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The Optimist · ATP qualifying

The Aegon National League stage has finished with the top teams in each section going through to the finals in September. This weekend, the second placed teams played off against each other, with the winners also going through to the finals:

Men

Jonny O'Mara (Raynes Park) bt Nicholas Jones (Wrexham) 6-3, 6-1

Simon Morris (Wrexham) bt Lewis Burton (Raynes Park) 7-6, 4-6, 6-2

Mark Whitehouse (Raynes Park) bt Alex Parry (Wrexham) 6-0, 6-0

Ben Draper (Raynes Park) bt Edward Gibbs (Wrexham) 6-7, 6-1, 7-6

Mark W/Ben D won their dubs 6-1, 6-1

Josh Ward-Hibbert (Lady Bay) bt Euan Gibson-Smith (Western) 6-0, 6-4

Jamie Praditngam (Lady Bay) bt Jamie Hunter (Western) 6-1, 6-2

Joe Wolley (Lady Bay) won his match 6-0, 6-3 (opponent's name not logged)

Pierre Luiggi (Lady Bay) bt Samuel Walker (Western) 6-1, 6-1

Hosh W-H/Jamie P won their dubs 6-4, 6-4

Joe W/ Pierre L won their dubs 6-1, 6-1

Marcus Willis (A1) bt Bjorn Thomson (Edgbaston) 6-4, 7-6

Neil Pauffley (A1) bt Nathan Rooney (Edgbaston) 7-5, 6-3

Peter Bothwell (A1) bt Karan Tumber (Edgbaston) 6-1, 6-3

Sam Bothwell (A1) bt James MacKinley 6-2, 5-7, 6-2

Women

Holly Hutchinson (Halton) bt Chloe Hughes (Bridgenorth) 6-1, 6-3

Holly Mowling (Bridgenorth) bt Isabelle Marshall (Halton) 7-5, 6-1

Georgie Sanders (Halton) bt Imogen Cowper (Bridgenorth) 6-2, 6-4

Erika Batista Dodridge (Halton) bt Joanna Fowler (Bridgenorth) 6-1, 6-1

Isabelle M/Georgie S won their dubs 6-0, 6-4

Nicola Mooney/Holly H won their dubs 6-3., 6-1

Mollie Crouch (Gosling) bt Flo Abbott (Bath) 7-5, 6-2

Eden Richardson (Bath) bt Megan Forster (Goslings) 7-5, 5-7, 6-2

Alex Walker (Bath) bt Amelia Campbell (Gosings) 6-2, 6-2

Samantha Williams (Goslings) bt Anna White (Bath) 6-1, 6-1

Flo A/Alex W won their dubs 6-2, 7-5

Eden R/Anna W won their dubs 6-4, 6-1

Jess Zeynel (Cumberland) bt Eilidh Smith (Blackhall) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3

Frances Hendry (Cumberland) bt Katie Miles (Blackhall) 3-6, 6-0, 6-1

Pippa Horn (Cumberland) bt Hannah Sharp (Blackhall) 6-2, 6-0

Sonia Vickers (Blackhall) bt Ivana Petrich (Cumberland) 6-1, 6-2

Sonia V/Eilidh S won their dubs 6-2, 6-1

Frances H/Pippa H won their dubs 6-2, 6-4

Edit: Added A1/Edgbaston results

-- Edited by The Optimist on Wednesday 20th of July 2016 02:40:28 PM

Born2WinTennis · Club Coach

Typical daydreaming from myself, but could a European Champions League work in tennis? For example A1 Pharmaceuticals representing Britain against the champions of France, Germany, Holland etc? Does anyone know if most European countries have a national club championships?

huntley93 · Strong Club Player

Born2WinTennis wrote:
Typical daydreaming from myself, but could a European Champions League work in tennis? For example A1 Pharmaceuticals representing Britain against the champions of France, Germany, Holland etc? Does anyone know if most European countries have a national club championships?

can't see why it wouldnt work. i think there is already a university competition with this idea that is played over 2-3 weeks at the end of the summer which i have seen describred as the "champions league of university tennis". I think it is the winners of the BUCS trophy that represent the UK in this case, which has been Stirling the last few years for the men

Born2WinTennis · Club Coach

Oh yeah here is more info on that http://www.ectatennis.com/ecta.html

It looks like the website has not been updated for 4 years, but Euan McGinn at Stirling Uni seems to organise it and I remember reading about the uni world championships on this forum too. That happens once a year, with team and individual events.

