[soulage]

Primrose won the interclubs 4-0 they didn't need to play doubles. Win was dedicated to M.Montcourt

I love Benoit "it's too much money for so few matches"

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French Interclubs 2012 / day 1

TC Strasbourg - TC Paris (Indoor carpet )

OOP:

Marinko Matosevic - Vasek Pospisil
Albano Olivetti - Marc Gicquel
Paul-Henri Mathieu - Gilles Simon
Marco Chiudinelli - Simon Greul

First time I see there's an entrance fee (12€) for the RR phase. :/

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Center court and Court 1 were side by side, only separated by a few rows of benches, don't know how the players kept their concentration with the constant announcements from the other match. :/
Anyway, crap day for Paris, Gilou in doubles is as usual >_<

TC Strasbourg - TC Paris : 4-2

Marc Gicquel (TCP) def. Albano Olivetti (TCS) 6/4 6/2
Vasek Pospisil (TCP) def. Marinko Matosevic (TCS) 6/4 6/7 6/2
Simon Greul (TCS) def. Marco Chiudinelli (TCP) 6/3 6/2
Paul-Henri Mathieu (TCS) def. Gilles Simon (TCP) 7/6 4/6 6/4
Greul/Matosevic def. Gicquel/Pospisil 6/7 7/6 10/7
Herbert/Olivetti def. Benneteau/Simon 7/6 4/6 10/7

nb: it wasn't Benny but his little brother Antoine.

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Other day 1 results:

TC Boulogne-Billancourt def. TC Lille 4/2

Jesse Huta Galung (TCBB) def. Kristof Vliegen (TCL) 6/1 6/1
Aljaz Bedene (TCBB) def. Christophe Rochus (TCL) 7/5 6/1
Denis Gremelmayr (TCL) def. Thomas Schoorel (TCBB) 7/6 6/3
Yannick Mertens (TCL) def. Robin Haase (TCBB) 3/6 6/3 6/3
Haase/Bedene def. Kas/Mertens 7/5 6/2
Huta Galung/Navarro Pastor def. Rochus/Gremelmayr 6/4 5/7 10/8


ASPTT Metz def. Grenoble Tennis 4/2

Michael Berrer (ASPTTM) def. Elie Rousset (GT) 5/7 4/6
Nicolas Tourte (GT) def. Julian Reister (ASPTTM) 6/4 4/1 ab.
Boy Westerhof (ASPTTM) def. Filip Prpic (GT) 3/6 7/6 3/6
Philipp Petzschner (ASPTTM) def. Pavol Cervenak (GT) 7/5 4/6 1/6
Tourte/Nys def. Berrer/Westerhof 4/6 6/1 10/8
Petzschner/Begemann def. Cervenak/Delgado 6/2 6/4

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Primrose also lost. Were gifted only won the doubles.

AAS Sarcelles def. Villa Primrose 4/2

Ricardas Berankis (AASS) def. Sergiy Stakhovsky (VP) 6/2 6/2
Malek Jaziri (AASS) def. Laurent Rochette (VP) 6/4 6/7 6/4
Jérémy Chardy (AASS) def. Michael Llodra (VP) 6/4 7/6(8)
Lukasz Kubot (AASS) def. Jan Hernych (VP) 7/5 6/3
Llodra/Stakhovsky def. Chardy/Kubot 6/3 6/4
Jouan/Hernych def. Berankis/Weintraub 6/1 6/2

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Results day 2:

Villa Primrose def. ASPTT Metz : 5-1
Lagardère Paris Racing def. Grenoble Tennis : 6-0
AAS Sarcelles def. US Colomiers : 4-2

TC Lille Métropole def. AS Bondy : 4-2
TC Boulogne Billancourt vs TC Strasbourg : tied 3-3
TC Quimperlé vs TC Paris : tied 3-3

JWT was having an invitational exho not far from Quimperlé at the very same time, might explain the bizarre results there lol. Both Simon and Paire (TC Paris) lost their single match from one set up (Gilou was 5-1 up in the third set )

Even his opponent Grega Zemlja (ATP 54) looked a bit embarrassed. >_<

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Day 3:

Guillermo Garcia Lopez (Strasbourg) def. David Goffin (Lille) 7/5 7/6
Paul Henri Mathieu (Strasbourg) def. Bjorn Phau (Lille) 6/3 6/2
Simon Greul (Strasbourg) def. Olivier Rochus (Lille) 7/6 3/6 6/4

Andrey Golubev (Boulogne Billancourt) def. Charles Antoine Brezac (Quimperlé) 6/2 6/4
Jesse Huta-Galung (Boulogne Billancourt) def. Ludovic Walter (Quimperlé) 7/5 6/1
Grega Zemlja (Quimperlé) def. Aljaz Bedene (Boulogne Billancourt)

Jérémy Chardy (Sarcelles) def. Edouard Roger-Vasselin (Lagardère Paris) 2/6 7/5 6/2
Lukasz Kubot (Sarcelles) def. Josselin Ouanna (Lagardère Paris) 6/3 6/1
Ricardas Berankis (Sarcelles) def. Guillaume Rufin (Lagardère Paris) 6/4 6/2

Benoit Paire (TC Paris) def. Baptiste Dupuy (Bondy) 6/0 6/0
Gilles Simon (TC Paris) def. Ilija Bozoljac (Bondy) 3/6 6/1 6/3
Marco Chiudinelli (TC Paris) def. Philippe Dupuy (Bondy) 6/3 4/6 6/3


TC Paris kept their SF chances alive. Gilou will be leaving on holiday tomorrow though, hopefully Benny or JWT (*dream on*) will replace him in the team for the two remaining RR ties.

