Stircrazy wrote:

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What makes you think that it was Kasiri's withdrawal that let in Thornley?  According to the draw sheet I printed off earlier today, he actually replaced the third seed, Fred Hemmes (NED/376)...

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I saw that too. But Kasiri was on the entry list the day before and would have been seeded above Rushby who became 9th seed, so he must have withdrawn at the 11th hour. Brewer, Miotto and 1 other can't all gave got the cleared SE's so Hemmes and Kasiri created 2 spaces imo

Doubles R1

Corrie/Rushby bt Hewitt/Pritchard 6-4 6-1

Allinson/Irwin bt Illingworth/Goodall(G) 3-6 6-2 6-0

La Porte/Ludlow bt Bradshaw/Colenbrander

Matthew Brooklyn/Richard Wire bt Hooshyar/Kinsella 7-6 6-3

Eaton/Ysern bt Dewhurst/Miotto 6-3 7-6(4)

Brewer/Campbell bt Rice/Milton 7-6(8) 3-6 6-3

Flanagan/Durek bt Czerwinski/Iannuzzi 6-4 7-5

Bad news only 1 quarter finalist. Rushby, despite being bagelled first set.

Good efforts from Wire and Rice but very disappointing otherwise
Mens 2nd rd:

Robert Smeets (Aus) bt David Rice (Gbr) 2-6 6-4 6-3

Daniel King-Turner (Nzl) bt Matthew Smith (Gbr) 6-1 6-4

Andrew Coelho (Aus) bt Richard Wire (Gbr) 4-6 6-3 6-4

Raphael Durek (Aus) bt Ian Flanagan (Gbr) 6-3 6-1

Samuel Groth (Aus) bt Alexander Slabinsky (Gbr) 6-4 7-5

Tom Rushby (Gbr) bt Shane La Porte (USA) 0-6 6-4 7-5

Pierrick Ysern (Fra) bt Enrico Iannuzzi (Ita) 7-6 (7-5) 6-0

Adam Feeney (Aus) bt Joshua Milton (Gbr) 6-3 4-1 rtd,

johnnylad wrote:

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Bad news only 1 quarter finalist. Rushby, despite being bagelled first set.

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Things went a bit better in the doubles, though that was a foregone conclusion, given that there was Brit interest on both sides of the net in three of the four QFs:

Corrie & Rushby [1] bt Allinson & Irwin 7-5 6-4
King-Turner (NZL) & Martin (FRA) bt La Porte & Ludlow (USA) [4] 6-4 6-7(5) 6-4
Eaton & Ysern (FRA) [3] bt Brooklyn & Wire 7-6(5) 1-6 6-3
Durek (AUS) & Flanagan [2] bt Brewer & Campbell 4-6 6-1 6-2

So, all the seeds bar the fourth justified their seeding.   Good day for Tom Rushby!

A shame that we had to lose so many players in the second round. So often that seems to be the case. However, some good efforts from some of the younger lads Rice in particular did well against someone around the 300 mark.

Is Rushby seeded? If so what's his seeding? I confess to not knowing much about him, age, prospects or anything really, can someone enlighten me please. Am I correct in assuming he plays Groth next? I hope he manages to win that.

The doubles as always has been better viewing. Why do people think that is? Is it the fact that doubles has less pressure attached to it (two players to share the load kind of thing)? If so that's something the lta need to address with the exciting juniors coming through, we want them to have their best results in singles not doubles. (Am I being overly harsh in my assesment of the situation? Feel free to correct me!)

3 Brits in the doubles final......

Corrie & Rushby [1] v Eaton & Ysern (FRA)

HOpefully Cumberland will provide us with some Brits going deeper!


Come on the ALL-BRITISH pair in the dubs final!