Week 39 - Futures F18 (M) - Nottingham 2, Great Britain

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Week 39 - Futures F18 (M) - Nottingham 2, Great Britain

gazzpash · Club Coach

imoen wrote:

Excellent to see Jamie and Josh in the final. Not sure who I want to win though, which i suppose means I'm not going to be disappointed!! I think Jamie should have too much for Josh at the moment but it could be close.

Am I the only one who thinks yeah great we have an all British final, but these lads should be in challengers not futures. With these two's talent and ranking they should be in final no questions. If the final was 2 Brits like Kasari vs Rushby it would be more of an achievement.

Dont mean to be pessimistic but being a realist too. Well done lads, but we need to raise the level

steven · Tennis legend

No, you're not the only one, but given that they did enter here, at least they have both made the Final!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Yeah, I agree gazzpash but like Steven says my delight is that they have made the final and haven't lost to someone they really shouldn't lose to as Brits seem to be wont to do.

As for not being in challengers, for Baker and Bloomfield I think it's due to the Davis Cup, meaning they couldn't travel until the Sunday evening, I'll be surprised and disappointed if we see them in futures again this year.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Its Bakers 'home' tournament as well, although there are so many at Nottingham he'd be there too much if so.

As you say Bethan, the Davis Cup meant they were in the country and so I tihnk this was sensible. Plus for Jamie, he may have wanted to defend his title which is fair enough and defend his points which he needs to keep getting DA's into these challengers.

Is he MD in the US Challenger next week? Hope so, or he'll miss qualies sign in because of his success here.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Madeline wrote:

You wait for ages for a report on results, then 3 come along together. . .

Just like London buses! wink

Drew · Sep 29, 2007

Result from Nottingham :

Josh Goodall def Jamie Baker 6-3 6-4

Well done Josh !!!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Well done Josh indeed! 18 points for him. Another good couple of weeks and he can have a ranking that starts with a 2 again!

Pity for Jamie but we know he'll be ok.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

johnnylad wrote:

Well done Josh indeed! 18 points for him. Another good couple of weeks and he can have a ranking that starts with a 2 again!

Pity for Jamie but we know he'll be ok.

This was a $15k event - therefore 24 points for Josh

helki · Futures qualifying

Anyone know why Brewer and Flanagan had to withdraw from the doubles final?

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Even better!!! How many did Jamie get?

johnnylad · Tennis legend

johnnylad wrote:

Is he MD in the US Challenger next week? Hope so, or he'll miss qualies sign in because of his success here.

don't know what I'm talking about. No challenger for Jamie next week.

Though he could have made qualies at Mons or Metz if he had lost in the semis...

Sheddie · administrator

Great stuff from Josh...back inside the top 300 now after dropping down to 381 earlier this month. Hopefully he keeps racking up the pts with not much to defend till December (he made those two finals in the Czech Republic last yr). Next up for him is Jersey, Glasgow, Barnstaple (challenger)

Jamie heads to Sacramento and then Calabasas. After that I dont know but I read that he's playing almost continuously till Dec

Sheddie · administrator

gazzpash wrote:

Am I the only one who thinks yeah great we have an all British final, but these lads should be in challengers not futures. With these two's talent and ranking they should be in final no questions. If the final was 2 Brits like Kasari vs Rushby it would be more of an achievement.

Dont mean to be pessimistic but being a realist too. Well done lads, but we need to raise the level

Good point..it's good to see them in the final but they really should have been there ! I think Jamie would have been in challengers but for DC plus he won the title here last yr and competing in it again offered best chance of defending those pts

As for Josh, he hasn't really cut the mustard at challenger level since July 2006...dont think he's made a qf at that level since. He's very much a confidence player so I think it's good him racking up the wins and pts at this level atm, and hopefully move towards top 250 in next few weeks...then he'll approach Barnstaple and the other indoor challengers in the best frame of mind.

For me, the most encouraging results of the week came from Tim Hewitt who's not achieved anything like that before.

Bladetiger · Pro player

Just wanted to bump the thread and say 'well done Josh' on a great week.

It's very true, that Josh is a confidence player even more than most, so lets hope this starts him off on a good run, and gets that ranking back up to where we know it can be.