Week 38 - Futures - Great Britain F15 ($10k) - Wrexham - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 38 - Futures - Great Britain F15 ($10k) - Wrexham - Hard

Maza1987 · Challenger level

get in there.
im tellin you.
he's going to be our rochus. hehe

johnnylad · Tennis legend

We're getting a little used to this!

Is that British winners in the last 6 British Futures tournaments?

Drew · Sep 25, 2010

Being a cynic...is this down to poorer than normal overseas playersand/or a reduction in the quality/numbers of overseas players?

Or are certain players beginning to show real promise?

Drew · Sep 25, 2010

btw very well done to Coxy

indiana · Tennis legend

I'm thinking it's maybe a bit of both, Drew.

Undoubtably Cox and Milton in particular have found much better form and real consistency.

But it does seem a bit coincidental that both have suddenly found the ability to win quite so much. Credit for what has been achieved, but I'd like to see some follow-up outside British futures, or indeed even in more competitive say 15Ks.

chavkev · Intermediate Club Player

Winning is great for the confidence. Dan Cox will have to move up soon as he needs to test his mettle against stronger opponents. Almost weekly 10k's are great for British players. It is a inexpensive way of picking up good ranking points to move up to challenger level.

Hopefully this success will convince the LTA to try and do the same on a challenger level. I would love to see the UK build up the number of challengers to the level of say Italy. That way British players can be exposed to a greater pool of talent outside of the four week firestorm of the grass court season.

The media attitude towards British players during these four weeks is terrible. So I would say again - get the cheque book out LTA and spend more money on providing low level challengers. 15 42k challengers would be a good long-term target.

Drew · Sep 25, 2010

indiana wrote:

I'm thinking it's maybe a bit of both, Drew.

Undoubtably Cox and Milton in particular have found much better form and real consistency.

But it does seem a bit coincidental that both have suddenly found the ability to win quite so much. Credit for what has been achieved, but I'd like to see some follow-up outside British futures, or indeed even in more competitive say 15Ks.

Agreed.

Winning 1 or 2 european Futures titles would be the next step for these guys.

Salmon · Tennis legend

I can't understand why Evans keeps on playing doubles in these tournaments. As far as I know, he's not trying to become a doubles specialist, so why tire yourself unnecessarily?
Anyway, well done to Coxy on another title - he must love these courts since he reached his first Futures quarters here back in 2006. I think this particular Futures was strong enough for a 10K, with Rice and Dupuis in the mix. But the two before this one were rather weak...