Colin already has one title here - he and Skups beat Yani & Wolmarans 4 & 4 to take the doubles title.

Fingers, toes, eyes, knees and anything else possible crossed for Colin tomorrow. . . I really took to him over the DC weekend and would love to see him succeed.

(Of course, that doesn't mean that I don't want the other Brits to succeed as well, but knowing a bit more about a player does give that added interest)

Sadly, the ultimate GEBB made it 16 in a row:

FI: (WC) Colin Fleming WR 572 lost to (3) Stéphane Robert (FRA) WR 278 by 2 & 3

It doesn't take away from another excellent week for Colin, but I did think he was going to break the streak today.

I think it was probably because the Hoose mentioned a number <= 500. I don't blame him of course - since I believe he lives in France, I imagine the FFT sent round a posse to ambush him and threatened that Gicquel or Llodra would come round and take terrible revenge if he didn't find a way to make sure Robert won.

Or maybe Robert just knows how to turn it on against the GB players when the chips are down.  (sadly, that explanation sounds more plausible than the first one)

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 21st of March 2009 01:23:10 PM

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Shame, still a great week for Colin and I hope to see him move up to the challenger level very soon. I wonder if Skupski will follow him for the doubles partnership or will stay down and work on his singles.

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I think Ken has made it perfectley clear in the past he sees his future in doubles. I think it is more of a case of if Colin will follow Ken into the doubles specialist path rather than the other way around. After Jersey they are not on any futures lists I think so it looks like they will play challenger qualifying and main draw doubles.

we should hunt him down at his home in france and shred his pasport