SF: Tom Farquharson WR 493 beat Luke Bambridge WR 707 by 4 & 2
SF: (3) Dan Smethurst WR 341 beat George Coupland WR 798 by 1 & 3

FINAL: (3) Dan Smethurst WR 341 v Tom Farquharson WR 493

H2H 2-0 - Dan won 0 & 2 in 2009 then 3 & 3 in Glasgow this year

Yes (I tweeted around 460 to provide a little bit of leeway but agree with your best estimate) - it's his first final since he made consecutive finals in Manchester and Ilkley on grass last year. He certainly seems to have re-found top form this week.

Dan, meanwhile, has now reached all the singles finals at all 4 GB Futures so far this year and 3 doubles finals as well.

Since the start of Champaign, Dan 21-3 in singles (25-3 including British Tour), 13-2 in doubles and 34-5 (38-5 including BT) overall!

Dan must be playing at a very high standard at the moment, fantastic to see.

It looks as though he's down for playing GB F5-8 which is a shame whilst he is in such form! Although I guess if he were to make another 35+ points from them he sets a fantastic building block for the year.

Looking after that it would depend on whether or not he wanted to stick with the hard courts or not...

Mexico/US is the place to be it seems from late March to late April, which goes for all our players ranked 350+

Coup Droit wrote:

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It's quite mind-blowing, Dan the Man's run since Chapmaign - when we talk about a light-bulb moment, that really is one.

And, without checking, didn't he barely scrape a win in his FQR match? 7-5 in the third or something like that ? (Might be confused with Josh). i.e. maybe those couple of points made a HUGE difference and where would he be today if he'd lost them ?

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He won his FQR match in Champaign easily enough but was taken to a 3rd set tiebreak by Ghasya in the previous round and won 8-6 and 10-8 tiebreaks against Polansky in R1 - that was also his career best ranking scalp and if you're looking for a light-bulb moment, that was probably it.

Maybe his plan is to hit the Futures bonus money limit then move onto Challengers. It seems a bit odd that he hasn't moved up already, but at least he's getting very close to maximum points from these Futures while he's playing them.

Rosco & Bambo not quite able to pull it off.  Never really recovered from being 2-8 in the CTB:

Final:  (2) Ed Corrie & Dan Smethurst CR 652 (370+285) defeated (3) Luke Bambridge & Ross Hutchins CR 1058 (488+570) by 5-7 7-6(6) [10-6]

Quite a day for the two Dans. Well done! (And congratulations also to Mr Farquharson and Mr Corrie)