Week 22 - Challenger ($50K) - Nottingham, Great Britain

wolf · Tennis legend

RE: Week 22 - Challenger ($50K) - Nottingham, Great Britain

Guid007 · Strong Club Player

And this is being played indoor right?

spud · Challenger qualifying

Come on Josh!! Winning in 3 is your thing at the moment

andyjmr · Intermediate Club Player

:( shame

spud · Challenger qualifying

Goodall loses 7-6 6-3 to bozoljac :(

wolf · Tennis legend

Josh lost 7-6, 6-3. cry

Count Zero · Tennis legend

that's a shme. but it was a good run by josh nonetheless. 4 good wins for him this week.

Guid007 · Strong Club Player

After a good run this week, hopefully he'll be able to take his grass-court form into next week and hope to make the 2nd round at least.

spud · Challenger qualifying

Yeh , hopefully this form can continue into Queens !! This week has been a big boost to Josh mentally more than anything, as he has shown himself he is able to beat and contest with high class players. With this gained confidence he can take out Muller hopefully and push Lu or Garci- Lopez in the second round and then who knows: Murray vs Goodall- Queens Center Court

-- Edited by spud on Saturday 6th of June 2009 05:59:58 PM

wolf · Tennis legend

Ilia Bozoljac (SRB) [5] bt Josh Goodall (GBR) [Q] 7-6(5) 6-3
"It was difficult conditions and I guess other people might have seen it differently but I thought that I was unlucky on some of the big points. I played ok today and there wasn't a lot between us, I was just slightly unlucky."

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Eric Butorac (USA) & Scott Lipsky (USA) [3] bt Colin Fleming (GBR) & Ken Skupski (GBR) 6-4 6-4.

"It was a tight one and unfortunately they served too well for us to get the breaks today. We didn't serve as well as we have been and that meant we didn't have much opportunity to get into the match and we had some tough deuces that didn't go our way, which didn't help. What we've done here this week is good for us going forward to the AEGON Championships at Queen's and we are looking forward to that challenge and hope that things go our way in the next few weeks," said Ken

* cry

Ah well, you win some, you lose some. Good experience for them, nevertheless, as an up-&-coming partnership.

I'm sure they'll learn from it & they did well to get to the final in the first place.

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 7th of June 2009 02:34:01 PM

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Shame for Josh to have lost in the semi finals, but it's been a good week for him and hopefully he can take that confidence to Queens, where he has a winnable first round draw.

Shame for Fleming and Skupski as well, but another final for them is another great result, and they seem to keep moving up the rankings nicely and must be getting to the stage where they will be seeded in challengers.

helki · Futures qualifying

Hard lines boys. A good week, though, and more experience gained at this level can't be a bad thing. Onwards and upwards.

wolf · Tennis legend

I went today, I would usually give some big reports but the LTA has done a pretty decent job of that themselves, so I won't bother.

The indoor courts were super quick so with some big servers on show there was only four breaks of serve in five sets. Booty & Lipsky were easily the better team in the doubles and deserved their win, Flemski didn't seem quite all there today. Not the best match I have ever seen but there were some really great rallies towards the end of the match. The only time the Americans looked like getting broken was when Booty nervously served for the match but two big serves dug him out and it was GSM. All the guys seemed on good terms and they were all travelling down to Queens together in Colin's car I think.

freerider · Futures level

so not only did has an evans won both gb challengers this year so far, but they have both beaten fleming in the first round! how unlucky for flembo!