Grr...

Good luck.

Ouch, thats a bit of a shocker from Cox then, i wonder if he has got any bigger physically?

QR3: Joshua Miton WR 1255 beat Rasmus Moller (DEN) WR 1408 by 7-6(8) 6-4

FQR: Joshua Miton WR 1255 v (q16) Federico Sansenetti (URU) WR 901

L32: Edward Seator WR 502 v (SE) Jordi Marse-Vidri (ESP) WR 648

An absolutely dire draw for Edward  - Marse-Vidri started 2008 with a 5-match losing streak in Spain but has suddenly found some form, having just won Turkey F1 this week, hence the SE. Let's hope that's knackered him out given that he's not used to getting that far in tournaments, but the winner of this match is likely to face the no. 2 seed (WR 275) in R2 anyway.

MDD1 :

SEATOR (GBR) / SMETHURST (GBR) v WC DILEK (TUR) / ILHAN (TUR)

COX (GBR) / GORANSSON (SWE) v MARSE-VIDRI (ESP) / SITAK (RUS) 2nd seeds

FQR: Joshua Miton WR 1255 lost to (q16) Federico Sansenetti (URU) WR 901 - 6-3 7-5

decent few wins for Milton.....I guess it must be quite slow out there as that suits him a lot - hits with heavy spin, big swings, likes to run round and hit the off-forehand........Cox has also struggled on the slower stuff in futures.......

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Well done to Milton for picking up a few wins but it still seems like they are flogging a dead horse playing here

If Cox has struggled on the clay in futures then why the hell is he playing on it? You don't see the Spaniards go and play on lightening fast indoor carpet events when there is a clay event in their own country? It makes no sense for them to be out here - it's not as if the draws are weak or anything

Good luck to Seator, but that looks to be a tough first round draw

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Yes, and that's the whole point isn't it - Milton exceeded expectations and even he ended up two wins away from getting a point.

You can just imagine the LTA's 6-monthly meetings can't you.

Nov 2006: right lads, last time's big idea turned out to be a disaster, and we've got all these 10K Futures going on but nobody really gets enough points from them to climb up the rankings, let's change them all to 15Ks instead (conveniently forgetting that retirements, etc, were leaving us with virtually nobody likely to do well at 15K level and hardly anyone who would even get a DA for them)

May 2007: right lads, December's big idea is turning out to be a bit of a disaster, but we're committed to those 15Ks now, so let's see if we can find some players doing embarrassing things on the Internet and subject them to a public flogging, preferably while Wimby's on - it used to keep the masses happy in the middle ages, and I'm sure we were a global force in tennis back then, wot! Better still, if we can catch Lundy on the p*ss, we can make an example of him too ...

Nov 2007: right lads, last year's big ideas turned out to be a disaster, so let's give up on these home tournaments and tell them that they'd better all start pretending they're big boys and go and play tournaments in the back of beyond - old Timothy was always telling how he spent a couple of years (make that 6 weeks) slumming it in the African and Asian Futures - if it's good enough for him, it's good enough for this rabble (a plan which would have had some merit if they'd done what all the players who have 'slummed it' successfully have done, i.e. done some careful research  - I'd even have done it for them LOL, and I'm sure Akhenaten's data could have helped too! - to find the tournaments they were most likely to pick up points from instead of going to tournaments which huge qualifying draws on their worst surface!)

May 2008: right lads, November's big idea turned out to be a bit of a disaster, and we've hardly got any players left in the top 1000, whose turn is it to come up with the big idea this time? (turns to one of the NTC's cleaning staff and looks at them hopefully)

-- Edited by steven at 12:51, 2008-03-25