Week 3 - Great Britain F1 ($10,000) - Glasgow (Hard)

RJA · Hall of fame

Week 3 - Great Britain F1 ($10,000) - Glasgow (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
Main draw DAs here for Goodall, Evans, Smethurst, Milton, Bloomfield, Ward, Pauffley, Corrie, Burn and Rice.
Very strong qualifying draw
Possible main draw wild cards include Hewitt, Willis, Fitzpatrick and O'Mara

Make Fitzy a definite for an MD WC. He is raring to go.

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

scores are up....Neal Skupski did indeed put out 2nd seed (hopefully cheered him up after the football ;))

-- Edited by Jack Buxton on Sunday 13th of January 2013 10:17:41 PM

RJA · Hall of fame

Qualifying Round 2

Scott GRIEKSPOOR (NED) [14] 6-3 1-0 Retired Sam HUTT (GBR)
Neal SKUPSKI (GBR) 1-6 6-1 6-4 Kevin GRIEKSPOOR (NED) [2]
Imran ASWAT (GBR) 6-2 2-6 6-4 Oliver HUDSON (GBR) [11]
Lewis BURTON (GBR) [3] 3-6 6-1 6-4 Joshua PAGE (GBR)
Robert CARTER (GBR) 6-4 6-3 Sean THORNLEY (GBR) [10]
Richard GABB (GBR) [4] 7-5 3-6 6-3 Lukas MUGEVICIUS (LTU)
Scott CLAYTON (GBR) 6-4 3-6 6-3 Michael LASER (USA) [12]
Nicolas ROSENZWEIG (FRA) [5] 6-3 6-1 Lewis ROSKILLY (GBR)
Tom FARQUHARSON (GBR) [15] 6-4 6-2 Harry SKINNER (GBR)
George MORGAN (GBR) [6] 6-3 6-2 Simas MALAKAUSKAS (LTU)
Matthieu ROY (FRA) [7] 6-2 6-4 Joseph GILL (GBR)
Toby MARTIN (GBR) [8] 6-2 6-2 Nicholas JONES (GBR)

The result of Ward-Hibbert's match (against Christian Schultz) has not been reported but tomorrows OOP indicates that it was played today. Presumably it was still being played when the LTA reported the results to the ITF

-- Edited by RJA on Monday 14th of January 2013 12:27:09 AM

MiloTheCat · Lower Club Player

popped in very briefly - one notable result I can report that might be of interest is that Neal Skupski beat Kevin Griekspoor WR-702 (Q2) 6-4 in the 3rd. I can't be totally sure - I started watching with the scoreboard reading 5-4 to Skupski (if it helps to confirm: he looked an inch or two shorter than the other fellow!)

At what I assume was 15-30 he hit a cheeky ace down the middle on 2nd serve, and later an ace out wide to save a bp, after a few deuces he took it.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

And its back to inept updating of their own events by the LTA because there's a slam on.

RJA · Hall of fame

johnnylad wrote:
And its back to inept updating of their own events by the LTA because there's a slam on.

In fairness the days play might not yet be complete. 2nd round qualifying didn't start unitl at least 14:00 and with 3 matches on most of the courts chances are there are some still being played.

RJA · Hall of fame

Due to such large numbers results are cut and paste from ITF site so no ranking details.

Qualifying Round 1

Romain BAUVY (FRA) 7-5 3-6 6-3 Sizya Ernest KIVANDA (GBR)
Sam HUTT (GBR) 6-1 6-7(6) 6-1 James ELLIOTT (GBR)
Neal SKUPSKI (GBR) 6-4 7-6(1) Alexander GASSON (GBR)
Imran ASWAT (GBR) 6-1 5-7 6-2 Samuel SUTTON (GBR)
Oliver HUDSON (GBR) [11] BYE
Lewis BURTON (GBR) [3] BYE
Joshua PAGE (GBR) 6-4 6-4 Jannis LINIGER (SUI)
Robert CARTER (GBR) 6-1 6-2 Alan BEVAN (GBR)
Sean THORNLEY (GBR) [10] BYE
Richard GABB (GBR) [4] BYE
Lukas MUGEVICIUS (LTU) 5-2 Retired David PORTER (GBR)
Scott CLAYTON (GBR) 6-1 1-6 6-2 Sebastian JACKSON (GBR)
Lewis ROSKILLY (GBR) 6-2 6-0 Murphey PARKER (USA)
Harry SKINNER (GBR) 6-3 6-3 Jack PATERSON (GBR)
Tom FARQUHARSON (GBR) [15] BYE
George MORGAN (GBR) [6] BYE
Simas MALAKAUSKAS (LTU) 4-6 6-3 6-4 Bruce STRACHAN (GBR)
Haig SCHNEIDERMAN (USA) 6-4 6-7(3) 6-2 Jordan MCCULLOCH (GBR)
Joseph GILL (GBR) 7-5 6-2 Nick EECKELAERS (GBR)
Joshua WARD-HIBBERT (GBR) [16] BYE
Toby MARTIN (GBR) [8] BYE
Nicholas JONES (GBR) 6-2 6-3 Piotr GRYNKOWSKI (POL)
Jan POSKOCIL (AUT) 6-2 6-0 Sam HOLT (GBR)

