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

steven · Tennis legend

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

steven · Tennis legend

FQR with exact scores

FQR: (q1/WC) Dan Evans WR 320 beat Ashley Hewitt UNR by 2-6 6-2 6-2 smile cry
FQR: Thomas Knights UNR lost to (q2) Lazare Kukhalashvili (GEO) WR 891 by 3-6 7-6(5) 6-1 cry
FQR: (q11) Ben Pritchard WR 1423 beat (q3) Duncan Mugabe (UGA) WR 907 by 6-7(0) 6-3 6-3 biggrin
FQR: (q14) Niall Angus WR 1900 lost to (q4) Alessandro Piccari (ITA) WR 930 by 3 & 2 cry
FQR: (q5) Dan Smethurst WR 1055 beat (q13) Ralph Regus (GER) WR 1768 by 6-4 5-7 6-0 smile
FQR: (q9) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1348 beat (q6) Maniel Bains WR 1071 by 3 & 0 biggrin bleh
FQR: (q7) Nick Cavaday WR 1171 beat (q10) Neil Pauffley WR 1370 by 1-6 6-4 6-2 smile cry
FQR: (q12) James Marsalek WR 1549 beat (q8) Kyle Brassington WR 1253 by 2-6 6-4 7-5 biggrin bleh

BTw just noticed that former Wimby (and current Miami Masters) referee Alan Mills is 'slumming it' with Fitzy and co this week. smile Good to see him keeping his hand in.

Perhaps that's why the LTA drawsheet has Ben winning in three straight sets 7-6(0) 6-3 6-3 ... evileye (corrected above)

-- Edited by steven on Monday 4th of May 2009 07:39:32 PM

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Evo vs MArselek...rubbish

Pritchard must be stoked at his draw

steven · Tennis legend

I see (Q) Kuku and (LL) Mugabe have been drawn against each other in R1 with the winner likely to play (1) Alcaide WR 297. The rest of the top quarter is all Brits apart from the other seed in it, who is the much higher-ranked brother of the guy who beat Niall Angus easily today - oops! cry

L32 Q1: (Q) Ben Pritchard WR 1423 v (WC) Jack Carpenter UNR
L32 Q1: (Q) Nick Cavaday WR 1171 v (5) Francesco Piccari (ITA) WR 372
L32 Q2: (Q) Dan Smethurst WR 1055 v (4) Mathieu Rodrigues (FRA) WR 342
L32 Q2: Dan Cox WR 637 v Tim Goransson (SWE) WR 538
L32 Q2: Matt Illingworth WR 702 v (Q) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1348
L32 Q2: (WC) Marcus Willis WR 908 v (8) Gaston-Arturo Grimolizzi (ARG) WR 489
L32 Q3: (WC) Oliver Golding UNR v Agustin Boje-Ordonez (ESP) WR 626 (winner likely to play (7) Grassi WR 448)
L32 Q3: Burnham Arlidge WR 842 v Andoni Vivanco-Guzman (ESP) WR 601
L32 Q3: (3/Q) Dan Evans WR 320 v (Q) James Marsalek WR 1549
L32 Q4: Josh Milton WR 703 v (WC) Richard Gabb UNR - winner likely to play (6) Jeanclaude WR 381 or Nacho Coll WR 469)
L32 Q4: (LL) Kyle Brassington WR 1253 v Grégoire Burquier (FRA) WR 568 - winner likely to play (2) Olaso WR 315

A pity none of the Brits managed to draw Golding. We have four definites in R2 but it's hard to see a Brit suriving any of the other matches and hard to see anyone but Evo getting to the QFs and even he might find it tough.

