British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Stircrazy wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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L16:  (WC/6) Charles Broom WR 289 defeated Alex Rybakov (USA) WR 507 by 5 & 3

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QF:  Lui Maxted WR 403 vs Adrian Boitan (ROU) WR 441

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L16:  Anton Matusevich WR 357 defeated (1) Elmer Møller (DEN) WR 172 by 1 & 3  

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 Great result from Anton, like this!

Stircrazy wrote:

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          QF:  Lui Maxted WR 403 vs Adrian Boitan (ROU) WR 441

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L16:  (WC) Mark Ceban WR 2097 defeated (PR) Iliyan Radulov (BUL) WR 622 by 6-1 7-6(5)   

L16:  (WC) Oliver Tarvet WR 380 defeated (4) Matheus de Almeida (BRA) WR 281 by 6-2 5-7 6-4

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QF:  Anton Matusevich WR 357 vs (WC) Mark Ceban WR 2097
QF:  (WC) Oliver Tarvet WR 380 vs (WC/6) Charles Broom WR 289

A guaranteed finalist!  

Guaranteed British finalist, thats good. Mark v Anton is interesting. Charles beat Oliver last week and comfortably, not sure Id expect that to be as easy this time .

Wideopen draw with just two seeds left. Despite Charles being highest ranked, Ollie T seems to be tournie favourite based on Tennis Abstract forecasts.

Player SF F W
Anton Matusevich (GBR) 52.0% 16.6% 8.1%
(WC)Mark Ceban (GBR) 48.0% 14.5% 6.8%
(WC)Oliver Tarvet (GBR) 61.6% 44.9% 31.6%
(6)Charles Broom (GBR) 38.4% 24.0% 14.5%
Lui Maxted (GBR) 29.9% 5.7% 0.9%
Gabi Adrian Boitan (ROU) 70.1% 24.9% 7.5%
(8)Michael Geerts (BEL) 37.6% 23.6% 8.5%
Lucas Poullain (FRA) 62.4% 45.7% 22.0%

Surprised Ollie is such a strong favourite over Charles, lets see if he can justify this. Good luck to all 5 Brits left in.

Sheddie wrote:

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Worth noting that I think the last time we had someone aged 17 or younger make the quarters of a challenger was a 16 year old Andy Murray at Manchester 2003

Very impressive stuff from Mark to be winning matches at this level at his age

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 Good point 

To me, the most impressive thing is the progress - he started off very good in flashes in adult matches, going for broke, but without the focus to carry it through, and going AWOL, or getting frustrated - to really looking as though he belongs, that he doesn't have to play lights out tennis all the time, that's it's more under control - one mate I was with commented on how 'smart' his tennis was, which is not something I'd really thought as a standout feature about Mark - not saying he played dumb tennis, just that he was in the 'normal' range for that) 

And the progress has been very fast

(I'm expecting blips, of course, , but the marker has been laid down) 

Oliver had his serve more on song - which made a huge difference - and was great to see
Still not really flowing, I'd say
And Charlie blew his last game - only himself to blame