Week 37 Futures - GB F15 ($10,000) - Nottingham (Hard)

Julia Carrot · All-time great

RE: Week 37 Futures - GB F15 ($10,000) - Nottingham (Hard)

Spectator · All-time great

If Mr Broady got off a plane an hour earlier and had been up all night on the flight and was adjusting to a different time zone, it's a tribute to his talent that it wasn't 0 and 0.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Good point.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Please God, don't let Ratty see that post

RJA · Hall of fame

Spectator wrote:
If Mr Broady got off a plane an hour earlier and had been up all night on the flight and was adjusting to a different time zone, it's a tribute to his talent that it wasn't 0 and 0.

He sat and "watched" the second set of the Willis match that was on before his match and were it not for an inconsiderate line judge who kept yelling "out" I think he would have been sleeping like a baby. He obviously wasn't in anything like a proper state to play a competitive match and while his movement side to side was okay his footwork was sluggish and he missed pretty much every ball where he had to get down low to play the shot properly. He knew he didn't have much in the tank and was trying to finish points off as quickly as possible. Early on this led to numerous atrocious errors but for a time in the second set he produced winner after winner with his forehand (which as we all know is a potent weapon). Another factor was the quite horrendous wind which caused both players to struggle badly with their. All in all I don't think I will be particularly worried by this defeat.

-- Edited by RJA on Tuesday 13th of September 2011 05:23:06 PM

RJA · Hall of fame

On the subject of the wind, it really was horrendous and had a serious impact on the standard of the tennis. Pretty much every match was poor quality. Take Fitzy's match, a 3 + 3 win looks routine but there was probably 9 or 10 breaks of serve. Ditto Thornley's win, it looks routine on paper but the match was terrible.

Incidentally in the one match that I didn't post the result Glancy was *4-3 in the third when I left.

-- Edited by RJA on Tuesday 13th of September 2011 07:06:58 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Doubles QFs:

(1) David Rice & Sean Thornley WR 444 vs Jarryd Bant & Ben Mullis GBR or Marc Beckles & Dominic Ross-Hurst UNR

(3) Sam Barry & Daniel Glancey (IRL/IRL) WR 1199 vs Miles Bugby & Sean Fitzpatrick WR 1927

Oliver Hudson & Keelan Oakley WR 3156 vs (4) Dan Evans & Alex Ward WR 1508 bleh biggrin

Caio Silva & Mehdi Ziadi (BRA/MAR) WR 2584 vs (2) Josh Goodall & Marcus Willis WR 863

johnnylad · Tennis legend

full round up from Beeb:

UK results
TENNIS
Click on a date:
Tuesday, 13 September, 2011
Friday, 9 September, 2011
Thursday, 8 September, 2011
Wednesday, 7 September, 2011
Tuesday, 6 September, 2011
Sunday, 4 September, 2011
Friday, 2 September, 2011

Tuesday, 13 September, 2011
AEGON Pro-Series Men's Event, Nottingham, England:

1st rd:

Sean Thornley (Gbr) bt Miles Bugby (Gbr) 6-3 6-2

Oliver Hudson (Gbr) bt Viktor Galovic (Ita) 6-4 ret

Ashley Hewitt (Gbr) bt Sam Barry (Irl) 6-2 2-6 6-3

David Rice (Gbr) bt James Feaver (Gbr) 6-2 6-4

Alexander Ward (Gbr) bt Keelan Oakley (Gbr) 6-3 6-1

Mehdi Ziadi (Mar) bt Dominic Ross-Hurst (Gbr) 6-0 6-2

Daniel Evans (Gbr) bt Daniel McGrath (Gbr) 7-5 7-5

Richard Bloomfield (Gbr) bt Marc Beckles (Gbr) 6-1 7-5

Andrew Fitzpatrick (Gbr) bt Luke Bambridge (Gbr) 6-3 6-3

Marcus Willis (Gbr) bt Lloyd Glasspool (Gbr) 6-2 6-2

Josh Goodall (Gbr) bt Matthew Short (Gbr) 6-3 6-4

Nicolas Rosenzweig (Fra) bt Marshall Tutu (Gbr) 6-4 7-5

Daniel Glancy (Irl) bt Dorian Descloix (Fra) 4-6 6-4 6-3

Joshua Jones (Gbr) bt Liam Broady (Gbr) 6-0 7-5

Mathieu Rodrigues (Fra) bt Nicholas Mercer (Gbr) 6-1 6-0,

RJA · Hall of fame

Round 2

Mathieu RODRIGUES (FRA) (1) Vs Marcus WILLIS (GBR)
Caio SILVA (BRA) Vs Richard BLOOMFIELD (GBR) (7)
Josh GOODALL (GBR) (3) Vs Daniel GLANCY (IRL)
Nicolas ROSENZWEIG (FRA) Vs Mehdi ZIADI (MAR) (8)
Sean THORNLEY (GBR) (6) Vs Oliver HUDSON (GBR)
Ashley HEWITT (GBR) Vs David RICE (GBR) (4)
Alexander WARD (GBR) (5) Vs Joshua JONES (GBR)
Andrew FITZPATRICK (GBR) Vs Daniel EVANS (GBR) (2)

RJA · Hall of fame

I overheard a very interesting conversation at Nottingham today. Two of the foreign contingent were talking, mainly about the playing conditions in various countries, but eventually they got on to the subject of how strong French tennis was. The one of them (who was French) asserted that there are scores of unranked players in France who are perfectly good enough to be ranked and that the only reason they are not is that the line ups at French futures events are so strong due to France's very deep talent pool. The player in question said this was one of the reasons why he mainly competed outside of France. When you think that France has 109 ranked players it is quite scary to hear someone say that they have scores more potentially good enough.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

well with 90,000 competative players thats not suprising.

Hasn't got them a male GS winner for a good while though

RJA · Hall of fame

Mervatron wrote:
well with 90,000 competative players thats not suprising.

Hasn't got them a male GS winner for a good while though

4 players in the top 20 is not to be sneered at.

Spectator · All-time great

Equally look at their Davis Cup record: winners 2000, runners-up 2002, 2010, semifinals this year and 2004 ....

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Mervatron wrote:

Hasn't got them a male GS winner for a good while though

steven · Tennis legend

Mervatron wrote:
well with 90,000 competative players thats not suprising.

Hasn't got them a male GS winner for a good while though

Obviously the GEMs have a lot more strength in depth than us and are perfectly set up to do well in DC, but it is odd that they can't even match GB on slam semi-finalists since the year 2000 - since then it has been:

GBR 12 (8 for Muzz & Tim's last 4)

FRA 10 (Grosjean 4, Tsonga 3, Clément 1, Gasquet 1, Monfils 1)