Week 37 - Great Britain F16 ($15,000) - Wrexham (Hard)

Jaffa · Challenger level

RE: Week 37 - Great Britain F16 ($15,000) - Wrexham (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Imran Aswat beats Kivanda 7-6(2) 6-0

paulisi · Tennis legend

Adam TB won 6-3 1-6 6-1 - pleased for Adam, nice lad, but was very down on himself yesterday. He just lacks the consistency and belief to push on.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Marshall won 6-4 6-2 another who is playing solid tennis and should be ranked much higher than he currently is.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Joe Salisbury wins 6-1 6-1

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Glad to hear that Adam's possible illness was short-lived. (He always looks so 'sad', almost tearful; it's a strange court persona, but I like him).

paulisi · Tennis legend

Robbie Ridout follows up on his good form winning 6-4 6-2. David Porter is a set up, Adam Skalsky into a tie break.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Just in response to paulisi's post about Harry now being in france, it seems that he has joined Stade Clermontois (the main club in Clermont-Ferrand - stuck right in the middle of France and blinkin' cold in winter).

That's the same club as Naomi and Tara, so it may well be them who recommended it to him.

I don't know if he'll be living there full-time but it's a very good club with about 10 men of his level or better, although several of the Spaniards look as though they only come for the team matches, and a fair number more of players who are not too far off. I assume he's been signed up to the team, which will also entitle him to free group training throughout the year, as well as (maybe) free rackets etc.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Harry has moved full time to France and has been there for a few weeks - I think he said he was training on the South coast(Cannes?).

paulisi · Tennis legend

Adam retired against Gleeson. Porter and Ashley last pair left, involved in a real tight 3 setter.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Harry has moved full time to France and has been there for a few weeks - I think he said he was training on the South coast(Cannes?).

Smart man smile Re south coast, I mean . . .

Clermont-Ferrand is not top of the tourist attractions (cue angry response from all Clermont-Ferrand natives and fans . . . )

Purely curious, do you think he's going to live near Cannes (let's say) and just go to Clermont-Ferrand for team matches ? Which would be a bit strange but possible. Or is he just in Cannes for the summer months and then will move full-time up to Clermont-Ferrnad for the start of the new tennis season (October) ?

paulisi · Tennis legend

No idea CD - he didn't mention Clemont - Ferrand to me, however he needs to earn some cash to pay for his coaching/accomodation so i'm guessing this plus Gary Lewis's team will cover some of the costs.

Meanwhile Peter Ashley is the last player through, courtesy of a tiebreak.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
No idea CD - he didn't mention Clemont - Ferrand to me, however he needs to earn some cash to pay for his coaching/accomodation so i'm guessing this plus Gary Lewis's team will cover some of the costs.

Meanwhile Peter Ashley is the last player through, courtesy of a tiebreak.

Also possible that he's been a non-active member of Clermont-Ferrand for several years (which wouldn't show on the federation site) and that he's actually in the process of changing to another club in Cannes/south coast.

Which would be logical and mean that Clermont-Ferrand is a red herring ! Sorry . . .

Harry is entitled to full French benefits, of course, so (in theory) there's no reason he shouldn't get certain housing allocations and the like. And, if he's playing for a team (down there or elsewhere) he'll get free coaching (up to a certain amount).

Anyway, thanks :)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

R1: (1) Ed Corrie & Dave Rice CR 369 vs BYE
R1: Andrew Bettles & Jack Carpenter CR 3369 (1614+1755) vs (WC) James Marsalek & Adam Thornton-Brown UNR
R1: (4) Dan Cox & Brydan Klein CR 608 (365+243) vs BYE
R1: George Morgan & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 1067 (648+419) vs BYE
R1: (WC) David O'Hare (IRL) & Joe Salisbury UNR "defeated" Chris Anguelov & Adam Skalsky UNR by a walkover
R1: BYE vs (3) Luke Bambridge & Liam Broady CR 594 (280+314)
R1: Oliver Hudson & Neil Pauffley CR 2480 (1695+785) vs Joe Cooper & Sam Holt UNR
R1: BYE vs (2) Lewis Burton & Marcus Willis CR 454 (226+228)

*****

QF: (4) Dan Cox & Brydan Klein CR 608 (365+243) vs George Morgan & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 1067 (648+419)
QF: (WC) David O'Hare (IRL) & Joe Salisbury UNR vs (3) Luke Bambridge & Liam Broady CR 594 (280+314

steven · Tennis legend

The main draw is out: www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2014/3538/mds.pdf

29 Brits, an Irishman, a Frenchman and a Bulgarian.

I'll put the draw with up to date rankings here later if nobody else has done it by then. If you're going to, probably worth saying here first so we don't both do it! (though I write it out for my list to create tweets from anyway)

-- Edited by steven on Monday 8th of September 2014 04:36:44 PM