The GB F21 thread will be the best thing to have happened to this board. Full house of Brits to support AND Gary (potentially) in full flow. Can we get to 500 posts?!
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive.... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience
The 16 QR2 matches were all won in straight sets with the tightest set being 6-4. In fact it was just 1 of the 3 QR1 matches that stopped it being a full set for the day.
Also, as opposed to not wanting a retired player to take points away from more active players, I am also actually a fan of Josh playing these tournaments. He is an excellent barometer of where our younger guys are at. If they are not able to consistently beat a retired Josh, they clearly still have a lot of work to do and it may be counterproductive for them to pick up the points if Josh wasn't there.
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Just seen the draw and wouldn't be suprised to see a few upsets.
Wouldn't be suprised to see an injury prone Bloomers get turned over to Jathan Malik and an out of form Tom F lose to George
Can see Marcus Daniell causing Ashley problems in the top half, but in all honesty if Josh G is committed and playing half decently he should go a long way this week. The top 2 seeds are out of form.
But I'd love Ashley Hewitt and Marcus Willis (from next week) to come through strongly at the end of the year by picking up finals and tournament wins from these 3 GB Futures - that would really set up 2014 fantastically.
I'd also like to see Julian Cash beat Josh tomorrow - that boy can really play - it ought to be beyond him, but you never know
-- Edited by korriban on Monday 7th of October 2013 04:09:21 PM
wonder if Bruce Strachan will actually get that elusive ranking point.
I watched him play Orton at Wrexham where he lost 6-4 in the third and I was quite impressed with his game.
and he has a very nice professional blog (as part of his training contract with the Paul Lawrie foundation) !
Still think Rob might be tricky if he's on song . ..
Bruce only receives Sponsorship from Paul Lawrie as many of the local sportsman mainly Golf though but he trains full time at Stirling uni where there good facilities
-- Edited by Allan94 on Monday 7th of October 2013 04:29:39 PM
Samm BUTLER (GBR) [1] 6-1 6-0 Joseph GILL (GBR)
Bruce STRACHAN (GBR) 6-1 6-4 Sizya Ernest KIVANDA (GBR)
Scott DUNCAN (GBR) [2] 6-0 6-0 Ali KAMYAB (GBR)
Nick EECKELAERS (GBR) 6-2 6-2 Philip SIKMAN (GBR)
David PORTER (GBR) [3] 6-3 6-1 Pierre LUIGGI (GBR)
Vincent GILLESPIE (GBR) 6-2 6-4 Luke POWER (GBR)
Stefan STERLAND-MARKOVIC (GBR) 6-2 6-1 Jake HORTON (GBR)
Harry SKINNER (GBR) 6-3 6-3 Daniel BENNETT (GBR)
Allan MCCLURE (GBR) 6-3 6-1 Matthew CHADWICK (GBR)
Jack PATERSON (GBR) 6-3 6-3 Mohamed ABDEL-AZIZ (GBR)
Sam HOLT (GBR) 6-1 6-4 Jack CASO (GBR)
Samuel TAYLOR (GBR) 6-3 6-4 Kenichiro OISHI (GBR)
Tom ALLEN (GBR) 6-3 6-1 Joe COOPER (GBR)
Oliver BRENNAN (GBR) 6-3 6-4 Samuel ARCHER (GBR)
Chris ANGUELOV (BUL) 6-0 6-2 Luke HENLEY (GBR)
Adam BARRATCLOUGH (GBR) 6-2 6-4 Peter ASHLEY (GBR)
L32: (1) Ashley Hewitt WR 368 vs (Q) Nick Eeckelaers UNR L32: (WC) Nicholas Jones UNR vs Pirmin Haenle (GER) WR 930 L32: (Q) Chris Anguelov (BUL) UNR vs (Q) Jack Paterson UNR L32: (Q) David Porter UNR vs (8) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) WR 801
L32: (4) Marcus Daniell (NZL) WR 569 vs Sam Hutt WR 1238 L32: Myles Orton WR 1048 vs Mick Lescure (FRA) 1062 L32: (WC) Clay Crawford vs (Q) Tom Allen UNR L32: Jathan Malik WR 995 vs (7) Richard Bloomfield WR 752
L32: (6) James Marsalek WR 625 vs Harry Meehan WR 1594 H2H 1-0 in 2011 by 4 & 2 L32: (Q) Bruce Strachan UNR vs Robert Carter WR 888 Non-Brit Match L32: (WC) Julian Cash WR 1658 vs (3) Josh Goodall WR 516
Non-Brit Match L32: (Q) Harry Skinner UNR vs (Q) Samuel Taylor UNR L32: Adam Thornton-Brown WR 1422 vs (WC) Imran Aswat WR 1320 H2H 0-2 in 2012 6-1 6-7 6-1 and in July of this year by 6 & 5 L32: George Coupland WR 922 vs (2) Tom Farquharson WR 482 H2H 0-2 both this year by 3 & 2 and 4 & 2.
-- Edited by Tennisnow on Monday 7th of October 2013 06:10:40 PM
R1 draw with up to date rankings plus CHs (for non-Brits) & H2H info:
L32: (1) Ashley Hewitt WR 373 v (Q) Nick Eeckelaers UNR L32: (WC) Nicholas Jones 1658 v Pirmin Hänle (GER) WR 910 (CH 526 in 2009) L32: (Q) Jack Paterson UNR (Q) Chris Anguelov (BUL) UNR L32: (Q) David Porter UNR v (8) N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) WR 797 (CH 501 in Apr)
L32: Sam Hutt WR 1242 v (4) Marcus Daniell (NZL) WR 585 (CH 569 in Jul) L32: Myles Orton WR 1057 v Mick Lescure (FRA) 1068 (CH 977 last Oct) L32: (Q) Tom Allen UNR v (WC) Clay Crawford UNR L32: (7) Richard Bloomfield WR 748 v Jathan Malik WR 1003
L32: (6) James Marsalek WR 622 v Harry Meehan WR 2053 - H2H 1-0, 4 & 2, Nottm Ch 2011 L32: Robert Carter WR 900 v (Q) Bruce Strachan UNR Non-GB: David Pel (NED) WR 1290 (CH 1285 in Sep) v Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA) WR 1473 (CH 687 in 2012) L32: (3) Josh Goodall WR 519 v (WC) Julian Cash WR 1658
Non-GB: (5) Tucker Vorster (RSA) WR 616 (= CH) v Olaf de Weerdt (BEL) WR 1139 (CH 1095 in Jul) L32: (Q) Harry Skinner UNR v (Q) Samuel Taylor UNR L32: (WC) Imran Aswat WR 1327 v Adam Thornton-Brown WR 1419 - H2H 2-0, both on grass, 2012/13 L32: (2) Tom Farquharson WR 481 v George Coupland WR 922 - H2H 2-0, both in straight sets this year
-- Edited by steven on Monday 7th of October 2013 05:53:57 PM
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I see Tennisnow got in first - that'll teach me not to take a phone call while typing out a draw LOL (not that I expected it would last 40 minutes ...)
I'll leave my post up too because it has the up to date rankings in it, which I need for Twitter and also it'll make it easier to carry forward players with their new rankings to the later rounds.
Tennisnow - if you didn't want gaps between every match but just found Activeboard's "Advanced Editor" was a pain, forcing an extra line on you every time you pressed enter, then for future reference, there is a way around it - just hold the shift key while pressing the enter key. (if you knew that already and the extra line spaces were deliberate, then just ignore me! )
-- Edited by steven on Monday 7th of October 2013 06:03:51 PM
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!