Week 4 - Futures F2 (10k) - Sheffield, Great Britain

Drew · Jan 17, 2008

Week 4 - Futures F2 (10k) - Sheffield, Great Britain

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Hmmm.

January. Sheffield or Spain?

Difficult decision. blankstare

helki · Futures qualifying

Madeline wrote:

Hmmm.

January. Sheffield or Spain?

Difficult decision.

It'd have to be Sheffield for me. weirdface

Where abouts is it to be held in Sheffield? It's not too far for me to go if I can find the time.

James · Satellite level

Should probably be there for two days of this..

I was thinking of going for Monday/Tuesday; would people say that these are the best two days to go for No. of matches/players?

James · Satellite level

Sorry to sound demanding.. but.. Could somebody who has been to a Futures event give me a quick answer to the question above.. [Reason being is that I need to book my accomodation..]
It will be much appreciated!

-- Edited by Trivial at 22:36, 2008-01-17

Drew · Jan 17, 2008

Yes they are good days to go. Apart from the last day if their are two Brits there !!!

James · Satellite level

Thanks Drew.. Last day isn't an option for me so Mon/Tue it is.. Plus what are the chances of an all Brit final!?!

Simon · Lower Club Player

Monday will be last day of qualies and Tuesday will be 1st round. So 8 matches on days 1 and 16 on day 2 (unless they play some 1st rounds on the Monday too). Most quantity of matches but not necessarily best quality. However to see what British tennis has to offer, these are probably the best two days.

Bladetiger · Pro player

From my pov I'd go for tuesday/ wednesday, you'll get 16 singles on tuesday and probably 8 singles and 8 doubles on wednesday, and better quality than the qualies.

The tournament is to be held at the graves tennis centre which is at the southern tip of Sheffield at the end of the A61 by pass from Chesterfield. Come off at Junction 29 if coming from the south and Junction 33 if coming from the north.

helki · Futures qualifying

Bladetiger wrote:

From my pov I'd go for tuesday/ wednesday, you'll get 16 singles on tuesday and probably 8 singles and 8 doubles on wednesday, and better quality than the qualies.

The tournament is to be held at the graves tennis centre which is at the southern tip of Sheffield at the end of the A61 by pass from Chesterfield. Come off at Junction 29 if coming from the south and Junction 33 if coming from the north.

Thanks Bladetiger

I thought I was being ignored. biggrin

Drew · Jan 19, 2008

QR1

1 689 GBR RUSHBY, Tom [1]
2 Bye

3 ESP GALVAN, Carlos
4 Bye

5 GBR COUPLAND, George
6 GBR REGAN, Daniel

7 Bye
8 1303 NOR SLETTING-JOHNSEN, Frederik [11]
9 901 GBR SMITH, Matthew [2]
10 Bye

11 GBR ZUNGUNDE, Jeffrey
12 Bye

13 GBR GLEDDEN, Joshua
14 GBR BAXENDINE, David

15 Bye
16 1484 GBR KINSELLA, Jonathan [14]

17 923 GBR BREWER, David [3]
18 Bye

19 GBR BAKER, Martin
20 GBR MODEBE, Orion

21 LAT SIPKOVS, Maris
22 GBR PRIDDLE, Chris

23 Bye
24 1484 FRA CAUVARD, Simon [15]

25 971 HUN VARGA, Robert [4]
26 Bye

27 1504 SVK KURTIS, Andrej
28 GBR BRADSHAW, Timothy

29 GBR BARNES, Alastair
30 GBR ROENN, Nikki

31 Bye
32 1391 GBR BRASSINGTON, Kyle [13]

33 986 BUL KANEV, Yordan [5]
34 Bye

35 GBR COTTIER, Dan
36 GBR CAMPBELL, Luke

37 POL STARAKIEWICZ, Wojciech
38 GBR HARFIELD, Christopher

39 Bye
40 1178 GBR ILLINGWORTH, Matthew [9]

41 1058 GBR ALLINSON, Edward [6]
42 Bye

43 GBR PARRY, Alex
44 IRI ARJOMANDKHAH, Nardair

45 FRA DUPUY, Jean-Baptiste
46 KAZ YERMEKBAYEV, Yerbol

47 Bye
48 1354 POL MROZEK, Marek [12]

49 1123 SWE NORFELDT, Henrik [7]
50 Bye

51 1484 CRO ZOVKO, Ivan
52 RUS SOLDATOV, Roman

53 GBR EL MENSHAWY, Ahmed
54 POL SZCZYPKA, Piotr

55 Bye
56 1273 GBR THORNLEY, Sean [10]

57 1152 FRA REIX, Clement [8]
58 Bye

59 GBR ARLIDGE, Burnham
60 GBR FARQUHARSON, Alexander

61 GBR JONES, Joshua
62 1504 CRO KARPOL, Mikhail

63 Bye
64 1484 GBR FITZPATRICK, Andrew [16]

Good to see Matt Smith back !

Drew · Jan 19, 2008

QR2

RUSHBY, Tom [1] v GALVAN, Carlos (R1 bye)

SMITH, Matthew [2] v ZUNGUNDE, Jeffrey (R1 bye)

All other TBC after QR1

Drew · Jan 19, 2008

Pete from the LTA says they hope to complete 30 matches Sunday !

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

wow, that's quite a few. Hopefully not all on one court

thanks for keeping us informed Drew. Good luck to all the Brits today.

Bladetiger · Pro player

Have been to Sheffield for 3 or 4 hours today.

WC's have gone to Bloomfield, Joshua Milton, George Morgan and one other who I cant remember

Dont know all the scores but many of the results.

QR1 (GB unless stated)

Coupland bt Regan
Baxendine bt Gledden
Modebe bt Baker
A Kurtis (SVK) bt Bradshaw
Barnes bt Roenn
Starakiewicz (POL) bt Harfield
Parry bt Arjomandkhah (IRI)
Dupuy (FRA) bt Yermekbayev (KAZ)
Zovko (CRO) bt Soldatov (RUS)
Karpol (CRO) bt Jones

QR2
RUSHBY (Q1) bt Galvan (ESP) 1&1
Coupland bt SLETTING JOHNSEN (NOR) (Q11)think it was 3rd set tb smile

SMITH (Q2) bt Zungunde straights, first set was tb
KINSELLA (Q14) bt Baxendine in three
BRASSINGTON (Q13) bt A Barnes 63 61
Starakewicz (POL) bt ILLINGWORTH (Q9) in three 63 in the third
ALLINSON (Q6) bt Parry straights

Andrew Fitzpatrick's game against Karpol was in the third set with Andrew a break behind, but Andrew had won the first set and was 6-3 up with two mini breaks in the second set tie break, but missed three match points with a double fault, a missed volley and an ambitious backhand , lost five straight points in all to lose tb 8-6. He was then broken in the first game of the third, and was trailing I think 2-3 with a break in the third. Would be a great effort to come back and win from there!

Enjoyed the Starakiewicz- Illingworth game, close contest, with the Pole just taking it in the end.

Coupland impressed those who saw him with win over the Norwegian Scouser Frederick Sletting Johnsen (a mate of Skupski's).

Had an interesting chat with Jeremy Bates, probably not for publication on an open forum, although nothing secret just his opinions on the up and coming British players.

Amyway if I get to see any more over the week I will let you know. Maybe even get to see Trivial at some point, who knows, for info Trivial I think most of the players are at the sandpiper in Dronfield if you fancy a bevy with them.