Week 30 - Futures F10 ($15K) - Ilkley, UK

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RE: Week 30 - Futures F10 ($15K) - Ilkley, UK

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Some strange results with Milton and Cox losing to lower ranked Brits which is not what you'd have expected from them. Hopefully it's not the 500 curse and they've just had a bad day, but those are matches you'd have expected them to win if they are to progress up the rankings.

Hopefully that win for Thornley will turn around his season and he can kick on from it, but has to make sure that he follows it up now.

Eaton and Rice probably should also get a win today, but this event doesn't look as if it will be as good as Frinton was.

Ratty · County player

None of these guys are outstanding talents like Murray, Del Potro, etc, so why the surprise at their up and down results?

If you play in a tournament which is about the right level for you, you will win and lose in a fairly random fashion, depending upon the draw, whether you ate a bad kebab last night, whether your opponent plays a blinder ...

Sometimes you'll put a few results together and climb the rankings, but unfortunately the most likely follow-on from that is a regression to the mean, where you'll fall back to where you came from.

Because the only way to make a sustained climb up the rankings is to improve more than all those other pesky guys who want to do the same.

Cox at his best is probably a little bit better than Pauffley at his best. So Pauffley at 100% will probably beat Cox at 90%. Not exactly a big shock ....

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Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

I'm pretty shocked at Milton and Coxys loss. Cos is a better player than Pauffley based on results to date but this match seems like a bit of an anomily.

spud · Challenger qualifying

Martin Fischer (Aut) bt Pierrick Ysern (Fra) 6-1 6-1

Charles-Antoine Brezac (Fra) bt Sean Thornley (Gbr) 6-0 7-6 (7-2)

Ludovic Walter (Fra) bt Sadik Kadir (Aus) 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-3

Mathieu Rodrigues (Fra) bt Burnham Arlidge (Gbr) 6-4 7-6 (7-3)

Neil Pauffley (Gbr) bt David Rice (Gbr) 6-3 6-3

Riccardo Ghedin (Ita) bt Kyle Brassington (Gbr) 6-1 6-4,

So far today. Pauffers with another solid win over a Brit. Crap day so far :(.

steven · Tennis legend

Wow, what's Neil on this week? As you said, rubbish results in the Brit v non-Brit matches (well, I had hoped Sean might win at least) but I didn't expect Burnham to get that close to the defending champion, that's quite impressive.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

spud wrote:

Mathieu Rodrigues (Fra) bt Burnham Arlidge (Gbr) 6-4 7-6 (7-3)

At least Burnham gave Rodrigues a bit of a run for his money!

* Well done, Neil!

spud · Challenger qualifying

Just Eaton left then today before the doubles. Lets hope for a second Brit to make it through to the Quarters.

-- Edited by spud on Wednesday 29th of July 2009 02:21:05 PM

Salmon · Tennis legend

Ratty wrote:

Cox at his best is probably a little bit better than Pauffley at his best. So Pauffley at 100% will probably beat Cox at 90%. Not exactly a big shock ....

No, Ratty. Cox regularly beats Challenger level players where as Pauffley rarely wins Futures matches. Irrespective of how talented they are or whether any of them are as good as Murray or JMDP, Pauffers beating Cox is not something you would expect.

Anyway, I am not shocked by the fact that he lost. I am totally aware that anyone can beat anyone in a tennis match. I am shocked since Cox lost three easy matches in three back to back tournaments, right after winning a title, hence I was wondering if something was wrong with him. Maybe it's just a temporary loss of form...

I say Federer stole his mojo during the Wimbly practice session. There's no other way he was breaking Sampras's record.

-- Edited by Salmon on Wednesday 29th of July 2009 04:36:38 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Maybe like players tended to raised their game against Boggo when he was with Brad Gilbert, everyone now raises their game against "Fed's practice partner".

Salmon · Tennis legend

Quite possible. At least for Pauffers and Ricey. Vasin (wasn't that his name?) wouldn't have heard of Dan Cox before, I think.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

steven wrote:

Maybe like players tended to raised their game against Boggo when he was with Brad Gilbert,

I don't think Gilbert had anything to do with it, i think all the players were actually thinking "i must beat the British Challengers GOAT" wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

At last - & it's a bit of good news for a change smile

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[Clément Reix (FRA) beat Jean-Noël Insausti (FRA) 3-6 6-3 7-5]

Chris Eaton beat (Q) Frederik Sletting-Johnsen (NOR) 2-6 7-6(4) 6-3

OK, so it took him three sets to see off a qualifier, but in the context of the rest of today's results, better that he got there in the end than lost! biggrin

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 29th of July 2009 06:09:04 PM

spud · Challenger qualifying

Good result in the end of course, but it makes you wonder how Chris can beat and compete with great players and almost lose to players ranked in the 1000s :O :D.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

lol imagine the hassle he would have got if he'd lost

I hope they go back outdoors tomorrow cos it would help Chris a lot but im not hopeful

-- Edited by The Knight on Wednesday 29th of July 2009 06:11:29 PM