Week 27 - Great Britain F12 ($10,000) - Manchester (Grass)

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 27 - Great Britain F12 ($10,000) - Manchester (Grass)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, Marcus seems to be doing well : 6-2, 4-0 JWH and Klein are absolutely head-to-head 4-4 and Lewis is one set up and a break up in the second.

Stop press: JWH has broken and will serve for the set (go, lad!)

Edit : but, no, broken back . . .

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 4th of July 2013 10:40:26 AM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Shhh has three of his four wishes granted - at least at the quaret-final stage:

L16: (7/Q) Tom Farquharson WR 608 defeated (Q) Harry Meehan WR 2011 by 3 & 2

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Thursday 4th of July 2013 12:29:56 PM

Shhh · Challenger level

Great Britain F11 in 2005 is an example (a 10k one!).................

http://www.atpworldtour.com/Share/Event-Draws.aspx?e=725&y=2005

-- Edited by Shhh on Thursday 4th of July 2013 03:45:26 PM

Shhh · Challenger level

Would like to see Josh, Tom, Lewis and Richard make the semis, continue the new wave that seem to be picking up the points this year

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (5) Marcus Willis WR 563 defeated (Q) Robin Goodman UNR by 2 & 2

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Stop press: JWH has broken and will serve for the set (go, lad!)

Edit : but, no, broken back . . .

JWH takes the first set by 7-5. wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (8) Lewis Burton WR 675 defeated (WC) Jathan Malik WR 1295 by 4 & 4

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Josh got broken, had a break-back point and Klein served an ace. Good for him (begrudgingly). Now time to restore order Josh.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (8) Lewis Burton WR 675 defeated (WC) Jathan Malik WR 1295 by 4 & 4

I like what I read about the Malik brothers but I was pleased for Lewis. Saw him play at the Wimbly qualies and though he was always going to lose (against Dustin Brown ! No shame there!) he put up a good show, posted a good score and played well.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

JWH and Klein into a third set . . .

steven · Tennis legend

Shhh wrote:
Happycynic wrote:
So, will this be the highest ever aggregate UK points score for a futures event? A question for Steven, I think!
We've had all 8 quarters finalists before, back in the days Mark Hilton was playing. I think it may have happened at 15k events as well??????

Just saw this - in fact it is less than a year since it last happened - Nottingham 10K last September http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2012/3538/mds.pdf

However, GB will end up with more points here - 53 out of a possible 56 compared to 51 in Nottingham last September, where 'only' 11 Brits made R2, and 27 in Manchester last year, when Olivetti won the title. There have been two 50-point hauls from 10K Futures in the last 12 months as well - Roehampton last summer and Shrewsbury in March.

The biggest GB (singles) points haul from a Futures event in the last 12 months was 72 from London-Cumberland 15K last summer (12 in the last 16, as here, 7/8 QF-ists and all-GB SFs), followed by 53 from Wrexham, i.e. the same number of points as this week but from a 15K instead of a 10K so it was nowhere near as GB-dominated.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 1st of August 2013 03:21:10 PM