Week 13 - ITF M25 - Mysuru, India (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 13 - ITF M25 - Mysuru, India (hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Oh, for pity's sake
The second seed, now the top seed...
Blinkin ridiculous!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Nam (as wiki refers to him) has a Wimbledon Junior Doubles title to his name, in 2015, beating Opelka.

He has won a fair few Futures level events, largely in Asia,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BD_Ho%C3%A0ng_Nam

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I dislike the poor man more and more

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

or you can just go out there and win it !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeh for Georgie !

Beats the top seed, ranked 245

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

L32: George Loffhagen (GBR) WR 702 def. (1) Ly Nam Hoang (VIE) WR 245 6-3 6-4

Really good dominant display - led by excellent serving

But, George, from your oldest forum fan - please - when you've got the upper hand, and you get a break point, don't just go for silly, flamboyant shots (which go out, by a mile, obviously) - the other guy is stressed, make him suffer, he'll give you a short ball if you wait a couple more shots

George had second break points, in two other games in the second set, and blew them badly. In the end it didn't matter - but it made the end of the set far tenser than it needed to have been. He wasn't that far off getting broken back. Got a tad lucky, tbh, in the final game to hold and close out the match

Apart from that, friggin' brilliant

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
L32: George Loffhagen (GBR) WR 702 def. (1) Ly Nam Hoang (VIE) WR 245 6-3 6-4

Really good dominant display - led by excellent serving

But, George, from your oldest forum fan - please - when you've got the upper hand, and you get a break point, don't just go for silly, flamboyant shots (which go out, by a mile, obviously) - the other guy is stressed, make him suffer, he'll give you a short ball if you wait a couple more shots

George had second break points, in two other games in the second set, and blew them badly. In the end it didn't matter - but it made the end of the set far tenser than it needed to have been. He wasn't that far off getting broken back. Got a tad lucky, tbh, in the final game to hold and close out the match

Apart from that, friggin' brilliant

Would love to know if George reads this forum - and takes your advice wink

If you do read here George, congrats on an excellent win today. Top 500 should be your next target.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
L32: George Loffhagen (GBR) WR 702 def. (1) Ly Nam Hoang (VIE) WR 245 6-3 6-4

Really good dominant display - led by excellent serving

But, George, from your oldest forum fan - please - when you've got the upper hand, and you get a break point, don't just go for silly, flamboyant shots (which go out, by a mile, obviously) - the other guy is stressed, make him suffer, he'll give you a short ball if you wait a couple more shots

George had second break points, in two other games in the second set, and blew them badly. In the end it didn't matter - but it made the end of the set far tenser than it needed to have been. He wasn't that far off getting broken back. Got a tad lucky, tbh, in the final game to hold and close out the match

Apart from that, friggin' brilliant

Delighted to see that unexpected result! His reward is a Korean qualifier in the next round:

L16: George Loffhagen WR 702 vs (Q) Shin Woobin (KOR) WR 1068 (CH = 1042 last November)

Should be a doddle...

miriam abc · Strong Club Player

Stircrazy wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
L32: George Loffhagen (GBR) WR 702 def. (1) Ly Nam Hoang (VIE) WR 245 6-3 6-4

Really good dominant display - led by excellent serving

But, George, from your oldest forum fan - please - when you've got the upper hand, and you get a break point, don't just go for silly, flamboyant shots (which go out, by a mile, obviously) - the other guy is stressed, make him suffer, he'll give you a short ball if you wait a couple more shots

George had second break points, in two other games in the second set, and blew them badly. In the end it didn't matter - but it made the end of the set far tenser than it needed to have been. He wasn't that far off getting broken back. Got a tad lucky, tbh, in the final game to hold and close out the match

Apart from that, friggin' brilliant
Delighted to see that unexpected result! His reward is a Korean qualifier in the next round:
L16: George Loffhagen WR 702 vs (Q) Shin Woobin (KOR) WR 1068 (CH = 1042 last November)
Should be a doddle...

A further reason for his win is that he never allowed his opponent to get a single break point let alone win one, well done George.

Priesty · Challenger level

Stircrazy wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
L32: George Loffhagen (GBR) WR 702 def. (1) Ly Nam Hoang (VIE) WR 245 6-3 6-4

Really good dominant display - led by excellent serving

But, George, from your oldest forum fan - please - when you've got the upper hand, and you get a break point, don't just go for silly, flamboyant shots (which go out, by a mile, obviously) - the other guy is stressed, make him suffer, he'll give you a short ball if you wait a couple more shots

George had second break points, in two other games in the second set, and blew them badly. In the end it didn't matter - but it made the end of the set far tenser than it needed to have been. He wasn't that far off getting broken back. Got a tad lucky, tbh, in the final game to hold and close out the match

Apart from that, friggin' brilliant
Delighted to see that unexpected result! His reward is a Korean qualifier in the next round:
L16: George Loffhagen WR 702 vs (Q) Shin Woobin (KOR) WR 1068 (CH = 1042 last November)
Should be a doddle...

Yes, I expect George will give his next opponent a good kicking wink

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Priesty wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
L32: George Loffhagen (GBR) WR 702 def. (1) Ly Nam Hoang (VIE) WR 245 6-3 6-4

Really good dominant display - led by excellent serving

But, George, from your oldest forum fan - please - when you've got the upper hand, and you get a break point, don't just go for silly, flamboyant shots (which go out, by a mile, obviously) - the other guy is stressed, make him suffer, he'll give you a short ball if you wait a couple more shots

George had second break points, in two other games in the second set, and blew them badly. In the end it didn't matter - but it made the end of the set far tenser than it needed to have been. He wasn't that far off getting broken back. Got a tad lucky, tbh, in the final game to hold and close out the match

Apart from that, friggin' brilliant
Delighted to see that unexpected result! His reward is a Korean qualifier in the next round:
L16: George Loffhagen WR 702 vs (Q) Shin Woobin (KOR) WR 1068 (CH = 1042 last November)
Should be a doddle...
Yes, I expect George will give his next opponent a good kicking

Like that !

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

First set George 6-0.

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

George wins 6-0 6-1.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Only saw 5 mins of that - didn't seem much point giving much time to it

Nice job, George

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And it WAS a doddle:

L16: George Loffhagen WR 702 defeated (Q) Shin Woobin (KOR) WR 1068 by 0 & 1 smile

*****

QF: George Loffhagen WR 702 vs Karan Singh (IND) WR 915 (CH = 903 last month)

The Indian beat the seventh seed, Rawat (WR 596), in his last 16 match.