Week 27 - Great Britain F8 ($15K) - Felixstowe.

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 27 - Great Britain F8 ($15K) - Felixstowe.

steven · Tennis legend

Update

Unless another 15-year-old wins a Futures main draw match this week or a Challenger/ATP main draw match next week, GB will definitely have the two youngest players with ATP rankings in the world on Monday week and half of the players who have gained their first ranking point this year when still 15.

The four youngest ranked players, all of whom gained their ranking points in home Futures (gaining a first ranking point this young obviously requires a fair bit of luck with the draw, but is still a huge achievement), will be:

Liam Broady (GBR) - dob 4 Jan 1994, first ranked 20 Jul 2009 (when aged 15 y 6 m)

Gained first ranking point in GBR F8 by beating 18-year-old Duncan Mugabe (UGA) WR 864.

Oliver Golding (GBR) - dob 29 Sep 1993, first ranked 25 May 2009 (when aged 15 y 7 m)

Gained first ranking point in GBR F7 by beating 17-year-old Richard Gabb (GBR) UNR.

Dimitar Kuzmanov (BUL) - dob 28 Jul 1993, first ranked 8 Jun 2009 (when aged 15 y 10 m)

Gained first ranking point in BUL F3 by beating 19-year-old Ilija Martinoski (MKD) WR 832 at the time when the Macedonian retired during the 2nd set.

Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) - dob 22 May 1993, first ranked 23 Mar 2009 (when aged 15 y 10 m)

Gained first ranking point in KAZ F2 by beating Dinmukhammed Yessenkulov (KAZ) UNR, who had just turned 16 himself.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 9th of July 2009 12:40:09 AM

The Hoose · Satellite level

Also, the Brits both made it through qualifying first, which makes it a much bigger achievement than Kuzmanov and Yevseyev, who both received wildcards.

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, that's true. Oliver beat Mugabe on his way to his first point too so let's hope the Ugandan keeps coming to GB Futures! Actually, Liam lost to him 4 & 2 in Edinburgh, so that's a nice turnaround in just a couple of months too.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Great to see Liam get into the ranking lists and he did look to be a good prospect at Eastbourne but just found that Spadea was hitting the ball too hard for him to control his shots at times, and to be ranked at a young age gives hope for the future.

Well done to Chaudry for getting on the ranking board as well, and another good for win Hewitt, so looks to have found a great run of form at the moment.

And of course there is the usual first round win for Milton and he's got a good chance of reaching the QF's and possibly beyond here, because Smeets is not the best player in the world...

Hopefully someone can join Milton in winning round two, with perhaps Willis or Ward having the best chance to do so.

-- Edited by ForeverDelayed on Thursday 9th of July 2009 09:57:08 AM

steven · Tennis legend

ForeverDelayed wrote:
And of course there is the usual first round win for Milton and he's got a good chance of reaching the QF's and possibly beyond here, because Smeets is not the best player in the world...

... as evidenced by today's first men's result:

Kaden Hensel (Aus) bt Robert Smeets (Aus) 6-3 3-6 6-4

steven · Tennis legend

Milton and especially the Wardinator got very close, and looking at how close the set scores are, it seems crazy that we didn't get at least one playe through, but I'm afraid it ended up as a complete wipeout cry

Martin Fischer (Aut) bt David Rice (Gbr) 6-3 6-4
Andoni Vivanco-Guzman (Spa) bt Alexander Ward (Gbr) 3-6 7-6 (7-5) 7-5
Javier Marti (Spa) bt Liam Broady (Gbr) 7-6 (7-2) 7-5
Alexander Sadecky (Swi) bt Ashley Hewitt (Gbr) 6-4 6-4
Greg Jones (Aus) bt Marcus Willis (Gbr) 6-4 6-4
Adam Hubble (Aus) bt Joshua Milton (Gbr) 7-5 5-7 6-2

No result for Chaudry v Paire yet.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 9th of July 2009 05:35:46 PM

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Dire.

steven · Tennis legend

James didn't manage to pull off a miracle either:

L16: David Rice WR 812 lost to (1) Martin Fischer (AUT) WR 219 by 4 & 4 cry

L16: Alexander Ward WR 971 lost to (6) Andoni Vivanco-Guzman (ESP) WR 490 by 3-6 7-6(5) 7-5 cry

L16: (Q) Liam Broady UNR lost to Javier Marti (ESP) WR 723 by 7-6(2) 7-5 cry

L16: (WC) Ashley Hewitt WR 1776 lost to (8) Alexander Sadecky (SUI) WR 467 by 4 & 4 cry

L16: (WC) James Chaudry UNR lost to (7) Benoit Paire (FRA) WR 548 by 2 & 4 cry

L16: Marcus Willis WR 722 lost to (3) Greg Jones (AUS) WR 348 by 4 & 4 cry

L16: (Q) Josh Milton WR 659 lost to Adam Hubble (AUS) WR 824 by 7-5 5-7 6-2 bleh

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

horror show.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Horrible day for the Brits...would have hoped at least one or two of them would come through, but disappointing that none of them could get the win.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

horrow show? horrible day.

If any of you were actually putting your own money or reputation on those matches would you have staked anything on anyone other than Milton and possibly a small amount on Willis to spring a suprise?

Are we really EXPECTING Broady, Hewitt and Chaudry to be beating men raked 1000-1500 places above them?

I'm personally quite encouraged that every one gave a good account of themselves (judging by the scorelines) and weren't completely embarrassed like in most UK futures tournaments.

Well done lads

-- Edited by johnnylad on Thursday 9th of July 2009 09:34:03 PM

Salmon · Tennis legend

What Johnnylad said.

Very impressed by Liam's scoreline in this match.

-- Edited by Salmon on Thursday 9th of July 2009 09:37:26 PM

Vandenburg · Futures level

thats like saying i was impressed by karlovic's 7-6 7-6 scorline against rod laver.

Salmon · Tennis legend

You were?