Week 40 - ITF M25 - Sheffield, Great Britain (indoor hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Week 40 - ITF M25 - Sheffield, Great Britain (indoor hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Arthur Féry WR 656 defeated (4) Daniel Cox WR 398 by 3 & 2 biggrin bleh

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Arthur Féry WR 656 defeated (4) Daniel Cox WR 398 by 3 & 2

Wow thats a comfortable with for Arthur. Im going to say he will reach the final this week. Maybe win it.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Anton lost in three

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (3) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) WR 350 defeated Anton Matusevich WR 680 by 6-3 4-6 6-2

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (3) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) WR 350 defeated Anton Matusevich WR 680 by 6-3 4-6 6-2

That is a shame - I thought Anton would run him close and it was 3 sets but looks like the experienced Indian went away at the end

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (3) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) WR 350 defeated Anton Matusevich WR 680 by 6-3 4-6 6-2

L16: (7) Mili Poljicak (CRO) WR 516 defeated (Q) George Loffhagen WR 1701 by 4-6 6-4 6-3 hmm

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

George put up a decent show

The bits I saw were good tennis

BUT he stands too far back - he always did, even as a junior - used to drive me mad

And he still does

It makes him very vulnerable to drop shots, which killed him in this match, or any short angles

But still promising overall, showing most definitely a level way better than his current ranking

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Giles Hussey WR 547 vs (8) Karl Friberg (SWE) WR 489
No prizes for guessing which way that one's going to go.
Giles for the upset.

Bob called it correctly! biggrin

L16: Giles Hussey WR 547 defeated (8) Karl Friberg (SWE) WR 489 by 3 & 3

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yeh

Enjoyed that - and watching Brady/Erhard too

Giles deserved it - every Swede must get mashed at some point....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Pat Brady was unlucky not to at least force a TB in the first set, which he lost 5-7

Got to a second set one.

Went 0-4 down instantly

Managed to turn at 2-4 (my "always get the point before you turn" adage

)

Lucky point for Erhard, to make it 2-5

And then Pat won the next 5 points !!!!

Partly well played, partly coz Erhard took the risk of a service winner at 5-5 and ended up with a double fault.

But overall a nice two sets of tennis - and all to play for in the third - mentally, Pat will be more on the up but Erhard has some really nice tennis too, if he can keep his head in this

(NB nice to hear Pat has a couple of vocal supporters too

)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (3) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) WR 350 defeated Anton Matusevich WR 680 by 6-3 4-6 6-2
L16: (7) Mili Poljicak (CRO) WR 516 defeated (Q) George Loffhagen WR 1701 by 4-6 6-4 6-3

L16: (5) Mathys Erhard (FRA) WR 399 defeated (WC) Patrick Brady WR 1249 by 7-5 6-7(5) 6-3 hmm

paulisi · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Giles Hussey WR 547 vs (8) Karl Friberg (SWE) WR 489
No prizes for guessing which way that one's going to go.
Giles for the upset.
Bob called it correctly!
L16: Giles Hussey WR 547 defeated (8) Karl Friberg (SWE) WR 489 by 3 & 3

Still needs to get past Ali Gray if he wants to make top 500

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Giles Hussey WR 547 vs (8) Karl Friberg (SWE) WR 489
No prizes for guessing which way that one's going to go.
Giles for the upset.
Bob called it correctly!
L16: Giles Hussey WR 547 defeated (8) Karl Friberg (SWE) WR 489 by 3 & 3
Still needs to get past Ali Gray if he wants to make top 500

Or get past Ewan Moore

As said yesterday, he's playing very well at the minute

One set all....

The obvious money is on Ali, he's serving first and rankings talk

But he's being pushed...

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

George Houghton had two match points in the TB - the first one he'll be absolutely kicking himself over....

Into a third....

Similarly, Ewan had two break points in the middle of the third - which has had hardly any break opportunities bar that one - and the first point he got SO confused and befuddled - gave the point to Ali....