AEGON British Tour 2010 Thread

DavidC · Tennis legend

RE: AEGON British Tour 2010 Thread

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Woohoo for Fitzy!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Good on you lad! Is that another WC and funding for another trip?

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

British tour GOAT? not too sure im a fan of that nickname! but recently been doing very well in them.
Yesterdays final i played ridiculous, everything i hit and went for went in.
solid week not dropping and dropping serve once is always a bonus.

Hopefully keep the earning up and when the cuts come down in the futures i can go away from where, no point going away at the moment.

So i will be playing corby (another tier1) then the two british ones.
I got told yesterday i get a wc for winning that which i didnt realise. i will have to ask paul and see what the rules are.

Maybe u can think of a different nickname than the goat!

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

and just a quick note on robert hodel - he is an absolute disgrace. he was hooking all week, even managed to call adam bara a cheat (who is one of the nicest blokes u will meet).
Tried changing the score, abusing british tennis, saying i was only in the semi finals because i was cheating.

He is seriously deluded, and didnt shake my hand, and walked off saying "call me when u make top 1000 atp" ha. what a joke.
Funny thing was that the match wasnt even close so i couldnt understand him.

Josh · Challenger level

Corby -

Quarter Finals

[1] Rice beat [5] Arlidge 7-6(5) 6-2
[7] Fitzy beat [q] Eamon Soulsby (who beat [4]Tim Bradshaw) 6-2 6-1
[3] Thornley beat [6] Cavaday 6-3 6-0
Nicholas Lester (who beat [2] Feaver) beat Richard Gabb 6-1 6-4

Semis
[1] Rice beat [7] Fitzy 7-5 4-6 7-5
[3] Thornley beat Nicholas Lester 6-4 4-6 6-3

Final
[3] Thornley beat [1] Rice 3-3 ret.

Fitzy continuing his good run in the British Tour events, pushing Dr No very close and Nicholas Lester (?) seemed to have a good week as well.

gjr · Club Coach

Josh wrote:

Corby -

Quarter Finals

[1] Rice beat [5] Arlidge 7-6(5) 6-2
[7] Fitzy beat [q] Eamon Soulsby (who beat [4]Tim Bradshaw) 6-2 6-1
[3] Thornley beat [6] Cavaday 6-3 6-0
Nicholas Lester (who beat [2] Feaver) beat Richard Gabb 6-1 6-4

Semis
[1] Rice beat [7] Fitzy 7-5 4-6 7-5
[3] Thornley beat Nicholas Lester 6-4 4-6 6-3

Final
[3] Thornley beat [1] Rice 3-3 ret.

Fitzy continuing his good run in the British Tour events, pushing Dr No very close and Nicholas Lester (?) seemed to have a good week as well.

Quote from this weeks net post on Nicholas Lester

Shallow waters

Heres one up for the Fourth Estate. Nick Lester, a 32-year-old county stalwart for Hertfordshire, who commentates on both radio and television and plays three hours tennis a week, entered his first competitive tournament in eight years last week and made it into the semi finals of the AEGON British Tour in Corby, before losing to Sean Thornley in the semi's today in three sets.

Along the way , Lester defeated Jamie Feaver, son of former international John as well as Richard Gabb, one of the countrys noted teenagers. The point he made with both racket and in conversation is that this does not say a great deal about the depth of the mens game in Britain. Troubling indeed.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article7035391.ece?token=null&offset=24&page=3

Shhh · Challenger level

One comment I would make overall is that the British Tour finally has some worth this year. For to long it has been there, and I just could see what benefits came from it. Few ranked players played and, few promising juniors used it for experience. It was like for those players who were never going to be full time on the tour but, were a higher end of a county player.

Now, players like Rice, Thornley, Arlidge, Feaver are competing. The odd junior is there whilst a player of Fitzy rank is using it as a way in to the tour (both in prize money and wild cards). Basically, the new structure seems to a hell of a lot more worthwhile to me.

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Is Nick Lester commentating for SKY this week in Dubai or was that my imagination? I know it was someone I hadn't heard of and I think he was called Nick.

Smidster · Challenger level

This week the circus has been in Swansea

QF

Marcus Willis d/ Matthew Pearce 6-3 6-3
Christopher Simpson d/ Ben Pritchard 6-4 6-3
Simon Roberts d/ Matthew Short 6-1 6-4
Sean Thornley d Lewis Burton 6-2 6-1

SF

Marcus Willis d/ Christopher Simpson 6-3 6-2
Sean Thornley d/ Simon Roberts 6-1 7-6

F

Willis v Thornley

Smidster · Challenger level

And it is Sean who takes the win 4-6 7-6 6-4

Shhh · Challenger level

BT moves on to Bolton this week, with as strong a line up as we've seen yet. Dan Cox & Marcus Willis lead the way but I thought the LTA site said Chris Eaton was playing?

http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=01648140-FB3D-4440-AC4E-1396E6931791&draw=3

Smidster · Challenger level

Bolton Results

Semis

(3) Sean Thornley d (1) Dan Cox 6-3 1-6 6-2
(5) Andrew Fitzpatrick d Ahmed El Menshawy 6-1 6-4

Final

(3) Sean Thornley d Andrew Fitzpatrick 6-3 6-3

steven · Tennis legend

Shhh wrote:
BT moves on to Bolton this week, with as strong a line up as we've seen yet. Dan Cox & Marcus Willis lead the way but I thought the LTA site said Chris Eaton was playing?

They'll say anything to try and get spud to go along wink

Congrats to Fitzy on yet another Final smile

Josh · Challenger level

and don't forget that's Thornley's 3rd win in a row, so well done to him too.