Week 46 - Futures F22 (15K) - Sunderland, GB.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 46 - Futures F22 (15K) - Sunderland, GB.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

A good set of results today. Great from Cox, I was hoping that one of these bad draws would turn into an upset for him, I honestly didn't expect it to be Crugnola though! Hopefully he can build on the win and go deeper this week.

I also see Rusby retired, hopefully nothing too serious.

Sheddie · administrator

OMG, what a series of results !!!

Especially from Cox, that's a stunning win...having seen both players last week, I expected it to be the other way wrong....Nielsen does have a habit of hammering Brits in futures though so it wasn't a particularly good time to watch Cox....now plays qualifier Karatchenia so this could be Cox's best chance to make a 15K semis

Awesome stuff from the Slabba and now he has nothing to lose against 7th seed Mannarino who must be good to beat Vico 0&3...he's made 3 futures finals in the past couple of months which is ominous and beat Rice, Kasiri and Rushby this year but did lose to Rudy Coco so who knows !

Goodall will be pleased that Pedersen went out to Sitak...don't think Josh will have any problems with him..hasnt got any big weapons....very fast and runs for everything but if you get on top, his temper can get the better of him.

Skupski has Dell Acqua next (why is this draw full of former top 200 players on the way back from injury ???)...thats a nasty one as back in 2004, Dell Acqua won several challengers, beat Boggo on grass and got close to top 100

Eaton did well to beat Giraudo (who is a clay-courter but ranked in the 500s and looked pretty good to me in Redbridge)...sadly Brit-basher Chramosta awaits tomorrow

Flanagan has Masson who beat 6th seed and has been as high as 215...he made the semis last week too

Sheddie · administrator

Id be surprised if anyone other than Cox and Goodall make the quarters but lets hope for some upsets

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Well done to all the Brits that got their wins today, which were 3 more that I was expecting to see.

Skupski, Goodall and Eaton all got their wins which were expected and hopefully they can go on to better things in this tournament, especially Skupski who needs to start going on after capatilising on these first round wins and go deep in a tournament (should have a WC for next week now)

Great win for Cox as well, and hopefully this is the time that he takes advantage of a big win and try and make the QF's, as he should be the favourite for his next match and could potentially go really deep into the SF's here

Well done to Slabba on getting the win in his match, which looked to be a close one, and hopefully can make the QF's as well.. and Flanagan managed to put 2 weeks together as well, which is a bit of a surprise

Before this week I wasn't confident of a good week, but I think Goodall, Cox, Skupski and Slabba all have really good chances tomorrow, with Eaton and Flanagan also looking as if they could win

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

At last the doubles results:

Karatchenia/Voltchkov def Colengelo/Crugnola (1) 1 & 4

(not the Italians' day! biggrin

)

Flanagan/Illingworth def Milton/Rice 5-7 7-6(2) [10-4]

(quite a tussle - not Josh's day, either! cry

)

Norfeldt/Nylen def Mannarino/Ouanna (3) 2 & 2

Chramosta/Evans def Charroin/Cox 1 & 4

(a day of mixed fortunes for the young Dans)

Goody/Skups def Eaton/Kennaugh 6-3 7-6(4)

(pity one of those two pairs had to lose! hmm

)

Grambow/Rushby (4) def Allinson/Irwin 3 & 4

(Tom clearly didn't retire from his singles match through injury!)

Dell'Acqua/Giraudo def Desein/Masson 3-6 6-3 [10-7]

Bamford/Pedersen def Nielsen/Norby 6-2 7-6(4)

(something went right for Neil today! smile

)

* Only one seeded pair left in the doubles!

wolf · Tennis legend

Doubles R1

Flanagan / Illingworth d. Milton / Rice 5-7, 7-6(2), 10-4
Chramosta (Cze) / Evans d. Cox / Charroin (Fra) 6-1, 6-4
Goodall / Skupski d. Eaton / Kennaugh 6-3, 7-6(4)
Rushby / Granbow (Ger) (4) d. Allinson / Irwin 6-3, 6-4
Bamford / Pederson (Den) d. Nielson (Den) / Norby (Den) (2) 6-2, 7-6(4)

The top 3 seeds (all foreigners) are knocked out!

Doubles Q/F

Flanagan / Illingworth v Karatchenia (Blr) / Voltchkov (Blr)
Chramosta (Cze) / Evans v Norfeldt (Swe) / Nylen (Swe)
Ruhby / Granbow (Ger) (4) v Goodall / Skupski
Bamford / Pederson (Den) v Dell'acqua (Ita) / Giraudo (Ita)

Malteaser · Junior player

Ok I'm no British tennis expert, I've been taking an interest in the last 6 months to see what was going on.

It's fair to say that there's not been much to write home about.

I looked at today's matches in Sunderland and I noticed that as rankings go, British players were due to win 2 (two) matches.

The Brits won 6. As far as I'm concerned, that is a fantastic achievement.

Any more now and that's a bonus (excluding Josh Goodall, of course).

So Stircrazy, as you have said I can say it ...

You're a "sceptic" AND a "hard task master", not to mention a "whatever" !!!!!

Come on the Brits in Round 2!!!!!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Well done, Dan. That's your best win so far.

Second round:

Ken Skupski [929] vs. Massimo Dell'Acqua [575] of Italy
Daniel Cox [931] vs. Andrei Karatchenia [924] of Belarus
Chris Eaton [739] vs. Ladislav Chramosta [471] of the Czech Republic
Alexander Slabinsky [616] vs. Adrian Mannarino [364] of France
Ian Flanagan [898] vs. Jeroen Masson [498] of Belgium
Joshua Goodall [300] vs. Artem Sitak [527] of Russia

Coxy's match isn't easy, but he'll be fine if he plays well.

Salmon · Tennis legend

XCW4EVA wrote:

I think Ken and Cox have the same problem, some awesome results but theres no significant follow up. They both defo have the game to do it tho

I see no problem with Coxy as it's almost impossible to be more consistent at this age. I think that he has an incredible level of consistency, for that matter, as he has lost just three times to players ranked outside the top 400 this year.

gazzpash · Club Coach

Hate to put a dampen on Ken Skupski's win but it wasnt against the Australian it was against LL Ed Allinson.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Oh, never mind. The big thing is that he won.

steven · Tennis legend

Wow! All four seeds in the top half of the draw went out in R1, as did the other seed in Josh's quarter. A huge chance for two or three of the Brits to score big points, then - something tells me they won't, but I hope to be proved wrong!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Voltchkov is the real top seed, though.

Evo did well to take Grambow to three sets as he went on to beat Ouanna.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Malteaser wrote:

Ok I'm no British tennis expert, I've been taking an interest in the last 6 months to see what was going on.

It's fair to say that there's not been much to write home about.

I looked at today's matches in Sunderland and I noticed that as rankings go, British players were due to win 2 (two) matches.

The Brits won 6. As far as I'm concerned, that is a fantastic achievement.

Any more now and that's a bonus (excluding Josh Goodall, of course).

I completely agree. But then you can probably tell by my posts that I'm an incurable optimist

Good luck to the Brits today, I hope to hear more good news