Week 43 - Great Britain F22 ($10,000) - Tipton (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 43 - Great Britain F22 ($10,000) - Tipton (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Marcus and Lewis take the TB 7-0

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Lewis & Marcus run out the s

Final: (1) Lewis Burton & Marcus Willis CR 834 (408+426) defeated Graeme Dyce & Calum Gee UNR by 7-6(0) 6-2

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Stircrazy wrote:
Lewis & Marcus run out the s
Final: (1) Lewis Burton & Marcus Willis CR 834 (408+426) defeated Graeme Dyce & Calum Gee UNR by 7-6(0) 6-2

Marcus Willis 10 futures titles in 2013

Lets hope the Lta are watching & learning

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done to all in the final.

Re Marcus, I very much suspect ( and rightly in my opinion ) that it will be Marcus's singles progress that will be by far the most relevant to the LTA.

I forget the details, but on previous matrices I can imagine that he still falls a way short of full AEGON support, with some of us thinking the matrices streched too far for players around Marcus's age, and maybe not enough account taken of rises and momentum. Be interesting to see what transpires re support.

Re Marcus and Lewis's doubles, very good consistency and they have established a really consistent record as Dave and Sean before them. But in doubles, even moreso than singles, futures is just a building block to the much more relevant proving ground of challengers. In many ways the big number of doubles futures titles Dave and Sean have won tells two sides to a story.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Congratulations to the boys, but I am genuinely puzzled by A1TA's attitude towards the LTA. Earlier he had made some posts where he praised Draper and the work that he had done, but now it doesn't look like he thinks too highly of them. What exactly is his stance??

Anyway, I've just discovered that the internet has a pic of someone making a Chewbacca out of soba, so I'll stop worrying about A1TA's mood swings.

-- Edited by Salmon on Friday 25th of October 2013 11:04:50 PM

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

In south London it's the dogs bollacks ! But I wasn't born in Lower middle class England so I guess you are going to educate the working class intellectual

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

indiana wrote:
Well done to all in the final.

Re Marcus, I very much suspect ( and rightly in my opinion ) that it will be Marcus's singles progress that will be by far the most relevant to the LTA.

I forget the details, but on previous matrices I can imagine that he still falls a way short of full AEGON support, with some of us thinking the matrices streched too far for players around Marcus's age, and maybe not enough account taken of rises and momentum. Be interesting to see what transpires re support.

Re Marcus and Lewis's doubles, very good consistency and they have established a really consistent record as Dave and Sean before them. But in doubles, even moreso than singles, futures is just a building block to the much more relevant proving ground of challengers. In many ways the big number of doubles futures titles Dave and Sean have won tells two sides to a story.

The Lta could not organise a Pi.. Up in a brewery otherwise I would not be able to have such a huge impact ! Give those muppets the stick not me . They should be ringing me up and saying gary let's do a deal you got a winning formula .Its just like the first world world at the Lta lions ( my players ) led like donkeys

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Hope Lewis is enjoying his night out with Nicole Kidman wink

indiana · Tennis legend

Gary, you talk so well of the LTA and are so accomodating in all things, it does just defeat me why the LTA are not falling over themselves to get in touch with you.

Ratty · County player

Bob in Spain wrote:
Hope Lewis is enjoying his night out with Nicole Kidman

You're betraying your age there dude, us lads call him "Burts".

And I'm really looking forward to getting the, er, blow-by-blow account of his big date. I expect that Marzi and Bomb played some like totally wkd pranks on the loving couple, too!

Grossly & inappropriately prurient, me? Nah, I'm just getting it on with the cool crowd ...

smile

-- Edited by Ratty on Saturday 26th of October 2013 05:01:46 AM

Salmon · Tennis legend

I can totally understand why Aurelius wants to push his ranking up and get a Wimbledon wild card - that money can change your life. Even if a player loses in the first round of Wimbly, it nets him £23500, whilst winning the biggest Challengers is worth 'only' $18000 (around £11.1K).

£23500 is the equivalent of 29 titles at 10K Futures level. And that's without factoring in the airfare, accommodation costs etc. that you'd have to pay if you play Futures for so many weeks.

BUT. Purely on tennis terms, I think he immediately needs to concentrate on trying to beat top 200 players, instead of bullying people in Futures.

Edit: Here's what the other Slams pay-

First round exit at the USO - $32000 (£19.8K)
First round exit at the AO - A$27,600 (£16.4K)
First round exit at the FO - 21,000 (£18K)

-- Edited by Salmon on Saturday 26th of October 2013 08:06:43 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Interesting to hear your strategy, A1. And, of course, your plans are inherently different to an Aegon funded LTA player (immediate ranking and money is more important to Marcus, and understandably so).

However, re Challengers, I think it's perfectly good strategy to 'try' a run of Challengers - you don;t need to be winning each and every Futures first.

There is a validity in just being part of a higher level of tennis - it raises the bar and shows the player a different approach (you tend to see a way more serious, professional approach to the game and that, in itself, is a good learning experience). You can always dip back to Futures, or just 15k futures, as many of the players on the cusp do.

And I think Marcus would be justified in trying it out and that would give their doubles partnership a chance as well to try bigger things.

However, if your main aim is to be within the top 250 by Wimbly time (as opposed to be top 200 by end of the year, say, or any other 'big picture' goal) then maybe a Futures points-collection strategy is appropriate.

Edit: a potentially embarrassing typo corrected! wink

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Saturday 26th of October 2013 11:17:33 AM

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

confuse

Totally agree - we need to make you an official part of our team

-- Edited by A1 tennis academy on Saturday 26th of October 2013 11:19:04 AM

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Salmon wrote:
Congratulations to the boys, but I am genuinely puzzled by A1TA's attitude towards the LTA. Earlier he had made some posts where he praised Draper and the work that he had done, but now it doesn't look like he thinks too highly of them. What exactly is his stance??

Anyway, I've just discovered that the internet has a pic of someone making a Chewbacca out of soba, so I'll stop worrying about A1TA's mood swings.
Consistently asked the LTA for help with coaching - no
Roger was happy to give us a coach bit it was blocked by head of coaching . So we have to do all on our own I feel sorry for other players , but I guess it's spurred us on to prove a point .
The worlds best doubles coach is on the Lta payroll it would cost them nothing to say here's 2 sessions a month with LC or someone under his supervision
-- Edited by Salmon on Friday 25th of October 2013 11:04:50 PM