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Oakland2002


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Best performance by anyone in British tennis this week must go to Biff which has a nice ring to it although the origin of his moniker is becoming delightfully convoluted. Up there with an ex worcestershire cricketer Martin Weston known as spaghetti.

Feeling conflicted by Marcus, of all our div II players he is the one who has the potential to do a wardy and push on to the top 150 and perhaps beyond. He has shown the drive to secure sponsorship and now to loose some weight and perhaps become the best he can be. Is that a product of not having any or very little LTA funding? My feeling is the A1 academy has picked the best player in this tier to support as he has obvious major weapons that could impact challenger games or above and there were certain things that can just be sorted, to have 8 kilos to use as a professional athlete is truly impressive. If he can continue to improve his conditioning and refueling British tennis may have another player on their hands.

I'm with RJA although enjoying touring is half the battle, without the wins what's the point. Let's hope milts can push on and take away some big points.

It's a great shame Kyle was not in a place to play this tournament again this year, after the experience of last year he was probably in a place to do some damage this in the MD. Any injury news?

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Josh out there, doing his stuff.

2-2



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bonjour Marseille !

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good luck to Josh.

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"Biff" ?

I've clearly not been concentrating :)

Edit : duh, think I've got it.



-- Edited by indiana on Monday 16th of February 2015 04:15:20 PM

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FQR:  (q5) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) WR 139 defeated Josh Milton WR 367 by 4 & 1  cry



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Tough in the 2nd set for Josh, but I'm going to predict that Josh will be inside the top 300 by June and that can't be far off his CH.

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Phew They teetered on the brink of an exit in the MTB, going three match points down, but eventually turned it round! smile

R1:  Colin Fleming & Jonny Marray CR 135 (76+59) defeated (WC) Hsieh Cheng Peng & Lee Hsin-Han (TPE/TPE) CR 789 (615+174) by 3-6 6-3 [11-9]



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I heard that BiF's epic cheering got them through those tough moments in the MTB.

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is Bob in France having a siesta ?

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I think he has trouble accessing wifi on the tournament site.

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emma wrote:


is Bob in France having a siesta ?

 I wish !

spectator is correct. Wifi is useless in the main court and non existent on Court 1. Overall not had good experiences with Wifi in France following my RG debacle last year. Which is why I have renamed France as "Dark Territory"

Reports up shortly.



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Monday 16th of February 2015 04:08:58 PM

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philwrig wrote:

Tough in the 2nd set for Josh, but I'm going to predict that Josh will be inside the top 300 by June and that can't be far off his CH.

It would be a CH since his current ( 2011 ) CH is WR 306.

With me yesterday annointing Marcus ( CH 322 from last year ) as top 300 ( plus ) later in the year and you Josh, things looking good.  Just need the players to comply  smile    



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Tough day at the office for Josh. He seemed to start a little nervously but told me afterwards he didn't feel that way. It was certainly a different experience for him, playing in front of about 300 people, big video screens, music on the changeovers and of course Hawkeye (which was a first for him but he put it to good use). But he soon settled into his game and held his own very well until 4-4. But a forehand error and a DF in the next game cost him and PHH served out the set.

I didn't see the 2nd set however as I wanted to give the doubles guys some support, but by all accounts, it ran away quite quickly. All in all though, a decent week for Josh.

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Colin & Jonny. Wow. Take a deep breath Bob and get that heart rate down a bit.

OK. Their opponents, the two Koreans, are an interesting pairing. Sublety is not really their thing. Plan A is to hit the ball as hard as they can and if that doesn't work, Plan B is try to hit it even harder. Spectacular when it comes off, but erratic under pressure.

First set was under control for the Brits until one poor game on serve from Colin. He missed a relatively easy volley, overhit a smash on the next point and then on "killer" deuce, he DFed. In doubles, such fine margins make all the difference and the set was gone 6-3.

In the 2nd set though, they broke early and were comfortable until serving for the set when Jonny found himself at 30-40. However they held their nerve to take it into an MTB. The drama though had only just begun.

The Koreans wet 7-2 up, more through GB errors than anything spectacular on their part. But an unbelievable point started the comeback with Jonny hitting some miraculous reaction volleys. Then at 8-5 down, Jonny went and did it again. How he hit those volleys, I will never know and the Korean opponents where actually laughing in disbelief. Colin and Jonny then found themselves 9-7 and 2 MPs down. But they held their nerve superbly to win 4 points in a row and take the victory 11-9.

The only downside to the manner of their victory is that my life expectancy has has been reduced by about 3 years.


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Brilliant.  Great report. Thanks Bob.

 

I was following it on live score and that was exciting enough.



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