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Thanks Aeneas, this is really good stuff.

Copied from the Baton Rouge thread, since it was answering a question from Sheddie there but really belongs here, there's a story about Dan in Turkey at http://sportsecho.co.uk/other_sports/tennis/news_and_reports/displayarticle.php?ID=6838 - if you go to http://sportsecho.co.uk/other_sports/tennis/  they also had a lot of stories about Dan during Jersey.

If we we had an award for best tennis coverage in a UK regional ...

I agree with wolf that it's a bit silly sending Josh here when he's got a crazy number of 2-pointers in his ranking already.


-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 7th of April 2009 06:26:59 PM

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no worries for evo as long as he gets the job done.

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i have one result - marcus won 7-6 6-4

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Wow, that's some week he's having smile.gif

Seems a bit rough that he only gets one point for it, but it's better than none!

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true but it will hopefully be great for his confidence which in turn should help him get the points!

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Yes, that's true, I'd forgotten it was his first point of the year.

I've just noticed that his next opponent is (WC) Baris Erguden (TUR) WR 1717, who beat Danilovic in R1. Erguden reached a career high of 1321 in 2003 when he was 17 but has not managed to improve on it since!

Late last year, he lost 2 & 4 to Dan Smethurst in London and 3 & 2 to Neil Pauffley in Sunderland, so with luck the R1 result had more to do with Danilovic having an off day than anything else and Marcus's draw has opened up a bit as a result.


-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 10:39:23 AM

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That's another great result for Marcus and a really good opportunity to get through to the quarters too.smile I nearly pointed out yesterday that if he won today he would play the weak-ranked wildcard but didn't want to jinx it!

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Well done Marcus...ta for scores Lilly !

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I didn't see that one coming - well done to Marcus!



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Evo seemed to struggle a bit, but at least he got the match won and hopefully it was just him getting his eye-in and taking time to get used to the courts.

Great to see Willis into the second round as well, and I'd expect Cox to make it three players in round two - and possibly them all into the quarter finals as well

-- Edited by ForeverDelayed on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 01:27:02 PM

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Marcus' score confirmed on the ATP site as 7-6(2) 6-4. biggrin  Coxy also triumphed:  5-7 6-1 3-1 rtd. smile  Unfortunately, he faces the Froggy nemesis of many a Brit Futures player in the second round, our old friend & the third seed, Pierre Metenier (WR 404)! bleh

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 06:27:08 PM

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well done 2 dans and marcus. good opp for 1/4's marcus.

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Roundup

This may well already be better than all the Turkish Futures last year put together:

L32: Marcus Willis WR 945 beat (7) Sebastian Rieschick (GER) WR 455 by 7-6(2) 6-4 biggrin
L32: (5) Dan Evans WR 327 beat (WC) Tuna Altuna (TUR) UNR by 7-6(3) 7-5 smile
L32: (Q) Dan Cox WR 703 beat (Q) Costin Paval (ROU) WR 962 by 5-7 6-1 3-1 ret. smile

L16: Marcus Willis WR 945 v (WC) Baris Erguden (TUR) WR 1717
L16: (5) Dan Evans WR 327 v Murad Inoyatov (UZB) WR 487
L16: (Q) Dan Cox WR 703 v (3) Pierre Metenier (FRA) WR 411

Erguden, as previously mentioned, had a career high in the 1300s when he was 17 but hasn't pushed on since and has lost to both Pauffley and Smethurst recently. His win against Danilovic in R1 here must be one of his best ever, but I get the feeling the Montenegrin may have had an off day.

Inoyatov has reached the QFs of his last four Futures, though he does tend to play the relatively weak ones nowadays and that is probably why he recently made a career high. He has only played two Brits in singles in the last 6 years, losing 4 & 4 to Big Arv in 2005 and 2 & 2 to Morgan Phillips in 2007 but he did beat an 18-year-old Colin Fleming 3 & 2 in Turkey way back in 2002.

Metenier has a 6-4 record against Brits - he was the player who beat Jonny Marray then lost to Bloomers in Bath but got beaten by Jonny in Jersey qualifying a few days later. The winners of the matches involving the two Dans will meet in the QFs.

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 06:41:40 PM

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A Trio of good results...always welcome !

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i declare no more calling willis a fatboy on this forum because the argument just does my head in!

just let the boy be

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