Week 43 - ATP 500 - Erste Bank Open, Vienna, Austria (indoor hard)

christ · Futures level

RE: Week 43 - ATP 500 - Erste Bank Open, Vienna, Austria (indoor hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

christ wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Dodig got covid. Marach got Dan.
(Edit - I paraphrase - ct)
That doesn't sound like an equal split!

No but certainly arguable who got the better deal.

flamingowings · All-time great

Stircrazy wrote:
L32: Qualifier vs (SE) Daniel Evans WR 35 (CH = 28 in March)

Not Kyle, obviously but a familiar name all the same to GB players and fans...

L32: (Q) Aljaz Bedene (SLO) WR 52 (CH = 43 March '18) vs (SE) Daniel Evans WR 35 (CH = 28 in March)

-- Edited by flamingowings on Sunday 25th of October 2020 07:01:52 PM

flamingowings · All-time great

Both Bruno Soares and Rajeev Ram lost their qualifying matches.

enrico maria riva
@enricomariariva
Bruno Soares lost to Attila Balasz 62 64 in the Viennas last qualifying round and missed the chance to play his first singles match ever at Atp level

Luckily there was no streaming for this match he told me after the handshake
4:13 pm · 25 Oct 2020·Twitter for iPhone

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

I thought the rule applied to the level of tournament, ie Futures, Challenger, ATP? And no SEs at Grand Slams. I'm sure somebody will be able to correct me.

Here is a question aimed at ultra hardcore tennis pedants: If a low ranked player makes it thru to the QF or SF of an ATP event and this means he can not make it to the qualifying of a Challenger event that he had entered, is the player granted an SE into the main draw of the Challenger? Has this ever happened?

I think that if Dan had taken one of his match points yesterday, he would have won today.

indiana wrote:
stevemcqueen wrote:
It is a shame that the organisers couldn't find space Ugo. I think Dan took preference as his ranking was higher at the entry / cut off date. I thought there were normally 2 SEs though? But I'm really not an expert here, perhaps there are 2 SEs at bigger events.
For whatever reasons there was just one SE place here, and yes Dan no doubt got it when he reached the Antwerp SF, due to being higher on the Vienna entry list than Ugo.
Actually I didn't think SEs normally applied when moving on to higher rated tournaments, eg. ATP 250 to ATP 500, which would have neant no SE spots ar all. But that may be wrong or maybe they are adapting rules a bit in these strange times.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (2) Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 17 (10+7) defeated Grigor Dimitrov & Stan Wawrinka (BUL/SUI) CR 1074 (805+269) by 6-4 3-6 [10-6] smile

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (2) Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 17 (10+7) defeated Grigor Dimitrov & Stan Wawrinka (BUL/SUI) CR 1074 (805+269) by 6-4 3-6 [10-6]

Hung tough, good win over two good singles players!

Armchair · County player

You'd definitely take that win on your bio IN CAPITALS AND BOLD

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Amazing schedule tomorrow for a Tuesday at this level.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Jamie and Neal lose early break to Thiem and Denis Novak. Must win match for our lads.

indiana · Tennis legend

Jamie & Neal came back to win the first set and have just broken in the second.

7-5 *4-2

indiana · Tennis legend

7-5 6-7(1)

MTB ...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (2) Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 17 (10+7) defeated Grigor Dimitrov & Stan Wawrinka (BUL/SUI) CR 1074 (805+269) by 6-4 3-6 [10-6]

L16: Jamie Murray & Neal Skupski CR 52 (25+27) defeated (WC) Dennis Novak & Dominic Thiem (AUT/AUT) CR 541 (433+108) by 7-5 6-7(1) [10-5]

*****

QF: Jamie Murray & Neal Skupski CR 52 (25+27) vs (2) Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 17 (10+7)

the addict · Tennis legend

Phew !

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Haha. What a draw. Semifinalist certain.

What is the h2h between the 2 pairs if any?