Week 5 - Great Britain F3 ($10,000) - Sheffield (Hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 5 - Great Britain F3 ($10,000) - Sheffield (Hard)

Tennis Nut · Social player

Yes graves have a viewing area centrally between and above the courts

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Myles Orton beat Adam TB 4-6 6-2 6-4 and goes through to the MD, with Bloomers and Sam, but Bruce lost out to Maiga (13).

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (1) David Rice & Sean Thornley CR 412 (207+205) vs BYE
[non-Brit R1: Riccardo Bonadio & Antonio Mastrelia (ITA/ITA) CR 1836 (881+955) vs BYE]
[non-Brit R1: (4) Yannick Mertens (BEL) & Antal van der Duim (BEL/NED) CR 828 (637+191) vs BYE]
[non-Brit R1: Karol Drzewiecki & Robert Godlewski (POL/POL) UNR vs Riccardo Maiga & Giorgio Portaluri (ITA/ITA) CR 1480 (739+741)]
R1: Joe Gill & Bruce Strachan CR 2864 (1437+1437) vs James Marsalek & Myles Orton CR 1688 (736+952)
R1: BYE vs (3) Ed Corrie & Dan Smethurst CR 660 (373+287)
R1: Rémi Boutillier & Enzo Couacaud (FRA/FRA) UNR vs Jacob Adaktusson (SWE) & Richard Bloomfield CR 2618 (1167+1451)
R1: BYE vs (2) Richard Gabb & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 667 (352+315)

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QF: (1) David Rice & Sean Thornley CR 412 (207+205) vs Riccardo Bonadio & Antonio Mastrelia (ITA/ITA) CR 1836 (881+955)

steven · Tennis legend

FQR: (q2) Richard Bloomfield WR 879 beat (q9) Riccardo Bonadio (ITA) WR 1152 by 4 & 3
FQR: (q10) Sam Hutt WR 1206 beat (wc) Joshua Paris WR 1513 by 4 & 4
FQR: (q4) George Morgan WR 946 lost to (q11) Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA) WR 1214 by 3-0 ret.
FQR: Marshall Tutu UNR beat (q14) Imran Aswat WR 1261 by 5-7 7-6(3) 6-3
FQR: Ryan Peniston WR 1979 lost to (q6) Romain Bauvy (FRA) WR 1060 by 3-6 6-2 6-2
FQR: Bruce Strachan WR 2041 lost to (q13) Riccardo Maiga (ITA) WR 1257 by 3 & 2
FQR: (q8) Myles Orton WR 1148 beat (q16) Adam Thornton-Brown WR 1322 by 4-6 6-2 6-4

Dave Rice v JWH is probably the pick of the R1 matches (i.e. one we'd probably have preferred to be in a much later round!):

L32: (1) Dan Cox WR 249 v James Marsalek WR 613 - H2H 3-0, 2009/10/13, the last 2 in s/sets
L32: (WC) Peter Ashley UNR v (Q) Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA) WR 1212 (CH 687 in 2012) - H2H 0-1, 1 & 1, Edgbaston 2013
L32: (Q) Myles Orton WR 1147 v (Q) Marshall Tutu WR UNR
L32: (5) Dan Smethurst WR 377 v (PR) Robin Olin (SWE) WR 1095 (CH 590 in Apr) - H2H 2-0, 3 sets in 2011, 2 in 2013

L32: (3) Ed Corrie WR 296 v (Q) Sam Hutt WR 1206
L32: Tom Farquharson WR 486 v Enzo Couacaud (FRA) WR 456 (CH 459 in Sep)
Non-GB: (Q) Romain Bauvy (FRA) WR 1059 (CH 1048 in Sep) v (Q) Robert Godlewski (POL) UNR (CH 507 in 2006)
L32: (6) Ashley Hewitt WR 408 v Rémi Boutillier (FRA) WR 638 (CH 623 in Oct)

L32: (8) Josh Goodall WR 459 v Constant Lestienne (FRA) WR 453 (CH 450 in Nov)
L32: (WC) George Coupland WR 798 v (WC) Clay Crawford WR 2092
L32: Richard Gabb WR 437 v (Q) Richard Bloomfield WR 922
L32: (4) Dave Rice WR 317 v Josh Ward-Hibbert WR 693

Non-GB: (7) Antal Van Der Duim (NED) WR 426 (CH 290 in 2012) v Jacob Adaktusson (SWE) WR 682 (CH 214 in 2006)
L32: Neil Pauffley WR 553 v Julien Cagnina (BEL) WR 520 (CH 472 in Oct)
L32: (WC) Harry Meehan WR 1242 v (Q) Riccardo Maiga (SUI) WR 1257 (CH 780 in Mar)
Non-GB: (2) Yannick Mertens (BEL) WR 283 (CH 195 in 2012) v Kevin Griekspoor (NED) WR 692 (CH 663 in Oct)

-- Edited by steven on Monday 27th of January 2014 04:24:15 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

JWH is getting some rough draws....

Rob Carter was on the acceptance list, but didn't make any of the draws. Injured? It would explain the poor start to the year if he was injured.

-- Edited by paulisi on Monday 27th of January 2014 04:31:51 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Tom Farquharson is the 8th highest-ranked player who has not yet played a Challenger (main draw, presumably) match - I found that and other useless trivia at http://tennisabstract.com/reports/ATP_BestWhoHavent.html

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
JWH is getting some rough draws....
Rob Carter was on the acceptance list, but didn't make any of the draws. Injured? It would explain the poor start to the year if he was injured.

-- Edited by paulisi on Monday 27th of January 2014 04:31:51 PM

Agreed. That's 3 seeded players in a row for JWH in R1. But you have to beat them sometime, so why not in R1. Would love to see him have a good run.

Toby M was also on the list and isn't playing, so unfortunately his injury that he spoke to me about obviously hasn't cleared up. Hope he and Rob C are both OK for the Wirral next week.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Re all the french guys playing today:

Josh gets Constant Lestienne - solid, beat Vincent Millot a couple of weeks back (Vincent had the great run at the Aussie Open, before Andy took care of him), but nothing too scary. Josh should win (unless he's a bit rusty).

Ashley gets Remi Boutillier - technically ranked lower than Constant (both domestically and ATP) but beat him in January and far more victories this sporting year (although admittedly most to lower ranked players), but including Gicquel and in-form Vaisse.

Tom F had Enzo Couacaud, the 18 year-old who got the WC into the Aussie Qs and won a round - improving fast but still young. Dan Cox beat him last week but score was quite tight.

RJA · Hall of fame

JWH has been replaced by Bruce Strachan (LL)

RJA · Hall of fame

Rice, Bloomers and Crawford are all a set up. Goodall is a set and a break down.

RJA · Hall of fame

Goodall lost 3 and 2

RJA · Hall of fame

Bloomers won 3 and 6

Strachan took the second set against Rice. He led 5-0*, got pegged back to 5-4* but broke to take the set.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
JWH has been replaced by Bruce Strachan (LL)

And Bruce is holding his own against Dave Rice, but an early break down in the decider: 4-6 6-4 0-1*.

Bloomers beats Gabb by 6-3 7-6(0). biggrin bleh

RJA · Hall of fame

Rice took the decider 6-0

Crawford v Coupland has gone to a third. Crawford twice served for the match in the second set but couldn't get it done.