Week 18 Futures - Great Britain F6 ($10K) - Edinburgh

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

RE: Week 18 Futures - Great Britain F6 ($10K) - Edinburgh

steven · Tennis legend

Report and pics from yesterday on AM.com

http://www.andymurray.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1938&&postid=250663

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Yay, an all-Brit, unseeded, doubles final:

Semi-finals:

Smethurst & Willis defeated (4) O'Brien & Vivanco (IRL/ESP) by 3 & 4 biggrin

Gabb & Hewitt defeated Angus & Pauffley by 5 & 2 smile

So

Final

Smethurst & Willis vs Gabb & Hewitt

We can't lose! biggrin

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Not the greatest week for the Brits again, and it seems that these clay court futures just aren't working out for the British players at all - well done to those who got their first point though, and to Willis for getting to the quarter finals, and to Fitzy for getting another point.

It does seem that the increase in points this week was due to more Brits drawing each other, but if it does give more British player points, then fix the draw in Newcastle to make sure all the British players draw each other.

helki · Futures qualifying

Pleased for the boys in the doubles. I know we were bound to have one pair of finalists, but both pairs is a bonus.

Got to be Brit

thank goodness. smile

Now will Gabb & Hewitt avenge their defeat of last week or will Dan S end up on the winning side again?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

helki wrote:

[...] Now will Gabb & Hewitt avenge their defeat of last week or will Dan S end up on the winning side again?

The latter - & it must've been some final:

Dan Smethurst & Marcus Willis beat Richard Gabb & Ashley Hewitt 6-7(3) 6-3 [14-12]

Dan & Marcus

s - & some consolation for Marcus! biggrin

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 10th of May 2009 08:22:09 AM

helki · Futures qualifying

That must have been a match worth watching, by the looks it could have gone either way. This Gabbitt combo making two finals in as many weeks. Marcus proving to be the best Brit in this tournament. I hope he can build on this and continue to make improvements in his ranking. Should make for an interesting Futures in Newkie. Are you going Mad?

steven · Tennis legend

SC - you made the same mistake as I did earlier in the week - it's Ashley Hewitt, not Tim, who hasn't been seen in a Future for quite a while.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

SC - you made the same mistake as I did earlier in the week - it's Ashley Hewitt, not Tim, who hasn't been seen in a Future for quite a while.

Oops!

My fault - sort of: I simply copied & pasted the result from the Beeb site (just checked: it still says "Tim"! disbelief

). I edited it slightly, taking out the references to nationality & shortening "Daniel" to "Dan", but didn't bother to update my draw sheet first, or I might have spotted the booboo. The DS, of course, has the right Hewitt!

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 10th of May 2009 08:23:15 AM

steven · Tennis legend

It doesn't say much for us, does it, that our accuracy is on a level with that of the BBC. I've never been so embarrassed! ashamed

(though I did correct my version within seconds, so not quite as bad wink

)

Actually, it's quite impressive that whoever did the scores for the BBC actually knows that there was a player called Tim Hewitt! They might actually be a tennis fan. evileye

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 9th of May 2009 11:51:49 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

It doesn't say much for us, does it, that our accuracy is on a level with that of the BBC. I've never been so embarrassed! (though I did correct my version within seconds, so not quite as bad )

You're not wrong there - & I proceeded to compound the error by failing to edit the initial offending post! disbelief

Didn't dawn on me until after I'd logged off that I should've amended it there & then!

Have put it right now, though. wink