Week 47 - Challenger(25k+H) - Shrewsbury, Great Britain

Salmon · Tennis legend

Week 47 - Challenger(25k+H) - Shrewsbury, Great Britain

steven · Tennis legend

Matt Smith incredibly unlucky to meet Karol Beck in QR2 after a great win against Timo Nieminen in QR1. Ed Allinson the only survivor to the FQR after his QR2 opponent retired in the 3rd set.

Ok draw for Alex (v Q, though he is in the no. 1 seed's quarter), rubbish draws for Bloomers (v (3) Haase) and Skupski (v (6) Guez), I'll post all the Q results and full R1 draw done in a few minutes.

wolf · Tennis legend

Main Draw Singles R1

Alex Bogdanovic (5) [161] v qualifier
Richard Bloomfield [305] v Robin Haase (Ned) (3) [117]
Alexander Slabinsky [616] v qualifier
Ken Skupski [929] v David Guez (Fra) (6) [186]
Tim Hewitt [983] v Joshua Goodall [300]

wolf · Tennis legend

Steven you go ahead with the qualies scores I will do the doubles draw.

Richard Irwin and Mattew Smith v Joshua Goodall and Ken Skupski
Edward Allinson and Ian Flanagan v Alexander Slabinsky and Kiantki Thomas (USA)
Neil Bamford and Martin Pederson (Den) v Jaroslav Pospisil (Cze) and Pavel Snobel (Cze)
Richard Bloomfield and Thomas Schoeck (Ger) v Phillip Marx (Ger) and Lars Uebel (Ger)

-- Edited by wolf at 21:30, 2007-11-18

steven · Tennis legend

Qualifying results - looks like Wolf has saved me from the main draw wink

QR1: Matt Smith WR 877 beat (q1) Timo Nieminen (FIN) WR 370 by 6-4 2-6 6-4 biggrin
QR1: Ian Flanagan WR 898 beat Neil Bamford WR 873 by 4-6 6-4 6-4 biggrin doh
QR1: Dominick Clewes UNR lost to (q8) Ralph Grambow (GER) WR 641 by 0 & 0 ashamed
QR1: Richard Irwin WR 872 beat Thomas Schoeck (GER) WR 785 by 4 & 4 biggrin
QR1: Daniel Cottier UNR beat Orion Modebe UNR by 2 & 2 smile cry
QR1: Joshua Milton WR 1279 lost to (q3) Igor Sijsling (NED) WR 507 by 6-4 2-1 ret. cry
QR1: Matthew Illingworth WR 1161 beat Alex Parry UNR by 7-6(6) 6-2 smile cry
QR1: Edward Allinson WR 1041 beat Nikki Roenn UNR by 3 & 4 smile cry
QR1: Joshua Miller UNR lost to (q6) Rasmus Norby (DEN) WR 551 by 6-2 4-6 6-4 cry
QR1: Jeffrey Zungunde UNR lost to Philipp Marx (GER) WR 642 by 2 & 4 cry
QR1: Mathew James UNR beat Adam Taylor UNR by 0 & 0 smile ashamed
QR1: David Rice WR 1220 lost to (q7) Olivier Charroin (FRA) WR 626 by 4-6 6-4 6-3 cry

QR2: Matt Smith WR 877 lost to Karol Beck (SVK) WR 1008 by 3 & 1 cry
QR2: Ian Flanagan WR 898 lost to (q8) Ralph Grambow (GER) WR 641 by 2 & 3 cry
QR2: Richard Irwin WR 872 lost to (q2) Ladislav Chramosta (CZE) WR 471 by 3 & 4 cry
QR2: Daniel Cottier UNR lost to (q5) Michel Koning (NED) WR 549 by 4 & 4 cry
QR2: Matthew Illingworth WR 1161 lost to (q3) Igor Sijsling (NED) WR 507 by 1 & 1 cry
QR2: Edward Allinson WR 1041 beat (q6) Rasmus Norby (DEN) WR 551 by 4-6 7-6(1) 2-2 ret. biggrin
QR2: Mathew James UNR lost to (q7) Olivier Charroin (FRA) WR 626 by 6-7(4) 6-4 6-1 cry

QR3: Edward Allinson WR 1041 v (q3) Igor Sijsling (NED) WR 507

As I said, terrible luck for Matt to beat the top seed only to meet Karol Beck in QR2 in his third week back after his drugs ban!

David Rice partly repaid Sheddie's faith by taking the 1st set off Charroin and it was a good day for unranked Matthew James - a double bagel followed by him taking a set off Charroin too.

-- Edited by steven at 06:47, 2007-11-19

wolf · Tennis legend

If anyone is interested - the matches with British interest tommorow are Allinson qualies match, Goodall v Hewitt, Bloomers doubles match and Goodall/Skupski v Irwin/Smith.

I am thinking of popping down on Tuesday. Does anyone know the name of the place this is being played at?

steven · Tennis legend

Welti Tennis & Leisure, Sundorne Road, Shrewsbury, SY1 4RG

Tel. 01743 369 900

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|SY1%204RG

Have fun

steven · Tennis legend

I've just noticed that the no. 1 seed here, Mischa Zverev (Boggo's potential QF opponent if he gets that far) won the super-Challenger in Dnepro this week, beating:

Phau WR 184
Stakhovskiy WR 275
(4) Ben Becker WR 76
(1) Canas WR 15 (the only player who took a set off him)
(2) Tursunov WR 34

Ouch!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

maybe he'll be so exhausted that he's taken out in the second round leaving Boggo's way clear

More importantly hope that Boggo's injury is all better, Count any idea whether or not that's the case?

Nasty draw for Skupski but hopefully he can ignore the rankings, take heart from his results last week and cause a huge upset. Anyone know who the highest ranked player he's beaten is? There were some high ranked opposition in the summer but I can't remember if they were the ones he lost to!

CBV · Junior player

Skupski beat Brendan Evans wr 252 in Nottingham qualies and came very close to knocking out gimelstob as well so he has definitely got a chance in the first round here, especially since his confidence will be so high!

Salmon · Tennis legend

It's not very important, but it's 'Mathew' James and not 'Matthew' James. I used to get it wrong, too.

Good effort by Rice. Also, that's quite impressive by James given how little men's tennis he has played. Hopefully he'll have a ranking point soon.

Shame about Matt Smith's draw. He could have qualified from any other section.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i hope so imo, have been away all weekend so havn't got any news, didnt even know about the brad gilbert thing till i saw it on news 24 in a service station :)

gazzpash · Club Coach

Whats annoying is the last direct Acceptance for the event is J Pospisil who is ranked 416, so if Goodhall had gone in as an alternative he would of been in and an extra WC place could of been used.

seagull · Hall of fame

Goodall beat Hewitt 6-4, 7-5 according to MTF

Salmon · Tennis legend

And now BBC.

Great effort by the Tiger there. Shame that he couldn't win.