An interesting question, Mr Corrie's funding. Does the LTA have any flexibility to act when someone's prospects improve so dramatically? Can they offer funding before the next round of team selection? (That would be genuine funding, not a loan) Then again, he must be picking up bonus money on a fairly substantial basis.

Another nice win for Messrs Rice and Thornley, even if their opponents were unranked. And if Mr Corrie and Mr Skupski the younger have indeed just managed to beat the reigning Wimbledon doubles champion and a former AO (junior) doubles champion, that's not too bad for people just starting their futures careers.

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Perhaps Ed might make it out to Mexico in April for the three Challengers that are over there in April.  Two of the three events are +H, so he'd have accomodation paid for whilst he remained in the draws. He is used to the heat and travel after his time at Uni on the US.  Most events in Europe are on clay in the spring which isn't really to his liking. He might have to qualify though, but that shouldn't scare him. 

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This only applies to the main draw, so if he has to go through qualifying then he'll have to pay for his own accommodation until he qualifies. If he fails to qualify that's a whole week out of his own pocket.

 

Very pleased that Ed Corrie keeps on winning even though, based on the fact that he once again went a set and a break down, I suspect he's not actually playing at his best........but once Ed got going, he really did steamroller Alex, getting stronger and stronger as the match went on.

I'm sure there's more to come, if and when he gets to top form from the start of matches, and confidence shouldn't be a problem! Woudln't bet against him coming through the whole week once again.

Round-up:

QF: Richard Gabb WR 756 beat (WC) Jack Findel-Hawkins UNR by 3 & 5
QF: (4) Ed Corrie WR 385 beat (6) Alex Ward WR 447 by 3-6 7-5 6-1
QF: Lewis Burton WR 721 beat Tom Farquharson WR 1055 5-7 6-4 6-4
QF: Jack Carpenter WR 732 lost to (8) Freddie Nielsen (DEN) WR 491 by 1 & 1

SF: (4) Ed Corrie WR 385 v Richard Gabb WR 756 (H2H 2-0)
SF: Lewis Burton WR 721 v (8) Freddie Nielsen (DEN) WR 491 (CH 190 in 2011)

What a difference a year makes (though he still plays heaps of matches early in the year!) - in 2012, Ed was toiling through big qualifying draws (in USA/TUR) a bit like Kyle this year and went 24-6 in Jan/Feb for just 6 ATP points (includes R1 of a Turkish Fut on 29 Feb 2012) - this year he is 19-2 in Jan/Feb and has picked up 54 points, 9x as many!

Just noticed from Helen Parish's table that Josh Goodall is now the career best ranking scalp for no less than 7 different Brits - Ashley Hewitt, Neil Pauffley, Tom Burn, Maniel Bains, Neil Bamford, Tom Farquharson and now Richard Gabb here this week. That must be some kind of record, albeit a very unwanted one!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_GB&key=0AsZFvfU3lw0zdG5zOVFKVDk1LTdUUk15UTh2WW11aEE&hl=en_GB&gid=4

SMC1809 wrote:

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stevemcqueen wrote:

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Perhaps Ed might make it out to Mexico in April for the three Challengers that are over there in April.  Two of the three events are +H, so he'd have accomodation paid for whilst he remained in the draws. He is used to the heat and travel after his time at Uni on the US.  Most events in Europe are on clay in the spring which isn't really to his liking. He might have to qualify though, but that shouldn't scare him. 

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This only applies to the main draw, so if he has to go through qualifying then he'll have to pay for his own accommodation until he qualifies. If he fails to qualify that's a whole week out of his own pocket.

I know that you don't get accomodation until you have qualified, but I used the plural because I think  you do sleep foc if you  are in the doubles draw.  I think he only has this week to improve  his ranking in terms of making the cut for the Mexican  or French hard court challenger on April 1st, but I'm sure sombody will correct or confirm....In any case, Ed is going to have to do some long haul flights if he wants to avoid the dirt and win some worthwhile points.

 

Good luck today mate!

 

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