Week 10 - Futures F3 (15k) - Tipton, Great Britain

Drew · Mar 8, 2009

Week 10 - Futures F3 (15k) - Tipton, Great Britain

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

wolf wrote:

Out of the players that I saw in QR1 today only two have the potential to take out one of the seeds in QR2. That is Priddle v Arlidge and Schmid v Willis. Hard to tell though with Ross-Hurst as his opponent was that bad.

I hope Priddle does well after his performances last week

Shhh · Challenger level

Priddle beat Arlidge. Results are up on ITF site.

freerider · Futures level

priddle for his first ranking point in the next two weeks i reckon - unless he gets sketchy draws

Smidster · Challenger level

Unlucky Wolf but well done for having a go - Is it something you will try again?

There is British interest in all 8 FQR ties - altho we are only guaranteed 2 places.

Fitzy had a decent day beating Niall Angus but has a tough assignment in FQR against someone with a career high of 253.

wolf · Tennis legend

QR1: Joachim Sternbach (FRA) beat Navid Sigarchi 6-0, 6-0 cry

QR1: Matus Horecny (SVK) beat Daniel Sidaway 5-7, 6-3, 6-0 cry

QR1: Chris Priddle beat Oliver Golding 6-4, 6-1 smile

QR1: Alex Hackett beat Marc Beckles 6-4, 7-6(5) smile

QR1: Michal Schmid (CZE) beat George Morgan 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-2 cry

QR1: (WC) Joshua Poullet beat Orion Modebe 7-6(1), 6-0 smile

QR1: Thomas Knights beat Alan Bevan 6-3, 6-0 smile

QR1: Tomas Vyrostko (SVK) beat Sundeep Ubhi 6-4, 6-1 cry

QR1: Adam Morgan (USA) beat Mathew James 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 cry

QR1: Niall Angus beat Jamie Whiteford w/o smile

QR1: Dominic Ross-Hurst beat Gaurav Joshi (IND) 6-0, 6-0 smile

QR1: Rogan Egerton beat Darcy Crawford 6-7(0), 6-4, 6-3 smile

QR2: (q1) Richard Bloomfield WR 310 beat Sternbach 6-4, 6-2 smile

QR2: Jack Busby beat Joey "Wolf" Brew 6-0, 6-0 smile

QR2: (q10) Nick Cavaday WR 1188 beat Robert Nkusi 6-0, 6-0 smile

QR2: Priddle beat (q3) Burnham Arlidge WR 859 6-7(2), 6-1, 6-4 biggrin

QR2: (q14) Tomas Janci (SVK) WR 1655 beat Matthew Leahy 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-3 cry

QR2: (q4) Ladislav Chramosta (CZE) WR 924 beat Hackett 6-1, 6-0 cry

QR2: (q9) Kyle Brassington WR 1123 beat Edward Jones 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(3) smile

QR2: (q5) Marcus Willis WR 957 beat Schmid 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 smile

QR2: (q12) Neil Pauffley WR 1386 v Poullet 6-1, 6-1 smile

QR2: (q6) Dan Smethurst WR 1032 beat Knights 6-4, 6-4 smile

QR2: (q11) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1267 beat Angus 6-4, 6-2 smile

QR2: (q8) Maniel Bains WR 1120 v Ross-Hurst 6-4, 6-4 smile

QR2: (q15) Francois-Arthur Vibert (FRA) WR 1900 beat Egerton 6-1, 4-0 ret cry

FQR: (q1) Richard Bloomfield WR 310 v Jack Busby UNR
FQR: (q10) Nick Cavaday WR 1188 v (2) Jiri Krkoska (CZE) WR 818
FQR: Chris Priddle UNR v (q14) Tomas Janci (SVK) WR 1655
FQR: (q9) Kyle Brassington WR 1123 v (q4) Ladislav Chramosta (CZE) WR 924
FQR: (q5) Marcus Willis WR 957 v (q12) Neil Pauffley WR 1386
FQR: (q6) Dan Smethurst WR 1032 v (q13) Frederik Sletting-Johnsen (NOR) WR 1490
FQR: (q11) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1267 v (q7) Radim Zitko (CZE) WR 1062
FQR: (q8) Maniel Bains WR 1120 v (q15) Francois-Arthur Vibert (FRA) WR 1900

wolf · Tennis legend

Smidster wrote:

Unlucky Wolf but well done for having a go - Is it something you will try again?

Maybe - we'll see how it goes. It was everything I expected to be fair so the result hasn't put me off.

My reports from today are available on http://www.tennisalternative.com/news.php

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

no main draw yet?

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Only the Doubles

By the way didn't I read today that Petchy had said the LTA are spending too much on communications ashamed

-- Edited by mjd at 16:27, 2009-03-09

wolf · Tennis legend

So from the doubles draw we can see the wild cards went too Pritchard, Milton, Farquharson and either someone who isn't in the doubles draw or Cox.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Singles Draw

WC's = Cox - Pritchard - O'leary and Farquharson.

Q = Bloomers - Priddle - Pauffley - Bains

LL = Smethurst

Bloomers (5) yet again has drawn his stable-mate Skupski - 'must be loaded dice' It would have been Fleming again except he withdrew biggrin

-- Edited by mjd at 17:44, 2009-03-09

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Well done Priddle for qualifying, he hammered Janci 6-2 6-1 - now he draws the top seed Yani, WR 237! I don't think even he is playing that well. If he does win itll open up the draw for Evo

The GEM Robert has drawn the Wimble junior RU Kontinen, who is a JE. Hopefully he can upset him, all of us would breathe a huge sigh of relief

Interestingly, the Wolf's conqueror lost a respectable 6-3 6-4 to Bloomers

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

mjd wrote:

By the way didn't I read today that Petchy had said the LTA are spending too much on communications

You did, or something along those lines:

Total [LTA] income: £37.5 million. Player performance budget: £14.1 million, which includes coaches' salaries. Communications: £1.7 million, a rise of more than £1 million since 2006! Support services - which includes human resources, legal services, secretariat, finance, National Tennis Operations and the café - £10 million.

Coach education is a fascinating one. In its 2006 report, the LTA spent £1.81 million in this area, the following year £1.75 million and in 2008 £1.7 million. Yet, in the 2008 report, it is recorded that the budget for "coach services" in 2007 was £1 million. Something does not add up. No amount of spin will change the fact that the LTA spends the same on communications as coach education.

Events and tournament spending is down £2 million on the previous year. In fact down is the operative word. All the leading events are so far down South that it is virtually impossible for the rest of the country to get to see live action.

My bold.