Week 44 - Great Britain F23 ($10,000) - Edgbaston (hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 44 - Great Britain F23 ($10,000) - Edgbaston (hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

Is it really that strong ?? Evan v Harry Meehan, wow...?

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Wins so far for Tom F by 0&3, for Clay Crawford by 4&2, by Simon Dickson by 2-6 6-1 6-2 but not so good for Peter Ashley who went out to Rosenzweig by 1&1

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Wins too for Adam TB, Harry Skinner and Tom Allen.

Just the Evan Hoyt v Harry Meehan result not in so far.

scottie1 · Futures level

indiana wrote:
As for Marcus, the fact that 7 of these 10 pro titles this year are 10K futures doubles titles, puts much more context on their relevance to his future singles career.

These titles are certainly still worthy of note in their context, and Marcus has had a great year.

He has risen so much in a relatively short time with the great support that he has had, that especially with that support ongoing, it is reasonable to expect much more to come.

We will begin to learn much more when he steps up to challenger level.

Yes I agree Indy. I have seen Marcus play and he has the weapons to get much higher in the rankings.

I worry about players picking up loads of British Futures points. Reason being most of the players know one another and their games.

Ed corrie was King of Futures earlier this year and he has not progressed to Challenger level.

Farquharson and Hewitt both did really well early in year and have stalled some what lately.

I think If Marcus is serious and wants it he could do a Dan Evans and progress but only if he wants it!

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Stircrazy wrote:
Full doubles draw:
R1: (1) Lewis Burton & Marcus Willis CR 829 (406+423) vs BYE
R1: Peter Bothwell (IRL) & Isaac Stoute UNR vs Aaron Banasik & Sam Hutt UNR
R1: (3) Erik Crepaldi (ITA) & James Marsalek CR 1332 (569+763) vs Adam Chadej & Vijay Sundar Prashanth (POL/IND) CR 1406 (657+749)
R1: Scott Clayton & Jonny O'Mara CR 1958 (756+1202) vs Marcus Gan & Oliver Gan UNR
R1: Luke Bambridge & George Morgan CR 1631 (736+895) vs Sizya Ernest Kivanda & Kenichiro Oishi UNR
R1: Evan Hoyt & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 1251 (939+312) vs (4) Josh Goodall & Harry Meehan CR 1368 (645+723)
R1: Rob Carter & Adam Thornton-Brown CR 3223 (1725+1498) vs Graeme Dyce & Bruce Strachan UNR
R1: BYE vs (2) Jesper Brunström & Patrik Rosenholm (SWE/SWE) CR 1085 (530+555)

Surprised Liam Broady did not pair with J ward-Hibbert they would have been no1 seeds ? Maybe LB wants to conserve all his energy & focus for a strong attempt at reaching the final in last GB of the year

-- Edited by A1 tennis academy on Monday 28th of October 2013 10:55:13 PM

RJA · Hall of fame

Evan beat Harry 6-7(2), 7-6(2), 6-4

BTtennisfan · Improver

Unless players perform well in challengers, there is no reason to be excited. In fact I would be much more surprised or pleased if a GB player won one or two challengers without winning numerous futures titles.

RJA · Hall of fame

Wild cards for Golding, Orton, Hutt and Claton. Morgan and O'Mara got in direct.

And how about this. Fitzy plays Burton in R1 with the winner possibly playing Willis in R2.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Revenge is a dish best served cold. Especially with Gary at courtside. That could be interesting.

I'm sure Fitzy may have a point to prove.

paulisi · Tennis legend

There are a few tasty first round matches:

Willis v Carter
Golding v JWH
Tom F v Broady
Burton v Fitzy

i wouldn't be suprised if Evan turned over Marzi

steven · Tennis legend

I'll type up the whole draw (with the extra CH & H2H info I may need for Twitter) between 6 and 7 unless someone else has done it by then (a bit too busy with work right now!)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

I have nothing against Gary or any of his players and I will always support them and celebrate their successes.

But this just has to be said.

GO FITZY

indiana · Tennis legend

Ha, Ha, the Draw Gods sometimes display a wicked sense of humour.

Going to be interesting....

paulisi · Tennis legend

Predict a Goodall v Grigelius semi final in the bottom half and Carter v De Loore in the top half on the basis that Marcus wasn't well last week and ran out of gas and may still be struggling.