I guess the main barrier would be finding a big enough sponsor, because to tempt the top french and german club players, who are world ranked, the clubs would need to pay them a lot of money and therefore need a lot of prize money to be on offer.

Born2WinTennis · Club Coach

I think this French article is talking about their national finals, if you look at the names, quite a few top 100 players, our British boys, Marcus Willis and Neil Pauffley for our national champs would be struggling:

05/12/15 - 19:23
En simposant 5/1 face au TC Paris sur les courts de l'AAS Sarcelles, la Villa Primrose a validé son billet pour la finale des championnats de France première division.

Déjà titré lan dernier avec Sarcelles, Jérémy Chardy a largement contribué à la qualification du club bordelais en dominant nettement Julien Benneteau (6/3,6/2) avant doffrir le point de la qualification en double avec Sergiy Stakhovsky face à la paire Benneteau-Chiudinelli (7/5, 6/3) qui menait pourtant 5/1 dans le premier set.

En début de journée, alors que les deux équipes étaient à 1/1 après la victoire de Chiudinelli (TCP) face à Romain Jouan (Villa Primrose), puis de Sergiy Stakhovsky (Villa Primrose) contre Mathias Bourgue (TCP), Maxime Teixeira était venu à bout de Tristan Lamasine, 1/6, 6/3, 7/6(4) pour permettre à Bordeaux de mener 3/1 après les simples.

And a team with these players seems to be the top one in Germany!

1 LK1 18304168 Kohlschreiber, Philipp (1983) GER 2:0 2:0 4:0
2 LK1 18850315 Ramos-Vinolas, Albert (1988) ESP 2:0 1:1 3:1
3 LK1 19051883 Berankis, Ricardas (1990) LTU 0:1 1:0 1:1
4 LK1 18703157 Haider-Maurer, Andreas (1987) AUT - - -
5 LK1 19251881 Fucsovics, Marton (1992) HUN - - -
6 LK1 18750881 Nedovyesov, Aleksandr (1987) KAZ 2:1 3:0 5:1
7 LK1 18502010 Gimeno-Traver, Daniel (1985) ESP 1:0 1:0 2:0

paulisi · Tennis legend

Cricket had a similar issue with T20 international club cricket, where you had a scheduling issue as different countries played at different times of the year and also a cross over of players playing for champions in multiple countries i.e an overseas pro could be eligible for 3 or 4 teams.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Born2WinTennis wrote:
I think this French article is talking about their national finals, if you look at the names, quite a few top 100 players, our British boys, Marcus Willis and Neil Pauffley for our national champs would be struggling:

05/12/15 - 19:23
En simposant 5/1 face au TC Paris sur les courts de l'AAS Sarcelles, la Villa Primrose a validé son billet pour la finale des championnats de France première division.

Déjà titré lan dernier avec Sarcelles, Jérémy Chardy a largement contribué à la qualification du club bordelais en dominant nettement Julien Benneteau (6/3,6/2) avant doffrir le point de la qualification en double avec Sergiy Stakhovsky face à la paire Benneteau-Chiudinelli (7/5, 6/3) qui menait pourtant 5/1 dans le premier set.

En début de journée, alors que les deux équipes étaient à 1/1 après la victoire de Chiudinelli (TCP) face à Romain Jouan (Villa Primrose), puis de Sergiy Stakhovsky (Villa Primrose) contre Mathias Bourgue (TCP), Maxime Teixeira était venu à bout de Tristan Lamasine, 1/6, 6/3, 7/6(4) pour permettre à Bordeaux de mener 3/1 après les simples.

And a team with these players seems to be the top one in Germany!

1 LK1 18304168 Kohlschreiber, Philipp (1983) GER 2:0 2:0 4:0
2 LK1 18850315 Ramos-Vinolas, Albert (1988) ESP 2:0 1:1 3:1
3 LK1 19051883 Berankis, Ricardas (1990) LTU 0:1 1:0 1:1
4 LK1 18703157 Haider-Maurer, Andreas (1987) AUT - - -
5 LK1 19251881 Fucsovics, Marton (1992) HUN - - -
6 LK1 18750881 Nedovyesov, Aleksandr (1987) KAZ 2:1 3:0 5:1
7 LK1 18502010 Gimeno-Traver, Daniel (1985) ESP 1:0 1:0 2:0

Oh, I don't know. I think Marcus would rather fancy his chances against Berankis in the German finals. wink

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Not league, but in the money tournaments in France, Emily Appleton has been playing a big Toulon competition in July.

