The anticipated interesting matches came good, with a win for Josh S against Carpenter in three, and George edging Joe in three sets. David Fox beating Tom F is a great result for him (unless Tom is still injured).

In R2 (L16):

Isaac Stoute d. Jamie Praditngam 6-2 6-3

Neil Pauffley [2/545] d. Andrew Bettles 6-3 6-3

Richard Bloomfield [8/1036] d. Nicholas Jones 6-1 6-2

James Marsalek [6/756] d. Adam Skalsky 6-4 6-4

Marcus Willis [1/363] d. Mason Recci 6-2 6-1

Joshua Sapwell d. Jack Carpenter [5/752] 4-6 7-5 6-2

George Coupland [3/591] d. Joe Salisbury 6-4 3-6 6-3

David Fox d. Tom Farquharson [4/675] 3-6 6-2 6-1


In the Quarters:

Marcus v Bloomers
Fox v james M
Sapwell v George C
neil v isaac

That's a cracking win for Josh Sapwell.

Josh Sapwell continues his blitzfest with an easy victory over Neil and James M takes out Marcus:


Singles SF:

James Marsalek [6/756] def. Marcus Willis [1/363] 6-2 6-4

Joshua Sapwell def. Neil Pauffley [2/545] 6-3 6-2


So James v Josh in the final - that's some big prize cheques and well done to both . . .


In the Men's Doubles SF:

James Marsalek [1]/Marcus Willis def. Andrew Bettles/Jack Carpenter 6-3 6-2

Keelan Oakley [2]/Neil Pauffley def. Richard Bloomfield/George Coupland 6-2 7-5



And in the Mixed doubles SF:

James Marsalek [1]/Tara Moore def. Richard Bloomfield/Olivia Nicholls 6-1 6-2

Mark Whitehouse/Charlotte Pearce def. Isaac Stoute/Danielle Konotoptseva 6-4 2-6 1-0(8)


So that's 3 out of 3 for James today - and 3 finals tomorrow !

RJA wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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So that's 3 out of 3 for James today - and 3 finals tomorrow !

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Poor lad will be shattered.

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In fact, I should have said four out of four because, obviously, he had all FOUR matches to play. . . .

Tara was the same, though, and posted understandably 'grinder' sort of tweets . . . but, of course, they'd all rather have extra matches because it means they've won And at least both had four 'easy' matches - still not convinced re the scheduling though.