GB F5 - Jersey 15K (Indoor Hard)

Sheddie · administrator

GB F5 - Jersey 15K (Indoor Hard)

RobC · All-time great

http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/bbc_in_jersey/shows/index.shtml

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Thanks for the results, I look forward to the information from the Jersey tournament, glad they've offered it.

Great to see Josh win, I think this step back down the futures to kick start his season was a great idea (planned or not) and hopefully he can get to the final and meet Baker there, not sure who I'd want to win that one but I'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Is the doubles draw out yet? Hope we can have a Brit winner in both singles and doubles here - to be honest we really should be able to given the seedings.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Ripped off SteveG:

(1)Joshua Goodall/Ross Hutchins (GBR) vs Yannick Jankovits/Alain Ntamag (FRA)
Mikk Irdoja/Alan Wright (EST/GBR) vs Tim Goransson/Armin Sandbichler (SWE/AUT)
(4)Neil Bamford/Ian Flanagan (GBR) vs Jeremy Blandin/Romain Jouan (FRA)
Simon Cauvard/Nicolas Tourte (FRA) vs Marcin Gawron/Mario Trnovsky (POL/SVK)
Fred Hemmes/Dawid Olejniczak (NED/POL) vs (WC)Jonathan Howell/Pawel Ostrowski (GBR/POL)
Andrew Coelho/Luka Gregorc (AUS/SLO) vs (3)Martin Fischer/Philipp Oswald (AUT)
Robert Godlewski/Blazej Koniusz (POL) vs Jamie Baker/Aisam Qureshi (GBR/PAK)
Dmitri Frumkin/Dmitri Vlasov (RUS) vs (2)Marco Crugnola/Stefano Ianni (ITA)

steven · Tennis legend

ROUND 1 SUMMARY

R1: (1) Josh Goodall WR 213 beat Conor Niland (IRL) WR 491 by 0 & 3
R1: Ian Flanagan WR 944 lost to Luka Gregorc (SLO) WR 433 by 7-6(4) 6-3
R1: (WC) Neil Bamford WR 721 lost to (4) Nicolas Tourte (FRA) WR 231 by 3-6 6-3 6-4
R1: (WC) Ross Hutchins WR 753 lost to Jeroen Masson (BEL) WR 490 by 3-6 6-3 6-4
R1: (Q) Edward Seator WR 1096 lost to (8) Martin Fischer (AUT) WR 396 by 3 & 2
R1: (3) Jamie Baker WR 249 beat (Q) Tim Goransson (SWE) WR 1525 by 2 & 4
R1: (WC) Matt Smith WR 677 lost to (Q) Simon Cauvard (FRA) UNR by 7-5 7-6(3)
R1: (WC) David Brewer WR 904 beat Andrew Coelho (AUS) WR 436 by 6-7 (6) 6-3 6-4

ROUND 2 DRAW

R2: (1) Josh Goodall WR 213 v Aisam Qureshi (PAK) WR 425
R2: (3) Jamie Baker WR 249 v (Q) Blazej Koniusz (POL) WR 824
R2: (WC) David Brewer WR 904 v (2) Tobias Clemens (GER) WR 223

On Wednesday, David is 2nd on Court 1 at about 11.30 GMT followed by Josh, while Jamie is 2nd on Court 2.

TBarM7 · Intermediate Club Player

I have emailed Jamie to see if I could get a feel on how he played in his first match. As soon as I get an answer I'll post it on here. I also emailed his coach, so hopefully we'll get a response from both.

Sheddie · administrator

Many thanks Craig, that's really cool

Will be interesting to hear their thoughts

john · Top national player

Satisfying start for Jamie. I fully expect him to reach semis or finals here. Just keep on playing consistent tennis and getting the results he's capable of and he'll be OK.

As for Matt Smith, absolutely shocking, but encouraging to see David Brewer continue his recent good form. Other results were pretty much expected.

Sheddie · administrator

imoen wrote:

Thanks for the results, I look forward to the information from the Jersey tournament, glad they've offered it.

Great to see Josh win, I think this step back down the futures to kick start his season was a great idea (planned or not) and hopefully he can get to the final and meet Baker there, not sure who I'd want to win that one but I'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Is the doubles draw out yet? Hope we can have a Brit winner in both singles and doubles here - to be honest we really should be able to given the seedings.

Unfortunately there wasn't any really useful info today, just a round-up of the results which he's sent to me and the Jersey evening post.

C'mon Bethan, you'd want Baker to win of course !

britishtennis.net contributor and one of my fav players !!

Sheddie · administrator

Good to see Josh and Jamie winning comfortably today

Niland's a pretty solid player and he's always given Jamie tough matches so it was impressive that Josh dispatched him so emphatically !

Hard to believe that before today, Josh hadn't won a match since December ! He's been unlucky to lose so many close ones

Most of the other results were pretty much expected apart from Smith and Brewer. Smith has seemed to be coming into form over the last couple of weeks, looked like the ideal draw for him to gain another ranking point and get a shot at a seed, very surprising result. Maybe that French guy just had a pretty big game which suited the courts ?

Brilliant win for Brewer

Coelho made a challenger semi and a futures final at the end of 2006, hasn't had a particularly good start to 2007 tho, just 1 win so Brewer caught him at a good time.

Looks like Bamford and Hutchins came close to pulling off shock wins. Has anyone here seen them play ? They've often given much higher ranked players close matches in the past, I'd be interested to know how high people think they could go. I've heard that Hutchins is a serve-volleyer but that's about it.

Sheddie · administrator

Looking ahead to tomorrow's rd2 matches:

Tricky one for Josh, Qureshi's currently outside the top 400 but he's been top 200 in singles and top 100 in doubles in the past. He competed in the two 15Ks in Devon in February, reaching the semis of Exmouth and the quarters of Barnstaple. Won close matches against Kasiri and Smith.

Should be another straights win for Jamie, his Polish opponent is 18 and has had his best results on clay, making the latter stages of several 10Ks on the dirt in 2006.

I was amazed at Tobias Clemens entering this tournament but I've just seen that before his rd1 win, he hadn't won since the start of November ! He had some superb results indoors last autumn, reaching the Helsinki challenger final and qualifying and reaching the quarters of ATP Metz. Alan Mackin beat him 7-5, 6-1 but I doubt Brewer can beat a top 250 guy. Hope I'm wrong tho !

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

ultimateshedman wrote:

Great to see Josh win, I think this step back down the futures to kick start his season was a great idea (planned or not) and hopefully he can get to the final and meet Baker there, not sure who I'd want to win that one but I'll cross that bridge when we get there.

C'mon Bethan, you'd want Baker to win of course ! britishtennis.net contributor and one of my fav players !!

Well yeah, but Josh is my local lad, coming from Basingstoke which is just down the road from Newbury and has a great shopping centre so it's hard to choose

Sheddie · administrator

plus he likes dark-haired girls apparently, but really Bethan, that shouldn't come into it

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

David, you should know, there really are people out there less shallow than you, hard to imagine I know, but it's true and I happen to be one of them.

Having said that, that little tidbit will be tucked away for future reference...

johnnylad · Tennis legend

2nd rd:

Nicolas Tourte (Fra) bt Stefano Ianni (Ita) 6-3 6-1

Fritz Wolmarans (Rsa) bt Martin Fisher (Aut) 6-4 6-4

Jamie Baker (Gbr) bt Blazej Koniusz (Pol) 6-2 6-3

Tobias Clemens (Ger) bt Davd Brewer (Gbr) 6-2 7-6 (7-1)