Week 3 - Great Britain F1 ($10,000) - Sheffield (Hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 3 - Great Britain F1 ($10,000) - Sheffield (Hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

And yet, previously, people were saying how good James M was . . .

He was extremely uninspiring when I say him (about 18 months ago now). Was he a promising youngster who never made the move up?

Dan Evans is an early break down

indiana · Tennis legend

Born April 1992, I don't think James really stood out particularly as a junior.

I have never seen him play, but two or three years ago he was getting such fairly consistent wins and I recall quite a number of close scorelines with much higher ranked players, that to me it did look very promising and I recall saying so.
His CH is WR 537 in May 13, just turned 21.

Pity he hasn't maintained this, let alone pushed on, for whatever reasons. As I say, his results and scorelines certainly didn't suggest that he was then overranked so I was thinking he would be a clear top 500 player by now.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

That's a good-ish CH for age 21. Yet he doesn't seem to have been injured or anything? As you say, strange, that he's slipped backwards over the last couple of years (maybe there's been stuff going on that we don't know about). I believe he was based in Spain for a while and then changed ??? (Or am I imagining that?)

ANyway, he wins this one 7-5 in the third - hopefully, that'll help his confidence (I remember thinking he looked ill at ease, sort of scared of the ball, when I say him at the NTC - but that might have been a real bad day or something . .. )

5-5 in Dan v the German

Whitehouse won the second set 6-1 and him and Adam TB are into a third (Mark is the Imperial student who had that great run late last year isn't he?)

Dan COx has beaten Lewis 6-3 6-2

paulisi · Tennis legend

Marzi sneaked through 7-5. I've seen him several times last year. Nothing special in his game and generally error strewn, but did well in Qatar in December, so the ability may be there, but the consistency definitely isn't.

Lewis Burton has just lost 3&2 to Dan Cox and he is a talented player who just cannot get singles results despite all that natural ability.

Evo has just broken back and leads 6-5*

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Evo playing brinksmanship in both sets. Won the 1st set 7-5 from a break down and is now down again at *1-3. Can he do it again ? Let's hope so. #Allez

Actually, I am just glad to see him back playing tennis again. I won't deny it, I had my doubts.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Hmmmm.... Dan E managed to take the first set 7 - 5, but is is not exactly have a cake walk in the second 1 - 3. Rust, attitude, pain, who knows ?

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Bob in Spain wrote:

Actually, I am just glad to see him back playing tennis again. I won't deny it, I had my doubts.

Yes, me too. Really hope he makes it past the first round.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: Pirmin Hänle (GER) WR 720 defeated (3/Q) Dan Evans WR 319 by 5-7 6-1 6-3 bleh

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Oh p............

. I really like Dan and just hope he gets over whatever is causing his struggles.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Luke Oakley is the youngster that Marcus rated, isn't he?

Will be interesting to see how he fares against Joe S.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Evo lost.

I can see him throwing the towel in on his tennis career if he fails to gets points over the next few weeks and ends up unranked.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes, but how else does he intend to earn a living ?

I think he's one of the few who will most certainly carry one because (a) he has the ability to make decent money in tennis (a rare feat), and (b) has no other obvious alternative.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Luke Oakley is the youngster that Marcus rated, isn't he?

Will be interesting to see how he fares against Joe S.

I'm not sure who I want to win. Luke has a US college place I think so will be part time for a while.

I saw him play at Liverpool briefly and looked solid enough.

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity re Evo.

But it would appear to have been a late decision that he was ready enough to go and he will at least be competitively very rusty.

Let's give the guy some grace period before proclaiming that if it carries on like this ( one tournament ) he might chuck it.