Week 42 - Futures F15 ($15K) - Glasgow, Great Britain

helki · Futures qualifying

RE: Week 42 - Futures F15 ($15K) - Glasgow, Great Britain

indiana · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:

How about 3 quarter finalists. Evo and a couple to upset the seedings ?

Thank you, Messrs Bloomfield and Rice

Oh, and you too Evo smile

Silver · County player

Good win by Rice

Nay, excellent win.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

helki wrote:

David Rice & Richard Bloomfield.

I'll second that! wink

Shame about Dan Cox... cry

wolf · Tennis legend

Great result for Ricey.

wolf · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:

Quite a lot to be aiming for 8 matches on some courts, although I have seen it elsewhere. Actually there were more somewhere recently I recall and it was close to a midnight experience ( brought your sleeping bag, Stuart ? ) .

That type of things tends to happen at indoor events where the arenas are built solely for the tournament and they only tend to have two (and one maybe being just a practice court or a 'doubles court'.

However the LTA bring this on themselves by putting qualifying starting on Sunday and Monday for the men and women respectively. This then doesn't allow them to spread the first round over two or three days.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

To Recap -

Singles

2nd Round

Yannick MERTENS (BEL) (1) defeated Dominic INGLOT (GBR) 6-7 (4-7) 6-3 6-4
Richard BLOOMFIELD (GBR) defeated Alexander SADECKY (SUI) (5) 7-5 6-7 (2-7) 6-4
James MCGEE (IRL) defeated Matteo VIOLA (ITA) 6-4 6-0
Mathieu RODRIGUES (FRA) (7) defeated Marcus WILLIS (GBR) 3-6 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-2)
Conor NILAND (IRL) (8) defeated Daniel COX (GBR) 5-7 6-0 6-2
Daniel EVANS (GBR) (3) defeated Barry KING (IRL) 6-2 6-4
Claudio GRASSI (ITA) (6) defeated Alexander SLABINSKY (GBR) 6-1 6-1
David RICE (GBR) defeated Uladzimir IGNATIK (BLR) (2) 3-6 6-4 6-2

Doubles

Quarterfinal

PAUFFLEY (GBR) / WILLIS (GBR) defeated GRASSI (ITA) / VANNI (ITA) (1) 6-4 6-1
COX (GBR) / IGNATIK (BLR) defeated MERTENS (BEL) / RODRIGUES (FRA) (4) 6-1 6-2
BRADSHAW (GBR) / SLABINSKY (GBR) (3) defeated BLOOMFIELD (GBR) / GROEN (NED) 6-4 7-6(3)
EATON (GBR) / INGLOT (GBR) (2) defeated KING (IRL) / MCGEE (IRL) 6-2 6-3

-- Edited by mjd on Wednesday 21st of October 2009 09:42:29 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

mjd wrote:
Doubles
Quarterfinal

PAUFFLEY (GBR) / WILLIS (GBR) defeated GRASSI (ITA) / VANNI (ITA) (1) 6-4 6-1
COX (GBR) / IGNATIK (BLR) defeated MERTENS (BEL) / RODRIGUES (FRA) (4) 6-1 6-2
BRADSHAW (GBR) / SLABINSKY (GBR) (3) defeated BLOOMFIELD (GBR) / GROEN (NED) 6-4 7-6(3)
EATON (GBR) / INGLOT (GBR) (2) defeated KING (IRL) / MCGEE (IRL) 6-2 6-3

Some great results there, throwing up a couple of intriguing SFs with 87.5% Brit interest! biggrin

Pauffley & Willis WR 1328 vs Cox & Ignatik (BLR) WR 1880
(3) Bradshaw & Slabinsky WR 1053 vs (2) Eaton & Inglot WR 810

Wouldn't be surprised to see Chris & Dominic bag another title here.

Then again...

Shhh · Challenger level

Chris and Dominic seem to have come together and clicked in a not to dissimilar way to Flemski did about this time last year.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Reeltime from AM.com went yesterday and provided this very concise summary:

"today was my first day at a pro tennis tourney. Learned a few things about some of our players...

Grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory is not just something that happens at the top level of tennis for Brits!
Dominic Inglot hits the ball hard... very hard.
Jade Curtis is tiny, but very good!
And you shouldn't leave when the 2nd seed is demolishing a british player... he might come back!"

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Good to see Bloomers and Rice record the upset wins and Evo to continue his march through the tournament but a shame not to see any of the other Brits come through with Willis being edged out in a very close match and Cox and Inglot not being able to hold on to the one set advantage.

Would expect Evans to get the win today and hopefully Bloomers and/or Rice could join him in the last four.

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

Results:

Evans beat Niland 6-2 ret.
Grassi beat Rice 6-3 6-3
Mertens beat Bloomfield 6-3 7-6 (7-5)
Rodrigues beat McGee 6-2 6-3

seagull · Hall of fame

This Grassi is a pain in the assi!

Come on Evans win it now

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

evoooo! yet to drop a set

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

just as a note, we could play ireland in the next round of DC, am i right in saying evans has just beaten their top two in consecutive matches