Week 6 - Great Britain F4 ($10,000) - Wirral (Hard)

Sim · County player

RE: Week 6 - Great Britain F4 ($10,000) - Wirral (Hard)

RJA · Hall of fame

Coup Droit wrote:
RJA wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Isn't that strange/great ? Three second round losses and then suddenly the title . . . . and in style . . . .
As I said earlier in the thread he was really good against Marsalek in round 2 so I am not surprised by him going on and taking the title.

Yes, it was an interesting comment you made but what I mean was why was he suddenly so really good about Marsalek (as opposed to how he presumably was the previous weeks) ?

Hard to say. He was making very nice progress last year culminating in two finals at Manchester and Ilkley. He then got injured at Felixstowe and although he carried on playing his form clearly dipped. He made the SF the following week in Dublin but that was against a week field and a couple of QFs was the best he did after that.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Nice interview after their doubles victory:

www.lta.org.uk/fans-major-events/AEGON-GB-Pro-Series/News/20141/Wirral/Dan-Smethurst-reaches-fourth-consecutive-Aegon-GB-Pro-Series-final-/

and for those who love the 'sloppy journalism' : "we're on a bit of a role after winning . . ." :(

paulisi · Tennis legend

Superb performance from Tom and thoroughly deserved maiden victory.

Dan played very solidly, but had no answers, such that he made a comment towards the end is that the Tom Farquason I know?

Very impressed with Tom's all round game. Decent serve, very good forehand especially the off forehand, his returns were excellent especially off the backhand and he put every volley away at the net. If Tom can keep those levels up he will be in top 250 in no time.

TMH · Futures qualifying

Coup Droit wrote:
Nice interview after their doubles victory:

www.lta.org.uk/fans-major-events/AEGON-GB-Pro-Series/News/20141/Wirral/Dan-Smethurst-reaches-fourth-consecutive-Aegon-GB-Pro-Series-final-/

and for those who love the 'sloppy journalism' : "we're on a bit of a role after winning . . ." :(

And 'reacehd' on the very first line. Jesus that's poor.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I'm a bit more forgiving of typos (although don't they have a blinkin' spellchecker ????). But the others make me giggle/despair - I've been involved with several undergraduate students (English as their first language) and two classics from this week were:

". . . the boarders of Israel were threatened by the Palestinians who refused to respect the boarders . . . "

" the law is governed by statues. Some statues are made by Parliament . . . "

TMH · Futures qualifying

Coup Droit wrote:
I'm a bit more forgiving of typos (although don't they have a blinkin' spellchecker ????). But the others make me giggle/despair - I've been involved with several undergraduate students (English as their first language) and two classics from this week were:

". . . the boarders of Israel were threatened by the Palestinians who refused to respect the boarders . . . "

" the law is governed by statues. Some statues are made by Parliament . . . "

It beggars belief doesn't it?

Typos are understandable, but spell-checking or even a simple brief read-back (especially on an article so brief!) is unforgiveable.

I'm an under-grad myself, currently on a placement year and it's really alarming how bad the spelling and grammar is a vast proportion of professional adults. Growing up I assumed correct spelling and grammar was the norm. I'm quickly realising it's the other way around. Almost refreshing when I do confer with someone who is capable of formulating two paragraphs in proper English.

I don't know why I get so wound up by it really. Maybe I should just be less of a grammar Nazi. But it bugs me.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

TMH wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
I'm a bit more forgiving of typos (although don't they have a blinkin' spellchecker ????). But the others make me giggle/despair - I've been involved with several undergraduate students (English as their first language) and two classics from this week were:

". . . the boarders of Israel were threatened by the Palestinians who refused to respect the boarders . . . "

" the law is governed by statues. Some statues are made by Parliament . . . "

It beggars belief doesn't it?
Typos are understandable, but spell-checking or even a simple brief read-back (especially on an article so brief!) is unforgiveable.
I'm an under-grad myself, currently on a placement year and it's really alarming how bad the spelling and grammar is a vast proportion of professional adults. Growing up I assumed correct spelling and grammar was the norm. I'm quickly realising it's the other way around. Almost refreshing when I do confer with someone who is capable of formulating two paragraphs in proper English.
I don't know why I get so wound up by it really. Maybe I should just be less of a grammar Nazi. But it bugs me.

Quick tip, if you're genuinely concerned about correct grammar, TMH: your post contains two examples of a singular verb used after a plural subject & you really shouldn't begin a sentence in written (as opposed to conversational) English with a conjunction... There should have been a simple comma after "Nazi"... wink

TMH · Futures qualifying

There's grammar then there's just pure pedanticism. wink

(which may or may not be an actual word)

-- Edited by TMH on Saturday 8th of February 2014 04:37:36 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

TMH wrote:
There's grammar then there's just pure pedanticism.
(which may or may not be an actual word)

It isn't! Try "pedantry" instead - & I'm probably this board's pedant in chief! wink

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Coup Droit wrote:

" the law is governed by statues. Some statues are made by Parliament . . . "

Thank you for giving me my 'laugh out loud' moment of the day!