Week 41 - Great Britain F20 ($10,000) - Sunderland (Hard)

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 41 - Great Britain F20 ($10,000) - Sunderland (Hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done to Josh. Don't know whether it's worth him consdering this tennis lark for a living !

philwrig · Hall of fame

Josh was the form man really, Ash still though a good week.
I really believe young Cash played Josh into a high level in the 1st round and he remained at that level all week.

p.s Josh also gave his general thumbs up for the forum as well during chats with him this week :)

indiana · Tennis legend

I seem to recall Josh particularly liking some Vandenburg "contributions" in the past LOL

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Josh Jake Goodall well done & keep going - did say its too early to hang gloves up just yet and great work with H.

indiana · Tennis legend

Those gloves again ?? Maybe racquet..

Salmon · Tennis legend

Congratulations to Yoshi and I hope that he comes back, but I'm sure that he is in the best position to judge the situation.

I'm looking ahead by nearly 20 months, but if Bloomers, Boggo and Goodall are still around in 2015, it will be interesting to see the effect of a longer grass season. One extra week may not be a lot, but $5K can keep the wolf (no, not the poster here) from the door for quite a few weeks, and all of them have shown the ability to qualify in grass events on more than one occasion.

Salmon · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
That's Josh's 20th Futures singles title ...

Considering the fact that there were far fewer Futures tournaments before 2007 (thanks to Satellite tournaments), is it safe to assume that this is the all time British record?

Hauls of currently ranked players:

Baker and Klein - 12 titles each
Bloomers and Cox - 11 each
Evans - 9 each

Cox, Klein or Evo may catch up if they keep yo-yoing between Challengers and Futures, but of course, we would rather have them move into the top 100!

steven · Tennis legend

Salmon wrote:
steven wrote:
That's Josh's 20th Futures singles title ...

Considering the fact that there were far fewer Futures tournaments before 2007 (thanks to Satellite tournaments), is it safe to assume that this is the all time British record?

Hauls of currently ranked players:

Baker and Klein - 12 titles each
Bloomers and Cox - 11 each
Evans - 9 each

Cox, Klein or Evo may catch up if they keep yo-yoing between Challengers and Futures, but of course, we would rather have them move into the top 100!

I think he mus have the all-time GB record for Futures singles titles because I can't think of anyone else who gets close - those who could have tended to move up to playing almost exclusively Challengers.

Globally, a few players have won more than 20 Futures singles titles (e.g. de Armas 22, Estrella 21) - there are almost certainly more but those are all I could find with a quick check of the most obvious suspects.

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 13th of October 2013 12:55:43 PM

steven · Tennis legend

I got asked about this in a DM last night so I'm in the middle of checking players from the ITF's won 5 or more in a year list for players with more than 20 wins overall (my search didn't unearth the MTF list) - hopefully we'll come up with the same answers! I'm now up to 6 players with 20 or more Futures singles titles:

24 Victor Ionita ROU
22 José de Armas VEN
21 Victor Estrella DOM
20 Josh Goodall GBR, Satoshi Iwabuchi JPN, Marko Tkalec SLO

Btw Gabriel Trujillo-Soler has an astonishing 63 Futures titles if you combine singles (14) and doubles (49)

Edit: just realised, the 'Victors' very much living up to their name here! wink

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 13th of October 2013 01:40:55 PM

wolf · Tennis legend

There's an excellent thread on MTF which includes a list of most futures titles won, but it hasn't been updated for 3 years - http://www.menstennisforums.com/showthread.php?t=174026

Salmon · Tennis legend

I could think of Estrella, but thanks for de Armas. I think Vejmelka has "only" 15 titles, though (not from memory, obviously, that's what the ITF site says)?

I know who will hold the record after a few years, though. Marsel Ilhan.

Salmon · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
There's an excellent thread on MTF which includes a list of most futures titles won, but it hasn't been updated for 3 years - http://www.menstennisforums.com/showthread.php?t=174026

THANK YOU.

It doesn't matter that it's a bit outdated, I'll check on the top names in that list and update it.

wolf · Tennis legend

I think it's because the system doesn't know Josh Goodall and Joshua Goodall are the same person, ATP must have shortened his name at some point.

In the list of tournaments section Joshua Goodall has 11 titles, Josh Goodall just 8. Although oddly Josh is not picked up in the list of titles page, just Joshua.

-- Edited by wolf on Monday 14th of October 2013 12:00:26 AM

-- Edited by wolf on Monday 14th of October 2013 12:03:13 AM

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Sad that none of them went on to make it at the top level