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

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

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

Drew · Jan 22, 2008

Last 5 results....not good !

Olivier Charroin (Fra) bt Kyle Brassington (Gbr) 6-4 6-2

Alexander Somogyi (Svk) bt Tim Matthewson (Gbr) 6-4 6-4

Wojciech Starakiewicz (Pol) bt Ken Skupski (Gbr) 6-1 6-7 (7-5) 7-6 (10-8)

Alexander Flock (Ger) bt Joshua Milton (Gbr) 6-4 6-2

Gero Kretschmer (Ger) bt George Morgan (Gbr) 6-3 7-5

Excellent effort from young Morgan....gutted for Skupster

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

Drew wrote:

Last 5 results....not good !

Olivier Charroin (Fra) bt Kyle Brassington (Gbr) 6-4 6-2

Alexander Somogyi (Svk) bt Tim Matthewson (Gbr) 6-4 6-4

Wojciech Starakiewicz (Pol) bt Ken Skupski (Gbr) 6-1 6-7 (7-5) 7-6 (10-8)

Alexander Flock (Ger) bt Joshua Milton (Gbr) 6-4 6-2

Gero Kretschmer (Ger) bt George Morgan (Gbr) 6-3 7-5

Excellent effort from young Morgan....gutted for Skupster

Thats a great effort from Morgan, must say Matthewson has done well too!

Bright futures await the pair of them i'm sure

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Sheddie wrote:

Plus there's [...] 17 year old George Coupland....don't underestimate "the power of youth"

How did Coupland get on? I can't seem to see the outcome of his match with Harsh Mankad anywhere...! confused

P.S. It was due to be played on Court 2 after Starakiewicz/Skupski, which must've lasted a while...

-- Edited by Stircrazy at 18:53, 2008-01-22

Drew · Jan 22, 2008

Sorry....Coupland v Mankad is the last singles of the day to finish....

Young George has taken Mankad to a final set...he was 3-5 down in the second set and fought back to take the TB....fingers crossed

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Drew wrote:

Sorry....Coupland v Mankad is the last singles of the day to finish....

Young George has taken Mankad to a final set...he was 3-5 down in the second set and fought back to take the TB....fingers crossed

I'll second that!

Sounds as though he's putting up quite a fight!

Drew · Jan 22, 2008

Dont know the final score but young George lost.

?-? 7-6 3-6 to Mankad

gazzpash · Club Coach

Not best day at the office then. Gutted to see Ken lose 1st round again. Hope this doesnt put him off singles as mentioned in an editorial

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Drew wrote:

Dont know the final score but young George lost.

?-? 7-6 3-6 to Mankad

6-3 6-7(4-7) 6-3! What a shame! cry

Bladetiger · Pro player

gazzpash wrote:

Not best day at the office then. Gutted to see Ken lose 1st round again. Hope this doesnt put him off singles as mentioned in an editorial

Disappointing for Ken, though I'm pleased for the young Pole, everyone has been charmed by him, he gets a bus from his £20 a night guest house to the centre every day to save on the taxi fare, dont know how many of the British players are on the bus but I reckon not many, that's his first ever point, and so maybe Skupster can forgive him this one.

By all accounts both Matthewson and Morgan did really well, and sounds like Coupland did even better, shame he couldnt get his first point, he's done really well to qualify and then to get that close to winning such a close game, but hope he can build on this week.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Two doubles results, courtesy of the ITF site:

BERGMAN (SWE)/KUMLIN (SWE) defeated BRADSHAW (GBR)/HARFIELD (GBR) 6-0 6-2

BREWER (GBR)/FLANAGAN (GBR) (3) defeated MEKTIC (CRO)/ZOVKO (CRO) 6-4 6-4

Mixed fortunes for the Brits there, but definitely a good day at the office for Flan! cry

I presume the other six are being held over until tomorrow...

Drew · Jan 22, 2008

I have not received my results email from the LTA tonight so far...maybe they are having a late night !

Drew · Jan 22, 2008

MD1 :

CZE KRKOSKA, Jiri [1] / RAJA, Purav def BUL KANEV, Yordan / PAZICKY, Michal 6-4 6-1

GBR BRADSHAW, Timothy / HARFIELD, Christopher lost to SWE BERGMAN, Carl / KUMLIN, Daniel 6-0 6-2

GBR BREWER, David [3] / FLANAGAN, Ian def CRO MEKTIC, Nikola / ZOVKO, Ivan 6-4 6-4

WC GBR GLEDDEN, Joshua / SHERWOOD, David lost to FRA BURQUIER, Gregoire / REIX, Clement 6-4 6-4

GBR CAMPBELL, Luke / ILLINGWORTH, Matthew def POL MROZEK, Marek / STARAKIEWICZ, Wojciech 6-7(5) 6-4 [10-4]

EST KUNNAP, Mait / SWE NORFELDT, Henrik lost to GBR EATON, Chris / SKUPSKI, Ken 2-6 6-3 [10-5]

SVK HROMEC, Martin / SOMOGYI, Alexander def GBR BRASSINGTON, Kyle / KINSELLA, Jonathan 6-4 7-5

GER FLOCK, Alexander / KRETSCHMER, Gero def GBR ALLINSON, Edward / BAMFORD, Neil 2-6 6-1 [10-7]

So young Gledden with Sherwood put up a good fight...but loose.

seagull · Hall of fame

Richard Bloomfield (Gbr) bt Matthew Smith (Gbr) 6-4 7-6 (7-5)

Carl Bergman (Swe) bt Ian Flanagan (Gbr) 6-4 6-0

So just Bloomers left again!

Bladetiger · Pro player

Bloomers will play Bergman in Quarters, Flan and Brewer lost dubs in straights, think it was 4 & 4.

Bloomers looking in pretty good form, encouraginly Matt Smith also looks like he's on the way back, made him work hard for the win.

Bloomers is having 2 weeks off after this and then playing two ATP Qualies (Delray Beach and San Remo I think he said).