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

James · Satellite level

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

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I've just spoken to the North Wales REgional Tennis Centre on the phone and it is raining hard in Wrexham.

The courts are very wet and the likelihood is that the final will take place indoors at 11 with no delay as the outdoor prospects of play are nil.

I am yet to persuade the wife about going. I'll let you know

DJ · County player

love the game wrote:

hi guys,
went to watch my futures event this week and had a great time. really impressed with young dan evans, he looks the real delal as far as im concerned. shame i cant make it to his final tomorrow.
flanagan and daniels was an awesome match!! loved ian's forehand, he hit lots of winners and always looked a threat with that shot. also watched the doubles final and great to see an all british final, with the best pair winning as far as im concerned.
thoroughly enjoyed my day watching some 1st class tennis, hoping to go and watch some more in the coming months!!!

Hi, Jacob, welcome to the board, and thanks for the comments - interesting.

steven · Tennis legend

I just turned my phone on to find multiple messages from JL ... I didn't realise he was going to text me if he went. I'll post them in rapid succession, a very quick update of the match so far:

11.22: Evans leads 2-1 on serve, serving and volleying about 50% so far.

11.27: Flan breaks for 3-2

11.40: Evo *3-5 Flan

11.45: Flan wins 1st set 6-4, "his class showing through".

-- Edited by steven at 12:42, 2008-08-09

steven · Tennis legend

12.01: Evo 3-1 2nd set

12.10: Flan breaks back 3-3

12.22: But Evo breaks again and wins the 2nd 6-3.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Come back, Evski.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Woohoo!

steven · Tennis legend

Evo breaks 1st game 3rd set and Flan retires with a wrist injury cry

- sad end to a great tournament and match. But ...

Evo wins a Futures title! biggrin

(and he came all the way through qualifying too)

Suspend them all, I say wink

Salmon · Tennis legend

Daniel Evans.

Wonder if the LTA site will have an article now? And if they do, I wonder if they'll censor his name to D****l E***s because he's banned?

Hope Flanagan is all right and will play regularly from now on. Shame Cox had to draw him early on as this is the last Futures he'll have played for a while.

GavinUK · Lower Club Player

Well done Evo, though sad to win what sounds like a close match with your opponent retiring. But not to detract from his win, he's done well to go from qualifying all the way to win the event.

Is there any chance he'll get into Cumberland without having to qualify?

steven · Tennis legend

Already due to move up 150 places on Monday thanks to last week's exploits, this win will made Evo "top Dan" (i.e. ahead of Cox) and he will go up over 200 places more into the top 800, possibly just scraping into the top 750!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Great! Now that he has made some money, I wonder if he'll play a tournament or two outside Britain this year? Challenger qualies would be a good move, if it's possible.

I bet that the LTA people are kicking themselves right now as he would have had a chance of winning USO in this sort of form.

I'm loving it.

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

Nice one Dan. Lets hope the LTA ban a few more soon....that boy Murray, now he could do with a serious suspension!

steven · Tennis legend

He was 4th Alt with 3 SE places open and none likely to be taken up, so there's a pretty good chance he'll be a DA, especially if Flan (1st Alt) has to pull out because of that wrist injury.

However, I don't think he can get an SE if he isn't a DA because this match ended before qualifying sign-in there.

-- Edited by steven at 13:05, 2008-08-09

steven · Tennis legend

Salmon wrote:

Great! Now that he has made some money, I wonder if he'll play a tournament or two outside Britain this year? Challenger qualies would be a good move, if it's possible.

I bet that the LTA people are kicking themselves right now as he would have had a chance of winning USO in this sort of form. I'm loving it.

Maybe he needed the kick though - if that's the case and it's made him more determined and allowed him to escape from the junior tournaments, it could be good news all round.