Week 31 Futures - GB F12 ($15,000) - Cumberland (Hard)

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

RE: Week 31 Futures - GB F12 ($15,000) - Cumberland (Hard)

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

lost 3-7, not good

RJA · Hall of fame

Skupski wins third set on tie break

LordBrownof · Futures level

I'm getting that sinking feeling regarding Golding and Morgan.

RJA · Hall of fame

Short won first set 6-3

Marsalek lost first set 6-3

indiana · Tennis legend

LordBrownof wrote:
I'm getting that sinking feeling regarding Golding and Morgan.

I have found this year to be particularly disappointing from Oli.

It is all very well to say he is still young, and yes he won't be 18 until September, but in comparison to how he was placed last year relative to other juniors, many older than him, he has clearly slipped quite a bit back comparatively this year.

I find it particularly disappointing how little he had achieved at futures level. He still seems to be able to rise to the occasion, eg. Wimbledon qualifying, but doesn't seem to win "lesser" matches that I would hope he would, and hence doesn't get further matches and more senior competition.

Still, of course has plenty time to start moving up again, but to me it is has been a fairly disappointing year so far.

Credit to Neal Skupki on his win, and I hope he played well, and that it was a decent match. This is much more general observations re Oli.

Re George Morgan, I didn't have such high hopes for him, but he has undoubtably struggled this year to make an impact. Has he had injury problems ? I have read him complaining about movement issues, and wondered if these were injury related or just more comments that he just generally wasn't moving as well as he would like.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 2nd of August 2011 08:41:44 PM

daisy · County player

From Jamie Baker after his win today over Fitzy:

Good solid start at cumberland club this morning. Straights sets victory against a player playing very well. Great to play again tomorrow 45 minutes ago

-- Edited by daisy on Tuesday 2nd of August 2011 12:58:48 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Some actual scores:

R1: Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 884 lost to (5) Jamie Baker WR WR 311 by 3 & 4
R1: (4) Josh Milton WR 306 lost to Josh Goodall WR 442 by 2 & 5
R1: Oli Golding WR 790 lost to (Q) Neal Skupski WR 963 by 6-4 4-6 6-7(3)
R1: Liam Broady WR 664 lost to (6) Rudy Coco (FRA) WR 389 by 6-7(5) 4-6
R1: (WC) Ed Corrie WR 1249 defeated Cheong-Eui Kim (KOR) WR 794 by 3 & 2 biggrin

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Tuesday 2nd of August 2011 01:52:44 PM

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

careful Ed, with form like this i can see you getting some seeded draws in the near future!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Not such good news:

R1: (Q) Yanais Laurent (FRA) UNR defeated (Q) Richard Gabb WR 1198 by 4 & 0 bleh

philwrig · Hall of fame

The Magician Santoro wrote:
I want to see a Broady v Golding match. Come on boys thats not too much too ask?

Also tipping Marzy to take out Brezac

Spot on about Marzi even if it was by retirement.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Oh and Shorty beats the number 1 seed in straights, Smetty lost.

Spectator · All-time great

Good from Baker, Goodall and Corrie (and not bad from Fitzpatrick and Broady; those are quite close scores in both cases, given the differences in rankings.) Re: Golding and Skupski: Skupski is underranked by virtue of being at university and only playing in the summers, so I don't think it's a particularly poor loss.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Actual scores:

R1: (1) Matwé Middelkoop (NED) WR 270 lost to (Q) Matt Short WR 955 by 3 & 3 biggrin

R1: (WC) Dan Smethurst WR 471 lost to Elie Rousset (FRA) WR 771 by 1 & 4 bleh

R1: (WC) James Marsalek WR 928 defeated (2) Charles-Antoine Brezac (FRA) WR 269 by 3-6 7-6(5) 3-0 retired biggrin

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Tuesday 2nd of August 2011 02:30:34 PM

The Knight · Challenger qualifying

Short you lad!