Week 42 - Futures F16 ($15K) - Glasgow, UK - Indoor Hard

Shhh · Challenger level

RE: Week 42 - Futures F16 ($10K) - Glasgow, UK - Indoor Hard

seagull · Hall of fame

Ebden - he should be playing challengers!!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

RE: Week 42 - Futures F16 ($15K) - Glasgow, UK - Indoor Hard

RJA · Hall of fame

johnnylad wrote:

Why give Ebden a WC? AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH

Never underestimate the LTA's ability to shaft our players.

steven · Tennis legend

They've given a WC to Ebden? bleh

Why?!

It's bad enough giving them to Brits who would have got in direct had they bothered to enter (though I realise that there are sometimes valid reasons for not entering when they thought they would be somewhere else and have then, though injury or whatever, ended up in the UK unexpectedly) but to give it to an Aussie who shouldn't even be playing Futures any more in the first place,

Is this some masterplan to get on the Aussies' good side so that they agree to do a WC swap. Maybe they also instructed all the British players to lose to Aussies at the CWG just to make sure, but forgot to tell Flembo & Joss ...

I'm sure that last paragraph is all rubbish, but what explanation can they possibly have?

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

Latest:

Ebden leads Morgan 6-3
Mecir leads Pritchard 6-3
Evans leads Thornton-Brown 6-2 2-3*
Cochrane leads Soulsby 6-3
Martin on serve against Vilardo at 4-5

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

Results:

Ebden beat Morgan 6-3 6-1
Mecir beat Pritchard 6-3 6-3
Evans beat Thornton-Brown 6-2 6-4
Cochrane beat Soulsby 6-3 6-4

Latest:

Martin leads Vilardo 7-6 3-2

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Ebden WC - LTA decided futures make it too easy for our players to earn a living, so as a continuation of the scrapping challengers policy in future a WC will be giving out to a top 200 foreign player at home futures to make sure our players really earn their points.

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

Results:

Martin beat Villardo 7-6 (7-3)
Slabinsky beat Hignett 6-1 6-2

Latest:

Milton leads Galvani 7-6 (10-8)
Feaver leads Bugby 6-4
Cox is a set up against Garanganga

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

Result:

Milton beat Galvani 7-6 (10_8) 5-1 ret.

Latest:

Cox level at one set all against Garanganga
Feaver level at one set all against Bugby

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stuart Fraser wrote:

Result:

Milton beat Galvani 7-6 (10_8) 5-1 ret.

Excellent! biggrin

Keep up the good work, Stu.

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

Results:

Cox beat Garanganga 6-3 4-6 6-4
Bugby beat Feaver 4-6 6-2 6-4
Van Der Duim beat Rosenzweig 6-1 6-4

-- Edited by Stuart Fraser on Tuesday 19th of October 2010 01:50:07 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stuart Fraser wrote:

Results:

Martin beat Villardo 7-6 (7-3)

7-6(3) 6-4, according to the Beeb.

Stuart Fraser · Lower Club Player

Stircrazy wrote:

Stuart Fraser wrote:

Results:

Martin beat Villardo 7-6 (7-3)
7-6(3) 6-4, according to the Beeb.

Apologies! I did have the second set score but somehow missed it!

Results:

Nieminen beat Tutu 6-2 6-1
Farquharson beat Simon 6-4 6-2

Latest:

Fabbiano leads Goodall 6-4 0-2*

steven · Tennis legend

Much appreciating the updates, thanks Stu!