British Tour 2013

Shhh · Challenger level

RE: British Tour 2013

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Shhh wrote:
Tier 1 - Outdoor Clay event at Hatfield this week sees Ed Corrie, Neil Pauffley, Richard Bloomfield and Dan Cox all in the draw.

Good to see Ed Corrie playing again after his recent medical problems.

Reeltime · Satellite level

Ed gored Vidal (sorry, couldn't resist) 1&2

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Reeltime wrote:
Ed gored Vidal (sorry, couldn't resist) 1&2

Yes. But did he have to beat Vidal sa soon in the tournament. Couldn't he have waited until later.

steven · Tennis legend

Only 2 games dropped by the winners of the two semis - sadly partly due to yet another retirement by Bloomers

who was 6-0 1-0 down against top seed Ed at the time. Ed will play 2nd seed Neil Pauffley, who beat Adam Thornton-Brown 1 & 1.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Not another retirement by Bloomers.....

RJA · Hall of fame

Ed won 4 and 3

Shhh · Challenger level

Bloomers and Josh Milton meet in the Cardiff final (a Tier 2 event) tomorrow.

Next week will be at Felixstowe on grass. An excellent idea to provide a warm up pre Nottingham but, not too many ranked players are there...........Bloomfield is listed again, and Prakash Armitraj which surprised me!

Shhh · Challenger level

Josh won the Cardiff final beating Richard in two sets.

This week at Felixstowe Marcus Willis, Richard and Lewis Burton are the top three seeds hopefully getting a little grass court practise in the Tier 1.

Shhh · Challenger level

Semis:
Marcus Willis d. Lewis Burton 3-6 6-4 7-6(5)
Robert Carter d. Myles Orton 6-4 6-1

Final
Marcus Willis d, Robert Carter 6-2 3-6 7-5

(Anna Smith beat Anna Fitzpatrick in the ladies final)

RJA · Hall of fame

Awesome field in Nottingham this week as most of the guys who lost in the challenger quallies have stayed on for this event.

Shhh · Challenger level

RJA wrote:
Awesome field in Nottingham this week as most of the guys who lost in the challenger quallies have stayed on for this event.

It was a cracking field and Richard Gabb defeated Dan Smethurst in the semi's and Neil Pauffley in the final to take the title.

Josh · Challenger level

Just noticed that George Morgan received a WC and was top seed in the Tier 2 event in Newcastle this week. He lost his first match 6-4 6-3 to Jonathan Binding (?), who was promptly on the receiving end of a double bagel him in the next round! No doubt George didn't put too much effort or attention towards the tournament, but that's a pretty shocking result regardless.

RJA · Hall of fame

I am guessing George has been injured as he hasn't played a futures since mid June but even so that is a shocking result.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Must have been the quickest day of tennis ever yesterday for the British Tour in West Worthing.

Josh Goodall won 1-0 retired

Max England won walkover

Worth every penny for the spectators !!