GB F7 - Bath - 2007.

Salmon · Tennis legend

GB F7 - Bath - 2007.

Sheddie · administrator

Slabba !!!

Where's the Baker boy ?

goldenboy · Club Coach

such a shame there are always so few brits at these futures these days. the fact that their 15k's basically just means our players aren't highly ranked enough, and the better ones are just about highly ranked enough to play challengers!

clearly foreigners have cottoned on thats it a great chance of picking up points (whilst taking in some lovely english culture - bath's a lovely place imho!

Salmon · Tennis legend

The entry list for the second Futures in Bath is loads better.

http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/tournamentacceptanceList.asp?tournament=1100015378&event=&order=Position

Sheddie · administrator

ultimateshedman wrote:

Where's the Baker boy ?

Hmmm, after this week's tourney in Poitiers he doesn't appear to be competing anywhere for 2 weeks

aha ! He pops up again in 3 weeks time in the Valencia 50K challenger where he's main draw along with Bogman and Bloomers.

Sheddie · administrator

goldenboy wrote:

such a shame there are always so few brits at these futures these days. the fact that their 15k's basically just means our players aren't highly ranked enough, and the better ones are just about highly ranked enough to play challengers!

Plus side is that it means that the guys like Bloomfield, Mackin, Baker, Goodall, Marray, Auckland who used to frequent these events, have now moved up to challengers (and in Aucks' case, ATPs).

Bad side is that it means there's no one coming through from lower down. Miles Kasiri is the best chance of the next Brit to crack top 300...Slabba and Chris Eaton have a good chance of making top 500.

After that, it's the likes of Simon Childs and the juniors. Dyce will hit the mens tour full time this autumn, will be interesting to see what his progress is like and Evans and the Coxy boy have looked promising in the futures they've played so far.

Sheddie · administrator

Check out the new poll.....

Forget the wildcards, where the likes of Baker and Goodall are this week, this is the question we really want to know the answer to !!!

He's been toying with the idea for a number of weeks now...finally there's a tournament which
isn't a million miles from London, so will he, won't he ??

Salmon · Tennis legend

Do you think that the directors will be nice enough and give us the names of the wild cards if we email them?

I spend hours thinking about the wild cards before each tournament.

Sheddie · administrator

The directors don't pick the wildcards, that's done by the LTA performance coaches....Luke Milligan's doing that for this tourney, would you like me to drop him a text ?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yes, of course!

Sheddie · administrator

Who do you think will have got them ?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Evans has to get one if he is interested in playing!

The LTA are giving them to younger players these days, so maybe one to Pauffley or Willis? They played in Bath last year.

The winner of the British Tour event normally gets one.

Qualies field should be packed with the younger players - Bath hosts quite a few Juniors.

steven · Tennis legend

Re. the poll - I asked Adam if he'd consider coming out of retirement to partner me, but when he found out I'd never had a ranking point, he refused, saying I wasn't good enough.

Apparently he's still waiting for Bloomers to call and ask him to partner him again, or for Queen's to call and offer him a WC ...

-- Edited by steven at 16:11, 2007-03-22

RobC · All-time great

Maybe try Robert Dee instead?

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Any news from Luke Milligan yet?