Week 19 - Futures F7 ($10K) - Newcastle, GBR - Clay

scottie1 · Futures level

RE: Week 19 - Futures F7 ($10K) - Newcastle, GBR - Clay

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

scottie1 wrote:
goodall on clay not good choice for semi finals

He's in the weakest quarter of the draw and also he made the semis here last year, beating decent clay courters. I'd like Morgan to beat him but George has had poor results against the guys who have been around the block a couple of years. I'll probably be proved to be wrong but i'm just going with my gut instinct

SMC1809 · All-time great

Bet365 are covering one of the courts in Newcastle this week. Sean v Morgan will be later, but Oakley v Hewitt is on now. Ashley has just taken the first set 6-3.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Ashley Hewitt won in 2 sets and Dr No is 1-6 1-4* down.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SMC1809 wrote:
Dr No is 1-6 1-4* down.

He must've lost. The score's disappeared off the screen! cry

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Tuesday winners so far at AEGON GB Pro-Series Newcastle:
Mertens, Hewitt, Martin, Duckworth, Bloomfield & Poch-Gradin
source:Twitter.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

simply not been george's year

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Oli won 1 & 6.

steven · Tennis legend

Can't resist commenting on this LTA headline - "Fifteen British men line up in round one in Newcastle" - so which three don't count as British (or don't count as men?) confuse biggrin

http://www.lta.org.uk/fans-major-events/AEGON-GB-Pro-Series/News/2011/Fifteen-British-men-line-up-in-round-one-in-Newcastle/

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

good stuff ollie, where does willis go from here, being schooled twice in a week, by a generation almost 4 years younger

-- Edited by Tennis36 on Tuesday 10th of May 2011 02:09:37 PM

RJA · Hall of fame

Tennis36 wrote:
good stuff ollie, where does willis go from here, being schooled twice in a week, by a generation almost 4 years younger

-- Edited by Tennis36 on Tuesday 10th of May 2011 02:09:37 PM

The positive spin is that it is just a bad week and that it was on clay so doesn't really count.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

The Brit scores:

Mertens (BEL) bt Carpenter 6-1, 6-1
Bloomfield bt Hudson 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(9)
Duckworth (AUS) bt Morgan 6-4, 6-1
Martin bt McGrath 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
Hewitt bt Oakley 6-3, 6-1

Oliver Hudson certainly gave Bloomers a run for his money! wink

* For the record, Poch took out his fellow Spaniard, Santos, the fourth seed, by 3-6 6-3 retired, so he will face Toby Martin for a place in the QF, the only confirmed R2 match with Brit involvement so far.

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Tuesday 10th of May 2011 03:28:25 PM

SMC1809 · All-time great

Sean O'Thornley took the first set against Morgan 6-1, but Morgan repsonded by winning the second set 6-2 and leads 4-2 in the third, having just broken Sean's serve.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Josh won a nailbiter 7-5 in the third, serving it out with poise at 6-5 after failing to serve it out at 5-4.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Liam lost in straights, not a good day for him.
I went for luuch just before the match started and cameback with his score being 5-1 down in the second.