Week 17 - Great Britain F9 ($10,000) - Bournemouth (Clay)

RJA · Hall of fame

RE: Week 17 - Great Britain F9 ($10,000) - Bournemouth (Clay)

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Make that 0-4*

Unless the situation gets to youngster this looks done.

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Coric obviously nervous. He holds to love

*0-5

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Dan's down but he is still fighting. He saves three match points and holds for 1-5*

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And Dan saves another match point before getting one of the breaks back

*2-5

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From 0-30 Dan holds from 3-5*

Ratty · County player

Gosh, isn't behavioural economics just fascinating?

The strongest male gorilla/lion/walrus/etc gets ALL the females. Even though number 2 male might be just a tiny bit weaker, he gets NOTHING!

And in a similar vein, Borna Coric - I'd been hoping to write Dan Cox, but oh well, que sera sera - gets a little less than £900 for winning a $10k, while the winners of the Wimbledon singles each get £1.6 million - that's 1,700 times as much!

And I'd guess that almost everyone who watches Wimbledon - live or on TV - would not be able to discern any significant difference in quality between today's final and the Wimbledon final.

korriban · Challenger level

Thanks for that, Ratty!

Well done Borna Coric! Bad luck Dan.

16 years old, and Im sure the first of many tournament wins. If he lives in the UK long enough, doesnt that means he could qualify as........!!!!!

Never mind.

RJA · Hall of fame

korriban wrote:
Thanks for that, Ratty!
Well done Borna Coric! Bad luck Dan.
16 years old, and Im sure the first of many tournament wins. If he lives in the UK long enough, doesnt that means he could qualify as........!!!!!
Never mind.

Well at the moment he faces a trip of around 450 miles to Edinburgh to play in qualifying tomorrow. The LTA might be well advised to give him a main draw wild card wink

indiana · Tennis legend

Ah pity, not been a great day for the guys.

I think the week overall in all parts, both guys and girls, has just about balanced out.

There were a lot of tournaments with for instance 9 guys seeded to make at least QFs, although only 2 beyond that ( Jamie seeded 1 and Ed 2 ).

Some have not made their seedings and lost to lower ranked opponents, others have gone further than seeded and achieved good wins.

Just Jade remains anywhere, to hopefully win the final here again as no 1 seed.

RJA · Hall of fame

By my reckoning 17 British men won a total of 46 points across 5 events. Based on seedings , and the draws for non-seeded players, we "should" have won 48 points. So all in all just below par.

korriban · Challenger level

Borna clearly a very talented junior. Meanwhile the current junior #1, Nick Kyrgios, who earlier in 2013 reached a CH SF (losing to James Ward), then WON his next CH, has been playing a series of 3 $15k tournaments in China. He has gone SF, FI, WIN in those tournaments, taking him to about #270 on pro rankings!!!! He turned 18 yesterday, so could well play all 3 junior slams yet this year. He sounds like a class above every junior since Tomic and Dimitrov.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

korriban wrote:
Borna clearly a very talented junior. Meanwhile the current junior #1, Nick Kyrgios, who earlier in 2013 reached a CH SF (losing to James Ward), then WON his next CH, has been playing a series of 3 $15k tournaments in China. He has gone SF, FI, WIN in those tournaments, taking him to about #270 on pro rankings!!!! He turned 18 yesterday, so could well play all 3 junior slams yet this year. He sounds like a class above every junior since Tomic and Dimitrov.

He is definitely one to watch! Wouldnt be suprised to see him in top 150 by the end of the year.