Week 11 - Great Britain F7 ($10,000) Bath -Hard

Tennisnow · Lower Club Player

RE: Week 11 - Great Britain F7 ($10,000) Bath -Hard

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bugger!

SF: Jan Minar & Marek Semjan (CZE/SVK) WR 2350 defeated Dan Smethurst & Alex Ward WR 1258 by 6-2 7-6(4) bleh

Wouldn't surprise me of the Czech/Slovak pair won the damn' thing now! cry

RJA · Hall of fame

Tennisnow wrote:
3 qualifiers in the semi's. That doesn't happen very often!

Well yes but one of them shouldn't really have been in the quallies. Of course if Gabb had beat Corrie all 4 semi finalists would have been qualifiers.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

evans and burton win the doubles in a match tie break, so another final for evo

RJA · Hall of fame

SF: (4) Lewis Burton & Dan Evans WR 971 beat Neil Pauffley & Marcus Willis WR 2073 : 4-6, 6-3 [10-4]

Final: (4) Lewis Burton & Dan Evans WR 971 v Jan Minar & Marek Semjan (CZE/SVK) WR 2350

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (4) Lewis Burton & Dan Evans WR 971 defeated Neil Pauffley & Marcus Willis WR 2073 by 4-6 6-3 [10-4]

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Final: Jan Minar & Marek Semjan (CZE/SVK) WR 2350 vs (4) Lewis Burton & Dan Evans WR 971

Let's hope the fourth seeds can stop the Czech/Slovak interlopers in their tracks.

scottie1 · Futures level

do people think Evans Corrie final again.

personally i want Dan to win just think he has got potential top 150 or above

RJA · Hall of fame

scottie1 wrote:
do people think Evans Corrie final again.

Probably, but you never know. Rice played very well yesterday and added the scalp of an inform Willis today. You would obviously expect Evo to beat him but it is hardly a done deal. Farquharson is also on a good run and might trouble Corrie whose results this week haven't been overwhelming.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Dan Evans to beat Ed in the final would be my expectation.

Reeltime · Satellite level

Haven't seen Dave play singles for about 18 months, but always got the impression if his serve is on fire, he's hard to beat. Not the greatest movement imo, but very powerful

polly · Junior player

alex03maccy wrote:
Marcus never recovered from a bad call early in the first set. Was an awful call and he had a 5minute debate with the umpire after which didn't do him any good. Nothing seems to bother Dave and he served well on the big points when Marcus threatened to get back into it. Got chatting to Marcus' 'volunteer mentor', guy called Dave Lewis, ranking targets are 350-400 by year end and 250 by next May.

That'll be Gary Lewis.He's sponsoring Marcus,very positive guy who believes that Marcus is a force to be reckoned with.I wouldn't argue with him,he knows what he wants.

indiana · Tennis legend

Be very interesting to watch Marcus's progress with seemingly a renewed determination and that support behind him.

Those look tough but not silly targets. All the best to him.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (5) Ed Corrie WR 385 defeated (Q) Tom Farquharson WR 1056 by 3 & 1
SF: (4/Q) Dan Evans WR 367 defeated (Q) David Rice WR 757 by 6-3 4-6 6-4

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Final: (5) Ed Corrie WR 385 vs (4/Q) Dan Evans WR 367

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Friday 15th of March 2013 03:57:01 PM

korriban · Challenger level

Strange little factoid.

For the second week in a row in Bath, a men's GB $10k Futures event has an all GB SF line-up. Alright, there were only 10 and 13 non-Brits in the MD line up, but part of this was the success of Brits actually making it through qualies (7 and 6 respectively).

For the second week in a row, not a single GB woman has reached the QF of a GB $10k/$15k, the latter event including the bulk of our ladies ranked GB 6 and below, the former admittedly with a much weaker line-up on paper.

The perceived wisdom in the press, and indeed the party line from many TV/online pundits is that "GB women's tennis" is in pretty good health, and that huge strides have been made on the women's side.

I wouldn't want to disguise the massive gap at the top end of GB men's tennis ranks 1-300 (which is after all where the focus ought to be) but I actually think the "base" standard of GB men's tennis has been steadily improving in the last couple of years to the point that none of our top 25 players tend to get rolled over and the bar to get into this "elite" group is climbing steadily higher.......pushing up average standards across large numbers of players could be the key to breakthroughs at the next level.............

In fact, if this improvement continues, there will come a point where the main barrier to a sustained rankings breakthrough from our men could be their conservative/low risk choice of tournaments offering little upside reward, rather than obvious lack of talent, preparation or competitiveness.........

I'm really hoping Ed and Dan do well this week and again next week, then with this points cushion in the bag, go on to make a sustained Challenger effort up until the grass court season......as much to see them do well, as to show the way for the other players.......

scottie1 · Futures level

Agree with you Korriban at the moment Ed Corrie and Dan Evans seem to be the ones to watch. The standard does seem to be improving in the mens.

One thing I wondered with British Futures many of them are playing the same players on the circuit so would know their game. Also many would be good friends so would the competitive edge not get dilluted by familiarity??????//

I think the Kyle Oli strategy of playing abroad would be better as they have unfamiliar opponents.