Week 46 - Challenger (€30k+H) - Jersey, CI

steven · Tennis legend

Week 46 - Challenger (€30k+H) - Jersey, CI

XCW4EVA · County player

No Fleming for a wc, what a joke

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

XCW4EVA wrote:

No Fleming for a wc, what a joke

So when have the suits responsible for administering British tennis at all levels, like their counterparts at the FA, ever been able to get anything right, i.e. for the genuine benefit of the sport?

freerider · Futures level

are those wild cards confirmed?! i though ward eaton and slabba were all going to qualify for champaign as it would seem a bit of a mission for ward to get from canada to jersey and then jersey to UAE the next week- but that is the life of a tennis player i spose

what time can we expect the Qualies draw tonight?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

- [...] do you end up wondering if the reason why Arka has disappeared is because he's now on the LTA's WC committee )

No, I don't & I sincerely hope not!

steven · Tennis legend

freerider wrote:

are those wild cards confirmed?! i though ward eaton and slabba were all going to qualify for champaign as it would seem a bit of a mission for ward to get from canada to jersey and then jersey to UAE the next week- but that is the life of a tennis player i spose

what time can we expect the Qualies draw tonight?

It's up now, I'll just get the GB matches together and post them here.

Poor Jonny Marray - he's in the top section with late entrant/ringer (q1) Evgeny Korolev WR 103, while Hrbaty is (q2)

steven · Tennis legend

So much for Jersey qualifying not being expected to be that strong. doh

The good news is that the Brits have avoided the top three seeds in QR1 smile

the bad news is that they need to win three rounds just to get two ranking points cry

and there aren't that many Brits in action, partly because half of the qWCs have gone to non-GB players. doh

Colin was the last qualifying direct acceptance too ...

Section 1 - headed by (q1) Evgeny Korolev (RUS) WR 103

QR1: Matthew Illingworth WR 751 v (qWC) Yann Marti (SUI) WR 823
QR1: Jonny Marray WR 466 v (qWC) Neil Pauffley WR 1471
QR1: (qWC) Maniel Bains WR 1028 v (q7) Marek Semjan (SVK) WR 341

Section 2 - headed by (q2) Dominik Hrbaty (SVK) WR 275

QR1: (qWC) Orion Modebe UNR v Roman Jebavy (CZE) WR 446
QR1: Chris Eaton WR 385 v (q8) Jan Mertl (CZE) WR 354
(the winners of these two matches play each other)

Section 3 - headed by (q3) Rameez Junaid (AUS) WR 306

QR1: Ken Skupski WR 562 v (q5) Peter Gojowczyk (GER) WR 331

Section 4

QR1: Neil Bamford WR 711 v (q4) Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT) WR 326
QR1: Colin Fleming WR 819 v Tomas Zib (CE) WR 490 (winner likely to face (q6) Janowicz (POL) WR 339)

Btw, to answer the question about main draw WCs, I trust the source and the qualifying draw seems to just about confirm their list as well.

-- Edited by steven at 23:02, 2008-11-08

johnnylad · Tennis legend

tough qualies draw for a £35K.

I think it's ok for the UK tournaments to give WCs that aren't entirely based on form.

It's been well documented how Cox has seemed to get some pretty bad draws this summer/autumn and so perhaps this is a chance for him to get some main draw points. It's all in the draw again though.

Wardy and Evo picked themselves with great recent performances.

Slabba appears to have acted like a muppet but at the same time he has a better chance of progressing than any other WC so it's not completely stupid!

As for the qualies WC's my guess is that those people were the only people who had bothered to travel to Jersey - altohugh why they weren't made DA's I don't know.

As for qualifiers - I guess Jonny and Chris have the best chance but I'd be pleasantly surprised if any Brits qualified here

freerider · Futures level

i think flembo will qualify

gazzpash · Club Coach

Who is Yann Marti and why has he got a qualifying WC?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

I'd guess that the non-British WC's got them either because of some relationship with Jersey, or because they were the only players who had actually travelled to Jersey and so would make up the draw - I'm sure if more Brits had gone, then they'd have got the WC's instead.

Not the greatest qualifying draw for the Brits, but hopefully Eaton and Flembo can play really well and qualify, and Jonny can provide a big upset over Korolev, but we could well not be getting any qualifiers here.

steven · Tennis legend

Main draw just out, seems pretty good for most of the Brits at first sight given the strength of the field.

Just sorting out the GB matches ...

steven · Tennis legend

GB matches in the main draw, I'll edit in the WRs when the new rankings come out tonight.

L32 Q1: (WC) James Ward WR v Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) WR (winner likely to play top seed Guccione)
L32 Q2: Richard Bloomfield WR v Qualifier (winner to play (5) Mannarino or Qureshi)
L32 Q3: Josh Goodall WR v Gary Lugassy (FRA) WR (winner to play winner of next match)
L32 Q3: (WC) Alex Slabinsky WR v (4) Joseph Sirianni (AUS) WR
L32 Q4: (7) Alex Bogdanovic WR v Tobias Kamke (GER) WR (winner to play winner of next match)
L32 Q4: (WC) Daniel Evans WR v Michael Koning (NED) WR
L32 Q4: (WC) Daniel Cox WR v Qualifier (winner likely to play (2) A Beck)

-- Edited by steven at 20:59, 2008-11-09

Count Zero · Tennis legend

nice chance for boggo to get a win (thats what i said last week!) he bt kamke back in bronx, straight sets.
i'd say on the face of it not bad 1st rd draws really

freerider · Futures level

goodall vs/ luggsassy will be interssting