Week 28 - Futures F9 ($15K) - Frinton, GBR

steven · Tennis legend

Week 28 - Futures F9 ($15K) - Frinton, GBR

steven · Tennis legend

Josh Milton, Matt Illingworth, Burnham Arlidge, Marcus Willis, Sean Thornley, David Rice were already on the direct acceptance list here.

Maniel Bains and Alex Ward were the first two Alts so are surely in the main draw too, either as late DAs or as WCs.

The next Brit on the qualifying list but not in qualifying (which probably means he has a main draw WC too) is Oliver Golding, it's anybody's guess who the other WCs have gone to, particularly since having finally remembered last week that it says at http://www.lta.org.uk/Resources/Competition/2009%20Wild%20Card%20Process%20-%20Men.pdf that WCs will be posted at http://www.lta.org.uk/Competition/Resources/?c=comp-wildcard by the Friday before each event at the latest and posted the Felixstowe WC nominations there smile

they seem to have given up on the idea again this week. cry

Smidster · Challenger level

We have now reached the FQR of this.

For the Brits

Scott Sears (UNR) v (q14) Joss Espasandin (SUI) WR 1776
(q3) Timothy Bradshaw WR 1078 v Matthew James UNR
(q4) Nick Cavaday WR 1123 v Daniel Glancy UNR (IRL)
(q6) Kyle Brassington WR 1233 v (qwc) Matthew Short UNR
(q11) Alex Miotto WR 1498 v (q7) Andreas Siljestrom WR 1310 (SWE)
(q8) Neil Pauffley WR 1323 v (q16) Niall Angus WR 1859

(q5) Marvin Barker WR 1198 (AUS) v (q12) George Coupland WR 1638 OR Alistair Barnes UNR. The Coupland-Barnes game doesn't appear on the OOP though.

-- Edited by Smidster on Monday 13th of July 2009 08:12:21 AM

Drew · Jul 13, 2009

FQR results...

Scott Sears (UNR) v (q14) lost Joss Espasandin (SUI) WR 1776 4 & 3
(q3) Timothy Bradshaw WR 1078 def Matthew James UNR 3 & 3
(q4) Nick Cavaday WR 1123 def Daniel Glancy UNR (IRL) 3 & 5
(q6) Kyle Brassington WR 1233 def (qwc) Matthew Short UNR 2 & 3
(q11) Alex Miotto WR 1498 lost (q7) Andreas Siljestrom WR 1310 (SWE) 4 & 4
(q8) Neil Pauffley WR 1323 def (q16) Niall Angus WR 1859 in 3
(q5) Marvin Barker WR 1198 (AUS) def Alistair Barnes UNR 4 & 2

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Main Draw for this has been rather kind to the British players from what I can see.

Thornley and Illingworth have been drawn together which is excellent, as they sure as hell wouldn't be able to beat anyone non-British to judge from their dreadful seasons.

Willis and Rice (pretty much the only British bright points this season for players ranked 850+ in January) have winnable matches too, and also Miotto (LL) and Broady are drawn together which is also excellent as once more they are highly unlikely to beat anyone non-British (especially Miotto).

-- Edited by Jeff Stelling on Monday 13th of July 2009 05:39:56 PM

-- Edited by Jeff Stelling on Monday 13th of July 2009 05:41:27 PM

Drew · Jul 13, 2009

Top Half

R32: LL 1498 GBR MIOTTO, Alex v WC GBR BROADY, Liam

Winner of this could play no1 seed Greg Jones.

