Week 28 Futures - Great Britain F10($10k) - Frinton - Grass

Maza1987 · Challenger level

RE: Week 28 Futures - Great Britain F10($10k) - Frinton - Grass

Vandenburg · Futures level

heard theres a good student night on a tuesday night in frinton that does vk's snakebites and any mixer for £2. this is interesting cos evo lost today? hmmmmm your thoughts knight?

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I feel your pain. I'm painfully shy until I know people and then they can't shut me up.

I had a day out at Wrexham futures 20 months or so back and only spoke to Ahmed El Menshawy. (Even that ended up with an LTA coach hounding me for character assasination)

Thanks for the reports. Coxy is a fascinating player. One capable of doing a lot. My best guess is that he just can't find his best level consistently.

Re: the lack of respect for officials - they probably all support a Premier league football team

steven · Tennis legend

Thanks for the detailed report Shhh, very interesting. It's got to be a good sign if they are now supporting each other when they're not playing rather than just 'hanging out'.

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Vandenburg wrote:

heard theres a good student night on a tuesday night in frinton that does vk's snakebites and any mixer for £2. this is interesting cos evo lost today? hmmmmm your thoughts knight?

evans rice and willis losing on the same day - coincidence? i think not...

SMC1809 · All-time great

Re Gabb, I thought he'd get a point last week, and although I didn't expect him to win today, I thought he'd give Evo a good game. He really impressed me when I saw him and as I've said before, he was very unlucky not to get a point prior to last week.

Drew · Jul 14, 2010

Shhh wrote...

Good thing to see. A couple of years ago I was at the Surbiton challenger and then the Felixstow futures. The British players just seemed to hang out together between matches, almost like at a social club. At Frinton they were all out watching other matches, often offering support to fellow Brits. It just seemed to make for a more serious tournament from a British point of view.

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I have been to several futures events and it depends on various things wether or not the other players come out to support each other. Mates will tend to support mates for one thing.

Also if its R1 or R2 matches then there is likely to have more players still around to support each other....obviously the later the week goes on the less chance you may be about yourself let alone any of your mates.

Guys also want to watch higher ranked players also...or those who maybe playing on form.

I do think though there is a certain level of 'GB team spirit'...just depends...

My opinions are based on home events of course. Foreign trips I presume would galvanise this 'GB team spirit'

daisy · County player

Well done Fitzy!
smile

-- Edited by daisy on Wednesday 14th of July 2010 10:38:24 PM

Vandenburg · Futures level

I know willis is a big name on the sub of the day offers,but did not no he was part of the lads holiday crew, i heard it was quite hard to get into.

steven · Tennis legend

The Knight wrote:

Vandenburg wrote:
heard theres a good student night on a tuesday night in frinton that does vk's snakebites and any mixer for £2. this is interesting cos evo lost today? hmmmmm your thoughts knight?
evans rice and willis losing on the same day - coincidence? i think not...

Sean Thornley (who's still in of course and due to play tomorrow at 11) just tweeted "with Dr No hahahahaha". If they were offering odds on a Gabb win ... wink

SMC1809 · All-time great

I feel a betting investigation coming up. I'm selling my house and getting it all on Gabby.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

sorry to dissapoint but clearly no-one noticed in the doubles it is alex golding!!

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Vandenburg wrote:

I know willis is a big name on the sub of the day offers,but did not no he was part of the lads holiday crew, i heard it was quite hard to get into.

no Willis is in the crew, more notorious for his nando's exploits and a less illustrious member, but a member nontheless

what about when he missed that Australian Open juniors match when he went AWOL? he'd blatantly been getting slaughtered the night before, i reckon he thought it was better to be absent rather than be seen hungover on match day

Shhh · Challenger level

Based on yesterdays performance, I would pick the following (in BOLD) to win today. 24hours changes a lot in tennis though.....................

L16: Sean Thornley WR 648 v (WC) Richard Gabb UNR
L16: Dan Cox WR 787 v Kyle Brassington WR 925
L16: (4) Alexander Sadecky (SUI) WR 367 v Colin Ebelthite (AUS) WR 568
L16: Rudy Coco (FRA) WR 578 v (Q) Xander Spong (NED) WR 1180
L16: (8) Alex Ward WR 513 v (Q) Tim Bradshaw WR 945
L16: (3/WC) Josh Goodall WR 379 v Divij Sharan (IND) WR 902
L16: (WC) George Morgan WR 1343 v (5) Blake Strode (USA) WR 488
L16: (Q) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1769 v (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND) WR 389

Then Dan Cox, Xander Spong, Josh Goodall & Vishnu Varden to make semis

(Dan Cox - Josh Goodall Final wink

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indiana · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

The Knight wrote:

Vandenburg wrote:
heard theres a good student night on a tuesday night in frinton that does vk's snakebites and any mixer for £2. this is interesting cos evo lost today? hmmmmm your thoughts knight?
evans rice and willis losing on the same day - coincidence? i think not...
Sean Thornley (who's still in of course and due to play tomorrow at 11) just tweeted "with Dr No hahahahaha". If they were offering odds on a Gabb win ...

Well, aren't the crew generally making thrilling progress at the moment

I do trust Sean will come out looking reasonably alert today or maybe a question or two might be asked about that tweet.