Week 31 - USA F21 ($25,000) - Decatur, IL (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 31 - USA F21 ($25,000) - Decatur, IL (hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

QR1 (L64): (q2) Charles Broom (GBR) WR 1072 def. Bradley Holt (USA) UNR 6-3 6-4

QR1 (L64): David Perez (GBR) UNR lost to Joshua Ortlip (USA) UNR 1-6 1-6

QR2: (q2) Charles Broom (GBR) WR 1072 v A.trice* PICKENS (USA) UNR

* Now that's the name on the ITF site - but surely you can't be called 'A.trice'???

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
* Now that's the name on the ITF site - but surely you can't be called 'A.trice'???

I've drawn attention to the name before. The "A" seems to stand for the perfectly acceptable "Andrew", but he's adopted that ridiculous Yank practice of using his middle name (he appears to be generally referred to as "Trice" -that's the name on his Twitter feed), while insisting on retaining the first initial. Adopting the format he has makes it even more ridiculous.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Most bizarre. Rather like Lance-Pierre du Toit, you rather think it's a joke - like 'be with you in........'

Mind you, Andy Pickens sounds quite comical too - sort of name Dickens would have given his little pickpocket - basically Handy Pickings in ****ney.....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

QR2: (q2) Charles Broom (GBR) WR 1073 def. A.trice PICKENS (USA) UNR 6-2 6-2

FQR: (q2) Charles Broom (GBR) WR 1073 v (q12) Aleksandar KOVACEVIC (USA) WR 1540

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

R1: (q8) Finn Bass (GBR) WR 787 v Duarte Vale (POR) WR 1200, age 19, ex JWR 14

Both Finn and Charles have plays in the doubles too

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Charles Broom & Matic Spec (SLO) CR 2097 (860+1237) vs Ezekial Clark & Santiago Fa Rodríguez (USA/ARG) CR 2456 (1429+1027)

L16: Alexander Cozbinov & Adam El Mihdawy (MDA/USA) CR 2542 (1231+1311) vs Finn Bass & Petros Chrysochos (CYP) CR 2753 (1569+1184)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

FQR: (q2) Charles Broom WR 1073 defeated (q12) Aleksandar Kovacevic (USA) WR 1531 by 4 & 4

indiana · Tennis legend

Tom Farquharson was top of the acceptance list, indeed still shows there on the latest one, but clearly a fairly late withdrawal.

He's also shown as having withdrawn yesterday from next week's USA 25K.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
R1: (q8) Finn Bass (GBR) WR 787 v Duarte Vale (POR) WR 1200, age 19, ex JWR 14

L32: (Q) Charles Broom WR 1073 vs (WC) Matic Spec (SLO) WR 1196 (= CH)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (8) Finn Bass WR 787 defeated Duarte Vale (POR) WR 1200 by 4 & 4

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done Finn.

A nice gentle starter to a lot of British action across the pond in the coming evening and night.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L32: (8) Finn Bass WR 787 defeated Duarte Vale (POR) WR 1200 by 4 & 4

Duarte Vale was a top junior last year, ex JWR 14, far higher than Finn

He decided to go the US college route.

Interesting to see how things pan out.

Well done Finn - wins have been a bit short on the ground for him recently.....

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: (WC) Matic Spec (SLO) WR 1196 defeated (Q) Charles Broom WR 1073 by 1 & 0 cry

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: Charles Broom & Matic Spec (SLO) CR 2097 (860+1237) defeated Ezekial Clark & Santiago Fa Rodríguez (USA/ARG) CR 2456 (1429+1027) by 7-6(1) 7-6(5)

Finn & Petros appear to have withdrawn: their place in the draw has been taken by alternates.

*****

QF: (3) Maxime Cressy & Martin Joyce (FRA/USA) CR 1629 (679+950) vs Charles Broom & Matic Spec (SLO) CR 2097 (860+1237)