RJA · Hall of fame

FQR: Neal Skupski UNR v Imran Aswat WR 1789
FQR: (q3) Lewis Burton WR 713 v Robert Carter WR 1934
FQR: (q4/wc) Richard Gabb WR 743 v Scott Clayton WR 1853
FQR: (q15) Tom Farquharson WR 1231 v (q5) Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA) WR 778
FQR: (q6) George Morgan WR 852 v (q9) Micke Kontinen (FIN) WR 952
FQR: (q8/wc) Toby Martin WR 944 v (q13) Pedja Krstin (SRB) WR 1122

Finally if Ward-Hibbert did win his second round match he will play (q7) Matthieu Roy (FRA) WR 933

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Tweets from Soto Tennis suggest that Josh won his 3 hour marathon against Christian Schulz by 6-4 6-7 7-5

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Monday 14th of January 2013 08:56:46 AM

RJA · Hall of fame

L32: (1) Josh Goodall WR 258 v Carlos Gomez-Herrera (ESP) WR 453
L32: (Q) Imran Aswat WR 1788 v (Q) George Morgan WR 851
L32: (WC) Jonny O'Mara UNR v Matthieu Rodrigues (FRA) WR 443
L32: (WC) Myles Orton WR 1159 v (5) Joshua Milton WR 394
L32: (3) Martin Fischer (AUT) WR 299 v Alexander Ward WR 435
L32: (Q) Lewis Burton WR 713 v Eric Quigley (USA) WR 621
L32: Neil Pauffley WR 462 v Ed Corrie WR 529
Non brit match
L32: (7) Richard Bloomfield WR 414 v Tom Burn WR 554
Non brit match
Non brit match
L32: David Rice WR 608 v (4) Daniel Smethurst WR 357
L32: (WC) Marcus Willis WR 964 v (8) Julien Obry (FRA) WR 417
L32: (Q) Toby Martin WR 944 v (Q) Richard Gabb WR 743
L32: (WC) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 509 v Antal Van Der Duim (NED) WR 500
L32: (2) Daniel Evans WR 297 v (Q) Tom Farquharson WR 1231

-- Edited by RJA on Monday 14th of January 2013 06:40:07 PM

Spectator · All-time great

Recalling that Neal Skupski had had quite a good US collegiate career, I searched through Zootennis to see his (and others') results. He reached the quarterfinals of the championships in singles last year, retiring through injury (a bad fall) towards the end of a competitive match with Steve Johnson (he who just took Almagro to five sets). As far as I could tell from "searching" with the likely candidates' names, no one else got that far in the US tournaments in singles, though Mr Inglot was seeded in the singles and won the doubles and Mr Skuspki (K) got to the round of 16 in singles (lost to John Isner) and was a doubles finalist, again losing to John Isner and partner. Ed Corrie (who, as with the younger Mr Skupski, might do well over the next year) was nationally ranked in singles and doubles ...

Does anyone have more scientifically (or at least methodically) obtained results for comparison?

PS: In these "searches" I found the list of matches won by Somdev Devvarman for the 2007 US collegiate title -- QF Arnau Brugues, SF Kevin Anderson, F John Isner. Not bad preparation for the Tour.

RJA · Hall of fame

Skupski tweeted to say that he lost to Aswat. Morgan tweeted to say that he won.

mikeyp · Junior player

Why is Neil starting his profile career now? Does uni n
ot end in the summer? Or am I missing something?

Spectator · All-time great

I think people generally start in Autumn and end in Summer. But I believe that there are times (as here) when someone will need an extra term or two to finish up for particular reasons ... perhaps they do a dual degree, or take time off at some point during their career. Perhaps that's the reason?