Yes, it is a pity all our seeds in the same half, our players ( like many other countries ) perform best at home, it's best if our top hopes are spread through the draw rather than having to meet each other.

I feel it is even more a pity that Evans, Smethurst and Ward are in the same quarter, which may really limit potential overall points that might otherwise have been up for grabs.

James wrote:

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Mr Bains have the audacity to pull his usual gamesmanship stunts against a fellow Brit, who may possibly be an acquaintance, but at the very least is a British DC player? (Wolfie, surely a cheeky camera phone video is in order if things get feisty!)

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LOL good one, but somehow I doubt even that will give Maniel any chance against the Flowerpot Man. 

 

Thought you might like to see the odds my rating system has predicted for Tipton...

	R2	QF	SF	F	W
Roberto Bautista (1)	78.7%	59.8%	43.2%	29.0%	20.594%
Andrej Martin (4)	96.4%	83.8%	49.4%	24.3%	14.291%
Daniel Evans (2)	92.2%	75.8%	50.1%	29.0%	13.437%
James Lemke (6)	90.9%	87.5%	37.5%	18.2%	9.680%
Richard Bloomfield	67.4%	53.5%	30.8%	15.6%	9.422%
Joshua Goodall (3)	76.7%	67.7%	37.5%	20.8%	9.075%
Gary Lugassy	92.0%	49.0%	27.9%	14.5%	5.785%
Ludovic Walter	66.0%	36.7%	21.6%	11.7%	4.911%
Dan Smethurst (7)	71.6%	45.1%	21.9%	10.5%	3.907%
Daniel Lustig	67.5%	23.3%	11.8%	5.2%	2.494%
Alexander Ward	74.7%	36.7%	15.7%	6.4%	2.020%
Kamil Capkovic (5)	32.6%	21.8%	9.0%	3.1%	1.307%
Daniel Cox (8)	34.0%	13.6%	6.1%	2.4%	0.675%
Alexander Slabinsky	85.2%	23.7%	7.5%	1.9%	0.593%
Ladislav Chramosta	21.3%	9.8%	4.2%	1.5%	0.575%
Joshua Milton	81.5%	20.3%	6.7%	1.8%	0.340%
Gleb Sakharov	23.3%	16.7%	4.5%	1.3%	0.263%
Marcus Willis	32.5%	7.1%	2.5%	0.7%	0.235%
Olivier Charroin	28.4%	11.7%	3.5%	1.0%	0.204%
Matthew Illingworth	77.8%	13.9%	3.0%	0.5%	0.099%
Neil Pauffley	25.3%	6.5%	1.5%	0.3%	0.045%
Sean Thornley	99.0%	15.7%	2.3%	0.3%	0.035%
Burnham Arlidge	9.1%	6.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.005%
Maniel Bains	7.8%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.003%
Jamie Feaver	18.5%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.001%
Oliver Golding	22.2%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.001%
Kyle Brassington	8.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.001%
Andrew Fitzpatrick	14.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.000%
Chris Priddle	53.1%	3.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.000%
David O'Leary	46.9%	2.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.000%
Tom Farquharson	3.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.000%
Lloyd Glasspool	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.000%

• For a Spaniard, 21yo Bautista is surprisingly good on hard surfaces having won 4 futures titles on hard courts.

• For being seeded, these odds suggest Cox has had a bad draw - Walter (8th fav) in R1 and prob Lugassy (7th fav) in R2.

• 2nd fav, Andrej Martin, has already won two futures titles on hard courts this year.

Predicted Brits in each round
R2 : 10
QF : 4
SF : 1.8
F  : 0.9
W : 0.4




-- Edited by Akhenaten on Monday 8th of March 2010 07:46:50 PM

Firstly I was very impressed by Robin Goodman, not one of our top juniors but had a really good all-round game, big forehand, nice single hander on the backhand side, OK serve and came forward to the net on occasion. Final two sets didn't reflect the quality of play. One to watch certainly.

As I expected O'Leary beat Bradshaw and surely his first point is not long away, maybe tomorrow against Priddle. Dave was pumped for this, a lot of come ons and just outplayed Bradshaw, who seemed OK but just not a 1000 player. There was a bit of commotion with Tim serving at 4-5 deuce, it seemed they played a whole point only for the umpire to call Tim's second serve out! Overall some bizzare umpiring decisions once again, I actually think it would be probably better for the players just to call their own lines!

Elsewhere Brassington was just too powerful for Seb Jackson, who didn't really make up for his lack of power with enough precision.

Bains did just about enough against Whike, tap tap tap from him but with his game he is never going to be able to run through these lesser players.

Burnham Arlidge had a big serve and often came in behind it. Also had one of the worst techniques on the forehand ever, hard to describe but an unusual take back and he seems to hit the ball so close to his body and also hits it later than most. Too strong for a fairly weak opponent, TAKE THAT LITHUANIA!!

Didn't see much of Glasspool and Gabb, but Glasspool just seemed to be dictating the rallies a lot more.

Priddle seemed to be more conservative than when I saw him last. He won nine points in a row from being 5-6 15-40 down in the second set, including a great stretch volley drop shot on the second set point.

Konov was another solid baseliner but silly errors from the inconsistent Charroin was the thing that made it close really. Third set was on serve until the last game.

Shame that the bottom half is loaded with all the Brits who could realistically win here but at the very least it should ensure that one of them gets to the final and we could well come away with all four quarter finalists in that section, so at least that will give the Brits some points.

Top half is not so cheery but a chance for Bloomers to upset the 5th seed which maybe the best chance of big points from that half.

Also to add that since I have to head towards Birmingham and beyond this week I will also be attending the event tomorrow and maybe for some of Wednesday and Thursday as well, so it will give me a chance to see some of the British players that I haven't seen play before to judge their games a bit better.

I see after his semi final in week 7, the Wardinator was 5 clear of any other player for matches played this year :  25 matches,   won 21, lost 4  on the stats provided at : 

http://stevegtennis.com/stats10.htm   for 22nd February.

However, with his subsequent unaccountable laziness   ,   he had been caught up in matches played by Gary Lugassy ( also competing here ) on the last stats provided for 1st March, each 4 clear of anyone else.

In percentage matches won, at 1st march he stood 11th on 84%, tucked neatly in between Djokovic and Roddick and far clear of that Muzza character !

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 8th of March 2010 11:23:23 PM

id love a british winnner here, just something to take my mind of DC.