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RedCabbage


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Great guy :)

We should start a petition to get him a WC into a british futures even main draw - otherwise he'll be 70 by the time he qualifies! Maybe Jersey or something where he's likely to meet the cleaner's son in the first round.

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Talking of Rob Dee reminds me of this note from the Telegraph that I came across a couple of days ago re Eastbourne 2006:

"There was a shock for Justine Henin-Hardenne during a practice session in Eastbourne while she prepared for the Championships. The Belgian world No 5 hit with Adam Lownsbrough, a British no-hoper who is barely up to county standard. Henin-Hardenne looked surprised as the Briton, who has never won more than five games during his 41 consecutive defeats on the ITF circuit and has lost 6-0, 6-0 on nine occasions, shanked the ball all over Devonshire Park."

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Robert Dee is better than Adam lownsbrough, regardin results.

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Yes, there was that one doubles win in a futures in Sudan.....

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We should try and organise a Brit cult hero round robin tournament involving Dee, Lownsbrough, Law and this new guy Girard to see who is the champ of chumps!

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Chumps Invitation 2007

Round Robin format....Best of 5 sets

Rnd 1 :

R Dee def A Law 0-6 0-6 6-0 6-0 7-6(13)
A Lownsborough def Girard 0-6 0-5 ret

Rnd 2 :

Girard (After intense medical treatment) def A Law 7-6(7) 0-6 7-5 0-6 6-0
R Dee def A Lownsborough 6-1 6-1 0-5 ret (Adam fainted after winning 5 games on the bounce)

Final Girard def R Dee w/o

(Robert had to leave to sign in for Sudan F1 qualies so missed the final)

Doubles :

R Dee / A Lownsborough def A Law / Girard 7-6(1) 7-5 4-6 6-7(20) 7-5 after 4 hours and 12 minutes.



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steven wrote:

Talking of Rob Dee reminds me of this note from the Telegraph that I came across a couple of days ago re Eastbourne 2006:

"There was a shock for Justine Henin-Hardenne during a practice session in Eastbourne while she prepared for the Championships. The Belgian world No 5 hit with Adam Lownsbrough, a British no-hoper who is barely up to county standard. Henin-Hardenne looked surprised as the Briton, who has never won more than five games during his 41 consecutive defeats on the ITF circuit and has lost 6-0, 6-0 on nine occasions, shanked the ball all over Devonshire Park."

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LMAO  rofl.gifrofl.gif  Absolutely classic !  

Question is, how on earth did Lownsbrough manage to get hitting with her in the  first place !

 



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Another rubbish draw for Slabba cry.gif Ouanna has just won a 15K in France without dropping a set plus he's ranked over 200 places higher at 398...have 2 hope for a shock upset

Quality website for this tourney though...gives live scores !

http://www.tmi.fft.fr/atp.nevers

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Drew wrote:

Chumps Invitation 2007

Round Robin format....Best of 5 sets

Rnd 1 :

R Dee def A Law 0-6 0-6 6-0 6-0 7-6(13)
A Lownsborough def Girard 0-6 0-5 ret

Rnd 2 :

Girard (After intense medical treatment) def A Law 7-6(7) 0-6 7-5 0-6 6-0
R Dee def A Lownsborough 6-1 6-1 0-5 ret (Adam fainted after winning 5 games on the bounce)

Final Girard def R Dee w/o

(Robert had to leave to sign in for Sudan F1 qualies so missed the final)

Doubles :

R Dee / A Lownsborough def A Law / Girard 7-6(1) 7-5 4-6 6-7(20) 7-5 after 4 hours and 12 minutes.


Did Adam Olbrich fail to make it through qualies?



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MD1 :

OUANNA, Josselin (FRA) v SLABINSKY, Alexander (GBR)

Court 1 Tuesday not before 3pm local

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LIVESCORES on front page of web site :

http://www.tmi.fft.fr/atp.nevers/

Cmon the 'Slab' !

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Live scores don't seem to be on today.

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Is this kind? Or necessary? I rather admire people who persevere despite the fact that they may never receive rewards. . . . and I don't think people should be mocked for lack of success. . . .

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Hi Spectator, welcome to the forum.

I think you'll find that all of this is done good-naturedly and we all have a great respect and large amount of affection for these players who as you say persevere in their dreams. Yes we mock them but I believe I speak for us all when I say that it's all in good fun and not meant to offend.

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Yes, it's all good fun, and I imagine we're a lot nicer to them than the other players. I think Guillaume might even have started to play for GB because he knew we'd actually take an interest! wink

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