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

steven · Tennis legend

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

MAC · Junior player

In fact the result's even more impressive - according to LTA's Friday update he won 2 & 2!!

helki · Futures qualifying

Great win by Neil.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

MAC wrote:

In fact the result's even more impressive - according to LTA's Friday update he won 2 & 2!!

Confirmed by the Beeb:

Neil Pauffley beat Mathieu Rodrigues (FRA) 6-2 6-2 biggrin

Well done, lad!

spud · Challenger qualifying

It makes you wonder how Eaton was beat, when Pauffers destroyed him. He must have broke the frenchmans serve 4 times at least and on grass, WOW!!

helki · Futures qualifying

From the LTA site:

'In the doubles, Tim Bradshaw and Dominic Inglot will play the No.1 seeds, Fischer and Chris Eaton, in the semi-final on Friday evening. Josh Milton and Marcus Willis bowed out in the other semi-final'.

Does that mean they lost the SF or gave the 2nd seeds a WO? I'd rather think the former but haven't found a score so far.

Did they play the matches outside today? The weather was certainly good enough. Can't be very good for players to have to change surfaces and move from outdoors to indoors and back again. IMO. wink

-- Edited by helki on Friday 31st of July 2009 06:35:51 PM

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Eaton played indoors, Pauffley on grass - that might explain a little

Smidster · Challenger level

Fantastic for Neil - Good to have a run which is unexpected and I hope it leads to more success in later weeks.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

That's a stunning result for Pauffley and makes you wonder what the hell he's been doing all year before putting this run together.

It's not just the win, but it's now easily he got the win as well, and that's two very impressive wins back to back, and with them being on different surfaces, you can't use the surface as a reason to explain it being a fluke.

Fischer may be a step too far for him in the final, but given how well Neil seems to have played this week, he's got a decent chance of beating him I'd guess.

Silver · County player

What a week Neil's having! Spot on :D It's alway encouraging when another Brit starts making a name for himself. Let's hope it continues!

steven · Tennis legend

SF: -no Brit- (1) Martin Fischer (AUT) WR 199 beat Charles-Antoine Brezac (FRA) WR 569 by 3 & 3 blankstare

SF: (Q) Neil Pauffley WR 1274 beat (4) Mathieu Rodrigues (FRA) WR 330 by 2 & 2 biggrin

FI: (Q) Neil Pauffley WR 1274 v (1) Martin Fischer (AUT) WR 199 - n/b 13.00 BST

-- Edited by steven on Friday 31st of July 2009 07:17:44 PM

spud · Challenger qualifying

Eaton through doubles 4 and 4

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

helki wrote:

From the LTA site:

'In the doubles, Tim Bradshaw and Dominic Inglot will play the No.1 seeds, Fischer and Chris Eaton, in the semi-final on Friday evening. Josh Milton and Marcus Willis bowed out in the other semi-final'.

Does that mean they lost the SF or gave the 2nd seeds a WO? I'd rather think the former but haven't found a score so far.

No, they played, but lost 1 & 2. cry

Chris & Martin won 4 & 4, so it's the top seeds versus the scond seeds in the final.

for Chris & Martin...

helki · Futures qualifying

Stircrazy wrote:

helki wrote:

From the LTA site:

'In the doubles, Tim Bradshaw and Dominic Inglot will play the No.1 seeds, Fischer and Chris Eaton, in the semi-final on Friday evening. Josh Milton and Marcus Willis bowed out in the other semi-final'.

Does that mean they lost the SF or gave the 2nd seeds a WO? I'd rather think the former but haven't found a score so far.
No, they played, but lost 1 & 2. Chris & Martin won 4 & 4, so it's the top seeds versus the scond seeds in the final. for Chris & Martin...

Thanks.

You'd think the LTA could manage to report the score when they bother to pass on the info that the lads "bowed out"! disbelief

Then again, 'tis the Last To Announce... ashamed

FischOss · Newbie

Fischer won 6:2 6:4 according to his website...