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LouieG


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Anyway, back to the tennis. It's shaping up to be a good week for our boys in Canada!

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Somehow I had a feeling that this was on the cards:

QF:  Kamil Pajkowski & Filip Peliwo (CAN/CAN) UNR defeated (2) Hugo di Feo (CAN) & Richard Gabb CR 868 (545+323) by 4 & 3 bleh



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Stircrazy wrote:
KK wrote:
Jeff Stelling wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Jeff Stelling wrote:
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paulisi wrote:

Richard wins 6-3 in the last despite winning less points overall

As Stircrazy will tell you, it isn't possible to win less points than someone.

Huh? confuse  And it's "fewer points", by the way... winkwink

Precisely. 

Ah, now I see.  I'd been deliberately biting my tongue on that one, so to speak, but with considerable difficulty...  You finally tempted me to nail my colours to the mast! hmm

P.S.  I couldn't help but notice that you managed to correct the spelling of my user name quite quickly. wink

Haha - those in glass houses... 

I too (as a teacher) have been biting my tongue on numerous posts - also for the lack of apostrophes.  It hasn't been easy! 

Tell me about it, but don't get me started...!    That said, I'm a linguist by profession, rather than a teacher, & one who by nature doesn't suffer fools gladly when it comes to her chosen field, so am arguably even less inclined to make allowances for the many grammatical transgressions of the little dears on here, but having been admonished frequently by the mods in the days before I became one of them myself & reluctantly come to the conclusion that I was fighting a losing battle anyway (by & large, thanks to the apparent long-term indifference of so many English teachers - I myself never had what I would regard as a formal English grammar lesson, but effectively taught myself as a result of learning German & Latin in particular & I was at secondary school in the late 60s/early 70s - people these days are so ignorant of their mother tongue that they just don't care any more, even when the error of their ways is pointed out to them.  That in itself makes me think that the time is not far off when people will be reduced to communicating in grunts & gestures rather than intelligible, coherent sentences once more - or Apple & Samsung will eventually make their confounded so-called smart phones so "intelligent" that they can do it for them! cry).  Rant over (long time since I've indulged in one, too...).       

When I say I am a teacher, I am actually a university lecturer, trying to help law students who have not been taught grammar at school and have sailed through their A'levels, so have no idea their English is bad.  When a chambers of barristers or firm of solicitors is sifting through a pile of 500 applicants for two or three jobs, the applications with a single grammatical error will go straight into the reject pile and these students won't be told why.

Sorry about that - just wanted to reply to Stircrazy.  Will stick to tennis from now on!

 

  



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Apostrophe transgressions ( especially these that randomly pop up in simple plurals ) are my pet hate, but I just grimace to myself and move on.

Ultimately, we are a pleasant forum discussing tennis, not some official publication. I have previously had arguments and then left another forum ( not rennis ), because of a mod that insisted on "editing" posts' grammar, extending to phraseology ! He was taking away from the individual characters of some posters, and I much prefer to read posts as writ :)

If other folk want to point out errors, so be it; and I did learn the other day that I had been wrongly adding an e into argu(e)ment for as long as I can remember.

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QF: (5) Ed Corrie WR 329 v Alexios Halebian (USA) WR 844 (CH 813 in Nov)
QF: (4) Dan Smethurst WR 305 v Torsten Wietoska (GER) WR 637 (CH 533 in Dec)
QF: (6) Richard Gabb WR 430 v (2) Germain Gigounon (BEL) WR 251 (CH 237 in Dec)

Strange but true - all 6 players in these QFs have hit new career highs in the last 6 months, whereas the career highs of the 3 players who could still feature in the remaining QF were all set in 2012.

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QF: (1) Ed Corrie & Dan Smethurst CR581 (317+264) d Eric Quigley & Fritz Wolmarans (USA/RSA) UNR 4-6. 6-2, 10-6.

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QF:  (1) Ed Corrie & Dan Smethurst CR581 (317+264) defeated Eric Quigley & Fritz Wolmarans (USA/RSA) UNR by 4-6 6-2 [10-6]

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SF:  (1) Ed Corrie & Dan Smethurst CR581 (317+264) vs (3) Dimitar Kutrovsky & Dean O'Brien (BUL/RSA) CR 1270 (827+443)



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Ed underway and has an early break 3-1 up.

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Ed takes the 1st set 6-4

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Ed lost the second-set TB 7-2

Allez, M. Corrie - shake a leg !

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Now 4-1* up in the 3rd

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Make that *5-1 to Ed now!

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that's exactly the sort of 'leg shake' that I was talking about :)

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Dan takes the first set 6-3.

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Second set is in a TB. Dan has just had MP at 6-5* but couldn't take it.

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Saves set point at *6-7 and now has another MP at 8-7*



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Friday 7th of March 2014 07:40:55 PM

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