Took your advice about the best days to visit.. will be heading down to see Tues/Wed instead now. And meeting up and having a few drinks is definitely in order; im sure no description is necessary, I'll be the one other spectator [and one taking notes and photographs at that..!].
Coupland beat Sletting Johnsen 6-3 7-6 (9-7) played well & served big when he had to!! He has just qualied after beating Tom Rushby 7-6(7-5) 7-6(7-4) He lost serve twice in the first set to trail 3-5 but held & broke back to force a breaker then trailed again 1-5 but turned it on to take the first set 7-6 then it was with serve for the whole of the second with Rushby wizzing through his own games to keep Coupland under pressure but he held his nerve & after trailing 0-3 in the breaker he romped to a 6 & 6 win!!!! Go Coup-e hoping on a nice draw so he can gain his first points but in this form bring any1 on!!!!
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Its Not Who You Know But What You Know.........Or Is It???
George COUPLAND (GBR) defeated Tom RUSHBY (GBR) (1) 7-6(5) 7-6(4) Matthew SMITH (GBR) (2) defeated Jonathan KINSELLA (GBR) (14) 7-6(0) 6-3 David BREWER (GBR) (3) defeated Chris PRIDDLE (GBR) 6-1 7-5 Kyle BRASSINGTON (GBR) (13) defeated Robert VARGA (HUN) (4) 6-2 6-3 Wojciech STARAKIEWICZ (POL) defeated Yordan KANEV (BUL) (5) 3-6 6-4 6-3 Edward ALLINSON (GBR) (6) defeated Marek MROZEK (POL) (12) 7-5 6-1 Henrik NORFELDT (SWE) (7) defeated Sean THORNLEY (GBR) (10) 6-2 6-0 Clement REIX (FRA) (8) defeated Mikhail KARPOL (CRO) 6-4 Retired
Singles 1st Round:
Richard BLOOMFIELD (GBR) (1) Vs David BREWER (GBR) Matthew SMITH (GBR) Vs Michal PAZICKY (SVK) Carl BERGMAN (SWE) Vs Daniel KUMLIN (SWE) Ian FLANAGAN (GBR) Vs Miles KASIRI (GBR) (5)
Timo NIEMINEN (FIN) (3) Vs Henrik NORFELDT (SWE) Jiri KRKOSKA (CZE) Vs Purav RAJA (IND) Clement REIX (FRA) Vs Mait KUNNAP (EST) Edward ALLINSON (GBR) Vs Nikola MEKTIC (CRO) (8)
Olivier CHARROIN (FRA) (7) Vs Kyle BRASSINGTON (GBR) Tim MATTHEWSON (GBR) Vs Alexander SOMOGYI (SVK) Wojciech STARAKIEWICZ (POL) Vs Ken SKUPSKI (GBR) Joshua MILTON (GBR) Vs Alexander FLOCK (GER) (4)
Gero KRETSCHMER (GER) (6) Vs George MORGAN (GBR) Harsh MANKAD (IND) Vs George COUPLAND (GBR) Gregoire BURQUIER (FRA) Vs Chris EATON (GBR) Neil BAMFORD (GBR) Vs Adrian MANNARINO (FRA) (2)