GBF3 - Barnstaple - 2007.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

RE: GBF3 - Barnstaple - 2007.

mike55 · Lower Club Player

johnnylad wrote:

Not much representation in doubles either.

Jim May/Grambow (1022) vs Reister/Paukku (1053)

Kennaugh/Rushby vs Allinson/Irwin.

Only three teams with British interest. Two play each other in R1.

But look on the positive side, at least we're guaranteed to have a presence in R2.

Sheddie · administrator

Results so far:

D Kindlemann (Ger)(1) bt R Grambow (Ger) 7-5, 7-5

P Raja (Ind)(wr:1036) bt S Thornley (GB)(wr:1539) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2

N Desein (Bel) bt A Benneteau (Fr) 7-6, 6-0

S Robert (Fr)(4) bt F Wolmarans (RSA) 6-7, 6-3, 6-4

R Norby (Den)(q) bt D Klier (Ger) 6-4, 6-3

D Brewer (GB)(q) (wr:934) bt M Jaziri (Tun)(wr:537) 6-3, 6-4

A Qureshi (Pak)(8)(wr:407) bt R Connolly (GB)(q)(wr: 1056) 6-2, 6-3

M Smith (GB)(q)(wr:659) bt S Darcis (Bel)(wr:456) 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-4

Sheddie · administrator

Two great results there, Brewer knocking out a player ranked around 400 places higher and Smith getting revenge for his loss to Darcis in Sunderland in January.

Shame Thornley wasn't able to get his 2nd ranking point, that was a real opportunity missed.

Of the remaining matches, I can't see Tom Rushby beating the Belgian 4th seed Stefan Wauters. Wauters was top 250 last year, now he's ranked just outside the top 300. It's a shame as there's quite a few others in this draw who Rushby could have beaten.

Alex Miotto's opponent, Boris Opama is unranked but I doubt Alex will win as Opama beat several higher ranked opponents in the qualies in straight sets.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Brewer and Smith!

Akhenaten · Pro player

ultimateshedman wrote:

Of the remaining matches, I can't see Tom Rushby beating the Belgian 4th seed Stefan Wauters. Wauters was top 250 last year, now he's ranked just outside the top 300. It's a shame as there's quite a few others in this draw who Rushby could have beaten.

Alex Miotto's opponent, Boris Opama is unranked but I doubt Alex will win as Opama beat several higher ranked opponents in the qualies in straight sets.

Sadly, you're right...

Boris Obama (Fra) bt Alexander Miotto (Gbr) 6-4 7-6 (10-8)

Stefan Wauters (Bel) bt Tom Rushby (Gbr) 6-4 6-2

Sheddie · administrator

At least Miotto's match was closer than I thought, one of those ones where if he'd managed to nick the 2nd set it could have turned in his favour.

Wauters is an experienced guy...solid top 300 player, Rushby isn't playing consistently enough at the moment to trouble players like him. Hopefully that will change soon, he aims to break top 400 in the first half of this year, tough ask but if he gets a few nicer draws I think that he might have a shot. He'll probably have to play some more overseas tournaments to do so as these GB futures are so strong. Stephane Robert (4th seed) was playing in the main draw of Wroclaw 125K last week !

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Is Morgan playing today?

Sheddie · administrator

Morgan's currently on court, don't know the score

Unfortunately Slabba lost 6-2, 6-3

Salmon · Tennis legend

Philip Marx (Ger) bt Morgan Philipps (Gbr) 6-3 6-4

Better luck next time!

Sheddie · administrator

Ah well it was Morgan's first match indoors of 2007 and it's some change from clay ! Also, Marx is ranked about 200 places higher and is on form, he made a 15K final in Jan

steven · Tennis legend

R1 round-up

R1: (WC) Sean Thornley WR 1535 lost to (Q) Purav Raja (IND) WR 1023 by 3-6 6-3 6-2
R1: (WC) Alex Slabinsky WR 782 lost to (6) Frederik Nielsen (DEN) WR 347 by 2 & 3
R1: (Q) David Brewer WR 924 beat Malek Jaziri (TUN) WR 606 by 3 & 4
R1: (Q) Ross Connolly WR 1054 lost to (8) Aisam Qureshi (PAK) WR 406 by 2 & 3
R1: (WC) Alex Miotto WR 919 lost to (Q) Boris Obama (FRA) UNR by 6-4 7-6(8)
R1: (Q) Tom Rushby WR 673 lost to (4) Stefan Wauters (BEL) WR 308 by 4 & 2
R1: (WC) Morgan Phillips WR 579 lost to Philipp Marx (GER) WR 432 by 3 & 4
R1: (Q) Matt Smith WR 658 beat Steve Darcis (BEL) WR 461 by 7-6(4) 3-6 6-4

R2 draw

R2: (Q) David Brewer WR 924 v (8) Aisam Qureshi (PAK) WR 406
R2: (Q) Matt Smith WR 658 v (2) Torsten Popp (GER) WR 273

On Wednesday, David is 1st on Court 4 at 10.00 GMT, followed by Matt.

steven · Tennis legend

At first sight, David looks to have a hopeless task, playing someone ranked over 500 places above him, but he has happy memories of playing Quereshi, having beaten him 4 & 2 on clay (i.e. crushed dung) in Sri Lanka in November 2005 when he was giving away 741 ranking places to him (1225/484), one of his best ever results! Can he repeat the feat indoors on carpet?

-- Edited by steven at 21:10, 2007-02-13

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Morgan and Slabba -

Simon · Lower Club Player

This is the 3rd of 22 15K events in GB this year. So far we have had only one person in the main draw excluding qualifiers and Wild cards (Lee Childs in F1). I can't understand why the LTA are not providing tournaments where our players could win some points rather than giving away all the prize money to overseas players. Some 10K events and even a 25K satellite would give those ranked 500 to 900 more of a chance. At the mo many are forced to travel abroad to try to pick up ranking points which surely is wrong?!