And won the title

with a comfortable 6-4 6-4 win against Margot Sturchler, born 1997

Add: And Stuart Parker (age 18), who is from Jersey and plays in club tennis with Scott Clayton and is now ranked -2/6 (equates to British Tour semis, say, or ITF round one, or some rough thing along those lines) has been going through tournaments like a hot knife through butter). He'll definitely go up to -4/6 at the end of the season. Would be curious to know what his plans are - studies, with serious tennis, I would guess (if the French model is anything to go by). But don't know...

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 27th of July 2016 11:39:48 AM

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

This weekend is the finals of Aegon Team Tennis:

Men's QF

Mackintosh LTC bt Virgin Dorset 4-0

Josh Milton (Mac) bt Millen Hurrien (Dor) 6-1, 6-1

Richard Bloomfield (Mac) bt Jamie Whike (Dor) 6-3, 7-6(4)

Nicholas Brookes (Mac) bt David Hill (Dor) 6-1, 4-6, 6-1

Craig Evans (Mac) bt Freddie Powell (Dor) 6-2, 6-0

A1 bt Lady Bay 4-0

Marcus Willis (A1) bt Josh Ward-Hibbert (LB) 6-1, 6-3

Neil Pauffley (A1) bt Luke Smith (LB) 6-0, 6-1

Toby Martin (A1) bt Dominic West (LB) 6-4, 6-2

Peter Bothwell (A1) bt Ben Mactaggart (LB) 6-0, 6-1

David Lloyd Raynes Park bt Halton 4-1

Johnny O'Mara (RP) bt Alan Bevan (Hal) 6-0, 6-3

Roy Knight (Hal) bt James Marsalek (RP) 7-5, 7-5

Mark Whitehouse (RP) bt Calum McKinlay (Hal) 6-3, 6-0

Josh Goodall (RP) bt Alexander Barnes (Hal) 6-2, 6-1

Josh Goodall / Mark Whitehouse (RP) bt Alexander Barnes / Calum McKinlay (Hal) 6-1, 4-6, (10-1)

Roehampton Club bt Virgin Wearside 4-1

Jonathon Binding (Wear) bt Joe Salisbury (Roe) 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(7)

Jamie Baker (Roe) bt Dominic Beesley (Wear) 6-0, 6-0

Oliver Hudson (Roe) bt Sean Galpin (Wear) 6-4, 6-3

Nikolai Snapes (Roe) bt Callum Todd (Wear) 6-2, 6-3

Chris Archer / Jamie Baker (Roe) bt Samuel Archer / Sean Gilpin (Wear) 6-2, 6-1

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Women's QF

Wilton bt Thongsbridge 4-0

Beth Grey (Wil) bt Nicole Peterson (Thong) 6-1, 6-0

Laura Diegman (Wil) bt Bronte Murgett (Thong) 6-4, 2-6, 6-3

Aimee Gibson (Wil) bt Kim Atkinson (Thong) 6-2, 6-0

Louise Holtum (Wil) bt Chloe Chawner (Thong) 6-3, 6-0

Bath Uni bt Edgbaston 4-2

Alexandra Walker (Bath) bt Natasha Hillyer (Edg) 6-4, 6-4

Anna White (Bath) bt Kate Malazonia (Edg) 6-4, 6-4

Maria Budin (Bath) bt Celia Fraser (Edg) 6-1, 6-0

Summer Yardley (Edg) bt Annabelle Lammas (Bath) 6-2, 6-0

Maria Budin / Alexandra Walker (Bath) bt Natasha Hillyer / Leyla Ogan (Edg) 7-6(6), 4-6, (10-2)

Celia Fraser / Summer Yardley (Edg) bt Annabelle Lammas / Anna White (Bath) 6-2, 6-2

David Lloyd Raynes Park bt Halton 4-1

Katie O'Brien (RP) bt Lauren Armstrong (Hal) 6-2, 6-4

Mel South (RP) bt Nicola Mooney (Hal) 6-0, 6-4

Steph Cornish (RP) bt Isabelle Marshall (Hal) 6-3, 6-4

Erika Dodridge (Hal) bt Laura Peterzan (RP) 6-2, 7-5

Steph Cornish / Mel South (RP) bt Erika Dodridge / Nicola Mooney (Hal) 6-3, 6-0

West Hants bt Cumberland 4-0

Lauryn John-Baptiste (WH) bt Naomi Cavaday (Cum) 4-6, 6-2, 6-1

Esther Adeshina (WH) bt Frances Hendry (Cum) 6-3, 6-1

Lisa Hanley (WH) bt Lena Keothavong (Cum) 6-1, 6-0

Erin Richardson (WH) bt Ivana Petrich (Cum) 6-1, 6-0

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Mens SF

A1 bt Mackintosh 4-1

Josh Milton (Mac) bt Marcus Willis (A1) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4

