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

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

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

DWH · Club Coach

From Josh's twitter;

Played very well today! I see Carter as the most potential after top Gb5. Massive weapons, but pants shot selection. #VeteranGoodall

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well that's pleasing to hear ! Lots of Rob Carter fans here (me included). And shot selection is mostly about experience and can be learnt. All sounds promising . . . .

steven · Tennis legend

Salmon wrote:
Guys, is the vowel in Alexander Jhun's last name the same as the one in "fun", or the one in "put"? Or maybe the one in "moon"?

And out of interest, what is his ancestry, I wonder? By my fairly limited knowledge, the combination JH is fairly unique and absent from most major European languages*, but is very common in the languages of the Indian subcontinent (where it denotes an aspirated form of J). Jhun doesn't seem to look like a person with subcontinental ancestry, so I'm curious about the source of his fantastic last name.

* I'm fairly sure such cases simply document nonconformist spelling, without a change in pronunciation.

It looks like it's a South Asian / Pacific Islands name (e.g. Philippines / Malaysia / Hawaii) - I've always assumed it is pronounced like the month of June, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's wrong!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Tennisnow wrote:
If we say that 68 points is enough to be in the top 500 at the end of 2013, 14 players (including Josh Goodall) have achieved this so we need 6 more to reach 20.

Within 15 points are:
Neil P
Boggo
Jamie B
Dan S

Jamie Baker has retired so we need 3 other players to get to 20 at the end of 2013. Doesn't seem likely.

-- Edited by Tennisnow on Thursday 10th of October 2013 11:29:00 AM

Trust me. I have been following this situation very closely and have come up with almost the same conclusion.

Except that Josh G still has 3 points to come off this year and so will would currently end at 66 points for the year. However, he obviously has tomorrow's SF and is also playing next week. Maybe you did the same calculation that I originally did and added today's points 6 to the 62 in Steven's YTD column. If so, you need to remember that the 62 already includes the 2 for this weeks QF so today's win only adds another 4 points.

At the moment 66 is (maybe) enough to be in the top 500. I am hoping for a swift recovery from Oli G, a late run from Liam B and a fairwell tribute QF performance from Jamie B (I wish!). Maybe Josh M will win the 15k he is playing in and that would bring his YTD points up to 62 points. But without being disrespectful let's just say that current form is not on his side at the moment.

So it is going to be tough.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Tom F lost the first set TB 7-2

Tom A had a MTO (arm/shoulder), carrying on but 4-0 down

indiana · Tennis legend

There are a number of people / things to blame for the epic but looking ultimately failed attempt to get 20 into the top 500.

Jamie Baker, for being so inconsiderate to retire with just 65 points for the year, Sloane Stephens, Oli's hernias, players losing tennis matches, and potentially Boggo not playing tennis matches.

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
There are a number of people / things to blame for the epic but looking ultimately failed attempt to get 20 into the top 500.

Jamie Baker, for being so inconsiderate to retire with just 65 points for the year, Sloane Stephens, Oli's hernias, players losing tennis matches, and potentially Boggo not playing tennis matches.

Sloane may also be partly responsible for us not having any women in the top 50 at the end of the year as well (thanks to her 2 wins v Laura in Australia at the start of 2013) - she's pure evil (not!) wink

I'm not sure about this "players losing tennis matches" thing though, it sounds far too much like something that might actually be vaguely under their control ... wink

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
There are a number of people / things to blame for the epic but looking ultimately failed attempt to get 20 into the top 500.

Jamie Baker, for being so inconsiderate to retire with just 65 points for the year, Sloane Stephens, Oli's hernias, players losing tennis matches, and potentially Boggo not playing tennis matches.

Boggo, Boggo, where fore art thou Boggo.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (1) Ashley Hewitt WR 373 defeated (8) Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) WR 797 by 4 & 2
QF: (4) Marcus Daniell (NZL) WR 585 defeated (Q) Tom Allen UNR by 2 & 2
QF: (3) Josh Goodall WR 519 defeated Rob Carter WR 900 by 5 & 2
QF: (5) Tucker Vorster (RSA) WR 616 defeated (2) Tom Farquharson WR 481 by 7-6(2) 6-3

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SF: (1) Ashley Hewitt WR 373 vs (4) Marcus Daniell (NZL) WR 585
SF: (3) Josh Goodall WR 519 vs (5) Tucker Vorster (RSA) WR 616

Josh · Challenger level

If only there was a poster on this board who knew Boggo well enough to ask him what's up...

(Calling Count, Calling Count)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
indiana wrote:
There are a number of people / things to blame for the epic but looking ultimately failed attempt to get 20 into the top 500.

Jamie Baker, for being so inconsiderate to retire with just 65 points for the year, Sloane Stephens, Oli's hernias, players losing tennis matches, and potentially Boggo not playing tennis matches.
Sloane may also be partly responsible for us not having any women in the top 50 at the end of the year as well (thanks to her 2 wins v Laura in Australia at the start of 2013) - she's pure evil (not!)
I'm not sure about this "players losing tennis matches" thing though, it sounds far too much like something that might actually be vaguely under their control ...

I blame the balls.

If the balls would just have screeched to a halt and dropped vertically onto the line when the Brits hit them and grown wings and flapped a bit and gone out when the non-Brits hit them, we wouldn't be in this mess !

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bugger!

SF: David Pel & Vijay Sundar Prashanth (NED/IND) CR 2009 defeated (4) Stefan Sterland-Markovic & Darren Walsh CR 1990 by 6-2 1-6 [10-6] cry

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (3) Josh Goodall & Harry Meehan CR 1538 defeated Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA) & Harry Skinner UNR by 4 & 4

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Final: David Pel & Vijay Sundar Prashanth (NED/IND) CR 2009 vs (3) Josh Goodall & Harry Meehan CR 1538

Shhh · Challenger level

Coup Droit wrote:
Looks like Josh G is pretty much favourite to win.

The favourite I'd agree but Ashley Hewitt has made such big strides this year I'm wondering if his game dosen't peak for the final? That said, both semi's look tough so an all Brit final would be a result in itself.

-- Edited by Shhh on Thursday 10th of October 2013 10:09:52 PM