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JonH comes home


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Stircrazy wrote:
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indiana wrote:

Good stuff. Go back a year or so and few folk would have expected Bilky to be better ranked than Aidan and now pushing ever closer to the top 300.

Aidan has made some progress but Billly very markedly so and now indeed edges their recent head to heads.

 And not only that, it sounds as though his clarinet playing has significantly improved too wink

  You have to be of a certain age to appreciate that one!  wink

 Billy AKA Bilky it seems

I may be wrong, but I suspect that Priesty had the 60s jazz clarinettist, Acker Bilk, in mind with that one.

 Yes- so did I AKA Bilky was a play on the name 



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Stircrazy wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Priesty wrote:
indiana wrote:

Good stuff. Go back a year or so and few folk would have expected Bilky to be better ranked than Aidan and now pushing ever closer to the top 300.

Aidan has made some progress but Billly very markedly so and now indeed edges their recent head to heads.

 And not only that, it sounds as though his clarinet playing has significantly improved too wink

  You have to be of a certain age to appreciate that one!  wink

 Billy AKA Bilky it seems

I may be wrong, but I suspect that Priesty had the 60s jazz clarinettist, Acker Bilk, in mind with that one.

 Maybe I was too subtle but I thought it was quite clever ! 



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Stircrazy wrote:
L16:  Billy Harris & Petros Tsitsipas (GRE) CR 684 (525+159) vs Steven Diez & Alexander Ritschard (CAN/SUI) CR 1350 (916+434)

L16:  Billy Harris & Petros Tsitsipas (GRE) CR 522 (355+167) vs (ALT) Nicolás Mejía & Andrés Urrea (COL/COL) CR 564 (175+389)

Doesn't look like a change for the better!  cry



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Pleased for Billy. One more win would take him into that Top 300.

As others have mentioned, Billy and Aidan have played each other three times already this year, so they certainly aren't Strangers on the Shore.

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Bob in Spain wrote:

Pleased for Billy. One more win would take him into that Top 300.

As others have mentioned, Billy and Aidan have played each other three times already this year, so they certainly aren't Strangers on the Shore.

 Nice one smile



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L32:  (5) Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) WR 225 defeated (WC) Millen Hurrion WR 775 (= CH) by 6-0 7-6(7)



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L16:  (ALT) Nicolás Mejía & Andrés Urrea (COL/COL) CR 564 (175+389) defeated Billy Harris & Petros Tsitsipas (GRE) CR 522 (355+167) by 7-6(3) 6-4



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Stircrazy wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Priesty wrote:
indiana wrote:

Good stuff. Go back a year or so and few folk would have expected Bilky to be better ranked than Aidan and now pushing ever closer to the top 300.

Aidan has made some progress but Billly very markedly so and now indeed edges their recent head to heads.

 And not only that, it sounds as though his clarinet playing has significantly improved too wink

  You have to be of a certain age to appreciate that one!  wink

 Billy AKA Bilky it seems

I may be wrong, but I suspect that Priesty had the 60s jazz clarinettist, Acker Bilk, in mind with that one.

 Correct, I wasn't actually born in the 60s but play the clarinet myself so am familiar with the name wink



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Priesty wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Priesty wrote:
indiana wrote:

Good stuff. Go back a year or so and few folk would have expected Bilky to be better ranked than Aidan and now pushing ever closer to the top 300.

Aidan has made some progress but Billly very markedly so and now indeed edges their recent head to heads.

 And not only that, it sounds as though his clarinet playing has significantly improved too wink

  You have to be of a certain age to appreciate that one!  wink

 Billy AKA Bilky it seems

I may be wrong, but I suspect that Priesty had the 60s jazz clarinettist, Acker Bilk, in mind with that one.

 Correct, I wasn't actually born in the 60s but play the clarinet myself so am familiar with the name wink

 We were all on the same page - my play on words was just over folks heads! 



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Julian and Henry were 4-1 up with their opponents retired.

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https://youtu.be/_cEr4CCtllA

 

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-- Edited by Strongbow on Wednesday 3rd of August 2022 10:28:33 PM

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L16:  (3) Julian Cash & Henry Patten CR 283 (143+140) defeated (WC) Brandon Holt & Govind Nanda (USA/USA) CR 1401 (902+499) by 4-1 retired

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QF:  (3) Julian Cash & Henry Patten CR 283 (143+140) vs Enzo Couacaud & Andrew Harris (FRA/AUS) CR 421 (216+205)



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L16:  Gijs Brouwer (NED) & Aidan McHugh CR 700 (164+536) defeated Shang Juncheng & Li Tu (CHN/AUS) UNR (0+204) by 6-4 7-6(4)

L16:  (2) Yuki Bhambri & Saketh Myneni (IND/IND) CR 281 (154+127) defeated (WC) Millen Hurrion & JJ Mercer (USA) CR 3129 (1007+2122) by 4-6 6-3 [10-6]  hmm

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QF:  Hady Habib & Benjamin Sigouin (LIB/CAN) CR 1244 (1029+215) vs Gijs Brouwer (NED) & Aidan McHugh CR 700 (164+536)

Habib & Sigouin put out the top seeds, Evan King & Artem Sitak, in three sets...

 



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Billy lost the first set in a TB

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Coup Droit wrote:

Billy lost the first set in a TB

but roared back to level the match by taking the second by 6-1.  smile 



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