Josh breaks again and will now serve for the match.

Watching this. Excellent stuff

Excellent 

And really good to come through theee 2 BPs ( almost MPs ) with aces at * 4 - 4 in the 2nd set and the 2 real MPs in the tiebreak.

Minar I notice doiesn't appear to have played in a hard court tournament since the beginning of March and his clay results  have been far from great of late, but still must count as a minar upset.

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That's an excellent win for Josh against a much higher ranked (and former top 70) player - wish I'd had time to watch the stream!

What is it with these Brits coming back from a set down and racing through the 3rd set? I could happily get used to this!

Let's hope it's not another false dawn LOL ... though to be fair, there's a lot to be optimistic about with the younger ones. The 'older' Brits always seem to do better in the second half of the year.

Josh: '"just when i thought i was out...THEY pull me back in" - Michael Corleone'

Ken: 'Was expecting a 2pm start but @joshuagoodall had to go and spoil everything! Not expected on now for another hour.'

LOL

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The "older" Brits certainly seem to be doing not at all badly and of course the young generation.

Disappointing though continues to be the "in betweeners" , the 1989 / 90 born, who seem respnsible for most of those who have fallen back in the top 25 rankings this year ( though to be fair that exclludes those who have dropped out the top 25 ).

Of the 8 players ( Rice, Thornley, Milton, Ward. Evans, Cox, Willis and Smethurst ) only 2 are higher ranked than at the end of last year,  Alex Ward, up 56, particularly based on the last few weeks and he will be rising further next week, and Evo, up 18, based much more on earlier in the year results. Fitzy of course has come through later and this year is up 331 to WR 750.

I have never been one for writing off this generation, but that is diappointing at this stage in their careers.  Hopefully one or two can come again, but how high they will get must be debatable.

It does look more and more real progress will come particularly from those still of junior age and hopefully also such as the 1992 guys Burton and Marsalek who have begun to make their mark this year.

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Yes, I agree - it looked like the inbetweeners were going to make up the majority of the GB top 5 for a while earlier this year and then from last Monday, there has been nobody younger than Muzz in the GB top 5 again, thanks to Jamie B and Boggo making some progress in Challengers, Josh's good summer and the inbetweeners' last year's big Futures points coming off.

To be fair, Dan Cox in particular has been having a go at Challenger qualifying more often than before and while he's been finding it much tougher to gain points there than in Futures, it must be the right thing to do if he has any real ambition. The transition from very good Futures player to decent Challenger player always seems to be the hardest transition of the lot, so maybe we should have expected a bit of a lull in their rankings peformance this year.