Not a good day.

Doubles?

Good to see some of the Brits winning and getting ranking points, but some of the losses are a bit disappointing

Well done to Goodall, Cox, Slabba, Bamford, Illingworth and Skupski for the wins, and getting the ranking point, and hopefully they can kick on in this tournament and win the next match as well

Didn't expect Irwin and Rushby to lose as easily as they did, and Miles should not be losing to La Porte, so his rise up the rankings looks to have slowed down

Evans put up a great performance by the looks of things, and losing in a 3rd set TB to a player 800 places above him shows that he could have done so much better with a decent draw, and very unlucky to lose the match

Feaver almost got his first ranking point, but hopefully it will come next week

Based on this, round 2 has:

Skupski vs. La Porte
Goodall vs. Qualifier
Cox vs. Junaid
Slabba vs. Popovic

Don't know where the Q's are placed, so Bamford/Illingworth could be anywhere in the draw, and could play either King-Turner, Goodall, or Niland

All the results:


(1)Martin Fischer (AUT) d. Navdeep Singh (IND) 6-1 6-2
(q)Marcus Daniell (NZL) d. Jiri Krkoska (CZE) 6-3 7-5
(WC)Kenneth Skupski (GBR) d. Ian Flanagan (GBR) 6-3 6-4
Shane Laporte (USA) d. (7)Miles Kasiri (GBR) 3-6 7-5 6-2
(3)Daniel King-Turner (NZL) d. (WC)Sean Thornley (GBR) 6-3 6-3
(q)Matthew Illingworth (GBR) d. (q)Ben Pritchard (GBR) 6-3 6-4
Jeremy Blandin (FRA) d. Richard Irwin (GBR) 6-1 6-4
(6)Rasmus Norby (DEN) d. Tom Rushby (GBR) 6-3 6-1
(5)Joshua Goodall (GBR) d. Olivier Charroin (FRA) 6-1 6-2
(q)Neil Bamford (GBR) d. (q)James Feaver (GBR) 3-6 6-3 7-5
(WC)Daniel Cox (GBR) d. Edward Seator (GBR) 6-4 6-4
(4)Rameez Junaid (AUS) d. (WC)Daniel Evans (GBR) 7-5 4-6 7-6(5)
(8)Alexander Slabinsky (GBR) d. (q)Jagdev Sagoo (GBR) 7-6(7) 6-4
Petar Popovic (FRA) d. Philipp Oswald (AUT) 7-6(8) 7-6(5)
(q)Luca Rovetta (ITA) d. (q)James Richardson (GBR) 6-2 6-7(2) 7-6(4)
(2)Conor Niland (IRL) d. (LL)Kyle Brassington (GBR) 6-0 6-3

Great show by Richo here and it's sad that he doesn't get his first point this week.



Doubles:

(1)Joshua Goodall/Tom Rushby (GBR) d. Matthew Illingworth/Chris Llewellyn (GBR) 6-1 6-2
Tim Bradshaw/Michael Crooks (GBR) d. Tim Hewitt/Ben Pritchard (GBR) 6-3 7-6(3)
(3)Neil Bamford/Rasmus Norby (GBR/DEN) d. Andrew Kennaugh/Kenneth Skupski (GBR) 7-6(3) 3-6 (10-7)
Daniel King-Turner/Shane Laporte (NZL/USA) d. (WC)Lloyd Bruce-Burgess/Ben Dunbar (GBR) 6-3 6-1
David Barton/Antonhy Davison (GBR) d. Edward Seator/Alexander Slabinsky (GBR) w/o
Jeremy Blandin/Olivier Charroin (FRA) d. (4)Rameez Junaid/Navdeep Singh (AUS/IND) 6-3 7-6(3)
Edward Allinson/Richard Irwin (GBR) d. Ian Flanagan/Jiri Krkoska (GBR/CZE) 4-1 ret.
(2)Martin Fischer/Philipp Oswald (AUT) d. Daniel Cox/Dan Smethurst (GBR) 6-1 6-4

Not a great set of results in the singles yesterday but good wins for Cox and Skupski nonetheless

Any reason given for the Slabba/Seator w/o in the doubles?

Mixed bag of results yesterday.

Performance of the day has to be Evo. Junaid has made 3 futures finals and quarters of a challenger this yr and Evo was within a couple of pts of victory. I think that Evo, Cox and Dyce should play some of the weaker futures in Africa/Asia this autumn to accelerate their progress up the rankings as Henman did. They'd be capable of making semis and finals in those.

Impressive result for Cox aswell against the on-form Seator...will be interesting to see how he fares against Junaid today. Cox and Evans are closely matched so on paper it should be another tight one...does depends on how well the game styles match-up though too.

Shame Richardson couldn't get his first pt but first time he's had results like this in a futures...I don't think he's qualified before ?

Good to see Goodall cruising through, Bamford shouldnt pose too many problems, he seems out of form atm and Goodall won their last match in straights

Slabba did well, Sagoo is dangerous as we all know....real shame that they had to play in rd1 though...Jag is so unlucky with draws...hopefully he can stay fit for the rest of this autumn cause he can do some real some real damage especially on these courts

hopefully he can beat Popovic tomorrow, on paper he should do as the Frenchman is ranked about 100 places lower. However last week he won a 10K on clay, didn't beat anyone ranked inside top 650 though. Popovic won yesterday in two tiebreaks...I think it will be close

Big disappointment was Kasiri's loss...he'll really big kicking himself for that...this was a great opportunity to make the quarters and crack top 600. He really should be beating players like La Porte. Seems to be struggling with consistency since he returned from injury...some surprising losses. He hasn't had a good run since those great results in Greece in May, hopefully he can pick things up this autumn...should be doing a lot better than this.

Was hoping that Pritchard would win as he's a good prospect...problem he has is that he's got the huge serve but once opponent's start to read that, he can be too passive in the baseline rallies....needs to try and be more aggressive as he's got the shots to do so. Illingworth is just super-solid, just gives opponents nothing. He will give King-Turner a good match

Disappointing that Irwin and Rushby's losses were so conclusive, for both of those guys I think their future lies in doubles. Rushby is on the verge of top 300 doubles....once he gets into top 250 he'll be able to start playing challengers and then I think he might opt more for the doubles.


-- Edited by Sheddie at 13:54, 2007-09-19

gone with that had match pont