Week 37 - Futures F14 (10k) - Nottingham, GB - Hard

baxi2 · Lower Club Player

RE: Week 37 - Futures F14 (10k) - Nottingham, GB - Hard

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

the only dark forces at work are the flu virus molecules at the back of Goodall's throat...those or the dark forces making his backhand so average

baxi2 · Lower Club Player

You're a big fan then ?

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

lol im sure he's a nice guy and he has a nifty serve but im not the biggest Goodall fan

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Short was the only surprise defeat today

Smidster · Challenger level

FQR with British interest

(q1) Goodall v Evans
(q2) Illingworth v Whike
(q4) Fitzpatrick v Ross-Hurst
Pethig v (q5) Jankovitz (FRA)
(q6) Bishop v Brooklyn
(q7) Pritchard v Carter
Dickson v (q8) Glancy (IRL)

Unfortunately we also lost Max Jones to Rozenweig of France in 3

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

sorry i meant Jones was the surprise defeat, getting him mixed up with Short - him losing to Illy was not a surprise!

INDIAN WARRIOR · Improver

Im going down to nottingham on tuesday, i cant wait to see this bains character in action i hope he is as entertaining as i heard he was last week

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

i think we need some audio of him biggrin

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Does he use the phrase "You cannot be serious" ?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Wins for Goody (4 & 4), who is also the top seed in the main draw, Illy (3 & 2), Fitzy (6-3 5-7 6-0), Jonathan Brooklyn (0 & 3!), Ben Pritchard (4 & 3) & Scott Dickson (6-3 7-6(5)

).

Doubles draw here.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Golding v Eaton - i could see an upset there...

ok maybe not, never say never though

Morgan and Bettles both have WCs (against Fitzy and Bloomers) so the LTA is obviously pushing for our talented 1993s to kick on

-- Edited by The Knight on Monday 14th of September 2009 04:22:11 PM

spud · Challenger qualifying

Whoever Eaton plays has a good chance with Eatons game being so 1 dimesional, you got to love it though! :D, I wish Eaton can hopefully click one day and be able to hit his groundstrokes consistently and his 1st serve percentage stay up around 65-70% most of the time.

Does Eaton serve-volley 100% still in these smaller tournaments or is he starting to mix it up more, having not seen him play on the smaller tournament circuit? Is it a one off on the grass events?

-- Edited by spud on Monday 14th of September 2009 05:02:06 PM

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

if i was his coach id stop him serve-volleying on his second serve, on hardcourts at least - id rather him go for an early winner off the ground and then try to come in...but that's just me

Sheddie · administrator

I agree with "the knight." Eaton serve-volleys 100% still in the futures but doesn't do it as well as when he plays ATPs/Davis Cup etc, doesn't get such a high first serve percentage.

As a result his second serve in particular gets creamed for winner after winner and he still keeps coming in behind it, its bizarre to watch at times, like a kind of kamikaze tennis.

He used to play mostly from the back of the court on slower outdoor hard and had quite a consistent game. Personally I think he needs to find a balance as Tim Henman had to in order to succeed away from grass and indoors, eventually becoming more of an aggressive baseliner with great volleys rather than the all-out serve-volleyer he was in his early career.