R32: Q 989 LTU GRIGELIS, Laurynas v 971 GBR WARD, Alexander
R32: 740 FRA REIX, Clement v 722 GBR WILLIS, Marcus
R32: Q 1198 AUS BARKER, Marvin v 812 GBR RICE, David
R32: Q 1123 GBR CAVADAY, Nick v 490 ESP VIVANCO-GUZMAN, A [5]

Bottom Half

R32: 659 GBR MILTON, Joshua [6] v 907 AUT TELAWETZ, Patrick
R32: Q 1323 GBR PAUFFLEY, Neil v WC 1342 GBR WATLING, Ashley
R32: 869 UGA MUGABE, Duncan v LL 1859 GBR ANGUS, Niall
R32: Q 1078 GBR BRADSHAW, Timothy v 428 ESP COLL-RIUDAVETS, I [3]
R32: 691 GBR ILLINGWORTH, M [7] v 888 GBR THORNLEY, Sean
R32: Q 1776 SUI ESPASANDIN, Joss v WC GBR CHAUDRY, James
R32: 861 GBR ARLIDGE, Burnham v 946 GBR BAINS, Maniel
R32: Q 1233 GBR BRASSINGTON, Kyle v 419 FRA METENIER, Pierre [2]

Lots of Brits in the bottom half this week...fingers crossed for an all-Brit QF

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Looking at the draw there is a good chance that this week will be slightly more successful for the Brits and we should get a couple of quarter finalists at least.

Think Ward, Willis, Rice, Milton and Chaudry all have good chances of beating foreign opposition while four all British matches will at least guarentee some winners.

steven · Tennis legend

FULL QUALIFYING RESULTS

All GBR and/or UNR unless stated

QR1: Thomas Knights beat Orion Modebe by 4 & 4 smile

QR1: Scott Sears beat Alex Golding by 7-6(1) 6-4 smile

QR1: (WC) Ahmed el Menshawy beat Martin Colenbrander (NZL) by 3 & 3 smile

QR1: Marc Beckles beat Oscar Podlewski by 6-4 7-6(4) smile

QR1: Mathew James beat (WC) Ashley Davies by 1 & 2 smile

QR1: David Baxendine beat (WC) Daniel Sidaway by 2 & 3 smile

QR1: (WC) Ryan Horgan beat (WC) Christopher Helliar by 7-5 1-6 7-6(6) smile

QR1: Alastair Barnes beat Alexander Bull by 5 & 4 smile

QR1: Oliver Evans beat Jordan Miles by 4 & 4 smile

QR1: (WC) Matthew Short beat Rogan Egerton by 2 & 0 smile

QR1: Chris Priddle beat Bruno Semenzato (BRA) by 4 & 1 smile

QR1: James Turbervill v Jamie Whiteford by 6-7(9) 6-2 7-6(4) smile

- long match!
QR1: Peter Watson beat (WC) Alex Johnston by 6-4 7-6(7) smile

QR1: Tom Burn beat Dominic Ross-Hurst by 2 & 0 smile

QR2: Thomas Knights lost to (q10) Luca Rovetta (ITA) WR 1492 by 3-6 6-1 6-2 cry

QR2: Scott Sears beat (q2) Tristan Farron-Mahon (IRL) WR 1060 by 7-6(5) 6-2 biggrin

QR2: (WC) Ahmed el Menshawy lost to (q14) Joss Espasandin (SUI) WR 1776 by 5 & 2 cry

QR2: (q3) Timothy Bradshaw WR 1078 beat Marc Beckles by 4 & 2 smile

QR2: Mathew James beat (q15) Matthew Leahy WR 1828 by 6-4 6-7(2) 6-3 biggrin

QR2: (q4) Nick Cavaday WR 1123 beat David Baxendine by 7-6(2) 6-0 smile

QR2: (WC) Ryan Horgan lost to (q5) Marvin Barker (AUS) WR 1198 by 6-2 2-6 6-0 cry

QR2: Alastair Barnes beat (q12) George Coupland WR 1638 by 4-6 6-3 7-6(6) biggrin

QR2: (q6) Kyle Brassington WR 1233 beat Oliver Evans by 3-6 7-6(4) 6-3 smile

QR2: (WC) Matthew Short beat (q9) Ben Pritchard WR 1405 by 6-7(5) 6-4 6-4 biggrin

QR2: Chris Priddle lost to (q7) Andreas Siljestrom (SWE) WR 1310 by 6-2 2-6 6-1 cry

