Week 25 - ITF M15 - Raanana, Israel (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 25 - ITF M15 - Raanana, Israel (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Brandon Murphy WR 1279 defeated (8) Daniil Glinka (EST) WR 871 by 1 & 5 biggrin

*****

QF: (1) Edan Leshem (ISR) WR 560 (CH = 249 in December 2017) vs Brandon Murphy WR 1279

That's probably the end of the road for Brandon.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nice one, Brandon

As said, he's definitely under-ranked and should be about ATP 750 at the moment, in my mind, with good upside potential but needs more experience and matches at this level.

Agree with SC - the next one is a big ask - but you never know.....

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (1) Giles Hussey & Ben Jones CR 1158 (756+402) defeated Joshua Luck & Ryuki Matsuda (RSA/JPN) CR 2859 (1720+1139) by 5 & 2

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
QF: (1) Giles Hussey & Ben Jones CR 1158 (756+402) defeated Joshua Luck & Ryuki Matsuda (RSA/JPN) CR 2859 (1720+1139) by 5 & 2

SF: (1) Giles Hussey & Ben Jones CR 1158 (756+402) vs Eyal Shyovitz & Gur Trakhtenberg (ISR/ISR) UNR

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Brandon played a really bad match :(

He lost 2-6 5-7

In the first set, he served really poorly (again). A low first serve percentage, lots missing my miles, and the Edan was cruising.

The start of the second set was close - up to 2-2.

And then the Israeli had a complete collapse - out of nowhere - served double faults, couldnt' get the ball in the court - just a collapse

Brandon was serving well and he absolutely had him

But on set points, on second serves, he didn't even make his opponent play the ball, when you could see that the guy was having a panic attack at even having to hit a ball

He missed all his first serves again, and basically let him back in.

It was a real lack of lucidity.

And then got cross himself - and that was the end of that :(

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 24th of June 2022 10:54:27 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Giles Hussey & Ben Jones CR 1158 (756+402) def. Eyal Shyovitz & Gur Trakhtenberg (ISR/ISR) UNR 7-5 6-2

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Final: (1) Giles Hussey & Ben Jones CR 1158 (756+402) vs Robin Catry & Timothy Gray (FRA/AUS) CR 4073 (1975+2198)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Final: (1) Giles Hussey & Ben Jones CR 1158 (756+402) def. Robin Catry & Timothy Gray (FRA/AUS) CR 4073 (1975+2198) 6-4 6-2

Nix · Futures level

CD do you know much about Brandon's history? He doesn't seem to have played much in ITF juniors?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nix wrote:
CD do you know much about Brandon's history? He doesn't seem to have played much in ITF juniors?

I PM-ed you, Nix.

I don't really know but I don't think Brandon was in much of a position to play juniors as a youngster.

I am thrilled for him that it seems to be coming good to some degree - he's still very young - I hope he gets to give it a good try.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:

Final: (1) Giles Hussey & Ben Jones CR 1158 (756+402) def. Robin Catry & Timothy Gray (FRA/AUS) CR 4073 (1975+2198) 6-4 6-2

From Steven:

Ra'anana M15 Final: Congratulations to @gileshussey on his 1st ITF World Tour doubles title and to @benpjones98

on his 7th! The top seeds beat Robin Catry FRA & Timothy Gray AUS 4&2 to take the title

Nix · Futures level

Coup Droit wrote:
Nix wrote:
CD do you know much about Brandon's history? He doesn't seem to have played much in ITF juniors?
I PM-ed you, Nix.
I don't really know but I don't think Brandon was in much of a position to play juniors as a youngster.
I am thrilled for him that it seems to be coming good to some degree - he's still very young - I hope he gets to give it a good try.

Thanks CD. It's great to see him and our other young players getting some success!