Week 30 - ITF M25 - Nottingham, Great Britain (grass)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 30 - ITF M25 - Nottingham, Great Britain (grass)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Very happy - well played, Arthur, mon petit fave

A nice, competent match, with some good tennis at important points

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

good and interesting final too look forwards to!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

With apologies to Dan C, go on Arthur .... for obvious reasons.

indiana · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
With apologies to Dan C, go on Arthur .... for obvious reasons.

Yes, to keep Jon's most grass wins race ever so slightly open

Rich2310 · County player

Fantastic Arthur. Would like to see him lift the title now.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Ali & Stuart s!

Final: (WC) Alastair Gray & Stuart Parker CR 1199 (440+759) defeated (1) Charles Broom & Luke Johnson CR 613 (359+254) by 7-6(4) 4-6 [10-5] biggrin bleh

Definitely not Charlie's day.

Priesty · Challenger level

Had a soft spot for Arthur ever since his heartbreaking loss to Griekspoor in last year's FQR at Wimbledon. Really hope to see more of him on the tour and that he can keep on climbing the rankings.

indiana · Tennis legend

Arthur takes the first set in the final vs Dan by 7-5. 3 breaks to 2.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Come on Arthur ! We need to have some sort of jeopardy going into the final week on grass!

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Priesty wrote:
Had a soft spot for Arthur ever since his heartbreaking loss to Griekspoor in last year's FQR at Wimbledon. Really hope to see more of him on the tour and that he can keep on climbing the rankings.

On the gossip channel, rumours that Arthur may go pro rather than returning to Stanford because the coach is so poor at developing players. IMO probably wants a Stanford degree or as he has two years left, he would transfer to a more competitive college team (eg Florida, Virginia, Ohio State, TCU) where hed still leave with a degree.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And Arthur's the after two hours & 44 minutes:

Final: Arthur Féry WR 889 defeated (6) Daniel Cox WR 472 by 7-6 2-6 7-5 biggrin bleh

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yippety !!!!

Sorry, Dan, but he served for the match, so he had his chance - and didn't take it

Arthur wins 7-5 in the third

Really pleased (partly for my mega biggie bet) but more because he is so under-ranked and really has played some excellent grass tennis this summer - playing in a fun, entrepreneurial way, a pleasure to watch, quite exciting....

He can keep his credits from Stanford, of course, and transfer them - or use them later

And his dad is a very wealthy man, so there's no issues on that front

Would be exciting for us if he turned full-time pro - but no problem if he wants to carry on the college route a bit - it's certainly doing him no harm (and he's still quite small, compared with the bulk of players)

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Elegant Point wrote:
Priesty wrote:
Had a soft spot for Arthur ever since his heartbreaking loss to Griekspoor in last year's FQR at Wimbledon. Really hope to see more of him on the tour and that he can keep on climbing the rankings.
On the gossip channel, rumours that Arthur may go pro rather than returning to Stanford because the coach is so poor at developing players. IMO probably wants a Stanford degree or as he has two years left, he would transfer to a more competitive college team (eg Florida, Virginia, Ohio State, TCU) where hed still leave with a degree.

https://twitter.com/ltacompetitions/status/1553405625643794433?s=21&t=Z8T8MTME-1_82EyscbcH-A

His post win interview definitely sounds like it might be true. When asked whats coming up next no talk of college just about trying to improve his ranking so he can play challengers.

Rich2310 · County player

Would love to see Arthur take on more tournaments now and go back to the studies later.
He comes across as a really nice young man.
Well done on his title today. Hopefully first of many.