Week 3 - Challenger 125 (€132,280) - Istanbul, Turkey (indoor hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

RE: Week 3 - Challenger 125 (€132,280) - Istanbul, Turkey (indoor hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

tight, but the Lloyd + pairing got the first set on a TB,

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Ahead 5-3 in 2nd set, would be a good win over the top seeds and another final...if.

Go on Lloyd!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: Lloyd Glasspool & Harri Heliövaara (FIN) CR 259 (151+108) defeated (1) Jonathan Erlich & Andrei Vasilevski (ISR/BLR) CR 157 (70+87) by 7-6(5) 6-3

*****

Final: Lloyd Glasspool & Harri Heliövaara (FIN) CR 259 (151+108) vs (2) André Göransson & David Pel (SWE/NED) CR 177 (91+86)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Excellent win and a good week, beating the 4th and 1st seeds. With the 2nd seeds (as SC points out) in the final, it would be a great week if they can win this and, also, bring Lloyd that long awaited title!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Excellent win and a good week, beating the 4th and 1st seeds. With the 2nd seeds (as SC points out) in the final, it would be a great week if they can win this and, also, bring Lloyd that long awaited title!

75 points & 2,285 euros apiece now guaranteed. biggrin

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

1 set all for Lloyd 6-4 3-6 mtb about to start. Come on!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Excellent win and a good week, beating the 4th and 1st seeds. With the 2nd seeds (as SC points out) in the final, it would be a great week if they can win this and, also, bring Lloyd that long awaited title!
75 points & 2,285 euros apiece now guaranteed.

Sadly, still no title for Lloyd:

Final: (2) André Göransson & David Pel (SWE/NED) CR 177 (91+86) defeated Lloyd Glasspool & Harri Heliövaara (FIN) CR 259 (151+108) by 4-6 6-3 [10-8] hmm

It was Harri who droppped his service in the eighth game of the second set & effectively handed it to the second seeds. They led by *7-5 at one point in the CTB, too. Still a good week for him.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And another one gets away from Lloyd.

Not a bad tiebreak (although what on earth was Lloyd doing at 1-2 - leaving a real easy ball for his partner to play a far more difficult shot.....)

And they were 7-5 up.

But the others took control at the key stage. 8-10. Shame.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Is Lloyd bottling it in these finals, its not just this one partner and its , what, 6 or 7 tight finals now.

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Thats 6 finals in 9 tournaments I think without a title. Hopefully one is on its way.

Hoppy · Junior player

Wow, nice!

Hoppy · Junior player

JonH comes home wrote:
Is Lloyd bottling it in these finals, its not just this one partner and its , what, 6 or 7 tight finals now.

Ouch!

Definitely not

indiana · Tennis legend

Definitely not ?

Hopefully not. But, whatever, it's certainly an unfortunate sequence. The doubles talent is clearly there to play a big part in getting to so many finals with some very good looking wins along the way. So by whatever means, including change in mindset if required, I really hope that a title arrives soon, and then that others folliw.

emmsie69 · Top national player

indiana wrote:
Definitely not ?

Hopefully not. But, whatever, it's certainly an unfortunate sequence. The doubles talent is clearly there to play a big part in getting to so many finals with some very good looking wins along the way. So by whatever means, including change in mindset if required, I really hope that a title arrives soon, and then that others folliw.

Possibly but with a tiebreak in the final set you only have to 'bottle it' on 1 point and you're toast. I think finals should remain best of 3 rather than a tiebreak but I'm not a fan of them as a final set anyway.