ATP - The Nottingham Open

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: ATP - The Nottingham Open

johnnylad · Tennis legend

probably 3 or 4 more times today, a dozen tomorrow and every other time the subject comes up for the rest of your life because unless you're from Teeside no one knows how to spell it

Salmon · Tennis legend

Smethurst wins the last set by 6-1.

Montana Doug · Futures qualifying

Who is Skupsi and how come he gets to play Liverpool each year and does well....sorry just don't know much about him and wonder why with his talent he did not do more during his career?

steven · Tennis legend

Summary of all QR1 results (only the Gimelstob result is still unknown) and QR2 matches involving Brits - I don't know whether QR2 is being played as originally scheduled.

QR1: (WC) Tom Knights UNR lost to (q1) Chris Guccione (AUS) WR 98 by 1 & 2 cry
QR1: Sean Thornley WR 1332 beat (WC) Ben Dunbar UNR by 3 & 4 smile cry
QR1: (WC) Dan Smethurst UNR beat (WC) Tom Williams UNR by 7-6(3) 1-6 6-1 smile cry
QR1: (q5) Jamie Baker WR 247 beat Graeme Dyce WR 1494 by 2 & 4 smile cry
QR1: Ian Flanagan WR 795 beat (WC) George Coupland UNR by 1 & 3 smile cry
QR1: Ken Skupski UNR beat (WC) Daniel Cottier UNR by 2 & 4 smile cry
QR1: James Prescott UNR lost to (q6) Brendan Evans (USA) WR 252 by 0 & 0 bleh
QR1: (WC) Lewis Barnes UNR lost to Frederik Nielsen (DEN) WR 322 by 1 & 1 cry
QR1: Robert Chambers UNR lost to (q8) Jan Vacek (CZE) WR 273 by 1 & 1 cry
QR1: (q4) Josh Goodall WR 223 beat Edward Corrie WR 1116 by 7-5 7-6(2) smile cry
QR1: Daniel Cox WR 1062 beat Boris Obama (FRA) WR 1377 by 7-6(4) 4-6 6-3 smile
QR1: Daniel Evans WR 1494 beat Carlos Salamanca (COL) WR 298 by 3 & 2 smile
QR1: (q7) Jonny Marray WR 262 beat Chris Harfield UNR by 0 & 1 smile cry

QR2: Sean Thornley WR 1332 v (q1) Chris Guccione (AUS) WR 98
QR2: (q5) Jamie Baker WR 247 v (WC) Dan Smethurst UNR
QR2: Ian Flanagan WR 795 v (q2) Justin Gimelstob (USA) WR 147 (probably)
QR2: Ken Skupski UNR v (q6) Brendan Evans (USA) WR 252
QR2: (q4) Josh Goodall WR 223 v Daniel Cox WR 1062
QR2: (q7) Jonny Marray WR 262 v Daniel Evans WR 1494

FQR: Thornley or Guccione v Baker or Smethurst
FQR: Flanagan or Gimelstob v Skupski or Evans
FQR: Goodall or Cox v Evans or Marray

Salmon · Tennis legend

Gimelstob is a set down (but a break up) to a 36 year old ranked outside the top 1000.

steven · Tennis legend

Well, we've got our Booty & Stretch v Aucks & Huss match-up ... but it's in R1 cry

steven · Tennis legend

Doubles R1

(WC) Goodall & Hutchins v (4) Bhupathi & Gimelstob
(WC) Bloomfield & Marray v Calleri & Lapentti ... winners to play winners of:
Auckland & Huss v (3) Butorac & Murray

Sheddie · administrator

Personally I think this is a worse draw for Bloomers than last week...he is really unlucky with these draws, hope things improve at Wimbledon

Salmon · Tennis legend

Doug, Skupski is from Liverpool and hence plays there every year.

Thornley has the worst draw possible. If nothing else, the experience will be very good for him.

Baker should beat Smethurst comfortably, but hopefully he'll take a few games off him.

Gimelstob struggled in a match he should have won by 2 and 1, so maybe Flanagan has an outside chance.

Wonder if Skupski can play like he did against Ferrer once again... He'll have a good chance if he does that.

Cox has never played someone ranked so high, so it'll be a good test for him. Goodall and Dan know each other well as they both train in Roehampton. Goodall is obviously the favourite by miles but hopefully Cox will be able to come out with some positives.

Evans's match is equally tough which is a shame as he got his best ever win in the first round.
Since he is sort of a home boy, all his coaches will probably be watching this. Hopefully he'll take some games off Jonny.

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

goldenboy wrote:
I agree that it is an excellent draw for Alex - a clay couter ranked around 60, and Hrbaty as a probable second round opponent. Hrbaty is ranked 33, but has won few matches in the last 3 months. Alex really needs to win a consecutive matches in these high level tournaments if he is going to rack up those ranking points. Unfortunately for Al, he excellent effort at Queens only netted 20 points as it is 56 draw. First round win at Nottinbgham would only be 15, but winning two matched would net 40 which would make a real difference to his ranking. I remember that he was not particularly fortunate with draws last year, lets see if he can make hay this time....

thats one of the best r1 draws boggo could have hoped for, but 2nd round would be a tough one. however, if he plays like he did this week, then he has a chance of making the quarters, and hopefully coming up against tim! would also say that the surface suits him a bit better in notts than queens.

a win both here and wimbledon may see boggo sneak into the top 100, for a week at least!

i don't think its a terrible draw for bloomers - bjorkman is starting to feel his age with the singles i think, though has pedigree at notts so would still be the favourite.

shame the qualies are moving indoors - bit unnecessary i think this early in the week - still got 2 full days and could always stretch into monday - but there you go!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Actually the qualies being moved indoors isn't that bad a thing. Baker has a far better chance of beating Guccione on hard courts than on grass.

On the other hand, you could argue that playing on grass would give our players some much needed practice before Wimbledon (and Roehampton).

XCW4EVA · County player

1st Matches up on court should be:
Cox v Goodall
Evans v Murray
Sa v Simmonds
Vacek v Nielsen

Not up on livescore as of yet though

Salmon · Tennis legend

Livescores?

XCW4EVA · County player

from the atp site, the qualies were on it late afternoon yesterday.