Great results for the Brits yesterday, even Flan decided to pull his finger out!  The Skupster gave Wardy some lessons on how to overpower Marti (who is not ranked 320 Steven ) . Great result for Willis today, and the title is there for the taking for anyone now, with only one non-Brit seed left, and Skupski has a good chance aginst him today.

wolf wrote:

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The Skupster gave Wardy some lessons on how to overpower Marti (who is not ranked 320 Steven ) .

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You're right, he's ranked 859. Steveg had been updated before I did that post (unusual these days) so I got the draw with rankings from http://steveghelper.com/MatchResults.php?countries=gbr&players=&weektype=this&weeks=&from_date=&weeks_back=

where it says #575Kenneth Skupski (GBR) vs#320 (q)Javier Marti -- it
(ESP)

It looks like the rankings lookup used to produce that page managed to confuse Javier Marti with Javier Genaro-Martinez, who is ranked 320. I should have spotted it though, since it was so obviously too high.

He's only played half a dozen senior events in the last year of course, much less than Cox (22) and Smethurst (16), who were born within a month of him. I assume he's going to be playing a lot more senior events from now on, now that he has turned 18 and he certainly seems to have some talent so with luck we'll see him start to rise up the rankings again very soon.

polly wrote:

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I'm not there watching(sadly!)Marcus called me with the result,I couldn't remember the score exactly though,obviously too busy congratulating him!

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Typical mother!

Unfortunately Marcus's win is the only good result so far:

Marcus Willis (Gbr) bt Simone Vagnozzi (Ita) 7-5 6-4

Martin Klizan (Svk) bt Sean Thornley (Gbr) 7-5 6-1

Daniel Danilovic (Mne) bt Andoni Vivanco-Guzman (Spa) 6-2 7-6 (7-4)

Miloslav Mecir (Svk) bt Ian Flanagan (Gbr) 7-5 3-6 6-3

Evans beat Luncanu 6-3 5-7 6-4

R2 in Full...

Marcus Willis (Gbr) WR1115 bt Simone Vagnozzi (Ita) 7-5 6-4 WR308

Martin Klizan (Svk) WR666 bt Sean Thornley (Gbr) 7-5 6-1 WR810

Daniel Danilovic (Mne) bt Andoni Vivanco-Guzman (Spa) 6-2 7-6 (7-4)

Miloslav Mecir (Svk) WR630 bt Ian Flanagan (Gbr) 7-5 3-6 6-3 WR823

Daniel Evans (Gbr) WR550 bt Petra-Alexandru Luncanu (Rom) 6-3 5-7 6-4 WR709

Colin Fleming (Gbr) WR847 bt Joshua Milton (Gbr) 7-5 6-1 WR844

Ken Skupski (Gbr) WR561 bt Stefano Ianni (Ita) WR556 7-6 (8-6) 7-5

Neil Pauffley (Gbr) WR1879 lost to Bastian Knittel (Ger) WR595 6-4 6-2

QF:

Marcus Willis (Gbr) WR1115 v Martin Klizan (Svk) WR666

Daniel Danilovic (Mne) bt v Miloslav Mecir (Svk) WR630

Ken Skupski (Gbr) WR561 v Bastian Knittel (Ger) WR595

Daniel Evans (Gbr) WR550 v Colin Fleming (Gbr) WR847

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Hopefully that is a real break through result for young Marcus...wow !

Evo v Flem should be a cracker...could go either way.

4 Brits in the last 8 is okay.

Edit : * Thanks to tennisfan and sdrb...


-- Edited by Drew at 22:17, 2008-10-22

-- Edited by Drew at 22:43, 2008-10-22