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

Oakland2002 · All-time great

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

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Thank you ,

That's good news must be getting used to the babolats & maybe now out of doubles will enable more focus and energy on the singles. If can make the SF v Dan cox

does anyone know head to head Marcus lost recent Brit tour final and a futures in Shrewsbury . A victory over Dan would be a significant step forward .

paulisi · Tennis legend

Dan C won 6-3 6-4

Marcus 3-1 up second set

ITF H2H says Dan C leads 8-2 in tour events, with Marcus' only wins coming on grass.

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Again thanks , H2H results does not surprise me but so will be particularly good result if Marcus manages the win on hard for first time v Dan C

-- Edited by A1 tennis academy on Thursday 22nd of January 2015 01:18:04 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Marcus won 6-2 6-2

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Well done Marcus. Keep it going.

A1 tennis academy · Satellite level

Thanks

That's a decent start to 1st tournament of the year -

under dog against Dan cox but got nothing to lose

did you watch match ?

Julia Carrot · All-time great

No, just followed some of it on live score.

smile smile smile

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Thursday 22nd of January 2015 02:57:55 PM

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Thursday 22nd of January 2015 02:59:57 PM

paulisi · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Julia Carrot wrote:
Are you there Paulisi ?
No - just a bit too far ,especially with the weather forecast.
Quite in the office, so had a chance to follow closely.
If the forecast is better for Saturday and the final is interesting, I might consider going.

I've just checked the distance and google maps suggests 2hr 5 mins - so it is probably a bit too far unfortunately.

I'll try and get to Wirral, Didsbury and Ilkley though...

wolf · Tennis legend

QF: (1/WC) Dan Smethurst WR 284 beat (6) Josh Milton WR 385 6-4 7-6(1) smile cry
QF: (7) Tom Farquharson WR 543 beat Pirmin Hänle (GER) WR 720 (CH 526 in 2009) 6-4 6-1 smile
QF: (5) Marcus Willis WR 364 beat Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA) WR 1026 (CH 687 in 2012) 6-2 6-2 smile
QF: (2/WC) Dan Cox WR 298 beat (WC) James Marsalek WR 788 6-3 6-4 smile cry

SF: (1/WC) Dan Smethurst WR 284 v (7) Tom Farquharson WR 543
SF: (5) Marcus Willis WR 364 v (2/WC) Dan Cox WR 298

wolf · Tennis legend

With it being the start of the season in a week with no challengers on and 7 players ranked between 280 and 385 who are looking for big points to get themselves to challenger level, you would think the LTA would use their brains and put on a 15k not a 10k. But alas...

steven · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
With it being the start of the season in a week with no challengers on and 7 players ranked between 280 and 385 who are looking for big points to get themselves to challenger level, you would think the LTA would use their brains and put on a 15k not a 10k. But alas...

I've been thinking that too ...

More on the SF line-up:

SF: (1/WC) Dan Smethurst WR 284 v (7) Tom Farquharson WR 543

H2H: 2-1, all 2 sets - Dan won in 2011 & 2014, Tom 3 & 5 at their last meeting in the Wirral final last Feb

SF: (2/WC) Dan Cox WR 298 v (5) Marcus Willis WR 364

H2H: 8-2, though they haven't met since 2013

paulisi · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
With it being the start of the season in a week with no challengers on and 7 players ranked between 280 and 385 who are looking for big points to get themselves to challenger level, you would think the LTA would use their brains and put on a 15k not a 10k. But alas...

I think the LTA were hoping the challenger type players would go and play challengers and the remainder 10K, as there looked like two groupings of players(11 between 150 and 400 the rest no better than 550).

Unfortunately the challenger calendar doesn't match the schedules and these 11 guys are being forced to play 10/15K at the moment.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (4) Luke Bambridge & Andy Bettles CR 1272 (302+970) defeated (2) Dan Smethurst & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 615 (223+392) by 5 & 4

*****

Final: (3) Isak Arvidsson & Micke Kontinen (SWE/FIN) CR 1157 (304+853) vs (4) Luke Bambridge & Andy Bettles CR 1272 (302+970)

Sim · County player

A1 tennis academy wrote:
Thank you ,
That's good news must be getting used to the babolatse now out of doubles will enable more focus infond energy on the singles. If can make the SF v Dan cox
does anyone know head to head Marcus lost recent Brit tour final and a futures in Shrewsbury . A victory over Dan would be a significant step forward .

Gary

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