From the Canary Islands to Thailand to the Med, I always mischievously imagine a connection between Brits, holiday destinations and first round exits! Although surely nobody in their right mind would give up a ranking point for a rainy night on the tiles in St Helier?

Bammy lost a seemingly crazy match 2-6 7-6(3) 6-0 to no. 1 seed Oger. After a fabulous start, it looks like he kept the 2nd close and then did a Boggo-super-duper-special meltdown after failing to win it in two.  Either that or Oger had finished waking up.

Miles beat Josh ... I had an inkling that Josh's run might end here.

L32: (WC) Neil Bamford WR 825 lost to (1) Thomas Oger (FRA) WR 271 by 2-6 7-6(3) 6-0
L32: (LL) Daniel Evans WR 1342 lost to Fred Hemmes (NED) WR 603 by 4 & 1
L32: Ken Skupski WR 665 lost to (3) Frederik Nielsen (DEN) WR 306 by 2 & 3
L32: (Q) Sean Thornley WR 1258 lost to Olivier Charroin (FRA) WR 590 by 4 & 4
L32: (WC) Tim Hewitt WR 1017 lost to (Q) Adrien Bossel (SUI) WR 913 by 1 & 2
L32: (WC) Ian Flanagan WR 922 lost to (6) Peter Gojowczyk (GER) WR 376 by 6-4 6-7(5) 7-5
L32: Miles Kasiri WR 519 beat (4) Josh Goodall WR 347 by 7-6(4) 4-6 6-4
L32: (8) Alex Slabinsky WR 392 beat Ladislav Chramosta (CZE) WR 404 by 4 & 4
L32: (Q) Matthew Illingworth WR 1136 beat (Q) Wojciech Starakiewicz (POL) WR 1832 by 6-3 1-6 6-3
L32: (WC) James Feaver WR 1024 lost to (2) Dawid Olejniczack (POL) WR 301 by 1 & 5

L16: Miles Kasiri WR 519 v Rasmus Norby (DEN) WR 658
L16: (8) Alex Slabinsky WR 392 v (Q) Matthew Illingworth WR 1136

-- Edited by steven at 20:46, 2008-03-25

Well done to Slabba. He might be higher ranked than Chramosta but Chramosta has won a GB Futures thid year so was probably the most dangerous of unseeded floaters!


Miles beating Josh is a real positive and negative. At least Josh won last week and it was close.

1 guaranteed and odds on two in the QF's.

Possilbe Ball vs Kasiri rematch in QF's. Maybe Ball will default this time *Gets ahead of himself*

(my last post crossed with your little dig so.....)

Gather what you like Lynne but to be honest you and DJ have turned a previously fun messageboard into a "pick on peoples grammar fest" and a place to slag new posters off if they happen to like computer games, and despite a call to "celebrate British successes" it seems we are to blame Josh for losing a close match to another up and coming young Brit the week after he's won a title having finally got out of Portugal (which I admit was bad scheduling) rather than celebrate Miles winning as we would if his higher ranked opponent has been Croation, Italian, Australian etc....

I wish you'd "gather" stuff elsewhere to be quite frank.

at you!

Uh-oh, let's not turn into MTF (i.e. having a go at each other and it not being just in fun) - none of these are black and white issues so maybe we should just agree to disagree. For example (he says, tentatively stepping in between the two boxers LOL) ...

Grammar - I'm with you on the grammar/English thing in general, Stircrazy, but we're all posting here just for fun, often in a hurry, so I think people can be forgiven some mistakes. However, feel free to have a go at my grammar/spelling mistakes to your heart's content, I won't get offended.

It would be nice to have reasonably error-free stuff posted on the more public-facing home page, of course, but I think that's been improving too. (I admit to not looking there that much, but that doesn't mean I don't think it's a great way to attract new people in! )
 
As for DJ, JL, I'm pretty sure he really does do virtually all the grammar stuff in fun (or to those he knows won't take offence), though given what it says about him in his profile, he could be forgiven for taking it a tiny bit seriously through force of habit.

Computer games - I have to admit I had a chuckle at the stircrazy/DJ response on the tennis game thread, hopefully that was meant in fun too. Just think of us as the old farties of the board, as Ben Elton used to call himself.  (sorry, speaking only for myself here, and even I'm not the 'old' bit LOL)

Josh - the jury's out on this one too, I think. He annoys me because he seems to stop himself from fulfilling his potential, yet as you know, I found myself making excuses for him in Portugal (despite generally being no. 2 seed, he was getting dire draws against Machado and the like) and he did win 7 matches to take the title in Bath, which is pretty good going. Perhaps it's not surprising that Miles outlasted him in a close match today.

At least, none of the three of us have come up a with the theory that Josh's lack of mental toughness problem might stem from the fact that having gone to a comprehensive, he may not have been b*ggered often enough as a child, as a certain person who shall remain nameless did (out loud, in between points) last year. (terrible, I know, and I don't condone the theory one little bit, but remembering the story still cracks me up! )

so are we to call you a fartie then?

whats that last para about? missed that.