Week 43 - F16 Futures (10K) - Glasgow

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

RE: Week 43 - F16 Futures (10K) - Glasgow

polly · Junior player

Looks like you got your wish Mervatron-Evans won 4 in the 3rd,Willis won 3 in the 3rd so it's an all British final tomorrow!

steven · Tennis legend

Fab - and great to see a GB player managing to do exactly the opposite of cracking under the pressure of having lost of points to defend

The Hoose · Satellite level

Brilliant news! It's turning into a happy end-of-the-week.

steven · Tennis legend

I've added Marcus to the "Race for the top 25" section on the GB top 25 table because although his ranking will plummet more than 700 places on Monday, he'll rise over 800 places on Monday week and overtake Dan Smethurst even if he loses tomorrow.

If Evo wins tomorrow, he'll be in the top 500 for the first time on Monday week, if Marcus wins, he'll be in the top 1000 for the first time on Monday week.

Grundon · Intermediate Club Player

What a great week for the youngsters!

When was the last time two British teenagers contested a Futures final?

Drew · Oct 24, 2008

Fab Fab Fantabadoooo....(Dont think coca-cola can do me for that) to both Marcus & Evo !!

I am going to the final !

Akhenaten · Pro player

Grundon wrote:

What a great week for the youngsters!

When was the last time two British teenagers contested a Futures final?

Irwin v Goodall played each other in the final of an India satellite in 2004 when both were 18.

http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/tournamentresults.asp?tournament=1100009839&event=

Absolutely fantastic results to get a Willis / Evans! Always thought the Evans/Cox/Willis/Smethurst breakthru would happen soon, and it now seems to be happening. Yay! biggrin

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Results now confirmed by the Beeb:

Marcus Willis bt Miloslav Mecir (SVK) 6-7(6) 7-6(7) 6-3

Dan Evans bt Ken Skupski 6-3 6-7(7) 6-3

* Marcus' match looks as though it was a ding-dong battle! biggrin

-- Edited by Stircrazy at 15:20, 2008-10-24

Grundon · Intermediate Club Player

Akhenaten wrote:
Irwin v Goodall played each other in the final of an India satellite in 2004 when both were 18.

Thanks Akhenaten

- you need to ask a tough question to stump this forum!

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

I was there yesterday and saw the end of the Evans and Fleming match and the last set of Marcus's match as well. I turned up at 2 love Colin and he then lost 5 games in a row, Evans looked excellent although Colin didn't serve particularly well. First time I have seen Marcus and he did really well to come back from 3 love down in the last set. Looks like he has plenty of potential but felt that he didn't have enough penetration on his ground strokes and he could do with losing some weight!

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

Colin and Ken won the doubles

James · Satellite level

Great week and hopefully the final will prove to be an exciting, closely fought contest for those of you who will be there [I'm already looking forward to the several differing reports!]

With regards to what Slimmy26 said, hopefully results/tournaments like this will really spur Marcus on to become fitter and really work on his groundstrokes which may or may not be directly linked to one-another

Well done to Colin & Ken in the doubles, Colin may well be up to the standard at which he can partner Jamie M sooner than originally expected

steven · Tennis legend

LOL is it Simmy26's comment about Marcus needing to lose some weight (should we blame his mother for being too good a cook? smile

Thank goodness she'll never read this, eh! wink

) that made you call him Slimmy? Either that or it's a brilliant typo

-- Edited by steven at 15:41, 2008-10-24

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Great week for the young guys.