Week 18 - Futures F4 (15K) - Bournemouth, UK

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RE: Week 18 - Futures F4 (15K) - Bournemouth, UK

Bladetiger · Pro player

Was today all played indoors? I know that they were starting indoors with a view to going outside mid afternoon if the weather stayed fine.

wolf · Tennis legend

Q/F
SKUPSKI (GBR) / WALTER (FRA) (1) defeated PHILLIPS (AUS) / PHILLIPS (AUS) 6-2, 6-1

PAIRE (FRA) / PELLERIN (FRA) defeated ELESKOVIC (SWE) / SINGH (IND) (4) Walkover
HELIOVAARA (FIN) / NIEMINEN (FIN) defeated GAJJAR (IND) / RAJA (IND) (3) 7-6(5), 6-2
SEATOR (GBR) / SMETHURST (GBR) defeated ALVAREZ (ARG) / REIX (FRA) (2) 4-6, 6-3, 10-8

steven · Tennis legend

Toby - You mean Ken lost 0 & 1 on an indoor court? That would be even more shocking.

helki · Futures qualifying

wolf wrote:

Q/F
SKUPSKI (GBR) / WALTER (FRA) (1) defeated PHILLIPS (AUS) / PHILLIPS (AUS) 6-2, 6-1
PAIRE (FRA) / PELLERIN (FRA) defeated ELESKOVIC (SWE) / SINGH (IND) (4) Walkover
HELIOVAARA (FIN) / NIEMINEN (FIN) defeated GAJJAR (IND) / RAJA (IND) (3) 7-6(5), 6-2
SEATOR (GBR) / SMETHURST (GBR) defeated ALVAREZ (ARG) / REIX (FRA) (2) 4-6, 6-3, 10-8

I'm impressed with the Seator/Smethurst win.

Fingers crossed they can take out the other seed-crackers, Harri & Timo, in the SF.

Josh · Challenger level

steven wrote:

That's a stunning result for Sean though - over 800 places higher and an Argentinian on clay (even if it is the 'wrong kind of clay' )

What do you mean by 'wrong kind of clay'? I've never really understood the differences between the different clay surfaces, are there any ATP tournaments played on what they are using in Bournemouth??

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:

Q/F
SKUPSKI (GBR) / WALTER (FRA) (1) defeated PHILLIPS (AUS) / PHILLIPS (AUS) 6-2, 6-1
PAIRE (FRA) / PELLERIN (FRA) defeated ELESKOVIC (SWE) / SINGH (IND) (4) Walkover
HELIOVAARA (FIN) / NIEMINEN (FIN) defeated GAJJAR (IND) / RAJA (IND) (3) 7-6(5), 6-2
SEATOR (GBR) / SMETHURST (GBR) defeated ALVAREZ (ARG) / REIX (FRA) (2) 4-6, 6-3, 10-8

Blimey! Skups & Walter are the only seeds left! Not sure whether that's a good or a bad thing...

James · Satellite level

Josh wrote:

steven wrote:

That's a stunning result for Sean though - over 800 places higher and an Argentinian on clay (even if it is the 'wrong kind of clay' )
What do you mean by 'wrong kind of clay'? I've never really understood the differences between the different clay surfaces, are there any ATP tournaments played on what they are using in Bournemouth??

Dont't know about currently but up until recently the Houston ATP tournament was played on green clay [ Fairly certain on that].

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, green clay is what they use in the US too. I know it's not as slow as red clay and I imagine it being more compacted and less dusty.

The OoP for Thursday is now out and it looks no no R2 matches got played today, so R2 plus the QFs will be played tomorrow.

That means the GB top 25 table (see link below) is now up to date to the end of Wednesday.

Salmon · Tennis legend

James Ward (Gbr) bt Daniel Cox (Gbr) 6-1 6-4

Ludovic Walter (Fra) bt Joshua Milton (Gbr) 6-2 6-0

Pierre Metenier (Fra) bt Matthew Illingworth (Gbr) 6-1 6-0

Pavol Cervanek (Svk) bt Daniel Smethurst (Gbr) 6-2 6-2

James · Satellite level

Gosh what a morning, can't even gain some comfort in the matches being close - all very comprehensive.

James Ward isn't a bad representative to have in the latter rounds though.

DJ · County player

Sean Thornley bt Petar Popovic (Fra) 3-6 6-4 6-1

Daniel Evans (Gbr) bt Marcus Willis (Gbr) 3-6 6-4 6-3

DJ · County player

Sean's win lifts the spirits again, though!

James · Satellite level

Most definitely, good win for Sean,

DJ · County player

That's 14 points our youngsters have harvested here this week - and three of them are still in the tournament. It's looking like six lads will have new career highs at which to preen, too: Josh Milton at 1185; Dan Smethurst, 1162; Dan Evans, 1128; Marcus Willis, 1088; Sean Thornley, 1059; Matt Illingworth, 1019.
James Ward, though, is going to have to start going deeper in tournaments in order to rise much higher; he's already filled his quota of 18 scoring tournaments, so for each new score, he has to discard a '1' from a previous success. Having reached 12 quarter-finals (13, now) and 8 semis, it's time to move on a level, with a final appearance - could this be the week? If so, James would move into the world's top 450.
The quarter-final line-up sees James taking on the number 1 seed, Ireland's Connor Niland, WR 328, Sean matched with Pierre Metenier, WR 652 and conqueror of Ken and Matt already this week, whilst Dan Evans is pitted against WR 471 Pavel Cervanek. For any of them to progress would need an act of giant-killing, but Sean, in particular, has managed that already - twice!