Great to see Colin successfully returning to the game
Steven - you might need to start increasing the Top 25 table soon (must be a while since we had 25 "Active" players with three figure rankings)
It's not going to get increased LOL, 25 is about as much as I can cope with (especially when trying to keep the women's table going as well - that one's harder because the information isn't quite as easy to obtain and most tournaments still offering a point for R1 losses results in lots of fiddly ranking changes), but yes it's good to see the top 25 all with three figure rankings.
In fact, the table started off as a Brits in the top 500 table when we had 20 of those, so although this is the best position re Brits in the top 1000 for a year or two, it's still nowhere near 2005 levels.
As for Prpic being a serial Brit-basher, a glimmer of hope is provided by the fact that Colin is still the last Brit to have beaten our old friend Mr Nielsen (the Brit-basher extraordinaire), 6-2 7-6(8) back in 2006. Brits have since tried and failed to beat the Dane 23 times.
-- Edited by steven at 12:25, 2008-09-18
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!
Josh Goodall (1) bt Ken Skupski (7) 7-6(?) 6-7(5) 6-2
Filip Prpic (2) bt Milan Pokrajac (6) 6-2 6-3.
Josh won first set 75 not 76.
Also saw final set of Cavaday - Evans. Nick led 2-0, Dan broke back for 2-2, then Nick had two break points at 3-3, but Dan won four points on the bounce.
Finally having been holding fairly comfortably Nick faced two bp's at 5-4 down and netted on the first of them no chance for a comeback, Dan's set and match- 64.
Great to see him get to the QF's and push Evans close, but probably the right result for a win for Evans who must be looking at top 400/500 by the end of the year.
Good to see Skupski in a bit of form and pushing Josh all the way, and hopefully the winner of Josh/Evo will go on and win the title here.