European League Club Tennis

Oakland2002 · All-time great

European League Club Tennis

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

In fairness, most of the college players are back in the States now although a fair few of them played for their clubs during the season. Joe Salisbury represented college graduates in the final and appears to have fought hard but not come through. I wonder if he is still planning to pursue tennis full time, we seem to have seen less of him recently although he made a very good start when he first graduated.

Mark Whitehouse did lose a match to Jamie Baker (but you weren't to know that as I made an error in my post - now corrected!), but clearly a valuable member of his team.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Oh and it's great to have Joe back playing at this level, the more the better to maintain and or lift the standard.

My point was more related to the fact that there are around 100 British US tennis scholars and you would hope that some would after graduation be back in the UK playing at this level, admittedly a few give it a go and try futures and occasionally progress in to challengers and doubles making a living dipping into the main tour when able but where are the rest?

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

The numbers attending US colleges has zoomed up in the last 2 or 3 years. At present, those graduating are a trickle rather than a flood but this should shortly change. Each year I am surprised at some of the names who choose not to give pro tennis a go but I guess at 22+ with a degree, little debt, a year's green card in the US that there are plenty of other options banging on the door. And also maybe after 4 years of playing every day, competing regularly etc etc, a tennis career doesn't seem so exciting.

As regards the rest, you would hope they become regular club players and competitors on the domestic circuit. In fact I have come across quite a few in club tennis and county week / county cup, though mainly from lower division schools. They tend to spend their time in the lower levels of team tennis as the clubs that make the national finals tend to be those that can afford to pay professionals or retired professionals to be on their roster (there are exceptions of course).

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Danis Dynamite has pointed out that Lloyd Glasspool has been named as top team member in Danish league tennis for the Danish 1st division team Skovbakken, for the up coming season.

www.tennisavisen.dk/gruppe-2-og-3-i-herrernes-dh/

Good luck to Lloyd, and longtime dubs partner, Søren Hess-Olesen.

And thanks to Danis D.

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

When does the Danish club tennis run to and from?

Spectator · All-time great

I'm curious. So it sounds as if you have the three leagues and one can be promoted/demoted - hence the rather anomalous team heading up league 2. But in actuality, there are a variety of teams in the 'lower' leagues which would seem to be at least competitive with teams in the upper leagues, barring the rather frightening looking Lyngby team.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The elite part of French team tennis starts this weekend - with the Premiere Division and Division DN1A.

From a British point of view, it all looks pretty much unchanged.

For a full list of the men's poule A and B for the 1iere division, see the link below. Bedene is the only British name I see on the list (although he's listed as Slovenian....)

tennisactu.net/news-fft-interclubs-h-tout-sur-les-finales-interclubs-fft-interclubs-tennis-simon-bautista-herbert-63141.html

In Div DN1A, Jonathan Gray is listed on TC Marignane's teamlist.

In the women's, in the Premiere Div, Stade Clermontois has Naomi, Tara and Lisa

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Tara was in Clermont-Ferrand for the first day of the Premiere Div Club League season in France but didn;t play the singles.

However, she and Conny won their doubles in a MTB and their team won 4-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

In the mid-week session of the Prem. Div. league, playing at number 3:

Aljaz Bedene def. Jasper Smit 2-6 6-3 6-1

He didn't play the doubles and his team won 5-1

Also, last Saturday:

Aljaz Bedene def. Sacha Merzetti 6-3 7-6

he lost his doubles, playing with Jaziri, in a MTB but, again, the team won 5-1

(apologies to Ali for missing him at the weekend- human error !)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 16th of November 2016 06:36:38 PM

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Is that Al Jaziri?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Oakland2002 wrote:
Is that Al Jaziri?

In both matches, Bedene played number three behind Malek Jaziri (TUN) WR 57, age 32, and Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) WR 76, age 34

(It's not the ATP rankings that count but their domestic ones. In this case, though, they're in line with Jaziri N9, Mathieu N11 and Bedene N13)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jonathan Gray popped up for the first time in French league (unless I've missed him before).

I often noted his name down on the list for the Elite DN1A division team, TC Marignane, but I've never seen him on the actual scorecard as having played before.

Anyway, he only played the doubles this time round. But he and Dorian Descloix won 6-2 6-2

And the team won 6-0.

So all good

Bedene might have played too but Premiere Div play in the afternoon, as opposed to DN1A who play in the morning. So the Prem Div scores are not all up yet.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The women also had mid-week matches which I'd missed.

Tara lost 6-4 3-6 6-4 against Mandy Minella.

And also lost her doubles. The team lost 0-6

wolf · Tennis legend

Bedene was playing county cup today, retired against Sean Thornley but returned to win his doubles.