European League Club Tennis

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

European League Club Tennis

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Women's

D2:

Maia (N41) def. Bataille (-2/6) 6-3 6-4

Also won dubs, team drew 3-3

Eden didn't play which is slightly strange as she was out there at the start of the week, obviously.

D4:

Lucy Brown (-15) def. Letourneau (4/6) 2-6 6-2 6-3

Lost dubs in MTB but team won 4-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Additional:

Div 2:

Billy Harris (-15) def. Malouli (-2/6) 6-1 6-2

Also won dubs. Team won 5-1

Div 3:

Dan Cox (N57) def. Simbozel (-4/6) 7-6 6-4

Also won dubs. But team lost 2-4

Div. 4

Dave Rice (N90) lost to Gaudon (-2/6) 6-2 6-2

Also lost dubs. Team lost 6-0

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

MEN

DN1B:

Stuart Parker (-4/6) def. Bouquier (0) 6-4 6-2

Also won dubs, but team lost 2-4. Team finishes 3rd (out of 6) in their pool.

DN2:

Billy Harris (-15) def. Sorg (0) 6-0 6-2

Also won dubs. Team won 6-0. Team finished top of their pool. Will go through to the play-offs.

DN3:

Dan Cox (N57) lost to Forcin (N86) 4-6 7-5 7-6

Won the dubs. But team lost 2-4. Team finish 4th (in pool of 6)

Damon Roberts (0) lost to Beks (-4/6) 6-2 6-1

Also lost dubs. Team drew 3-3. Team finished third in pool.

Rich Gabb (N45) def. Arreche (N75) 3-6 6-1 6-1
Jonny O'Mara (N48) def. Clement (2/6) 6-3 6-0

they won dubs. Team won 6-0. Team finished top of pool. Will go forward to the play-offs (to go up to div. 2)

DN4:

Josh Goodall (-15) def. Oumaouche (-2/6) 6-2 7-5

Also won dubs. Team drew 3-3. Team finish second. (not sure if it's just the winner or top 2 who go to play-offs)

Dave Rice (N90) def. Bonnabaud (0) 6-0 6-2

Also won dubs. Team drew 3-3. Team finished bottom and will be relegated (I believe) to Pre-National league.

the addict · Tennis legend

Womens

Can't find results for Maia and Eden's teams - not posted yet

Lucy won another 3-setter, 7-5 6-7 6-2, to take her record to 5-0. Lost the doubles though, and Senlis finish mid-table

the addict · Tennis legend

Maia won 6-4 2-6 6-3, but lost the doubles on match tiebreak.
So Levallois beat St Gaudens 4-2 (Eden wasn't playing) and are runners up in their group. St Gauden finish third.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Billy's team, which won its pool in Div 2, is the only one in the playoffs with any British interest (all the others now simply have the top team being promoted and the bottom one being demoted).

But Div 1B (the division above Div 2) is a lot smaller (becoming the real elite end) so there has to be some compression rounds to find those who are going up.

Unfortunately, after a stellar run this season, Billy couldn't get the wins needed.

He lost 6-3 3-6 6-2 to Franck Pepe (-15). Pepe is 28 and unranked in ATP but has a CH of 612 back in 2012.

Billy also lost his doubles.

The team drew 3-3

(I've no idea how they do the calculation now for the promotion, the rules change pretty much every year, or so it seems to me).

All will become clear.....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

As well as the French national league tennis (which has about 280 teams in the men's league), there are also the Pre-national leagues which are run on a regional basis and qualify teams up into the national league. There are tons of teams there too (at about British Tour QF level/ITF QR1 level).
(And under Pre-nationals, there are the normal regional leagues, which have absolutely zillions of teams).

As such, I don't check these leagues - very few Brits play in them because they won't get paid (although players get expenses). But some players with a strong connection to a club play, and just occasionally a team in Pre-nationals gets a sponsor that will pay, in order to get the team back into national league.

Anyway, Tom Farquharson played for his team, in Pre-nationals, this May/June.

Needless to say, given Tom's calibre, he walked all his matches. And also won his doubles. The team won all their matches in the initial pool phase, bar one which they drew.

So they qualified for the knock-out match, to try and get promotion. Four singles, two doubles.

Tom won his singles, but the other three guys lost theirs, leaving only the two doubles matches, and Tom's team practically eliminated.

But Tom+ won his doubles and, as a mega surprise, the other pair in Tom's team scraped their match in a MTB.

Which left the two teams at 3-3.

The rules are then that each team selects a pair to play one sudden death MTB, to decide the match and decide who gets promoted.

So Tom and Bruno Guey stepped up to the plate - and took the MTB 10-2 !

The noise must have been deafening.......

So well done to Tom and all the team. And it's into Div 4 next year.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The Elite Tennis Championships started last week in France.

(1ere Div and Div DN1A)

We had no representation in the men's games on day 1. Bedene is listed although it would seem pretty unlikely for him to play, given his injury.

However, Liam Broady is listed as a 'new' player (special status) at Colomiers (next to Toulouse). Which might be interesting.

Jonny Gray is also listed for Marignane

WOMEN'S

In the women's, Tara is part of the Stade Clermontois team, in 1ere Div.
She played doubles last week with Conny, and won. The team won 6-0

Also, Emily Webley-Smith is playing for CTC 36 1.

The team are in DN1A. She played and won her singles last week, beating Eleanore Barrere, in two sets.
The team won 6-0.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 15th of November 2017 09:51:38 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nice picture of Tara with her French team in training, I assume, for this weekend:

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Coup Droit · Tennis legend

There was tennis mid-week in France for the 1ere divs (due to national holiday days).

Tara won, beating Noel Mallaurie in three, ranked about 680 (who beat Sam Murray a few weeks back but lost to Olivia Nichols).

But she and partner lost their dubs easily, and the team drew 3-3

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

No GB representation in the men's 1ere top elite event but great to see a real mixture of top French dogs, foreign interlopers, old favourites, and young guns all mixing it up. Jaziri taking out Benoit Paire in a third-set TB pleased me. Young Moutet continues to impress. With half-Brit Evan Furness there too. And even younger Hugo Gaston. Young Greek hotshot Tsitsipas is also playing for the first time this year. At the other end, there's Llodra, and Roger-Vasselin, and Tommy Robredo, and Stakhovsky....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Tara played yesterday at Grenoble.

She won her singles, beating Ana Vrljic, (ranked about 460, ex-180), 6-4 4-6 6-4, which is an excellent result in a tight match.

She also played dubs with Conny and won.

The team drew 3-3

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, well..... Liam Broady turned out for his French team yesterday - but not with the result he would have wanted.

Liam lost to Yannick Mertens 6-4 6-2

The team lost 1-5

Liam and partner lost their doubles by retirement but that will be because the fourth singles came to an end and the team had lost so there was no point, not because of injury.

His team finishes 5th out of 6 in the pool.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Sunday 26th of November 2017 02:10:48 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

As well as Liam, Emily Webley-Smith was also in action in France today, although only in the doubles.

Playing with Sofia Shapatava, Em won her doubles in two. But the team lost 2-4.