Week 31 Futures - GB F11 ($15k) - Ottershaw (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 31 Futures - GB F11 ($15k) - Ottershaw (Hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

Looks like both Milton and the Wardinator are having a bad time after yesterday's big wins.

Alex is fighting back. He's taken the second set 6-4 to level the match. wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And he's 3-0 up in the third! disbelief

steven · Tennis legend

Why's that a disbelief

, SC, are you an Illy fan?

Shocking scoreline for Josh today doh

hope he was just suffering a reaction to yesterday's heroics and Bloomers can see off Brezac tomorrow, I was banking on us getting the semi-finalist from this quarter!

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Well im a Wardinator fan, so it's definitely a biggrin

rather than a disbelief

steven · Tennis legend

Back on serve in the all-Brit match, i.e. 6-4 6-4 4-3* from Ward's point of view.

"O'Brien won" means that all of the top three seeds have bitten the dust.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

Why's that a , SC, are you an Illy fan?

Nope, agnostic. wink

That

icon is supposed to be a head being shaken in disbelief rather than a "no" (which is the

icon), so it was merely a reflection of my disbelief that Alex (I refuse to use that ridiculous "Wardinator" sobriquet!) had actually come from a set down to lead 3-0!

steven · Tennis legend

Ward wins 6-4, which means that all the singles matches that affect Brits today are over. A slightly disappointing day today cry

but we've still ended up with 3 in the QFs having started out with only two of the eight seeds.

L16: Joshua Milton WR 532 lost to Charles-Antoine Brezac (FRA) WR 561 by 1 & 2 bleh

L16: (6) Richard Bloomfield WR 483 beat Barry King (IRL) WR 721 by 1 & 3 smile

L16: - no Brit - (4) James McGee (IRL) WR 454 beat Pierrick Ysern (FRA) WR 544 by 6 & 3 blankstare

L16: Marcus Willis WR 677 lost to (5) Ivo Klec (SVK) WR 471 by 6-2 7-6(8) cry

L16: - no Brit - (8) Sadik Kadir (AUS) WR 537 beat Rudy Coco (FRA) WR 692 by 7-6(-) 7-5 blankstare

L16: (Q) Morgan Phillips WR 768 beat (3) Philippe-Albin de Bonnevie (FRA) WR 397 by 2 & 5 biggrin

L16: (Q) Alexander Ward WR 929 beat Matthew Illingworth WR 729 by 4-6 6-4 6-4 biggrin

L16: - no Brit - Colin O'Brien (IRL) WR 667 beat (2) Gero Kretschmer (GER) WR 381 in straight sets blankstare

QF: (6) Richard Bloomfield WR 483 v Charles-Antoine Brezac (FRA) WR 561
QF: - no Brit - (4) James McGee (IRL) WR 454 v (5) Ivo Klec (SVK) WR 471
QF: (Q) Morgan Phillips WR 768 v (8) Sadik Kadir (AUS) WR 537
QF: (Q) Alexander Ward WR 929 v Colin O'Brien (IRL) WR 667

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 5th of August 2009 02:09:17 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And I see he eventually landed the third set 6-4! Well done to him.

Pity he had to dispose of another Brit in the process. I hope he manages to take O'Brien's scalp now.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Tehee! Chris & Jamie have taken out the top seeds in the doubles 6-3 3-6 [10-6]! biggrin

Not a good day for de Bonnevie...

Looks as though Chris is carrying on with Jamie where he left off with Martin Fischer in Ilkley!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

James Feaver & Barry King lost by 2 & 3 to the French third seeds. cry Chris & Jamie will face them (Brezac & Stouff) in the semi-final.

Josh is going home... Thanks for all the updates, mate. You deserve a medal, but you'll have to make do with this: ! wink

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, brilliant service again Josh, updates very easy to understand and amazingly frequent!

Twitter is clearly ideal for this kind of thing, cutting out the delays that can occur when you text someone the scores and they then have to post them.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Bit surprised by Milton's defeat and specifically how easy it was, but guess it just didn't happen at all for him today, but Josh will probably be able to tell us why he lost.

Even though Illy lost, he did a lot better than we expected him to so maybe he'll be able to turn his season around as a result of this week.

Fancy Bloomers to win his quarter final, while I have a feeling one of the other Brits will as well... I'd say Morgan has the better chance given the form he is in and that Kadir doesn't look to be ripping through the draw so far.

Dare I say that Eaton could be on the way to being another doubles specialist....

fart1 · Junior player

We need to see a shift and hard push to get all these muppets into top 150 before end of year. Otherwise a stale, lingering fart will come to haunt all!

Josh · Challenger level

Milton just played a pretty shocking match really. Nothing went right and he could barely keep a ball in court. Brezac played well, but nothing amazing, just solid shots until Milton made another error.

Sorry I didn't write anything about yesterday, it was pretty late when I got back and I was quite tired. I'll write something about today a bit later. Phillips is looking very good and I wouldn't be surprised if he reached the final, but might have a tough match with O'Brien. Also it will be interesting to see how Bloomers fares against a little tougher opposition.

Unforunately I won't be able to go any more this week, because we're going away tomorrow, although it does seem as though the LTA are updating pretty soon after the last match finishes.