ENTRIES WEEK 4 - 24/01/2011

seagull · Hall of fame

ENTRIES WEEK 4 - 24/01/2011

seagull · Hall of fame

Boggo could have got in as DA at 2 of the challengers this week but looks as though he is sticking with the $10K's - hope it works out for him.

Cox and Milton 21st and 29th alts

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Futures are surely going to be pretty weak then if Goodall managed to scrape in a challenger DA as almost WR400, expecting a decent points haul this week from our lads

Count Zero · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:

Boggo could have got in as DA at 2 of the challengers this week but looks as though he is sticking with the $10K's - hope it works out for him.

yep, with a final one the following week to finish off, all this clay practice - maybe he'll make the FQR at RG :)

Shhh · Challenger level

Dan Cox and Josh Milton have also signed up for Cambodia. Richard Bloomfield, Chris Eaton and a few others move on to the 15k in Germany on Carpet.

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Wow Coxy and Milt are fairly going for the weak 15k, Kudos to them if one of them wins one of the 3, they'll easily make the top 250 hopefully at some point this year

seagull · Hall of fame

Updated with futures

Salmon · Tennis legend

Unfortunately I won't be shocked if come May, Coxy is ranked 200 but playing like he's ranked 350.

Of course I'll be glad if I'm wrong, but I don't see how these weak Futures will help him improve.

indiana · Tennis legend

Salmon wrote:

Unfortunately I won't be shocked if come May, Coxy is ranked 200 but playing like he's ranked 350. Of course I'll be glad if I'm wrong, but I don't see how these weak Futures will help him improve.

I do kind of see your point in the short term. But with only 10 points to defend until the anniversary of his Frinton title in July as you say he has a real chance of getting his ranking up quite a bit during the first half of the year collecting points in Futures, especially from weaker ones.

I would hope if he does significantly improve his ranking he would then use that ranking to compete in Challengers ( indeed if he got it to low 200s he could afford a few failures to defend points from last year and still continue to play Challengers ) and thus compete more at a higher level and work from there.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 8th of January 2011 09:18:12 PM

Salmon · Tennis legend

My take on it is different and I am definitely not talking short term.. he defends almost nothing in the first half, so why not spend it on improving his tennis? He'll never get a better opportunity, I feel.

Is it likely that after playing the likes of Grassi (no offence intended to him) for five months, he'll suddenly be beating Wardy and co. just because he's ranked 200? It could well be that after Wimbly, he'll be playing the same Futures as last year and given how difficult winning a title at any level is, he'll actually be losing points in comparison. Instead, if he plays Challengers now, he can hardly get less than 10 points before Wimbledon, isn't it!!! And I fail to see how playing these gimme Futures will have a greater chance of turning him into a Challenger player.

I can never see sense in his scheduling. If he's bent on playing Futures to get a ranking boost, why was he playing Challengers at the end of last year? Did he become a poorer player in the close season?

freerider · Futures level

milton and cox have both withdrawn from cambodia

steven · Tennis legend

freerider wrote:

milton and cox have both withdrawn from cambodia

Oh no, I was really looking forward to reporting on Cambodia F1!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Well done, boys. At this stage of their careers, it's a better achievement than winning Cambodia F1.

They can now play in Singapore, of course.

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Does this means Evo is just going to play events in the UK? hmm

The boy has so much talent, if he had the belief and the ability to let things get the better of him, i.e. criticism, he'd be a good challenger player. At the moment he's one of the best we have to offer, i hope he doesn't pack it in.

seagull · Hall of fame

Goodall out of Reunion Island and if Cox/Milton keep winning they won't be able to play Singapore