Week 3 - Great Britain F2 $15K - Sheffield - Hard

DavidC · Tennis legend

RE: Week 3 - Great Britain F2 $15K - Sheffield - Hard

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Dan Evans & Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1540 defeated Miles Bugby & Sean Thornley WR 1368 by 2 & 3
QF: Oliver Hudson & Adam Thornton-Brown UNR lost (2) Chris Eaton & Josh Goodall WR 434 by 5 & 4

SF: (1) Olivier Charroin & Vincent Stouff (FRA/FRA) WR 357 vs Dan Evans & Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1540
SF: (3) Harri Heliövaara & Juho Paukku (FIN/FIN) WR 506 vs (2) Chris Eaton & Josh Goodall WR 434

Smidster · Challenger level

edit - too slow!!!

Best of luck to Liam - encouraging result today

-- Edited by Smidster on Wednesday 19th of January 2011 07:50:51 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Well done, Liam.

I sincerely hope you can cope with the weight of Brit expectations on your young shoulders!

indiana · Tennis legend

DavidC wrote:

Very impressive from Liam who will become the first 1994 inside the top 1000. Wouldn't surprise me if he quits Juniors (except perhaps for Grand Slams his ranking allows him to get into) now

I presume that is the first 1994 boy in the whole wide world. Liam's birthdate is at the very beginning of 1994 ( 04/01 ) but still....

I guess he does have to earn a living wink

Seriously, as well as Stircrazy's reference to the weight of Brit expectation I really hope he isn't over time adversely effected by the "Broady situation".

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 19th of January 2011 11:44:36 PM

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

get in liam, very encouraging, another win would be huge, to think he's just turned 17(i think) and has performed best out of all brits here and on merit, came through qualifying.

indiana · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:

Not been a great start to the year for the men, particularly in GB futures.

As we now stand, Baker, Evans and Goodall are all down to drop out of the top 400 in the rankings on Monday week although Josh was down to compete in a Challenger ( on Reunion Island ! ) next week.

Josh out of Reunion Island so that will be us down to 6 in the top 400, and really Bloomers is only lodging there on a temporary residence which is due to expire in July

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

I feel your being too harsh on the guys, we had a great start last year then we hit a bit of a lull after the good start, so even though they'll be down in the 400's they'll have opportunities to build upon it and go up in the rankings as they won't have that much to defend.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

According to the LTA's Twitter feed:

SF: (1) Olivier Charroin & Vincent Stouff (FRA/FRA) WR 357 defeated Dan Evans & Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1540 by 6-4 3-6 [10-4] cry

And Harri Heliövaara's the first man into the singles SF with a 7-6(2) 6-0 win over Gleb Sakharov.

Osomec · Junior player

The Magician Santoro wrote:

I feel your being too harsh on the guys, we had a great start last year then we hit a bit of a lull after the good start, so even though they'll be down in the 400's they'll have opportunities to build upon it and go up in the rankings as they won't have that much to defend.

A mere upward blip, more than matched by the many downward blips. We need whole years of steady improvement, not the odd month of improvement, or British tennis will continue to go round in ever decreasing circles.

steven · Tennis legend

Liam lost 2 & 4

- good week tho, another new face on the top 25 tables after the AO unless weird things happen next week!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (3) Harri Heliövaara & Juho Paukku (FIN/FIN) WR 506 lost to (2) Chris Eaton & Josh Goodall WR 434 by 6-2 5-7 [10-8] smile

Final: (1) Olivier Charroin & Vincent Stouff (FRA/FRA) WR 357 vs (2) Chris Eaton & Josh Goodall WR 434

Reeltime · Satellite level

Eaton and Slabinsky beat the freanch pair last week in Glasgow fairly comfortably.

They are quite a strange couple of characters

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I see Basic and K d Schepper are in the semis again.

Evo has taken more games of K d S than anyone else. No consolation but hopefully shows how unlucky his draw was as a seed to draw the most dangerous floater

steven · Tennis legend

Final: (2) Chris Eaton & Josh Goodall WR 434 beat (1) Olivier Charroin & Vincent Stouff (FRA/FRA) WR 357 by 1 & 4

Good to get something out of the week, though I wish it wasn't the 'consolation' of doubles again.