Neil Pauffley (A1) bt Richard Bloomfield (Mac) 6-1, 6-1

Toby Martin (A1) bt Nicholas Brookes (Mac) 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-4

Peter Bothwell (A1) bt Craig Evans (Mac) 6-3, 6-3

Peter Bothwell / Matt Short (a1) bt Richard Bloomfield / Matthew James (Mac) 7-5, 7-5

David Lloyd Raynes Park bt Roehampton 4-3 (3 rubbers each but Raynes Park won on a 'tie-break shoot-out'

Jonny O'Mara (RP) bt Joe Salisbury (Roe) 6-1, 7-6(3)

James Marsalek (RP) bt Nikolai Snapes (Roe) 6-2, 4-6, 6-0

Jamie Baker (Roe) bt Mark Whitehouse (RP) 6-2, 6-4

Jonny O'Mara / Mark Whitehouse (RP) bt Oliver Hudson / Joe Salisbury (Roe) 6-2, 6-4

Chris Archer / Jamie Baker (Roe) bt Josh Goodall / James Marsalek (RP 7-6(3), 2-6, (10-1)

-- Edited by The Optimist on Monday 5th of September 2016 08:26:24 AM

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Women's SF

Wilton bt Bath 4-2

Alexandra Walker (Bath) bt Beth Grey (Will) 6-3, 4-6, 7-5

Laura Deigman (Wil) bt Anna White (Bath) 6-2, 6-3

Maria Budin (Bath) bt Louise Holtum (Wil) 6-1, 6-3

Charlotte Pearce (Wil) bt Annabelle Lammas (Bath) 6-4, 6-4

Aimee Gibson / Beth Grey (Wil) bt Annabelle Lammas / Alexandra Walker (Bath) 6-4, 6-1

Laura Deigman / Charlotte Pearce (Wil) bt Maria Budin / Anna White (Bath) 1-6, 6-3, (10-8)

West Hants bt David Lloyd Raynes Park 4-3 (each won 3 rubbers but West Hants won on a 'tie-break shoot-out'

Lauryn John-Baptiste (WH) bt Katie O'Brien (RP) 6-4, 6-1

Esther Adeshina (WH) bt Mel South (RP) 6-3, 6-1

Lisa Hanley (WH) bt Steph Cornish (RP) 6-1, 6-2

Amanda Elliott (RP) bt Erin Richardson (WH) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3

Amanda Elliott / Katie O'Brien (RP) bt Esther Adeshina /Lisa Hanley (WH) 6-4, 7-5

Steph Cornish / Mel South (RP) bt Jane Bingham / Lauryn John-Baptiste (WH) 7-5, 6-1

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Well done Wilton and A1Pharmaceuticals (and Gary if you still look at the board!!) And particularly well done to all the younger players who represented their clubs during the competition.

Women's Final

Wilton bt West Hants 4-2

Beth Grey (Wil) bt Lauryn John-Baptsiste (WH) 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(5)

Esther Adeshina (WH) bt Laura Deigman (Wil) 7-6(9), 7-5

Aimee Gibson (Wil) bt Lisa Hanley (WH) 3-6, 6-3, 6-0

Erin Richardson (WH) bt Charlotte Pearce (Wil) 6-2, 6-2

Aimee Gibson / Beth Grey (Wil) bt Lisa Hanley / Lauryn John-Baptiste (WH) 7-5, 6-7(4), (12-10)

Laura Deigman / Louise Holtum (Wil) bt Esther Adeshina / Erin Richardson (WH) 7-5, 6-3

Men's Final

A1 Pharmaceuticals bt David Lloyd Raynes Park 4-2

Marcus Willis (A1) bt Jonny O'Mara (RP) 6-4, 6-2

Neil Pauffley (A1) bt James Marsalek (RP) 3-6, 6-1, 6-4

Mark Whitehouse (RP) bt Matthew Short (A1) 1-6, 6-0, 6-1

Peter Bothwell (A1) bt Josh Goodall (RP) 6-2, 6-2

Neil Pauffley / Marcus Willis (A1) bt Josh Goodall / Jonny O'Mara 6-2, 6-7(4), (10-5)

James Marsalek / Mark Whitehouse (RP) bt Peter Bothwell / Matthew Short (A1) 2-6, 6-3, (10-6)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Congrats to A1 and so pleased to see that Jonny is playing which hopefully means his recent injury setback is not too serious.