breaks at the end of the third set, including when Aljaz served for the match at 5-3!
FQR: (q1) Aljaz Bedene WR 48 defeated (q7) Jerzy Janowicz (POL) WR 60 by 6-7(3) 6-2 7-5
He'll face a fellow qualifier, Big Ivo, GGL, Dimi or Mahut (WC) in the first round of the main draw.

And it's a fellow qualifier:

L64: (Q) Marcel Granollers (ESP) WR 87 (CH = 19 in July 2012) vs (Q) Aljaz Bedene WR 48

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

YAY! I couldn't follow this, or the Fedal Basel final, because I fell fast asleep at about 2pm after a very bad night. I didn't mean to do it, but there you are.

Very well done by Aljaz, I have to admit I didn't think there was much hope against Janowicz - but as he is a guy I just can't like, I'm doubly delighted

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Aljaz qualifies! Have to say I feared that JJ might just get the better of him! That said, there was a flurry of service breaks at the end of the third set, including when Aljaz served for the match at 5-3!
FQR: (q1) Aljaz Bedene WR 48 defeated (q7) Jerzy Janowicz (POL) WR 60 by 6-7(3) 6-2 7-5
He'll face a fellow qualifier, Big Ivo, GGL, Dimi or Mahut (WC) in the first round of the main draw.
And it's a fellow qualifier:
L64: (Q) Marcel Granollers (ESP) WR 87 (CH = 19 in July 2012) vs (Q) Aljaz Bedene WR 48

And the winner of that match gets John Isner.