Week 9 - Great Britain F6 ($10,000) - Shrewsbury (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: Week 9 - Great Britain F6 ($10,000) - Shrewsbury (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

One for the statos. Apologies if we have had this one before.

Liam is playing SANDER ARENDS today.

How many other players on the circuit have a Firstname and Surname that are anagram of each other ?

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Liam up a double break and is serving for the set at *5-1

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Which he does successfully finish the set off with his first ace.

Into a decider.

steven · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
One for the statos. Apologies if we have had this one before.

Liam is playing SANDER ARENDS today.

How many other players on the circuit have a Firstname and Surname that are anagram of each other ?

That's a good one Funny that the 2nd set score was an anagram of the 1st set score too wink

steven · Tennis legend

Liam got broken serving for the match but then broke Arends again to win it. A better day then - 3-1 v non-Brits and a guaranteed semi-finalist

L16: (1) Dan Cox WR 243 beat Matthias Wunner (GER) WR 769 (CH 672 in May) by 3 & 2
L16: (WC) Julian Cash WR 1805 lost to (8) Isak Arvidsson (SWE) WR 618 (CH 554 in Jul) by 1 & 4
L16: (4) Liam Broady WR 474 beat (Q) Sander Arends (NED) WR 1451 (CH 1444 this month) by 1-6 6-1 6-3
L16: (6) Josh Milton WR 553 beat Kevin Griekspoor (NED) WR 702 (CH 663 in Oct) by 2 & 2
L16: (2) Ashley Hewitt WR 415 beat Luke Bambridge WR 661 by 7-6(6) 6-3

QF: (1) Dan Cox WR 243 v (7) Gleb Sakharov (FRA) WR 604 (CH 314 in 2012)
Non-GB: (3) Micke Kontinen (FIN) WR 453 v Elias Ymer (SWE) WR 753
QF: (4) Liam Broady WR 474 v (8) Isak Arvidsson (SWE) WR 618 (CH 554 in Jul)
QF: (2) Ashley Hewitt WR 415 v (6) Josh Milton WR 553

H2H: Ashley 0-2 v Josh - Josh has won both of their previous meetings in straight sets with a bagel in each match, though they were both back in September 2010

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 26th of February 2014 03:53:39 PM

scottie1 · Futures level

I hope Ash has regained his form I think on form he will beat Milts. Seen Milts several times serve not great

TMH · Futures qualifying

3-1 v non-Brits actually Steven - Cash losing to Arvidsson.

seagull · Hall of fame

steven wrote:
Liam got broken serving for the match but then broke Arends again to win it. A better day then - 3-0 v non-Brits and a guaranteed semi-finalist

Well nearly it was 3-1 as Cash lost

steven · Tennis legend

Oops disbelief - usually the s and s help me avoid howlers like that, but I wrote the bit at the top before I posted and the smileys actually appeared. Corrected for that and to reflect the fact that Ymer won the match that was still in progress when I posted.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: Luke Bambridge & Toby Martin CR 1163 (477+686) defeated Dan Cox & Josh Milton CR 2367 (1500+867) by 3 & 2

paulisi · Tennis legend

Much better day for our GB boys - need to keep that weekly winning run going of singles tournament winners(only EWS, Marcus and Andy as back up)

Expect Dan and Ashley to win their QF's - not sure with Liam.

Bob for top 500 - glass half full, (normally glass half empty for most things)

-- Edited by paulisi on Wednesday 26th of February 2014 07:12:41 PM

LouieG · County player

Coxy is a vulture, why is he playing $10ks?

Spectator · All-time great

What other options does he have in the UK? He's in a very difficult position. Travel - and spend money - to qualify in challengers ... high risk, though potentially higher reward. Or come to a local event where he has more chance of doing well, though with lesser rewards on offer. Seems to me he's doing a good job of mixing the two.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Spectator wrote:
What other options does he have in the UK? He's in a very difficult position. Travel - and spend money - to qualify in challengers ... high risk, though potentially higher reward. Or come to a local event where he has more chance of doing well, though with lesser rewards on offer. Seems to me he's doing a good job of mixing the two.

I agree. He has to juggle the two. After all, it's not as though Dan is acting outside the norm - at the Spanish 10k this week there are 3 players ranked 228, 244 and 260ish. Even the Turkey one has two players in the top 300. Strangely, the 15ks are weaker - no top 300 in the Italy one and only a WR277 in the French 15k. There's a bit of pot luck but someone in the mid 200s is not strong enough to live by Challengers alone (unless they're zooming up the rankings).