Week 31 - Great Britain F11 (Ilkley 10K) - 2008.

Salmon · Tennis legend

RE: Week 31 - Great Britain F11 (Ilkley 10K) - 2008.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Dickson is good on grass so he should beat Heavey.
Fitzy can beat Hoh if he plays well. Hoh is 1991 born but has a point and qualifies for Futures regularly, so we can't take him lightly.
Doubt Egerton can beat Sletting-Johnsen but you never know and the same goes for Whalley.

So four guaranteed qualifiers and six is very much possible.

steven · Tennis legend

I can't believe Colin Fleming lost in QR1, I was expecting him to walk qualifying here even after the long break. Oh well, clearly some rust still to be got rid of!

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Evans, Connolly, Miotto, Priddle, Dickson and Fizty should qualify, so a great chance of having 6 qualifiers here, which will give us 20+ players in the main draw, which will be a fantastic turnout.

Fleming's loss is a bit of a surprise, but maybe he's rusty and just needs the matches, or he's not quite the player he was before he went to Uni

steven · Tennis legend

We'll be like Argentina in their home Futures ... except they'd have all the seeds as well and a guaranteed shareout of almost all the points ...

The best way to get lots of players to Challenger level fast is to be in a country hardly anyone wants to play in and hold lots of home Futures!

-- Edited by steven at 00:07, 2008-07-28

James · Satellite level

steven wrote:

We'll be like Argentina in their home Futures ... except they'd have all the seeds as well and a guaranteed shareout of almost all the points ...

The best way to get lots of players to Challenger level fast is to be in a country hardly anyone wants to play in and hold lots of home Futures!

-- Edited by steven at 00:07, 2008-07-28

Wow, so cutting back on Futures & Challengers isn't always the best way to get more players into the game, earn ranking points & get to Challenger level..? maybe someone should inform the LTA of this cutting edge way of approaching tennis. Who would have thought!? [obviously aside from anyone who follows, watches or knows how to spell tennis.]

Good luck to all the Brits in this tournament though! Personally I would love to see a Cox victory, he's beginning to look like a serious prospect who is also willing to put in the tough training.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Final qualies round:

Daniel Evans [1122] beat Sebastian Jackson [Unr] by 63 36 75

Clifford Marsland [1330] of Australia beat Phillip Whalley [Unr] by 63 64

Frederik Sletting-Johnsen [1334] of Norway beat Roger Egerton [Unr] by 64 60

Ross Connolly [1348] beat Christopher Clark [Unr] by 6-2 Ret.

Ben Pritchard [Unr] beat Alex Miotto [1440] by 62 75

Andrew Fitzpatrick [1440] beat Stephen Hoh [1611] of Australia by 62 64

Chris Priddle [Unr] beat Matthew Leahy [Unr] by 64 64

Eoin Heavey [Unr] of Ireland beat Scott Dickson [1528] by 64 64

Salmon · Tennis legend

Singles main draw - http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=http://www.atptennis.com/1/posting/2008/725/mds.pdf

Typical that the two players with the best chances of taking the title are in the same quarter.

Doubles draw -

http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=http://www.atptennis.com/1/posting/2008/725/mdd.pdf

I am busy today and can't type out the draws. If anyone else wants to do it, please...

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

22 Brits in the end make the main draw.... and the only 2 non-British matches involve the top 2 seeds!!!

(1) Rodrigues (FRA) vs. (LL) Hoh (AUS)
(WC) Corrie vs. Rice
Daniell (NZ) vs. Bains
Flanagan vs. (7) Illingworth

(4) Bamford vs. (q) Marsland (AUS)
(q) Harvey (IRL) vs. (q) Fitzpatrick
(q) Pritchard vs. Brassington
(q) Connolly vs. (8) Cox

(8) Brewer vs. Kelly (AUS)
Arlidge vs. Allinson
Kinsella vs. Milton
(q) Evans vs. (3) Lejnieks (LAT)

(5) Reix (FRA) vs. (WC) James
(q) Priddle vs. Grigorov (RUS)
(WC) Coupland vs. (WC) Lloyd
(q) Sletting-Johansson (NOR) vs. (2) Burquier (FRA)

-- Edited by ForeverDelayed at 17:09, 2008-07-28

richo · Junior player

great chances for a lot of our lads to pick up a few points and some of the juniors to make quaters or semis..

easy 1st round for coupland

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

On the whole, not a bad draw to begin with, as no-one drew the top 2 seeds, so at least we should get plenty into round 2 and adding more ranking points.

Shame that Evans draws the 3rd seed, but he's due a good draw, and maybe the LTA are continuing his punishment by fixing the draws against him.

Cox and Bamford in the same quarter is disappointing, but hope 1 of them can go and win the title, as the winner of their match is likely to be the best hope.

Brits in round 2? I'd go for:

Corrie, Flanagan, Bamford, Fitzpatrick, Pritchard, Cox, Brewer, Alridge, Kinsella, Coupland plus 1 other surprise, maybe Evans, Priddle or Bains

richo · Junior player

wheni say juniors i mean obviuosly 90s and the 89s

Salmon · Tennis legend

Evo doesn't have a bad draw! He can surely beat Lejnieks if he plays well (which is not so certain with Evo, I know) and if he can beat Kinsella/Milton (probably Kinsella), he'll be the favourite against whoever is on the other side of the net in the quarters. Too many ifs and little margin for error, but some form could see him rocket up the rankings...

Matt James can shock Reix. Reix has won quite a few matches on hard, his record on grass/carpet is poor, although he took a set off Okun at Surbiton.

Coupland should add another point to his total.

-- Edited by Kung Fu Panda at 17:26, 2008-07-28

richo · Junior player

Totally agree i think we could see a junior in the final

Smidster · Challenger level

Would love to see Priddle get a point here as he always seems to win a couple of matches with no rewards.