Week 19 Futures - Great Britain F7 ($10K) - Newcastle

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 19 Futures - Great Britain F7 ($10K) - Newcastle

steven · Tennis legend

15-year-old Oliver Golding will be the youngest Brit on the rankings on 18 May ...

Oliver Golding (Gbr) bt Richard Gabb (Gbr) 6-4 6-7 (4-7) 6-4

An excellent win for Morgan: biggrin

Morgan Phillips (Gbr) bt Sascha Kloer (Ger) 6-2 6-1

Oh Slabba ... our only seed here bites the dust in R1 bleh

- what a terrible season he's having.

Benoit Paire (Fra) bt Alexander Slabinsky (Gbr) 6-4 7-5

A good win for Milton smile

unfortunate for Fitzy though cry

Joshua Milton (Gbr) bt Andrew Fitzpatrick (Gbr) 6-1 6-3

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 12th of May 2009 04:42:05 PM

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

well done oliver and morgan. slabba, you just get worse.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Great to see Golding get the win and to be on the rankings at just 15 is a great achievement.

Great win for Morgan as well, and hopefully he can have a good week here and pick up plenty of points.

Milton gets a nice win as well, but a shame for Fitzy to have lost, while another terrible result for Slabba - whatever it was he did at the start of the year just hasn't worked at all.

steven · Tennis legend

I'm fairly sure that Oliver is the first 15-year-old Brit to join the rankings since Dan Cox in late 2005, when he was about 4-5 months younger than the 15 y 7m than Oliver is now.

Even Muzza didn't join the rankings until he was 16 y 4 m, though he joined the rankings by winning a Future and had had far more (unrewarded in points terms) wins in Challenger qualifying before that. Greg Rusedski got on the ranking list at 15 y 10 m but Tim Henman didn't get on the ranking list until he had just turned 18.

Even Federer didn't manage to join the rankings until he was just over 16, though Rafa was 15 y 3 m when he first got ranked, i.e. a few months younger than Oliver but a month older than Dan Cox.

Of course, when you get your first point can be hugely dependent on how lucky you are with draws or, in the 'old' days, when you got your first Challenger main draw WC - perhaps looking at when under 17s first crack the top 1000 would be a more valid comparison.

Judging by his website though http://www.olivergolding.co.uk/ he's already well on the way to being the first GB player ever to be as annoying as Serena Williams ... sorry, Drew! wink

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 12th of May 2009 05:06:04 PM

greatunclebulgaria · Lower Club Player

well as Andy hasn't started yet I thought I would pop in here and post this

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Well, Dan Cox was the latest Brit in the firing line today and if the BBC have got the score the right way round, he didn't just break the streak with a close-fought win, he took the Frenchman apart 1 & 0! That would be a stunning result!

Don't think anyone told Dan his opponent was a brit basher before he started he, Dan just looked in a class of his own I would have thought he was the higher ranked player

Marcus Willis never looked like he believed he could win, think he has a groin strain he had a medical time out and was stretching a lot between point so maybe that was it, he just looked dejected most of the time

don't know what happened to Ben Davis's opponent I had just made my way over to that court after seeing Willis lose saw a few points was impressed with Ben then change of ends at 7-5 4-2 to Ben umpire announces Ben's won saw the Italian walk off court chatting on his mobile didn't seem hurt ?

Illingworth v Arlidge Arlidge won but I preferred Illingworth's style of play almost uses the raquet like a fencing rapier also did Arlidge put Illingworth off shouting at his raquet and the ball whenever he missed

Joshua Milton (Gbr) bt Andrew Fitzpatrick (Gbr) 6-1 6-3 fitzpatrick got a bit unhappy re line calls maybe that's what did for him today

now a question how come the foreign players slide much better than ours (Illingworth can slide)

-- Edited by greatunclebulgaria on Tuesday 12th of May 2009 05:16:31 PM

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

greatunclebulgaria wrote:

well as Andy hasn't started yet I thought I would pop in here and post this

Quote:
Well, Dan Cox was the latest Brit in the firing line today and if the BBC have got the score the right way round, he didn't just break the streak with a close-fought win, he took the Frenchman apart 1 & 0! That would be a stunning result!
Don't think anyone told Dan his opponent was a brit basher before he started he, Dan just looked in a class of his own I would have thought he was the higher ranked player

Marcus Willis never looked like he believed he could win, think he has a groin strain he had a medical time out and was stretching a lot between point so maybe that was it, he just looked dejected most of the time

don't know what happened to Ben Davis's opponent I had just made my way over to that court after seeing Willis lose saw a few points was impressed with Ben then change of ends at 7-5 4-2 to Ben umpire announces Ben's won saw the Italian walk off court chatting on his mobile didn't seem hurt ?

