GB F11 - Felixstowe - Week 28 Of 2007.

Salmon · Tennis legend

GB F11 - Felixstowe - Week 28 Of 2007.

Bladetiger · Pro player

That's a pretty solid looking draw for a 15K futures!

john · Top national player

Josh steps down to Futures level again, bit of a comedown after the grass court season. Hopefully he can put behind him the worries of last week or 2, regroup and win the tournament.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Pray that Klein loses in Junior Wimbly as soon as possible. Given that he is a brilliant grass player, there's a good chance that he'll get a wild card here if he misses the qualies cut.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Dan, I am quoting your post here and deleting the duplicate thread. The board isn't letting me move posts.

ForeverDelayed wrote:

Qualifying draw

http://downloads.lta.org.uk/webservices/TempResults/070708FelixstoweMen/sqd.pdf

Guess the WC's then.... as all the obvious suspects are in qualifying

Kasiri must have 1, and then the rest to juniors I would guess

We should get at least 2, and possibly 4 qualifiers out of this

Salmon · Tennis legend

Kasiri and Matt Smith should be having direct entries (unless the SEs are used).

Wild cards should have gone to Dyce, Smethurst, Cox and someone else. It's possible that Bloomfield or Marray have taken one, but I hope not.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Results are here: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/carlbaldwintennis/Mens%20QS.pdf

Klein was removed (probably got into the main draw) and Milton took full advantage of it. Two good wins from Evans.

Final qualies round (rankings correct as of today):

Joshua Milton [Unr] vs. Antoine Tassart [1286] of France
Alexander Slabinsky [747] vs. Purav Raja [824] of India
Daniel Evans [1511] vs. Ken Skupski [1335]
Ross Connolly [1034] vs. Alexander Sadecky [725] of Switzerland
Robert Searle [846] vs. David Brewer [882]
Luke Campbell [Unr] vs. Ed Corrie [1125]
Neil Bamford [870] vs. Travis Rettenmaier [1246] of the USA

At least three qualifiers is good. It's a shame that Evans and Skupski have to play each other.

XCW4EVA · County player

What results Milton is having, he did well at wimbly too didn't he?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yep. Won a round and then took a set off Klein.

It's good to see him do well after the terrible South American trip that he had. He'll do very well to qualify here, though. Tassart beat Jim May in the previous round, so he must be a good grass player.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Wild cards have gone to -

Dyce
Smethurst
Cox
James Ward

I am not happy with Ward getting a wild card. He would make the main draw with his ranking if he had entered himself. Good luck to him in any case.

Bladetiger · Pro player

Arka wrote:

At least three qualifiers is good. It's a shame that Evans and Skupski have to play each other.

Damn, the two people I most wanted to get through - Evans and Skupski have to play each other.

I expect Ken to be too strong on grass, but good experience for Dan!

Would be a pretty decent scalp if he won tho'

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Montana Doug · Futures qualifying

I think I asked this before, but what is the story with Skupski? I know he is a little older, but some of his results during the grass court season and his bad luck with draws etc, I'd love him to do well as he has talent.

Salmon · Tennis legend

He was in the US, studying at the Louisiana State University.

Montana Doug · Futures qualifying

Thanks for that info Arka....might be cool to make a list of Brits who come on over here to place College/Uni tennis. Maybe I could catch a match or two if I knew they were coming up here. Montana State U has a good college team etc.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Evans and Milton both qualified.

Cox got Alun Jones in the main draw.