Entries Week 27 - 01/07/2013

seagull · Hall of fame

Entries Week 27 - 01/07/2013

seagull · Hall of fame

Points Defences Week 27

Mens Singles

1200 - Murray
45 - Ward J
20 - Milton
8 - Edmund, Eaton
6 - Bogdanovic
2 - Gabb
1 - Ward A, Brassington, Martin

Mens Doubles

2000 - Marray
90 - Delgado, Skupski, Murray
20 - Milton, Cox
18 - Eaton, Goodall
6 - Ward A, Feaver

Womans Singles

160 - Watson
100 - Keothavong, Baltacha
40 - Whybourn
24 - Carreras (15+9)
8 - Slater
6 - Moore (4+2)
5 - Robson, Konta, Broady
2 - Murray, South, Windley, Webley-Smith, Fitzpatrick, Dunne
1 - McMinn

RJA · Hall of fame

Goodall not playing at Manchester strikes me as more than a little ominous.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

RJA wrote:
Goodall not playing at Manchester strikes me as more than a little ominous.

Maybe he is confident he will be in the 2nd week at Wimbledon

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Dan Evans and Brydan Klein direct entrants for Istanbul Challenger ($42.5k) the following week. Goodall 5th alternate

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

That's interesting. Dan and Brydan hit Istanbul . . . .

RJA · Hall of fame

The Magician Santoro wrote:
Dan Evans and Brydan Klein direct entrants for Istanbul Challenger ($42.5k) the following week. Goodall 5th alternate

Couldn't care less about Klein but delighted to see Dan playing an overseas challenger. I feared that he was still going to be hanging around British futures over the summer. There is also another challenger in Turkey the following week.

As for Goodall. There is massive speculation that this will be his last year on the tour so maybe he has decided on one last make a break attempt at playing challengers.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes. Delighted that Dan's getting out and about.

As someone else said, I'd have thought the US would be a natural port of call - I think Dan would get on well in the US- think he'd enjoy it. But Turkey, why not ? Frankly, anywhere bar GB futures playing the same crowd.

RJA · Hall of fame

I think I said the US but it did occur to me that if he went there now he would probably be facing about two months out there. He may find 2-3 weeks in European challengers, a week or two back home and then a few weeks in the US (he should make US Open quallies) as a more appealing prospect.

spud · Challenger qualifying

I hope to see Goodall keep going for a few years still, inside he is still a very good player!

Recently though, it's unfortunate to see that he has have into a bit of shell with how he is playing. And to be honest, you can't really blame him for that, his confidence must be shot and there is always the financial pressure lingering, especially in his case it seems. I could see a few wins at a decent level really turn it around for him. When he is confident in his own aggressive game, he is a very difficult player to beat for a lot of players and CAN compete at challenger level. However at the moment, like it has been said elsewhere, he will struggle to win futures matches against confident lower standard players who will go for their shots at pressure situations.

big james · Newbie

i hope that dan evans win the challenger biggrin

paulisi · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Yes. Delighted that Dan's getting out and about.

As someone else said, I'd have thought the US would be a natural port of call - I think Dan would get on well in the US- think he'd enjoy it. But Turkey, why not ? Frankly, anywhere bar GB futures playing the same crowd.

Yet he may come up against the same crowd.

The following GB have entered singles:

Brydan, Dan E, Josh G, Ed C, Josh M, Alex W and Sean Thornley

I assume that with Sean entered Mr Rice will be present to partner him in the doubles

paulisi · Tennis legend

Looking at the Manchester field - GB players current sit in 7 out of 8 seeds. 3 more guaranteed in main draw plus 4 wild cards and probably the top 2 in the qualifying list(both GB) and any others that qualify. So at least half the field will be GB - should get a GB winner and at least 3 semi finalists

RJA · Hall of fame

paulisi wrote:
Looking at the Manchester field - GB players current sit in 7 out of 8 seeds. 3 more guaranteed in main draw plus 4 wild cards and probably the top 2 in the qualifying list(both GB) and any others that qualify. So at least half the field will be GB - should get a GB winner and at least 3 semi finalists

Defending champion Olivetti might have something to say about that. Apparently he has a massive serve and proved almost impossible to break last year.

steven · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
CHALLENGERS

Winnetka $50K (Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic
Portoroz $35K+H (Hard) - (Ward A)

Alex Ward has tweeted that he's flying to Hannover tomorrow, so I assume he's going for Braunschweig qualies instead.