Mohamed def. Dr.Ivo 7-6(3),6-2!
My first defeat before the final in 8 weeks
It was a good match, but he was very lucky, like i was in our last match...and the key thing is that my partner was TERRIBLE
, but he played a very good match too, so he deserved to win, no doubts about that
I had my chances, set point in the first set, 2-0 in the breaker, and i was a break up in the second, i surely didnt expect to lose it 6-2 after that
We had some really nice rallies and points, he had more net cords than me this time...connection was very bad, pretty annoying glitches at times, we even started the match in the afternoon and decided to continue later due to a horrible connection
1.set...we started of with some tense games, we both had break points in first few games, i dont remember in which games precisely, we played first 6 games in the afternoon...when we continued, he had 2 break points at 3-3, but i managed to save it...then we held easily till 6-5 where i had a set point at 30-40, but his partner hit a 2nd serve ace, my positioning wasnt very good but it was a serve around 190 km/h
We got to the breaker where i played 2 great points to lead 2-0 and then we played a 48 shot rally which, of course, finished by my partner's error...and then he actually screwed up the next 4 points if i remember well...al credit to him, he didnt miss, but my partner did shit
Then another error at 5-2 gave him 4 set points...i saved the first one, but he took the 2nd one
2.set...i started very good, some nice rallies...at 1-1 i broke him, he missed 2 or 3 balls, very good game for me...and from then on, my partned started a masacr
He screwed up the game at 2-1 with some nice errors
...he did aproximatelly the same in the next game although i was missing some balls at the times, but he was untouchable
Then at 3-2, he gained momentum with a good and smart game to break me again, everything headed in the wrong way for me...and then i got to 30-30 or so, i though i'll come back maybe...and then my partner played some genious shots to hand him a 5-2 lead
I couldnt come back anymore and blew up the last game myself, i was totally down
It finished with a net cord unfortunately, he had some of it along the way, but not extreme amount of it...he won some weird lucky points too, but luck should be earned sometimes...when it comes to this close matches, luck is the key sometimes, so it is nothing strange
My partner really did a bunch of errors, i didnt play very good and i made some mistakes and he played pretty good match, his partner too, so nothing to say except congrats, you deserved to win
I have to mention that you are one of the fairest players around here, just keep it up, i enjoy playing with u...maybe not so much today cause of the connection, but anyway
GG and GL against Stan
Posted: 23 Nov 2011, 14:03
GL next year if you play 