Goes without saying a fantastic result but my feeling is that Evan would be at or around this level had he not got hurt, just hope he stays fit and gets a good run of form.

Good to see some early pay back so soon after getting back to futures tennis. One more win and he's protected his points for last year!

I really hope he proves to be a big loss to college tennis the NCAA rulings and how they are interpreted are a total nonsense and ruthlessly manipulated by the colleges and the athletes representatives/ families to insure all parties/ networks are kept happy. Cam Newtons college career at auburn makes a good case study but then for QB s the pavements of the SEC are paved with gold.

Oh well, 7x as many games against Jankovits as last week ...

R2 round-up

L16: (SE) Andrew Bettles WR 1698 lost to (3) Yannick Jankovits (FRA) WR 425 (CH 378 in 2012) by 3 & 4
L16: (Q) Evan Hoyt WR 1581 beat (5) Dino Marcan (CRO) WR 544 (CH 289 in 2012) by 6-4 2-6 6-4
L16: (Q) Imran Aswat WR 1175 lost to (2) David Pérez Sanz (ESP) WR 387 (CH 357 in Aug) by w/o

Evan's QF opponent is still being decided.

I think his first aim is to get as many points as possible to avoid having to qualify. Probably only need 10-12 to do this.

2pts is a nice start.

Bettles and Clayton getting close to that point as well when they will be on the cusp of the main draw.

Coup Droit wrote:

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Bob in Spain wrote:

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And I thought Evan was supposed to be rusty and coming back from injury. That's another terrific win.

When I spoke to James Trottman in La Manga whilst he was working with Evan and Oli at the start of the year, he told me that Evan's ranking target was 650 for this season. Three tournament wins on this trip to Tunisia and he could surpass that with ease LOL.

Great job Evan.

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Interesting, Bob. Good to hear something out the horse's mouth, so to speak. Was that Jan 2014 target for end of 2014 i.e. now ? In which case, it obviously got annihilated by injury. Or for end 2015? If this year, I wonder if he's 'starting again' i.e. just rolling the goal into 2015 now. Or if the goal will be different this year.  

He's certainly trying to do some serious fund-raising. I don't know if that stands much chance of success (any special Welsh funding pots for sportsmen?) but obviously all wins, and especially good wins, will help his cause.

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I was talking to "Trotters" in Jan this year while Evan and Oli were working out in La Manga and telling him about my own personal "20 in the Top 500" target. I asked him if the players were given specific ranking targets.  He told me that they were, although I didn't expect him to make them public.

However, he just came straight out and told me. He said Evan's target for the end of 2014 was 650 and Oli's was 250. He didn't know the targets for Liam, Luke and Toby who were working on the next court with Mark Hilton.

What I don't know, is if those targets were official LTA targets or whether Trotters had set them for his own players.  

QF:  (4) Nicola Ghedin & Luca Margaroli (ITA/SUI) CR 1494 (1231+263) vs Andy Bettles & Evan Hoyt CR 2216 (1307+909)
QF:  Samuel Ribeiro & Pablo Vivero (ESP/ESP) UNR vs Damon Gooch (RSA) & James Marsalek CR  1775 (633+1142)

A cracking win for Andy & Evan:

QF:  Andy Bettles & Evan Hoyt CR 2216 (1307+909) defeated (4) Nicola Ghedin & Luca Margaroli (ITA/SUI) CR 1494 (1231+263) by 3 & 4