QR2: (q11) Alex Miotto WR 1498 beat James Turbervill by 4 & 2 smile

QR2: (q8) Neil Pauffley WR 1323 beat Peter Watson by 1 & 1 smile

QR2: (q16) Niall Angus WR 1859 beat Tom Burn by 4 & 3 smile

FQR: Scott Sears lost to (q14) Joss Espasandin (SUI) WR 1776 by 4 & 3 cry

FQR: (q3) Timothy Bradshaw WR 1078 beat Mathew James by 3 & 3 smile

FQR: (q4) Nick Cavaday WR 1123 beat Daniel Glancy (IRL) by 3 & 5 smile

FQR: Alastair Barnes lost to (q5) Marvin Barker (AUS) WR 1198 by 4 & 2 cry

FQR: (q6) Kyle Brassington WR 1233 beat (WC) Matthew Short by 2 & 3 smile

FQR: (q11) Alex Miotto WR 1498 lost to (q7) Andreas Siljestrom (SWE) WR 1310 by 4 & 4 cry

FQR: (q8) Neil Pauffley WR 1323 beat (q16) Niall Angus WR 1859 by 4-6 6-1 6-2 smile

Some interesting results in there - a few rankings upsets and some other players doing well to take sets off people you wouldn't expect them to get that close to.

steven · Tennis legend

I didn't notice this at the time, but up to the start of Wimbledon (no post-Wimbledon figures have been posted yet), the Wardinator was equal top in the 'most matches played this year' list with a certain Novak Djokovic.

The top 5 were:

Matches Played in 2009 so far
(minimum 8 matches)

Player Nat W - L Matches PCT.
1 Djokovic, Novak SRB 43 - 13 56 0.768
2 Ward, Alexander GBR 38 - 18 56 0.679
3 Robert, Stephane FRA 43 - 12 55 0.782
4 Roumenov, Georgi ESP 40 - 15 55 0.727
5 Vivanco, Andoni ESP 35 - 20 55 0.636

5th placed Vivanco was the player who beat Alex last week, of course, and they are in the same half of the draw here in Frinton too.

The only other Brits who had played more than 40 matches before Wimbledon were Muzza with 46 (he was 3rd for best win % on 87% at that stage, Rafa was 1st), Morgan Phillips on 46 (67.4% won) and Josh Milton on 41 (56.1% won)

HossTheBoss · Strong Club Player

Milton for the final this week.Ricey will make semi.

Scratchy · Club Coach

HossTheBoss wrote:

Milton for the final this week.Ricey will make semi.

Yeah, I reckon Milton could have a chance of winning his first tournament this week, if producing the standard of tennis he showed in Wimbledon qualies.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Willis outplayed Milton by miles at the qualies, plus his game is better suited to grass

Scratchy · Club Coach

The Knight wrote:

Willis outplayed Milton by miles at the qualies, plus his game is better suited to grass

Fair point. However beating Sidorenko and taking Peya to 3 sets, shows he's got potential on grass.

wolf · Tennis legend

Joshua Milton (Gbr) bt Patrick Telawetz (Aut) 6-3 3-6 6-2

Sean Thornley (Gbr) bt Matthew Illingworth (Gbr) 6-1 6-3

Burnham Arlidge (Gbr) bt Maniel Bains (Gbr) 6-2 6-3

Neil Pauffley (Gbr) bt Ashley Watling (Gbr) 6-4 7-5

Niall Angus (Gbr) bt Duncan Mugabe (Uga) 3-6 6-1 6-3

Ignacio Coll-Riudavets (Spa) bt Timothy Bradshaw (Gbr) 7-6 (7-2) 6-2

Joss Espasandin (Swi) bt James Chaudry (Gbr) 7-5 6-4

Kyle Brassington (Gbr) bt Pierre Metenier (Fra) 6-4 1-6 6-4

steven · Tennis legend

That's a very unexpected win for Kyle

who had a nightmare start to the year, not getting his first point until Ireland F1 in late June ...

Also, I thought Mugabe might get his first ranking point outside Africa this week ... very happy to have been proved wrong.

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 14th of July 2009 05:30:29 PM