Week 32 - Great Britain F12 (Wrexham 10K) - 2008.

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

RE: Week 32 - Great Britain F12 (Wrexham 10K) - 2008.

gazzpash · Club Coach

Sorry to see the loss mate. Sure today was a great experience. Will keep my fingers crossed for you get a WC for next week.

James · Satellite level

I wouldn't worry too much about it bud, these days come around every so often and serve to test your resolve. Fingers crossed that that's the last awful draw for a little while and that you get that WC next week.

richo · Junior player

haha ye hopefully.. to be fair though credit to knightsy he did play well!
tough playing someone you train with! hopefully pick up some points soon!! are you going to any other futres?

Sheddie · administrator

you playing cumberland next week richo ??

Im heading for that one, are most of the juniors going to be at the nationals or will likes of evo, cox, milton etc still be there ?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

For the sake of completeness, the doubles results, all of which involved British pairs:

David Brewer & Ian Flanagan (1) beat Dan Cox & Josh Milton 4 & 0 smile

Matt James & Edward Jones lost to Baptiste Bayet & Grégoire Burquier 7-5 3-6 [6-10] cry

Tim Bradshaw & Jonny Kinsella (4) beat Andrew Gregory & Cliff Marsland 6-2 3-6 [10-5] smile

Dayne Kelly & Dan Smethurst lost to Marcus Daniell & Clément Reix 7-5 2-6 [7-10] cry

Maniel Bains & Dan Evans (3) beat Callum Lloyd & Marc Westgate 6-0 7-6(5) smile

Kyle Brassington & Matt Brooklyn beat Tim Hewitt & Ben Pritchard 2 & 4 smile

Ed Corrie & Colin Fleming beat Daniel Danilovic & Karlis Lejnieks (2) 3 & 2! smile

steven · Tennis legend

Early R2 results

Daniel Danilovic (Mne) bt Jamie Feaver (Gbr) 6-3 3-6 6-2

Ian Flanagan (Gbr) bt Daniel Cox (Gbr) 6-2 6-4

Neil Bamford (Gbr) bt Tim Hewitt (Gbr) 6-4 7-5

Well predicted JL - but I wish Flan would go back on tour and make use of these points if he's going to insist on keeping taking them off players who could really do with them!

Some of the results here this week (e.g. Feaver and the Ward losing) maybe suggest that the contraty to popular belief, GB Futures are actually pretty strong compared to some of the others. I mean, I know Ward's reputation was built on just one tournament, but he didn't get a lucky draw there and fluke a win against one good player, he beat at least three players he'd have been expected to lose to and he's been doing well in qualifying leading up to that week.

-- Edited by steven at 15:39, 2008-08-06

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Fitzy - shame you had to not only draw the top seed, but draw him when he's in such good form as well... hope you get a WC next week and can score another ranking point

Good wins for Bamford and Flanagan today, although Cox losing to Flanagan is a disappointing score, especially after he beat him easily in the WC play-off and this is Cox's best surface - and with the draw opened up wonderfully for him, he can an easy route to a futures final....

Salmon · Tennis legend

Coxy.

Once or twice in a year, Flan plays like a top 200 player - shame Dan had to run into him here. His ranking will go up to around 770 now, which looks quite good.

Obviously it's Flan's life and he may do whatever he wants, but I wish he would start playing regularly again as he's capable of much more.

talp · Junior player

good wins there - maybe if he gets to the semis (Flan) he may go back on tour more often. or even wait till next year.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Mathieu Rodrigues (Fra) bt Ashley Watling (Gbr) 6-2 6-4
Clement Reix (Fra) bt Alexei Grigorov (Rus) 6-2 2-6 6-3
Daniel Evans (Gbr) bt Joshua Milton (Gbr) 6-3 6-3
Marcus Daniell (Nzl) bt Jonathan Kinsella (Gbr) 6-3 6-3,

Well done to Evans on the win, and another QF for him, but it's a shame Watling and Kinsella couldn't get the wins as well.

QF's will be:

Rodrigues vs. Reix
Danivolic vs. Evans
Flanagan vs. Arlidge/Illingworth
Daniell vs. Bamford

Hopefully Evans and Bamford can get us 3 QFinalist's here, and I still think we're looking at a Rodrigues/Bamford final

johnnylad · Tennis legend

@ Fitzy - your form showed in your qualies rounds - great scores! All the best for Cumberland - no bother if you have to qualify again - you'll do it!

@ Richo - You did seem good mates! Knightsy was clinical - be nice for you to draw someone else next time. I thought your match was one of the bestter quality matches on show all day Sunday. I think you could both have won with different draws. Knightsy seems really compact and mobile whereas you have some proper shot-making ability, just need a bit more consistency! Chin up fella!

@ Steven - I wish my futures predictions could match up in the pickems form! Just had a horrible feeling Flan would win, but totally agree with the sentiment that he's basically stealing points from the younger lads. Having said that, the point is that you have to win to get the points and sadly Coxy didn't.

Evo continuing to shine atm, and an encouraging secont set from Watling! He now has 2 ATP points

A non-british finalist from the bottom half would be a disaster quite frankly.

DJ · County player

richo wrote:

why would it be worrying for wardy.. watling in form and playing well..
wardy had one good tourny and now everyone expects him to win every week..

not sayin he isnt capable but just go easy on him! haha

Wise words, James! Good luck next week.

DJ · County player

johnnylad wrote:

Impressed with Bains taking a set from Bamford, and Alastair BArnes taking a set of the French seed is good going too!

I worry that Flan will have a hot week and take Coxy out.

Some good doubles results there as well.

Fleming and Corrie have to be favourites to win in my book.

Nice to see Chauders and El Menshawy register a win but they need another win to score a point right?

Yeah, Johnny, points start at the semis stage in Futures these days - a shame, I think, as it inevitably discourages players from taking part.

steven · Tennis legend

Matt Illingworth beat Burnham Arlidge 4 & 3 in the o/s match. Hope he beat Flan tomorrow too, unless Flan is intending to start playing properly again.