JUNE 24-29 ROEHAMPTON, Boys

Salmon · Tennis legend

JUNE 24-29 ROEHAMPTON, Boys

Salmon · Tennis legend

I have some results.

Cox is through to the third round.

As is Milton.

Smethurst won a round and then lost a close match to Eysseric.

Pauffley won a round and then lost.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Results.

Sheddie · administrator

It looks like rain has forced the matches to be shortened to first to 4 games with a tiebreak at 4-4.

Results in full:

U Ignatik (Blr)(1) bt S Thornley 4-2, 5-3

B Cox (USA) bt T Knights 4-0, 4-2

G Dyce bt Macedonian player with a crazy long name....4-1, 5-4(0)

J Eyserric (Fra)(3) bt T Hewitt 5-3, 4-0

D Smethurst bt G Dimitrov (Bul)(q) 4-2, 4-2

N Pauffley bt X Spong (Ned) 4-2, 0-4, 10-6

G Coupland bt D Hume (RSA) 5-4(9), 4-1

M Klizan (Svk) bt M Willis 2-4, 5-4(3), 10-5

R Albot (MDA) bt D Evans 4-0, 5-3

M James bt S Donald (Aus)(6) 4-1, 5-4(6)

J Milton bt a Dutch dude 5-4(4), 5-3

D Cox bt S Cho (Kor) 4-1, 5-4(1)

Sheddie · administrator

G Aranguiz (Mex) (12) bt G Dyce 5-4(2), 5-4(5)

J Eysseric (Fra)(3) bt D Smethurst 3-5, 4-1, 10-8

J Smith (Aus)(6) bt G Coupland 5-4(2), 4-1

D Britton (US)(q) bt M James 4-2, 4-2

J Milton bt H Peng (Chi) 4-2, 3-5, 10-8

D Cox bt C Rungkat (Ind) 4-1, 5-4(1)

Sheddie · administrator

Some great wins for Cox and Milton particularly Cox's rd2 win as Rungkat took out world no 3 Romboli in rd1

Cox and Milton now square off for a place in the quarters...they faced eacch other twice last autumn and Cox won both encounters....6-3, 6-3 in a futures indoors and 6-7, 6-1, 6-3 in the final of a G4 on clay....Cox's more aggressively minded game will make him the favourite on grass

Matt James also had a great rd1 win over Aussie world no 11 Stephen Donald who also has some pts on the mens tour but a surprisingly one sided defeat in rd2 today against an American qualifier

Smethurst did well to push Eysseric that close as Eysseric is in the top 1000 on the mens tour and played the French Open main draw last month

Willis also got a rotten rd1 draw....Klizan was world junior no 1 and won RG juniors in 2006

Shame that Dyce wasn't able to come through that close rd2 match, showing signs that he's getting back to his best form...his big game should be well suited to grass so hopefully with a decent draw he can cause some damage at Wimbledon next week. I believe he's mainly concentrating on futures from July onwards

Salmon · Tennis legend

Cox also beat Milton by 0 and 3 (or 3 and 0, I don't remember) at the Nationals last year.

Shame about Marcus's draw.

Sheddie · administrator

yeah with his serve, he could have done some damage in this tourney....hoping for better luck at Wimbledon...he's got a wc there ?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yep, he got a wild card.

Sheddie · administrator

are u able to watch the Wimbledon coverage on the BBC website Arks ?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Nope.

The site never works on my computer. We get a bit of it on TV, though, which isn't bad. Saw a bit of Tim and three minutes of Cavaday.

Sheddie · administrator

have you tried connecting to the BBC site using a proxy server like www.youhide.com ??

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Hope Daniel gets to the QF an defends his points from last year, but also can go further.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Cox is through to the semis.

Sheddie · administrator

R3: D Cox bt J Milton 5-3, 4-0

Quarters: D Cox bt D Britton (USA)(q) 1-4, 5-4(7), 10-6

Great stuff from Cox, bettering his performance from last year...did really well to come through that tough one against Britton who may be a qualifier but has knocked out a number of much higher ranked players this week....Cox took the 2nd set breaker 9-7...probably saved match pts !