QR1: Sean Thornley WR 586 v (q5) Marius Copil (ROU) WR 267 (CH 204 last May)QR1: David Rice WR 430 v Sami Reinwein (GER) WR 629 (CH 566 last Sep)
GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!GB top 25s (ranks, whereabouts) & stats - http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html
and the second 6-2, well done Ricey!
steven wrote:QR1: Sean Thornley WR 586 v (q5) Marius Copil (ROU) WR 267 (CH 204 last May)
QR1: Sean Thornley WR 586 v (q5) Marius Copil (ROU) WR 267 (CH 204 last May)
Not looking too clever for Sean in the first set at the moment: 2-4*. To be fair, though, he's really up against it, given the ranking disparity...
Sean was losing by 3-6 2-5*, but has just got back one of the breaks: *3-5 in the second.
Sean made more of a fight of it in the second set, but eventually succumbed by 3 & 4.
He survives a few SPs to hold for 5-5*.
RJA wrote:QR2: David Rice WR 430 v (q6) Philipp Oswald (AUT) WR 272
Wow! David's just taken the first set by 6-1!
Oswald breaks David in the eighth game of the second set to take a *5-3 lead, but David obeys the cardinal rule & breaks straight back: *4-5.
David again survives SPs to win the twelfth game & take the second set into a tie-break!
Oswald takes the tie-break by 7-3 to level the match. I've a nasty feeling that that's David's chance gone, but hope I'm proved wrong.
Looks as though David's had it: 1-4* in the final set.
Doubles:
R1: Rameez Junaid & Simon Stadler (AUS/GER) vs (3) Jamie Delgado & Ken Skupski
R1: Harri Heliövaara & Jürgen Zopp (FIN/EST) vs David Rice & Sean Thornley
R1: Jordan Kerr & Travis Parrott (AUS/USA) vs (2) Dustin Brown (GER) & Jonny Marrray
The winners of those last two matches will again play one another in the QF!