Week 11 Futures - Great Britain F4 ($15k) - Bath

Josh · Challenger level

RE: Week 11 Futures - Great Britain F4 ($15k) - Bath

Josh · Challenger level

steven wrote:

SMC1809 wrote:

Most of the male players still here watching, no sign of Inglot though. On womens side Anna is here today, Ews watching too. Haven't seen Jade today but she's been here the past 2 days.
Ah, you thought I meant which players are there ... I meant who's there texting you the scores! Are you actually there in person and still managing to write this much? Impressive ...

Btw do you know who won the non-Brit matches, i.e. Sijsling v Capkovic, Kontinen v King and Walter v Martin? (they're all possible opponents for Brits in R2)

The joys of an iPhone.

-- Edited by Josh on Tuesday 16th of March 2010 09:56:07 PM

SMC1809 · All-time great

Smethurst just won the second set.

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Nielsen won 2-6 6-3 2-6

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Kontinen won 2-6 6-4 6-3

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Martin won 6-1 6-1

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Sijsling won 7-6(4) 6-3.

steven · Tennis legend

Josh wrote:
Don't know how Davis has a WR while people like Priddle only just got his first point and someone like Matt Short (not playing here) or el-Menshawy is still unranked.

Because picking up your first point is a bit of a lottery. Davis got his by getting a WC in Newcastle last year and then having Vanni retire from their R1 match when the Italian was a set up. Davis 'celebrated' by getting double bagelled by Dan Cox in the next round.

Oliver Golding was similarly lucky - also in Newcastle, he qualified and then drew a home WC, Richard Gabb, in R1.

That's not to denigrate Ollie's ranking point (he did at least have to work a fair bit for his!), but compare that to Matthew Short, who has just won four rounds of qualifying in Albufeira, including beating a top 1000 player, but still won't get a ranking point unless he wins another match!

Priddle has clearly got a taste for ranking points now - he's gone from 0 to 3 in just a few weeks!

steven · Tennis legend

Thanks. That means R2 is shaping up as follows:

L16: Dan Smethurst WR 399 or James Lemke (AUS) WR 383 v (1) Igor Sijsling WR 186
L16: (8) Frederik Nielsen (DEN) WR 275 v John Millman (AUS) WR 280
L16: Chris Eaton WR 408 v (3) Roberto Bautista-Agut (ESP) WR 237
L16: (Q) Burnham Arlidge WR 1078 v (7) Samuel Groth (AUS) WR 272
L16: (Q) Chris Priddle WR 1576 v (6) Henri Kontinen (FIN) WR 257
L16: Dan Cox WR 454 v (WC) Alex Ward WR 637
L16: (5) Dan Evans WR 252 v Josh Goodall WR 311
L16: (Q) Matt Illingworth WR 768 or (LL) Olivier Charroin (FRA) WR 1152 v Andrej Martin (SVK) WR 342

A pity our two highest-ranked players left have to meet this early, though it's hard to think of Josh as the second best Brit left in given his recent form. Maybe he'll spring a surprise tomorrow though.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Illingworth won 6-3 6-4

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Dan S *0-3 in third.

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Pauffley / Ward lost their doubles match 6-3 0-6 3-10

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Smethurst 2-4*

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Smethurst back on serve *3-4

steven · Tennis legend

Come on Dan!