ATP - The Nottingham Open

XCW4EVA · County player

ATP - The Nottingham Open

christian · Intermediate Club Player

Big hold from Ken that one, it's going to be tough to make inroads on Gimelstob serve at present though.

christian · Intermediate Club Player

2 match points to Gimelstob now come on Ken fight.

Sadly he couldn't hold on. Shame as it was a really good effort.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

An exceptionally good fight from Skupski, just a shame he couldn't quite get the win in the end. I hope we see a lot more of him in the near future.

XCW4EVA · County player

Oh thats a shame, its a travesty that he's not going to get any points for this because he desrves at least 5!!!!
Hopefully the defeat won't get him down and he takes the positives from this match as well as the superb victory againt a top 500 player such as Brendan Evans and uses that to get on the ranking list, and then who knows. He definately deserves a wc into any futures.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

ForeverDelayed wrote:

Gimelstob vs. Skupski is now on the scoreboard, so I guess that will be starting soon. I'd love Ken to get the win, but I see him losing quite easily after the effort he put in earlier

Does anyone know anything about Ken though, as I had never heard of him before this week

August 2001 Ken was British National Junior Doubles Champion with Bloomers before going to USA college.
http://www.game-set-and-match.org.uk/id20d_mtext.htm

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Brits OOP for Monday -

Centre court
1130 Doubles - Jamie M/EB vs Aucks/SH
3rd match (about 3.00pm) Singles - Boggo vs Garcia-Lopez

Court 1
2nd Match (about 1.30) Bloomers/Jonny vs Calerri/Lapennti
followed by
Josh/Ross vs Buphathi/Gimelstob

Which makes Tuesday an interesting day - weather permitting

Jack · Intermediate Club Player

Josh gets Gabashvilli

Jamie gets Del Potro .

XCW4EVA · County player

Bad luck to Jamie, Good luck for Josh tho

christian · Intermediate Club Player

There was a snippet in the Times last week mentioning Del Potro at Queens. The article was suggesting he was too tall and struggled on the grass against Nadal and was a bit like bambi at times. Hopefully he'll be the same this week.

XCW4EVA · County player

I saw his match against Thomas Johansen and he as actually really good, big groundstrokes and he just dominatd the rally.

christian · Intermediate Club Player

Fair enough maybe he had an off day against Nadal, I didn't see it, like I said just going off the report in the Times. Let's hope he has another off day, I would think much depends upon how Baker deals with the serve.

XCW4EVA · County player

Yeah agreed on that, i think Baker needs to get every ball back as possible and tr to make him run as i think he wasn't great at hitting and running on the grass(maybe thats what the article meant).

DeadRubber · Social player

Well done to Josh and Jamie getting to the main draw biggrin

Impressed with Jamie's result over gooch.

Think Josh has a good chance against Gabashvili who I don't think has much of a record on grass. Also he's out of form at the mo.

Jamie can't start slow against Del Potro, if he gets confident early he has big weapons to hurt Baker. Baker has a chance though.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Josh should be able to beat Gabashvilli, so that is a great chance for him to pick up some much needed ranking points

Jamie gets Del Potro, which isn't the worst draw, as he proved against Guiccione that he can cope with the big serve, and Guccione's serve is better than Del Potro's, and he broke him 3 times.

Hope to see all 5 Brits in the second round, but I don't think Bloomers will win, and I would guess that only 1 of the qualifiers will win their match, with the other going down in 3

Henman and Boggo both should win in straights (hopefully Gasquet/Spadea goes to 3 so that the match doesn't start before I finish my exam)