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steven


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L32: (4) Ashley Hewitt WR 527 v (WC) Edan Bakshi (ISR) UNR (age 15, never ranked in seniors or juniors)
L32: George Morgan WR 948 v Bar-Tzuf Botzer (ISR) WR 1203 (= CH, top 30 junior early last year)



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L32: George Morgan WR 948 lost to Bar-Tzuf Botzer (ISR) WR 1203 5-7 4-6

Hugely underwhelming. Again. We've been waiting for a turnaround in form for 18 months now......impressed with the LTA's patience and loyalty, but I'm not sure I would be if I had narrowly missed out on funding.

Tweet for him just minutes after the match: "toughest last few months of my life"

Really feel for him.....maybe he's almost trying TOO hard and putting TOO much pressure on himself.



-- Edited by korriban on Monday 17th of June 2013 09:31:49 AM

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George 1 set down. No BP chances created so far.



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Ashley hands out a bagel in the first and is 3-1 up in the second

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Ashley wins 0 & 1

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maybe george would benefit from playing some british tours to get some wins and his confidence up.

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I have just looked at George's career record and was surprised at just how unimpressive it is.

George has now played 54 futures events. He has won 1 and reached 3 semi-finals (these successes spread over a 3 year period). Apart from that he has lost in the second round on 19 occasions and the first round on 31 occasions. He also played Challenger / ATP / Grand Slam qualifying on 8 occasions, all on home soil, and only managing 3 first round wins all against fairly weak British opposition. He has never beat a top 300 player and has only won 10 matches against top 500 players.

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Ashley is certainly tapping into his potential, he must have found a way to stop the South African's flow ... (igmc - and yes, I am aware that's not the correct spelling to take the pun from!)

QF: (4) Ashley Hewitt WR 512 v (8) Dean O'Brien (RSA) WR 698 (CH 695 last month)



-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 19th of June 2013 01:58:44 PM

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L16: (4) Ashley Hewitt WR 527 v (Q) Matt Fawcett (RSA) UNR

L16: (4) Ashley Hewitt WR 527 beat (Q) Matt Fawcett (RSA) UNR by 6-3 6-3

and so creeps ever closer to the top 500.

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Ash and George are currently 4-1 up in their doubles - 1st set

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RJA wrote:

I have just looked at George's career record and was surprised at just how unimpressive it is.

George has now played 54 futures events. He has won 1 and reached 3 semi-finals (these successes spread over a 3 year period). Apart from that he has lost in the second round on 19 occasions and the first round on 31 occasions. He also played Challenger / ATP / Grand Slam qualifying on 8 occasions, all on home soil, and only managing 3 first round wins all against fairly weak British opposition. He has never beat a top 300 player and has only won 10 matches against top 500 players.

3rd straight year of maximum LTA funding as a Team Aegon player, chosen ahead of many other possible candidates.

He won the Orange Bowl as a junior. Since then......

Choosing the right players to back at the elite level must be fraught with difficulty..........there must be a temptatation to lower the funding levels (eg capping the travel and hotel support p.a.), but increase the spread of players.....yet that's the opposite of what seems to have happened.

I believe Ashley and George both train in Bolton and the age gap is less than a year.......is George SO SO much better than Ashley that he deserves max funding for the last 3 years, with Ash getting minimal support in comparison. This trip must be surreal for both.....



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OK. Seeing as we are all in silly mood, let's hope Ash has got some energy left for the QF and didn't have to "Fawcett" too much in the last round.

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I'm on a roll now and couldn't resist this one.

Do you think that "Fawcett" will ever make it through to the "Majors" ? May be not, but I bet he won't be "Farrah" way

I'll prepare my resignation letter now  disbelief



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Please, please stop.

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I second that!

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