Week 6 - Great Britain F4 ($10,000) - Wirral (Hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Week 6 - Great Britain F4 ($10,000) - Wirral (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Anyway probably quite serious business tomorrow. Not much to josh about in that final !

Ouch bleh

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

steven wrote:
kundalini wrote:
As korriban points out above, the numbers simply don't work unless he can reach a few Challenger semis/finals; if he is only entering 5 or 6 Challengers during the year, then it's a tough ask to expect to reach a couple of semis; last year he entered 12 Challengers but his best was several R16s (I think) worth 8 points each.
Somewhat surprisingly (i.e. I thought it was less), it turns out Josh played in 12 Challengers last year, with one defeat in qualifying, 8 R1 defeats and 3 R2 defeats. Tthe R1 wins were against Millot WR 224, Kyle and an unranked Turkish wild card in Izmir. So he played in more than just a handful of Challengers yet still didn't manage to make an impression. I do wonder though if playing 52 Futures matches, the odd ATP & slam match and quite a few British Tours might have left him less fresh than many of the other Challenger players, though I guess plenty of Challenger players play quite a few French/German league matches too.
He has done well in slam qualifying before though, so there must be a chance he could make an impression at Challenger level.

In 2008 Josh made one final, 2 semis and 1 qf at Challenger level including a run of 3 events that were qf, sf, f; I suspect the fields at the New Delhi Challenger weren't particularly strong but still he put together the wins. Also made final on the grass at the Manchester Challenger in 2006

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bit of a shame for Sean, but Neal's a again!

Final: Lewis Burton & Neal Skupski UNR defeated James Cluskey (IRL) & Sean Thornley WR 405 by 7-6(5) 2-6 [10-7] biggrin

steven · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Didn't Neal play with his brother last week and do rather well. I assume he is due to get ranked soon then.

He played with Ken two weeks ago. This is his 4th Futures doubles title, all with different partners, and Lewis's 11th. Neal is already back on the doubles rankings (at 1024) but will jump on Monday. He will be back on the singles rankings a week later.

steven · Tennis legend

Re. earlier post - the Final is indeed at 11 am tomorrow.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Anyway probably quite serious business tomorrow. Not much to josh about in that final !

steven · Tennis legend

FINAL: Ed Corrie WR 456 beat (4) Dan Smethurst WR 387 by 4 & 1 biggrin bleh

Ed's 2nd Futures singles title (and 2nd in 3 weeks, of course) - he is now 16-2 in 2013 (1-2 v USA, 15-0 v everyone else) and is very likely to crack the top 400 on Monday week

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 9th of February 2013 01:44:24 PM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

blob wrote:

A bit weird for me as I know two other Ed Corries, an Edwin & an Edward

Well you know the old saying - three "Eds" are better than one wink

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Saturday 9th of February 2013 02:00:29 PM

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Corrie 6-4, 3-0* up

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

DF from Dan and Corrie breaks from deuce, *4-0 up in 2nd and that should be that.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Done and dusted.

Ed takes another title beating Dan 6-4 6-1

Spectator · All-time great

Crumbs. Well done to Mr Corrie. I'd thought he might well make a strong rankings move this year -- but didn't expect it to be quite this rapid! (At this rate, he'll have reached my prediction for end of year by about May) Well done to Mr Smethurst, too, for reaching the final.

indiana · Tennis legend

All very impressive from Ed.

Top British ranking points scorers over the 4 GB futures weeks :

Ed Corrie - 48
Marcus Willis - 24
Josh Goodall - 16
Dan Smethurst - 16

Noone else in double figures.

korriban · Challenger level

Outstanding! A well deserved little break for Ed next. I can only assume that he's found the formula of making himself very hard to beat even when playing below his best, which allows him to guts out certain matches that most of his peers would normally lose. And of course, if he's playing well, he wins too. Both his losses were tight 3 set affairs, which indicates he has been very competitive for 4 weeks and 18 matches without a single blip. Superb. Now he should plan to test himself at higher level tournaments with more points up for grabs, rather than settling for the same old routine of Gb 10k futures that many of his peers have become addicted to.