Another good win from Flembo, I watched Danilovic in Glasgow and boy he can serve!

Sorry for the duplicate post having some issues with ActiveBoard!

Well done to all Brits but especially James [Marsalek] amd Josh [Milton], and here's hoping that the latter can confront his R2 phobia!

Here's the full sets of results all in one place.

In the later matches, great use of a LL by Dr No  - clearly that breadstick he was fed in the 1st set gave him some energy!  Great win for Marsalek too - that must have been a tense match!  It looks like Mathew James was very unlucky not to get a point here - up a set, lost the 2nd set in a t/b 8-6 with a big chance that whatever happened when he lost the set point was what led to his retirement.

L32 Q1: (1) Richard Bloomfield WR 316 beat Tim Goransson (SWE) WR 659 by 1 & 4
L32 Q1: (LL) David Rice WR 998 beat Dylan Sessagesimi (SUI) WR 865 by 1-6 7-5 6-3
L32 Q1: (Q) Mathew James UNR lost to (Q) Milos Sekulic (SWE) WR 1392 by 5-7 7-6(6) ret.
L32 Q1: (5) Ken Skupski WR 562 beat Daniel Cox WR 841 by 6-7(4) 6-4 6-4

L32 Q2: (WC) Josh Milton WR 831 beat (4) Grégoire Burquier (FRA) WR 545 by 5 & 3
L32 Q2: (Q) Maniel Bains WR 1028 lost to Adrien Bossel (SUI) WR 852 by 5 & 0
No Brits in the bottom half of Q2, where the seed, Mecir, went out to Marc Beckles' FQR conqueror Kromann

L32 Q3: Colin Fleming WR 819 beat (8) Daniel Danilovic (MNE) WR 625 by 5 & 4  
L32 Q3: (WC) Daniel Smethurst WR 1019 beat (WC) Jack Carpenter UNR by 4 & 2  
L32 Q3: Neil Bamford WR 711 beat Petru Luncanu (ROU) WR 680 by 4 & 3
L32 Q3: Matt Illingworth WR 751 lost to (3/Q) Jean-Noël Insausti (FRA) WR 456 by 2 & 3

L32 Q4: (WC) James Marsalek UNR beat (6) Robert Varga (HUN) WR 599 by 7-6(9) 7-6(5)
L32 Q4: (Q) Burnham Arlidge WR 985 beat Jurgen Zopp (EST) WR 665 by 4-6 6-3 6-4
L32 Q4: (Q) Neil Pauffley WR 1471 lost to Yann Marti (SUI) WR 823 by 1 & 2

L16 Q1: (1) Richard Bloomfield WR 316 v (LL) David Rice WR 998
L16 Q1: (5) Ken Skupski WR 562 v (Q) Milos Sekulic (SWE) WR 1392
L16 Q2: (WC) Josh Milton WR 831 v Adrien Bossel (SUI) WR 852
L16 Q3: Colin Fleming WR 819 v (WC) Daniel Smethurst WR 1019
L16 Q3: Neil Bamford WR 711 v (3/Q) Jean-Noël Insausti (FRA) WR 456
L16 Q4: (Q) Burnham Arlidge WR 985 v (WC) James Marsalek UNR

That means three definite quarter finalists, while Ken must fancy his chances after Mathew pushed Sekulic so close today, Bam Bam the same after George Morgan and Niall Angus took sets off Insausti in qualifying and Josh is playing a slightly lower-ranked player too. After SIX GB wins against higher-ranked non-Brits today, it's surely too much to hope for 6 in the QFs ...

-- Edited by steven at 22:14, 2008-11-04

Stircrazy wrote:

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helki wrote:

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Any doubles news available for us fans?

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Yes, finally!

Bains & Rice beat de Sousa & Insausti 6-2 2-6 [10-8] (play the top seeds, Cerovic & Danilovic (CRO/MNE) in the QF)

Angus N & Smethurst beat Evans O & Knights w/o (play the third seeds, Cauvard & Singh (FRA/IND), in the QF)

Dan Cox & Josh Milton beat the Irish pair, Barry King & Colin O'Brien, 4-6 6-4 [12-10] (play Bamfs & Illy (3) in the QF)

Bamfs & Illy (3) beat Beckles & Ross-Hurst 6-2 7-6(6) (QF pairing as above)

Barnes L & Pauffley beat Hodgson & Watling 2 & 5 (play Flembo & Skups (2) in the QF)

& last, but not least, Flembo & Skups (2) beat the Turkish pair, Beceren & Erguden, 1 & 3 (QF pairing as above).

*  Not a bad set of results for the Brits...

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        Thank you.

Well... Some extraordinary results here this week... a fine effort from young james marselek..

Although i think its a pretty poor show from Mat James to pull out at a set all.. thats just disgusting,a waste of a chance, but with the score at that the welshman must have been badly injured.. shame

Milton keeps up his 1st round tradition with a solid win over a higher ranked opponent but will presumably lose next round judging by his record of second round results.. me being a british tennis follower obviously hopes he goes deep ibnto the draw....

Everyone saying how bad coxyas draw was but what a mamoth perfromace from ken showing true heart

Another player who caught my eye // who cam through qualies may i say.. was the bad techniqued bernham alridge i think marsa will beat him as he will expose the technical difficulties.

was wondering knew where fitzy was as surely if the guy has any sense he would play futures in his own country before heading overseas... but its understandabkle as many players will follow him abroad trying to buy some dirty points.
but i suppose any point isn a point its just that those that are picked up in europe are thought more highly of...

i hope my opinions have been taken on board i will defenatly be a daily poster.. maybe even several a day

Well done to Josh for shrugging of his R2 enigma!

Edit: And welcome to F4T100, any insights are always welcome, are you yourself a regular Futures/national level player?

-- Edited by James at 14:41, 2008-11-05