Week 25 - Futures F2 (15k) - Gausdal, Norway

Salmon · Tennis legend

RE: Week 25 - Futures F2 (15k) - Gausdal, Norway

The Hoose · Satellite level

Great work by Coxy.

Scratchy · Club Coach

Well done Coxy lad! smile

steven · Tennis legend

Wow, what a great week for Dan, winning his first Future without losing a set, and it's a 15K!

At the end of Wimbledon, he will move up about 120 places - 92 points from 25 tournaments would be enough for 503rd/504th at the moment, but with more points coming off in general than are going on at the emd of Wimbledon, he may well scrape into the top 500.

He'll definitely move up to GB no. 9, ahead of Marray and Eaton.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Great win for Dan and he's finally got that futures title to his name. Just need to kick on from it like Evans did when he got his first title and swiftly start to move up the rankings.

Silver · County player

Well done Coxy! :D Doing the Lincolnshire crew proud :D

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Kudos to the LTA for making something of this on their homepage.

(The cynic in me says its only because it's Wimbledon week but it could be a new leaf!)

http://www.lta.org.uk/News/All-news-items/2009-06-22/Cox-wins-first-senior-title/

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yeah, I got the same thoughts while reading it.

I think he now takes a week off from playing, with Felixstowe and Manchester to follow. He needs a withdrawal to get a seeding in Felixstowe, since these points won't count.

I'd really like to see him go play all the South American hard court Challengers after Manchester, i.e. it won't happen. Recanati followed by the two British 15Ks won't be too bad either, I suppose, but I think that now it's time he quits Futures.

-- Edited by Salmon on Saturday 27th of June 2009 05:59:52 PM

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I think I'd rather see him hit the top 300 with a few more futures titles (maybe stronger ones) and the odd challenger event so that he's regularly a Challenger DA before leaving the Futures behind.

I think Evans started well in Challengers because his confidence was so high after last summer/autumn's futures titles and he kept the winning feeling going a bit.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Don't think it's time for Cox to stop playing futures events just yet as his ranking isn't high enough to justify doing that.

If he did play challengers every week, then he'd be needing to qualify each time and for a good chunk of the challengers he wouldn't be seeded in qualifying, so he'd be needing to beat 3 players who are higher ranked than him just to pick up a couple of points, while he can get the same for beating a couple of lower ranked players in 10/15Ks.

Would want Cox to be inside the top 350/400 before concentrating solely on challengers as otherwise it's not going to be easy for him to get ranking points, and if he can get their with a few titles then the confidence is going to be high.

Makes sense for Cox to play the GB events over the summer as he's always done well in them and it's a money issue as well.

Smidster · Challenger level

Well done Coxy...lets hope this is the start of a good run.

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Good week - well done, Dan C. Great to see that Futures finals loss record broken.

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Good one Coxy. Onwards and upwards.

Drew · Jun 27, 2009

Congrats to young Cox. These guys are our future in 2-4 yrs time.

-- Edited by Drew on Saturday 27th of June 2009 09:49:31 PM

Salmon · Tennis legend

It's not that difficult to qualify for Challengers during these period, really! Since Manta had a cut off of 888 last year, he may even get a DA or two. Since he's beating guys like Smeets, Niland and Fischer of late, I'd back him to qualify at most weak Challengers if he can replicate that tennis.