Dan's won the tie break, Fitzy has served out for the first set.

Would love to have 3 Brits in a clay court semi final... bet that's not happened very often

Hewitt won 6-1, 6-2. Slabba only held serve once.

SMC1809 wrote:

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korriban wrote:

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RJA. Although I am being guilty of sweeping generalisations, I do agree with you that too many tweets from our GB players, men and women, do come across too often as inappropriate, ill-judged, unprofessional or immature - especially when sent in the middle of the night during tournaments. Of course the majority of players don't fall into this bracket, and I absolutely think its great that young people are having fun and are not tennis-obsessed - but I do think in some cases a poor attitude screams out from certain twitter accounts, and to some extent this seems to correlate with those players who have extremely variable results - good one week, inexplicably poor the next. 

If I were a potential opponent, I might get the distinct impression that with some of our men and women, its the "lads on tour" or "the lassies abroad".....how often do we hear about Playstation, Xbox, FIFA, players parties, all-you-can-eat buffets, forbidden foods, etc.....as well as about tennis, training, travel, etc........there have even been occasions when some players have attempted to talk about their training schedules and fitness programmes, and had some of the others take the p*ss out of them......    

Take a look at Borna Coric or Ed Corrie on twitter........fun yes, professional yes, one of the "lads".......perhaps not.   

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 Sweeping generalisations seems to be your speciality. Maybe Oliver just doesn't want to spend £46 per night to stay in Edinburgh?

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Perhaps, but even if that generous assesment is true it is still pretty stupid to tell your potential opponents that you don't want to spend the weekend playing tennis in Edinburgh. Some of our young players have an absolutely fantastic attitude and work ethic, but a number of them give the very strong impression that they regard professionalism as a dirty word. Now you can complain that me and korriban are speaking from ignorance and and making assumptions, and yes as far as I know Oliver could be a dedicated, hard working, model professional. His comment however screamed otherwise and think about it like this. Do you think that every single funding decision made by the LTA or by would be sponsors are based on the most detailed knowledge of a player? If you were thinking about sponsoring a player would you not look at their social media activity and at least partially judge their attitude by it? Maybe you wouldn't, but many would and in fact do.

-- Edited by RJA on Thursday 25th of April 2013 06:35:38 PM

Dan also loses the second set.

Fitzy 2-3*

Cox *2-1

Cox breaks again to lead *3-2 (there have been 13 breaks of serve in 26 games)

Fitzy got one break back *3-5

Cox broken back again

4-4*