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

RJA · Hall of fame

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

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

He nails it in the next game, though:

L16: (5) Alex Slabinsky WR 507 defeated Dayne Kelly (AUS) WR 1555 by 4-6 7-6(3) 6-4

Should do his confidence a world of good, coming back from the dead like that! biggrin

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Get in there !!!!!!!!!!

A win for Slabba 6-4 in the 3rd.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Well done Slabba - great result. Another who should get back well inside the top 500

RJA · Hall of fame

QF: (6) Daniel Cox WR 554 v (Q) Cameron Norrie (NZL) UNR
QF: (7) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 604 v Enrico Burzi (ITA) WR 614
QF: Ashley Hewitt WR 717 v (5) Alexander Slabinsky WR 507

RJA · Hall of fame

British success in the doubles is now assured after Carpenter and Hewitt won 1 and 1

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (1) Richard Gabb & Neal Skupski WR 1320 defeated Jonny O'Mara & Cameron Norrie (NZL) UNR by 5 & 1
QF: Scott Clayton & Toby Martin WR 2530 defeated Florian Barth & Dominik Schulz (GER/GER) WR 2210 by 2 & 3
QF: (4) Jack Carpenter & Ashley Hewitt WR 2015 defeated Michal Schmid & Ugo Nastasi (CZE/LUX) UNR by 1 & 1
QF: (2) Andrew Fitzpatrick & Alex Slabinsky WR 2148 defeated Robert Carter & Ryan Peniston UNR by 5 & 1

*****

SF: (1) Richard Gabb & Neal Skupski WR 1320 vs Scott Clayton & Toby Martin WR 2530
SF: (4) Jack Carpenter & Ashley Hewitt WR 2015 vs (2) Andrew Fitzpatrick & Alex Slabinsky WR 2148

indiana · Tennis legend

Very good.

27 points so far "in running" should take Ashley Hewitt to a CH, just inside the top 700.

With Tom Farquharson having added 1 more point so far and on 25 points "in running", with a very winnable L16 match in Turkey, we could when this week's points get added, have all the GB top 25 inside the top 700. Probably needs Tom to make the semis.

indiana · Tennis legend

Indeed, certainly looking at all the singles results that have come in, a good all round for top 25 Brits, spread over many countries.

steven · Tennis legend

It can't be entirely unrelated to the much larger number of tournaments that are on this week, which thus have relatively weak draws and more chance for Brits to be seeded, but we'll take what we can get, especially after a couple of months when there have been so few events that many of them have been unusually strong and hard to glean points from. It would be fairer for everyone if the organisers could co-operate a bit more to ensure a more even distribution of tournaments throughout the year, but I doubt that's ever going to happen below main tour level.

For the men in particular, there seem to have been more positve ranking upsets than negative ones this week too - e.g. here there are 4 Brits in the QFs when only 3 were seeded and there will be at least one Brit in the SFs when no Brits were seeded in the top 4.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

All of a sudden it's not looking so good.

Dan has gone from 2-0 to 2-4 down

Fitzy has gone from 2-0 up to 2-4 down

Ashley is 3-0 up on Slabba

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Thursday 25th of April 2013 10:37:35 AM

RJA · Hall of fame

What the hell. Fitzy and Cox both lose 4 games in a row furious

-- Edited by RJA on Thursday 25th of April 2013 10:49:00 AM

RJA · Hall of fame

First set to Hewitt 6-1

Cox and Fitzy both back on serve

Coric a set and a break up

-- Edited by RJA on Thursday 25th of April 2013 10:48:43 AM

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

And we're off.

Dan starts strongly and is already 2-0* up.

Fitzy starts with a break to lead *1-0

Ashley fights off 3 breaks points to hold against Slabba 1-0*

RJA · Hall of fame

While Coric takes a 4-0* lead against the Italian second seed.