Coup Droit wrote:

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Well, Joe Salisbury is giving Dan S a real run for his money

One set all, Dan won the first 7-5, then Joe won the next 7-6(2)

Joe seems to have a great potential, now with college experience behind him. I'm hoping he's giving pro-tennis a real go and he'll be WR 600 or so by the end of the year.

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Nah. Make that Top 500

QR1: Ken Skupski UNR lost to Rémi Boutillier (FRA) WR 451 (= CH) by 6-3 7-6(3)
QR1: Jathan Malik WR 861 beat Keelan Oakley WR 1309 by 7-5 4-6 6-3
QR1: Dan Smethurst WR 243 beat Joe Salisbury WR 1613 by 7-5 6-7(2) 6-4
QR1: (wc) James Marsalek WR 778 beat Divij Sharan (IND) UNR (CH 438 in 2007; top 75 doubles) by 7-6(4) 6-1
QR1: Richard Gabb WR 464 beat Neil Pauffley WR 527 by 5-7 7-5 7-5
QR1: Dan Cox WR 214 beat (wc) Rhett Purcell UNR by 3 & 0
QR1: Scott Clayton WR 1152 lost to Chris Guccione (AUS) WR 614 (CH 67 in 2008) by 2 & 1
QR1: Neal Skupski UNR lost to (q7) Michal Przysiezny (POL) WR 112 (CH 57 in Jan) by 2 & 1

QR2: Jathan Malik WR 861 v (q5) David Goffin (BEL) WR 105 (CH 42 in 2012)
QR2: Dan Smethurst WR 243 v (q8) Somdev Devvarman (IND) WR 119 (CH 62 in 2011)
QR2: (wc) James Marsalek WR 778 v (q3) Victor Estrella Burgos (DOM) WR 95 (= CH)
QR2: Richard Gabb WR 464 v (q6) Andrey Kuznetsov (RUS) WR 111 (CH 68 in 2013)
QR2: Dan Cox WR 214 v (q4) Michael Russell (USA) WR 97 (CH 60 in 2007)

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 14th of June 2014 02:00:01 PM

Dan Cox is off to a great start 3-0 up!!

and won by retirement. I'm too slow!

-- Edited by Sofa on Saturday 14th of June 2014 03:05:31 PM

Yes, 6 points to Dan, though in total ranking points count, it will only add him a net 1 just now, since his "18th best" is currently 5 points.

Incidentally, I see that ( I think unusually historically ) there are currently more GB men with a full roster of 18 scores than GB women with their full roster of 16 scores. I make it 10 - 8.

All went wrong for the Gabster in the end. He was a break up at *3-2 in the 1st set but then lost 10 games in a row to lose 6-3 6-0

indiana wrote:

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Yes, 6 points to Dan, though in total ranking points count, it will only add him a net 1 just now, since his "18th best" is currently 5 points.

Incidentally, I see that ( I think unusually historically ) there are currently more GB men with a full roster of 18 scores than GB women with their full roster of 16 scores. I make it 10 - 8.

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Yes, highly unusual, even with less GB women on the rankings, simply because the women get a point for losing in R1 in 25Ks and above. In the recent past, you've usually been able to count the number of GB men with a full set of 18 scores on the fingers of one hand with fingers to spare!

steven wrote:

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Dan is about to serve for a career best ranking scalp - he's already had match points in the very long Devvarman service game that has just finished. 6-4 *5-4

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Dan broken to 30 in the tenth game.  *5-6...