Week 38 - Futures F15 (15k) - Nottingham 2, Great Britain

Akhenaten · Pro player

RE: Week 38 - Futures F15 (15k) - Nottingham 2, Great Britain

steven · Tennis legend

Grundon wrote:
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

Akhenaten · Pro player

Feeling jealous of Steven's table, I wanted my own Top 25 table.

So here it is - the Top 25 Brit-Bashers table...

			Wins	Played	%	BB Pts*
1	Frederik Nielsen	DEN	49	56	88%	32.8
2	Marcus Sarstrand	SWE	27	32	84%	16.2
3	Joseph Sirianni	AUS	25	30	83%	14.5
4	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	FRA	23	27	85%	14.2
5	Conor Niland	IRL	40	57	70%	13.8
6	Stephane Robert	FRA	16	17	94%	13.3
7	Harsh Mankad	IND	32	43	74%	13.2
8	Nicolas Tourte	FRA	33	45	73%	13.0
9	Samuel Groth	AUS	27	35	77%	12.4
10	Aisam Qureshi	PAK	32	44	73%	12.3
11	Laurent Recouderc	FRA	19	22	86%	12.2
12	Niels Desein	BEL	12	12	100%	12.0
13	Luke Bourgeois	AUS	31	43	72%	11.6
14	Filip Prpic	SWE	23	29	79%	11.5
15	Martin Fischer	AUT	18	21	86%	11.3
16	Travis Rettenmaier	USA	18	21	86%	11.3
17	Wesley Whitehouse	RSA	16	18	89%	11.2
18	Julien Maes	FRA	19	23	83%	10.7
19	Philipp Marx	GER	27	37	73%	10.5
20	Benedikt Stronk	GER	23	30	77%	10.4
21	Robert Varga	HUN	39	61	64%	10.2
22	Gary Lugassy	FRA	33	49	67%	10.1
23	Jeremy Blandin	FRA	10	10	100%	10.0
24	Wesley Moodie	RSA	25	34	74%	9.9
25	Daniel King-Turner	NZL	18	22	82%	9.9

(All matches vs Brits since 2002)
*BB Pts (Brit-Bashing Points) = Wins * % * % * %

It's quite interesting at mo.

No.3 Brit-Basher, Sirianni, beat Jonny Marray yesterday.

Stephane Robert & Filip Prpic are in action in Nottingham this week.

And Blandin and Fischer both bashed 3 Brits on way to the semis & the title last week.

But as Steven says no one comes close to the Brit-Basher Extraordinaire, Mr. Frederik Nielsen.

-- Edited by Akhenaten at 13:06, 2008-09-18

steven · Tennis legend

Very interesting. I'm shocked to see A.U.H.Q in the top 10 - don't tell Imran, we'll never hear the last of it!

How are these ordered though? It's not no of wins and it's not %, is it some amalgamated measure you're sorting on?

Akhenaten · Pro player

Just added the BB Pts column that it's sorted on. Wins * Percentage cubed. Seemed about right.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

First two QFs:

Dan Evans (8) bt Nick Cavaday 4-6 6-4 6-4 smile

Stéphane Robert (5) bt Colin Fleming 6-2 6-2 cry

* Looks as though it was a relatively easy ride for Robert, but Nick Cavaday obviously put up a bit of fight!

-- Edited by Stircrazy at 14:31, 2008-09-18

gjr · Club Coach

Akhenaten wrote:

Just added the BB Pts column that it's sorted on. Wins * Percentage cubed. Seemed about right.

Nice table.

Can you please tell me why some are in bold?

steven · Tennis legend

Akhenaten - BBP seems reasonable to me

Stircrazy - that's Robert up to 4th on BBPs then, sadly cry

gjr - the ones in bold are the ones he mentions in the text underneath

-- Edited by steven at 15:11, 2008-09-18

gjr · Club Coach

steven wrote:

Akhenaten - BBP seems reasonable to me

Stircrazy - that's Robert up to 4th on BBPs then, sadly

gjr - the ones in bold are the ones he mentions in the text underneath

-- Edited by steven at 15:11, 2008-09-18

Haha! I read the text a couple of times looking to see why some where in bold. I didn't realise I was reading the names that where in bold.

:)

Still an interesting table though. Some guys really put it to the Brits

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The remaining two QF results:

Josh Goodall (1) bt Ken Skupski (7) 7-6(?) 6-7(5) 6-2 smile

Filip Prpic (2) bt Milan Pokrajac (6) 6-2 6-3.

Bladetiger · Pro player

jzy wrote:

The remaining two QF results:

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.

-- Edited by Bladetiger at 17:50, 2008-09-18

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Where has Cavaday come from?

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.

Bladetiger · Pro player

ForeverDelayed wrote:

hopefully the winner of Josh/Evo will go on and win the title here.

If either of them beat Robert they will be playing well, but Josh would have a chance.

Think Cavaday's been in US, but others on here have a far better knowledge of that than me

Yorkie · Lower Club Player

Cavaday and Evo had a tight three setter earlier this year on grass so another tight match is no suprise, especially since Evo won again!

wolf · Tennis legend

Brewer & Flan won the doubles title by beating Klingemann & Pokrajac 4-6, 6-4, 10-5.