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Originally Posted by Brian Swartz
Ok, practice tournaments.
In the tournament table you are talking about, you get 0.5 for a bye (day you don't play a match) and a +1 for a win, and 0 for a loss. Like how chess works. I think this originally had another purpose, but all it matters for practically is sorting out matchups; later in the week you're more likely to play players who have been winning if you have also been winning. Similar to the Swiss System if you know what that is.
Down below each section of the practice tournament table, you will see a number of manager points denoted for wins. Higher amounts of points for higher-ranking sections of each practice tournament. That doesn't affect your player ranking or anything else other than giving you manager points.
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Good to know, thanks.
So
Kazim Dizdar had another practice week where he promptly got his butt kicked up and down the court everywhere, but kept upskilling. Then his fatigue was over 500, so I gave him the week off. And then it was on to his second tournament.
J5 - La Paz, Costa Rica - Clay
Do not adjust your screens. We have our first singles win by
Kazim Dizdar, beating Bolivian
Cornelio Ansello 6-4, 6-2. Unfortunately that was in qualifying, so it apparently added no points to either Dizdar nor me as a manager (still stuck at 84 points) despite it supposed to be worth 5 points. And though our hero gave a game effort against Chilean fellow qualifier
Octavi Guimera, Dizdar fell 4-6, 5-7.
Doubles action was a qualifying elimination. Paired with fellow Anilophile
ntndeacon's Algerian
Khalif Bouskelha, the duo put up one hell of a fight before falling - ironically enough - to Indian
Anil Poola and Paraguayan
Raimundo Intraigo 6-1, 3-6, 7-10. Still, that's another $9 in Dizdar's pocket, raising his total pro winnings to $14.
Octavi Guimera paired with Spaniard
Roque Apruzzese to form the top doubles team, and they promptly swept through the field to take the crown. Their only real challenge came in the semi-finals against
Poola/Intraigo: 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-3. Otherwise it was straight sets the whole way through.
Apruzzese made it a double (heh) by straight-setting his way through the singles bracket as well as the top seed.
Guimera gave him a game effort in the quarterfinals at 7-5, 6-3 and 4th seed Argentine
Fabricio Cugulls tried too late to mount a comeback before falling 6-2, 7-5, but that was it for challenging opponents.
On the other side of the bracket, Croatian 3 seed
Javarko Mratinkovic fell to unseeded American
Johnny Hageley 6-7 (7), 2-6, opening up the door for unseeded Italian
Ippolito dal Maistro to storm to a finals date with Apruzzese, where he was demolished 0-6, 2-6.
The Italian run was spearheaded by 14 year old Spanish qualifier
Ferdinand Gangotena's thrilling, stunning 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 6-3 win over 2 seed Russian
Nicolay Grazulin in the quarterfinals.
Fascinating tournament. Worth noting:
Roque Apruzzese is managed by former #1 manager
hugoboy, he of
House Kaspar fame. Also: hugoboy has
4 trainers, 2 of whom are House Kaspar. ...Yeah. Keep an eye out here.