Week 36 - Great Britain F18 ($10,000) - Sheffield (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: Week 36 - Great Britain F18 ($10,000) - Sheffield (Hard)

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

another couple of LL's....

steven · Tennis legend

Tennisnow wrote:
How about this for a record... 20 Brits (outside the top 25 Brits) in a British future MD?

It probably would be ... if there hadn't been 23 Brits outside the GB top 25 (including 3 of the seeds!) in the main draw last week!

Jack Buxton · Club Coach

1 guaranteed GB finalist already :)

RJA · Hall of fame

Great chance for Samm Butler to get his first ranking point, especially if he plays anything like as well as he did against Broady last week.

korriban · Challenger level

Dan and Josh WH; and Liam and Marcus must be sick of the sight of each other!!!!

paulisi · Tennis legend

Much stronger than last week with Liam and JWH not seeded. Pauffley could also get Coupland who has turned him over before and Tom v Bloomers in round 2 potentially.

Great draw for Rob Carter to pick up points.

Tennisnow · Lower Club Player

The way that Marzi is playing at the moment, there is a good chance of a QF for one of the other three guys.

Good chance for Whitehouse to build on last weeks first ranking point with Tom F still struggling.

Liam could push Marcus and JWH could push Cox but otherwise I think it'll follow seeding.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lewis should also get at least a couple of points which will push him back towards his CH.

And Evan should be looking to impress (Jack's not been on great form)

indiana · Tennis legend

I find it increasingly difficult to put rral value to many of the ranking movements and new CHs with the undoubted ooost the GB futures pointz give away has been comparative to other years.

Very clear that players like Ashley and Tom have made great strides forward with some very good results outwith GB and overall we have probsbly got greater depth, just the overall improvement is not as marked as figures might first suggest.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

It;s an interesting point. Have the UK players got heaps of 'free' points this summer by, effectively, just playing each other and sharing the points round ? And are therefore over-ranked ?

Or have the other countries always been doing the same and now the UK players are simply in the same position as everyone else i.e. 'bumped' up by domestic tournaments ?

I'm not sure, and it's been mentioned before, but you certainly see a ton of 10k futures in Argentina, Russia or wherever with practically 100% home players.

So maybe the playing field is now even . . .

Obviously the proof of the pudding comes when you put your ranking into practice and play outside your country. So good luck to the lads in Turkey and elsewhere this week (and to those in Sheffield too . . .)

Salmon · Tennis legend

Claudio Grassi forever, Clay Crawford never.

Is there any ATP ranked tennis player with "carpet" in his name?

Spectator · All-time great

Hmm. Red flag to a bull, that question. Couldn't find any carpets, though others with more languages may be able to do so. Did find lots of Harts, though. And there's always Jo Dur-ie.

Shhh · Challenger level

There's a Diana Rugg on the senior circuit and of course hundreds of Matt's but "Carpets"??????????????????

steven · Tennis legend

I thought I remembered a Vladimir Karpets, but he's a cyclist! It suggests the name exists in Russian though, so maybe one day ...