Stircrazy wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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L32: Ryan Peniston WR 396 (CH = 359 last November) vs Qualifier

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Predictably:

L32: Ryan Peniston WR 396 vs (Q) Stuart Parker WR 715

His opponent got in as a lucky loser.

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 Be interesting to see how that match plays out though. 

 

Coup Droit wrote:

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L16: Luke Johnson & Ryan Peniston CR 1043 (392+651) def. Maxime Hamou & Martin van der Meerschen (FRA/BEL) CR 2469 (1714+755) 7-5 6-3

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L16:  Jan Choinski & Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) CR 1368 (1052+316) defeated (WC) Vasilelos Iliopoulos & Stephanos Schinos (GRE/GRE) UNR (0+1736) by 4 & 1

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QF:  Sho Shimabukuro & Naoki Tajima (JPN/JPN) CR 1351 (671+680) vs Luke Johnson & Ryan Peniston CR 1043 (392+651)

The Japanese pair beat the Swiss top seeds, Castelnuovo & Paul, in straight sets.

JonH comes home wrote:

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It is eye opening how, when we look back at the summer closed Brits events of various types, it was great to see lots of Brits challenging and making what appeared to be a lot of progress, but it was all in the context of Brits only events - a lot of them seem to have not made any real progress since getting back into the Tour, which is a a little disappointing, but probably makes us realise how good the global level is outside the UK

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I was kind of thinking similar the other day, but applied to the women's side.

There is a streamed court here, and while no full British interest, I see (half Brit) Evan Furness is first on the streamed court at 7.30am tomorrow (or technically today), if anyone wanted to watch that over their cornflakes.

 

Coup Droit wrote:

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Ace Ventura wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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It is eye opening how, when we look back at the summer closed Brits events of various types, it was great to see lots of Brits challenging and making what appeared to be a lot of progress, but it was all in the context of Brits only events - a lot of them seem to have not made any real progress since getting back into the Tour, which is a a little disappointing, but probably makes us realise how good the global level is outside the UK

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I was kind of thinking similar the other day, but applied to the women's side.

There is a streamed court here, and while no full British interest, I see (half Brit) Evan Furness is first on the streamed court at 7.30am tomorrow (or technically today), if anyone wanted to watch that over their cornflakes.

 

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 Yes, I'd been thinking it a month or so back, specifically in relation to Freya. She really did seem to be playing a lot better in the Pro events (and whatever they were all called). I'd really hoped it would follow through..... 

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 I wonder if it is the level and standard outside the UK that impacts or whether the lifestyle and travel impacts some of our players and they perform less well - clearly that would go for others outside the UK as well, but it is more obvious with an optic on our British players/talent to judge the progress/lack of. 

 

In the mens side, players like Ryan P, Stuart P., Aidan McHugh did well in the lock down events (admittedly Stuart P was in France largely) but post lockdown we havent seen progress on the Tour from a a fair number.  

L16:  (8) Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) WR 377 (CH = 280 last December) vs (Q) Stuart Parker WR 716
L16:  (LL) Mateus Alves (BRA) WR 602 vs (3) Jan Choinski WR 343

Decent win for Stuart over Ryan, although Ryan is clearly not on form currently and sadly. In the summer UTR events, Stuart was competitive against players ranked like his next opponent and got some decent wins. Would be good to think that hasn't turned to dust and he can put up a good display and even get the win tomorrow.

Jan C should, however, win against a lucky loser. If he gets to the QF stage, maybe the confidence he gets will spur him on a little.