Quite liked the look of Shorty today though. He had a couple of Nadal type bandages below both knees but he fought very hard with so many deuce point games.
R1: Fredrik Ask & Jarryd Maher (NOR/AUS) UNR lost to Oliver Golding & George Morgan WR 2826 by 7-5 5-7 [4-10]
so
QF: (1) Nacho Coll & Gerard Granollers (ESP/ESP) WR 520 vs Nick Cavaday & Sean Thornley WR 1703 QF: (3) James Feaver & Barry King (IRL) WR 1032 vs James Cluskey & Colin O'Brien (IRL/IRL) WR 1355 QF: Golding & Morgan vs (4) Maniel Bains & Marcus Willis WR 1275 QF: Dan Smethurst & Alex Ward WR 1368 vs (2) Thomas Cazes-Carrère & Ludovic Walter (FRA/FRA)
great day for morgan, getting wins on mens circuit, also just seen his opponent next is the guy who lost to broady, so perhaps a real chance for quarters
That's a lot of big wigs for a tournament. Were they all watching Josh? I have a feeling he is being encouraged to achieve more this season. His next match against O'Brien will be a big test for him on his least favourite surface.
I wonder if Greg and Leon are OK with each other after the DC captaincy rangle. And they want Boggo for DC? Now that really is a scoop Phil!
Leon quite surprisingly was talking in some length with Greg so no obvious animosity there. Both Greg and Bates were there following quite a few different players not just Josh. I think Bates is responsible for 3 different players.
I'm pretty confident on what I saw yesterday that Josh will comfortably account for O'Brien. The O'Brien Gabb match was being played simultaneously on the next court and Josh's match was a higher quality affair. Josh struggled to start off with but at 3-1 up in the first set Ollie served 2 double faults was broken and Josh never looked back. He was hitting his forehand extremely well and apart from a few duff sliced backhands he looked to me to be playing decent tennis. He was constantly berating himself during the match and certainly made it pretty clear to Ollie that he wasn't going to stand for his constant querying of line calls. One line call went Ollie's way after the umpire came out to check the line and Josh was to put it mildly not a happy bunny. Josh also made it very clear to Ollie who was the senior and who was the junior actually describing him as a junior at one stage.
-- Edited by philwrig on Wednesday 12th of May 2010 06:39:17 AM
Eric Prodon has claimed 19 titles in his time - 2 challengers, 15 futures & 2 satellites. He's won 4 futures titles already this year.
Thought I'd have a look to see who's won the most futures/satellites titles. I guess it probably means these guys haven't pushed their obvious talent into challenger and above level though.
That Andy Murray must be rubbish, he only won 5. . .
For many of them it may be that they have never pushed on to Challengers, but obviously not all. I have to admit though that of the top list, the only ones I can be sure went on to Challengers and even ATP are Robert and Ouahab.
would be interesting to see how many titles at higher levels a lot of these guys also claimed. is suspect bot that many as most players would probably move up to challenger level at least right.
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would be interesting to see how many titles at higher levels a lot of these guys also claimed. is suspect bot that many as most players would probably move up to challenger level at least right.
Agree first sentence. The second sentence I recognise the words but ....