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Coup Droit · Tennis legend

European League Club Tennis

JonH · All-time great

Found this which summarises where the French event is at

www.tennisactu.net/news-interclubs-colomiers-blagnac-en-finale-a-talence-78673.html

Seems to translate automatically from French to English on Chrome if you use that as your browser

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Talence is a suburb of Bordeaux.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Dan confirmed as playing in the finals this saturday.

There's also a cute friendly p**s-take of Dan, and the others, as part of the celebrations after their SF win.

www.tennisactu.net/news-interclubs-h-la-chanson-du-bonheur-pour-l-us-colomiers-interten-blagnac-colomiers-talence-tennis-78730.html

Click on the Colomiers video (where you see Dan) - it's all in English (or French pidgin English ) - with Dan being called a 'bad boy' (much laughter) and then a 'good boy' (because he won - always pragmatic, the French). Although the 'penguin' thing is lost on me - anyone the wiser???

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 28th of November 2018 10:04:20 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Dan's team did it - winning 4-2 - with Dan waiting till now to really step up to the plate which was needed as Benoit Paire came up short.

Dan def. Hugo Nys 4-6 6-4 6-2 and won his doubles in a MTB

FUll result:

RAMOS Albert N7 H 6 2 6
PAIRE Benoit N1 H 1 6 1

ANDUJAR Pablo N13 H 3 2 0
DE SCHEPPER KENNY N19 H 6 6 0

GASTON Hugo N75 H 6 3 0
KRSTIN PEDJA N20 H 7 6 0

NYS Hugo N90 H 6 4 2
EVANS daniel N20 H 4 6 6

RAMOS Albert -9 H MIDDELKOOP Matwe -9 H 7 0 0
PAIRE Benoit -9 H EVANS daniel -7 H 6 6 1

GASTON Hugo -4 H NYS Hugo -9 H 6 2 0
DE SCHEPPER KENNY -7 H KOOLHOF wesley -9 H 7 4 0

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Sunday 2nd of December 2018 08:45:44 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

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I think the poor court suffered a bit of a bath.....

It was the first time Colomiers have ever won

Seemingly it all get very close and very stressy at the end.....it was Dan and Benoit who won the decisive point - the key moment when the crowd goes absolutely wild and all hell breaks out

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Coup Droit · Tennis legend

It all kicks off in France tomorrow for National League (pre-nats have already started, I think)

Am going through the teams, Brit-spotting....

The Premier league and DN1A played in November/December.

So we now have all the rest.

There's not much of great interest in terms of current UK players.

DN1B, (still elite), has four pools of 6 teams (generally 10 players listed). Billy Harris is down for Annecy

DN2 - eight pools of 6 teams. James Allemby is on the list for Rognac; Richard Gabb is listed as top player for Clamart; Dan Cox for Ardres;

DN3 - 12 pools of 6 teams. Tom Farqharson is listed for Niort. Marcus Willis and Jack Carpenter are down for Capdenac.

DN4 - 21 pools of 6 teams. Neil Pauffley and Giles Hussey are listed for Dracenois (Gilles is down as a new arrival). Damon Roberts is there for Vignal. Josh Goodall for Beauchamp.

the addict · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
French tennis rankings

Hi, the addict.

I'll put a more detailed explanation in a post below. But for those who want to cut to the chase, and for those who know the LTA domestic ones, look at these chart (they're practically the same, one is the 2009 one and one the 2005 one). They give a rough equivalency between UK and France (and others)

www.swisstennis.ch/sites/default/files/itn_conversion_chart_09.pdf

www.tennisplayandstay.com/itn/itn-conversion-chart.aspx

Just to say, and from direct experience of tournament draw organisation, the equivalencies are generous to the British ranking and mean to the French one.

Bumping this to the end for easy reference, as it was a long time ago !

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

For the women,

DN1B has four pools of 6 teams: At Saint Gaudens, there's Eden and - new this year - Beth Grey.

DN2 has 8 pools of 6 teams: Ella Taylor is a new player for St Malo. Shelly Gerber (?) is listed for Cattenom

DN3 - 16 pools of 6 teams. Emily Appleton is on the team list for Aix. Iman Garshong is listed as a new player for Rillieuxla

It'll be interesting to see how the administrative domestic rankings pan out for the newbies ....

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Was just about to send Marcus a good luck message for Capdenac on Twitter, but it looks like his account no longer exists. Interesting to see him team up with Jack who was the first GB pro I ever saw play. He was playing futures in Elche in 2010. Was that really almost 10 years ago. Wondering if Jack still wears his cap on backwards when he plays.

the addict · Tennis legend

Thanks CD - some more names to look out for.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Great to see our Billy out there again

Men

DN1B

Billy played at number one and ended up losing in a third-set tie-break to Gianni Mina, who's a good player. Which is a bit of a heart-breaker.
But Billy+ won their dubs, and the team won 4-2.

Div 2

Dan Cox, playing number two, won in three sets against Jules Vauthier. And his dubs. and team won 5-1

Div 3

Tom Farq, playing one, thrashed Thomas Setodji, but lost dubs in a MTB. Score 3-3

At Capdenac, Marcus Willis (playing no.1) lost, Jack Carpenter (playing no.2) won but both lost their respective dubs so the team lost 2-4

Div 4

Neil P won, singles and dubs. Team won 6-0

Josh Goodall won singles and dubs. Team won 4-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Beth had a nice start in French league. As did Iman

Women

DN1B

Beth won her singles, and dubs, and team won 6-0

DN2

Shelley Gerber beat a higher ranked player, very easily, lost her dubs, but team won 5-1

DN3

Iman Garshong won her singles in a third set TB, got the win in the dubs in a MTB, but it was the only two wins the team got as they lost 4-2

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Men

DN1B

Billy lost to Matthieu Roy in two sets, and lost his dubs, and the team drew 3-3

Div 2

Dan Cox, playing two, defeated Niels Lootsma who is higher ranked. Dan also won his dubs. But the team lost 2-4.

Div 3

Tom Farq lost easily to Hugo Schott and lost dubs, and team lost 2-4

Capdenac result still to come in

Div 4

Neil P won singles and dubs, but team drew 3-3

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Women

DN 1B

Beth played number one and won her match in two sets, against Mia Eklund, which is a decent result.

Eden played number two but lost against in two against Alumdena Sanz Fernandez (?)

But they played together in the dubs and won. And the team won 5-1

DN 2

Ella, playing one, lost 2 & 1 against Luna Dormet (as above, Ella is well over-ranked in her domestic ranking, in my view)
But she won her dubs. The team lost 2-4 though.

Div 3

Iman got an easy win, playing two. But lost her dubs. The team drew 3-3