[lalaland]

Gilles wasn't that useful to his club, they should be fine without him .

Did Paire change club, he wasn't with TC Paris last year.
So which club won at the end?
Thanks for the info btw.

[soulage]

Originally Posted by lalaland

Gilles wasn't that useful to his club, they should be fine without him .

Did Paire change club, he wasn't with TC Paris last year.
So which club won at the end?
Thanks for the info btw.

Benoit was playing for Bordeaux (Primrose) last year and that this team who won last year.

[turtle-rn]

Originally Posted by lalaland

Gilles wasn't that useful to his club, they should be fine without him .

Well, TC Paris is currently only 4th in their group (i.e not qualified), so they aren't really doing fine; without him onboard, the prospects will hardly look any brighter. Even if the results were not up to expectation, Gilles wasn't playing bad. Aside from his gigantic Novotna moment against Zemlja, he was playing surprisingly agressive and his form was going crescendo. He even won his double match in straights last Saturday. lol

Yep, Benoît was in the enemy's camp last year but he finally $$$aw the light.

[lalaland]

Originally Posted by turtle-rn

Well, TC Paris is currently only 4th in their group (i.e not qualified), so they aren't really doing fine; without him onboard, the prospects will hardly look any brighter. Even if the results were not up to expectation, Gilles wasn't playing bad. Aside from his gigantic Novotna moment against Zemlja, he was playing surprisingly agressive and his form was going crescendo. He even won his double match in straights last Saturday. lol

He won double match without Chardy . Gilles always waits for the off-season to shine j/k.

Originally Posted by soulage

Benoit was playing for Bordeaux (Primrose) last year and that this team who won last year.

Originally Posted by turtle-rn

Yep, Benoît was in the enemy's camp last year but he finally $$$aw the light.

Thanks both for the answers. So Benoit won the trophy last year and won the "prize" this year .

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Day 4:

Paul-Henri Mathieu (Strasbourg) def. Ruben Bemelmans (Bondy) 6/4 7/5
Flavio Cipolla (Bondy) def. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Strasbourg) 7/6 7/6
Simon Greul (Strasbourg) def. Dominik Meffert (Bondy) 6/7 7/6 6/4

Roberto Bautista (Quimperlé) def. David Goffin (Lille) 6/3 3/6 6/1
Charles-Antoine Brezac (Quimperlé) def. Yannick Mertens (Lille) 6/7 7/6 7/6
Mathieu Rodrigues (Quimperlé) def. Christophe Rochus (Lille) 4/6 7/6 4/3 ab.

Ricardas Berankis (Sarcelles) def. Frederik Nielsen (Grenoble) 7/6 7/6
Jérémy Chardy (Sarcelles) def. Pavol Cervenak (Grenoble) 3/6 6/4 6/2
Malek Jaziri (Sarcelles) def. Philip Prpic (Grenoble) 7/5 6/2

Steve Darcis (Primrose) def. Daniel Munoz De La Nava (Colomiers) 6/3 6/3
Michael Llodra (Primrose) def. Daniel Gimeno-Traver (Colomiers) 7/6 6/3
Kenny De Schepper (Colomiers) def. Florent Serra (Primrose) 6/1 7/6

Dustin Brown (Metz) def. Nicolas Renavand (Lagardère Paris) 6/4 6/4
Michael Berrer (Metz) def. Edouard Roger-Vasselin (Lagardère Paris) 4/6 6/3 7/5
Jonathan Eysseric (Lagardère Paris) def. André Begemann (Metz) 6/4 6/3

Vasek Pospisil (TC Paris) def. Lukas Rosol (Boulogne Billancourt) 6/7 7/5 6/4
Andrey Golubev (Boulogne Billancourt) def. Marco Chiudinelli (TC Paris) 6/4 6/2
Benoît Paire (TC Paris) def. Robin Haase (Boulogne Billancourt) 6/4 5/7 6/4
Marc Gicquel (TC Paris) def. Jesse Huta Galung (Boulogne Billancourt) 6/7 6/2 6/3

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Day 5:

Group A

Villa Primrose def. Lagardère Paris Racing : 5-1
US Colomiers def. Grenoble Tennis : 6-0
ASPTT Metz def. AAS Sarcelles : 4-2

Group B

TC Quimperlé def. TC Strasbourg : 4-2
TC Boulogne-Billancourt def. AS Bondy 93 : 6-0
TC Paris def. TC Lille : 5-1

Florent Serra (Primrose) winning an Interclubs match was the highlight of the day! (7/6 4/6 7/6 over Nicolas Renavand *phew*). The teams that qualified for the semis are Primrose and Sarcelles in the Group A, Quimperlé and TC Paris in the Group B (TCP barely over Starsbourg on win/lost ratio).

[duong]

Originally Posted by turtle-rn

The teams that qualified for the semis are Primrose and Sarcelles in the Group A, Quimperlé and TC Paris in the Group B (TCP barely over Starsbourg on win/lost ratio).

Mathieu being absent from Strasbourg team last week-end was presented as the key of Quimperlé's qualification and Strasbourg's elimination.

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Originally Posted by duong

Mathieu being absent from Strasbourg team last week-end was presented as the key of Quimperlé's qualification and Strasbourg's elimination.

Well, I wouldn't subcribe to that explanation. PHM signed for four matches so he was going to miss one tie no matter what; Quimperlé being the weakest team on paper prior to the start of the competition, it made sense to schedule Mathieu for the other ties. The key result for Quimperlé's qualification was IMO their tied score against TC Paris. Had Simon and Paire not blown up their respective very winnable match against Quimperlé, Strasbourg would have qualified even after losing to Quimperlé like they did.