Btw, when I said that the Brits did better in Edinburgh than Bournemouth last year, I was thrown by the numbering of the Futures having changed due to two of the Q1 Futures being dropped this year. bleh In fact:

2008 Bournemouth 15K

(7) Wardy, Evo & Thornley reached the QFs
Meatball, Smethurst, Illingworth, Milton & Cox all reached R2

Total points : 14

2009 Bournemouth 10K

(1) Slabba & Dr No reached R2

Total points : 2

I think it was probably a good idea to revert the clay court Futures back to being 10Ks this year (adding Newcastle next week as well) in an attempt to weaken the draw, but sadly it seems to only have weakened the Brits in the draws! cry

2008 Edinburgh 15K

Evo & (6) Wardy reached the QFs
(1) Bloomers, Cox, (8) Kasiri & T Hewitt all reached R2

Total points : 10

-- Edited by steven on Monday 4th of May 2009 08:26:35 PM

Drew · May 4, 2009

The issue with the LL spot was that Mills wasnt sure ! kyle was and the other event staff were...i put our thoughts over...call to the Itf made certain. Mills does this event most years...he is used to ATP masters not futures i suppose.

steven · Tennis legend

That's a classic

though it can't be easy with the LL rules for ATP and ITF events being different and even the ITF rules varying between slams and Futures.

What was the other option he was thinking of? If he thought slam rules applied, that could have helped Kyle's chances (by keeping Pauffley and Regus out of the equation) rather than helped them. If he thought ATP rules applied (which would have cut Kyle out), that would be a bit shocking. Glad I was able to (sort of) help anyway.

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

Drew wrote:

Argg 5-5
' i hate this fu***** country ' quote from the georgian.
He has been throwing his raquet all over the place and with no umpire he gets away with it.

So why do so many johnny foreigners bother coming over here. I assume its for easier points but surely they can do as well elsewhere (and a lot warmer!)
The top 2 spanish seeds would have been seeded in the comp in their own country this week?

Another naive question if someone doesnt mind educating me.....but wild cards for this week in edinburgh. Are they explained/justified anywhere?

Salmon · Tennis legend

It's not anything like hatred for Britain or British weather or anything - probably just frustration. Lazare previously trained at Queen's and was trying for British citizenship and then trained in Ireland (maybe still does, no clue) and was seeking an Irish citizenship.

Drew · May 5, 2009

The guy seemed to be very friendly and well known to the GB guys...indeed it was Cavady that loaned him his raquet in the final stages when he broke another string (by bouncing it off the ground/fence). He was almost timed out by Mills for leaving the court !

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

haha - thx for the updates. thinking about it ive probably said it a thousand times myself...

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

Drew are you going later in the week? I am probably going to getv there on Thursday.

freerider · Futures level

from bbc :

Lazare Kukhalashvili (Geo) bt Duncan Mugabe (Uga) 6-0 6-1

Claudio Grassi (Ita) bt Colin OBrien (Irl) 6-1 7-6 (7-2)

Agustin Boje-Ordonez (Spa) bt Oliver Golding (Gbr) 6-4 0-6 6-2

Andoni Vivanco-Guzman (Spa) bt Burnham Arlidge (Gbr) 6-3 6-3

Daniel Evans (Gbr) bt James Marsalek (Gbr) 6-3 6-1

Ignacio Coll-Riudavets (Spa) bt Frederic Jean-Claude (Fra) 6-4 7-6 (7-5)

Richard Gabb (Gbr) bt Joshua Milton (Gbr) 6-4 3-6 7-6 (7-4)

Gregoire Burquier (Fra) bt Kyle Brassington (Gbr) 6-2 6-1,

well done gabb!

freerider · Futures level

good fight from oliver golding too

Drew · May 5, 2009

Scores...with thanks to Heather at TS.

L32 Q3: (WC) Oliver Golding UNR v Agustin Boje-Ordonez (ESP) WR 626 Ordonez won 6-4 0-6 6-2

L32 Q3: Burnham Arlidge WR 842 v Andoni Vivanco-Guzman (ESP) WR 601 Guzman won 6-3 6-3

L32 Q3: (3/Q) Dan Evans WR 320 v (Q) James Marsalek WR 1549 Evans won 6-3 6-1

L32 Q4: Josh Milton WR 703 v (WC) Richard Gabb UNR Gabb won 6-4 3-6 7-6 (4)

L32 Q4: (LL) Kyle Brassington WR 1253 v Grégoire Burquier (FRA) WR 568 Burquier won 6-2 6-1

steven · Tennis legend

Impressive from Gabb / a bit of a shocker for Milton. I didn't think Oliver would get anywhere near that close - what on earth happened in the 2nd set!