Illingworth v Arlidge Arlidge won but I preferred Illingworth's style of play almost uses the raquet like a fencing rapier also did Arlidge put Illingworth off shouting at his raquet and the ball whenever he missed

Joshua Milton (Gbr) bt Andrew Fitzpatrick (Gbr) 6-1 6-3 fitzpatrick got a bit unhappy re line calls maybe that's what did for him today

now a question how come the foreign players slide much better than ours (Illingworth can slide)

-- Edited by greatunclebulgaria on Tuesday 12th of May 2009 05:07:46 PM

Thanks for the reports.

re: sliding - foreign players are brought up on the clay, and so, have to learn to slide from an early age to give them a chance, while the majority of Brits are brought up on indoor hard, where you cannot slide. Hence, when they play on the clay, they've not learnt the technique to slide, and so cannot do it, or cannot do it so well in matches.

Illingworth does look like he's had some sort of clay-court training, judging by the way he plays, so that probably explains why he can slide.

steven · Tennis legend

This is how the draw is shaping up:

L32: Josh Milton WR 704 beat (Q) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1351 by 1 & 3 smile cry
L32: Dan Cox WR 643 beat Jeremy Blandin (FRA) WR 542 by 1 & 0 biggrin
L32: (WC) Ben Davis UNR beat (5) Luca Vanni (ITA) WR 332 by 6-7(3) 4-2 ret. biggrin
L32: (Q) Oliver Golding UNR beat (WC) Richard Gabb UNR by 6-4 6-7(4) 6-4 smile cry
L32: (Q) Morgan Phillips WR 1271 beat Sascha Kloer (GER) WR 465 by 2 & 1 biggrin
L32: (6) Alex Slabinsky WR 342 lost to Benoit Paire (FRA) WR 611 by 4 & 5 bleh
L32: (Q) Maniel Bains WR 1071 v (8) Gaston-Arturo Grimollozzi (ARG) WR 490 blankstare
L32: (Q) Nick Cavaday WR 1172 v James McGee (IRL) WR 541
L32: Burnham Arlidge WR 840 beat Matthew Illingworth WR 721 by 3-6 6-1 6-1 biggrin bleh
L32: (WC) Marcus Willis WR 936 lost to (7) Frédéric Jeanclaude (FRA) WR 371 by 1 & 2 cry
L32: (Q) Daniel Smethurst WR 1101 v (Q) Niall Angus WR 1905 blankstare
L32: David Rice WR 897 v (Q) Barry King (IRL) WR 1112
L32: (WC) Ashley Hewitt UNR beat (2) Carlos Poch-Gradin (ESP) WR 263 by 6-3 1-6 6-4 biggrin

L16: Josh Milton WR 704 v (1) Sebastian de Chaunac (FRA) WR 203
L16: Dan Cox WR 643 v (WC) Ben Davis UNR
L16: (Q) Oliver Golding UNR v (4) Guillermo Olaso (ESP) WR 308
L16: (Q) Morgan Phillips WR 1271 v Benoit Paire (FRA) WR 611
L16: Burnham Arlidge WR 840 v (3) David Guez (FRA) WR 303
L16: (Q) Maniel Bains WR 1071 *or* (8) Gaston-Arturo Grimollozzi (ARG) WR 490 v (Q) Nick Cavaday WR 1172 *or* James McGee (IRL) WR 541
L16: (Q) Daniel Smethurst WR 1101 *or* (Q) Niall Angus WR 1905 v (7) Frédéric Jeanclaude (FRA) WR 371
L16: (WC) Ashley Hewitt UNR v David Rice WR 897 *or* (Q) Barry King (IRL) WR 1112

Shhh · Challenger level

steven wrote:

Judging by his website though http://www.olivergolding.co.uk/ he's already well on the way to being the first GB player ever to be as annoying as Serena Williams ... sorry, Drew!

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 12th of May 2009 05:06:04 PM

I wish you hadn't posted that link.....I've taken a dislike to him already

Silver · County player

Some absolutely cracking wins today from our lads! Much more encouraging than it's been in the last few weeks or so... Great stuff!

*happyface*

freerider · Futures level

WOWZAS amazing day and still some results to come!

After looking at the previous results for morgans opponent i am amazed at how easily he won. Hopefully he can blast paire off the court too

-- Edited by freerider on Tuesday 12th of May 2009 06:04:41 PM

Drew · May 12, 2009

Well what a day....apart from Slabba of course...Golding maybe a golden boy but Ill take a 15yr old Brit winning all day every day.

helki · Futures qualifying

Got to say, I'm impressed with some of those results. smile

Hope the rest can come up trumps too. My only hope is that they're not one-match wonders. Fingers crossed for the next rounds.

steven · Tennis legend

Wins for Bains v no. 8 seed (!) and Smethurst but a good day for the Irish in the other two matches. Full list just coming ...

steven · Tennis legend

Btw Barnes & Golding beat the top seeds Olaso & Poch 2 & 1 in the doubles QFs too! (possibly a tank from Poch, who probably can't wait to get away, but we'll gloss over that!)