British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Ruby Bishop had to withdraw from her final; Ruben lost his semi. Oli Cox result for the quad singles final not yet showing

The US warm up at College Park starts today. It is a Series 2 event, so similar level in relative terms to a 250 level event.

Gordon Reid is top seed in a 13 player mens draw. He has an opening bye.

Lucy Shuker and Cornelia Oosthuizen are in the womens field, a 12 player draw and both start in round one.

No entries in quad.

An excellent win for Lucy in her opener today, 3 tough sets against a player in Cabrillana who has had her number. Cornelia on the edge of going out though.

Lucy went out 0 and 0 to top seed, Van Koot. Ouch!

Gordon is leading his match, a set up and 2 all.

Gordon progresses to the final, in which he plays Japanese Takuya Miki.

The US Open draws are out and as follows:

Quad:

Singles - Greg Slade (WR 8) plays Leandro Pena (WR 12) of Brazil; Pena won their last match in April in 3 sets. Promises to be a close match.

Andy Lapthorne (WR 5) plays South African Donald Ramphadi (WR9). Andy has the head to head lead although its 2 years since they last met, in this event

Doubles - Greg is with Aussie Jin Woodman and Andy is seeded 2 with David Wagner of the US.

Womens:

Singles - Lucy Shuker (WR 15) plays Diede De Groot (WR11) of the NL. Not back to her best after injury setbacks, De Groot is one of the all time best and holds a 19-4 H2H over Lucy, including 1 and 1 at Wimbledon this year.

Doubles - Lucy is with Jiske Griffioen of the NL.

Mens:

Singles - Gordon Reid (WR5) plays Spaniard Daniel Caverzaschi (WR 9). Gordon has an 8-0 head to head although they havent played in over 12 months

Alfie Hewett (WR2) plays Charlie Cooper (WR 43) and a wildcard

Doubles - Alfie and Gordon play Cooper and fellow American Conner Stroud.

A reminder of the remaining main events this season:

Sep 2-6 US Open Grand Slam

Sep 16-20 Toyota Open de L'Ile de Re (off the coast near Nantes) Series 2

Sep 23-27 Sardinia Open Series 1

Sep 27-29 Japan Open (mens) Series 1

Sep 30 - Oct 5 - French Riviera Open Super Series

Oct 7-10 Manacor, Mallorca, Open Series 1

Oct 17-19 Japan Open (womens) Series 1

Oct 21-25 Open du Loiret Series 2

Oct 31- Nov 2 Paris Masters Series 1

November tbd - ITF NEC Masters Finals (last season it was 11-17 Nov, presumably similar this year although a venue is yet to be announced).

it struck me, a decent moment of the events left are in France and, over a whole season, France has a good share of the tour played there. They dont really have many top players (Houdet in the men, a couple of women around the slams entry lists) so must just really love hosting and watching their sports over there.