Jan up next for Phoenix will be interesting to see how he plays against a player who in the past has played a lot at a higher level in challenger tournaments.

Tennisdad_101 wrote:

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Phoenix has always been a huge talent from a very early age. Not being in the national academy does not seem to have affected his results and hes performing better than most, if not all of the age relevant boys. Maybe having an individual programme is better for his development rather than in a group which has more constraints as they cant  individualise everything, unless you are the chosen 1 or 2 there who get special treatment. Also the national academies are not full time as players have to attend local schools which can impact scheduling. As long as hes getting funding from the lta to help him - maybe this is the better way forward. 

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 I am only just getting up to speed with Phoenix, has he been discussed previously on here.....what a talent he looks!  I saw the mini Road to Wimbledon and read a local newspaper that says he was not getting the support of the LTA (this was a few months ago) which has led to a go fund me page.  I take it that has been resolved now?  But why not as part of an Academy?  

L32: (LL) Toby Martin WR 962 beat (Q) Michael Shaw UNR 6-1 3-6 6-1
L32: Buvaysar Gadamauri (BEL) WR 1002 beat (WC) Toby Samuel WR 1768 3-6 6-2 7-6(3)
L32: Mark Whitehouse WR 663 beat (8) Guy den Ouden (NED) WR 591 7-5 6-2
L32: (7) Roy Smith (USA) WR 567 beat (Q) Ben Jones UNR 6-3 7-5
L32: (4) Henri Squire (GER) WR 508 beat (Q) Ewan Moore UNR 6-1 6-0
L32: (6) Alastair Gray WR 522 beat (Q) Tom Hands WR 1591 6-3 6-2
L32: (PR) Ryan Storrie WR 694 beat (Q) Josh Paris WR 1107 2-6 6-2 6-4
L32: (Q) Pheonix Weir UNR beat (2) Anton Matusevich WR 460 6-3 6-4

L16: Daniel Cox & Arthur Fery CR 3004 (2289+715) beat Felix Gill & Stuart Parker CR 1859 (798+1061) 7-6(5) 6-2
L16: (WC) Giles Hussey & Toby Samuel UNR (UNR+1450) beat James MacKinlay & Ewan Moore CR 2125 (1742+1383) 6-2 6-3
L16: Oscar Weightman & Harry Wendelken CR 3570 (2193+1377) beat (3) Billy Harris & Patrick Niklas-Salminen (FIN) CR 1187 (589+598) 6-4 5-7 [10-6]
L16: (2) Charles Broom & Alastair Gray CR 1119 (712+407) beat Jonathan Binding & Scott Duncan CR 1597 (675+922) 7-5 6-4

First set wins for Dan Cox over Stuart,
Felix over the Belgian,
and CHarlie over Roy Smith

A win for Dan Cox too, in three sets

Pleased for him.

He was also in my top 500 potential list (as is Stuart, of course).

He's not a player one always 'warms' to (sorry, Dan) but he's not had it completely easy and it's great to see him having a good run

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 13th of January 2022 12:06:26 PM

So there is literally just one non-GB player left in the draw - we are guaranteed 7 out of 8 GB quarter-finalists, and maybe even 8 out of 8 if Dan Little can pull off a little upset.