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Bob in Spain


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Joe has just won the 1st set 6-3 against Dan.

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Also a break up

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Joe served for the match at *5-4 in the 2nd but Dan has just brokenn him for the 1st time in the match.

5-5

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Dan has fought back to take the 2nd on a TB. Into the decider we go.

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L32:  Antoine Bellier (SUI) WR 1124 defeated (1) Marcus Willis WR 409 by 5 & 3  bleh
L32:  (Q) Seydou Diallo (MLI) WR 1475 defeated Luke Power UNR by 4 & 3
L32:  Robbie Ridout WR 1157 defeated Yuri Andrade (BRA) WR 1413 by 4-6 6-1 6-3
L32:  (Q) Marcus Walters WR 1856 defeated (Q) Kohlman Lawrence (USA) UNR by 0 & 1
L32:  Joe Salisbury WR 777 defeated (2) Dan Smethurst WR 562 by 6-3 6-7(4) 6-3  biggrin  bleh

Bellier's a bloody nuisance! furious

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L16:  (4) Javier Pulgar (ESP) WR 590 (CH = 581 last month) vs Robbie Ridout WR 1157
L16:  Pablo Vivero (ESP) WR 681 (CH = 671 last month) vs (Q) Marcus Walters WR 1856
L16:  (WC) Anton Desyatnik (RUS) UNR (CH = 2003 in December 2013) vs Joe Salisbury WR 777



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 20th of May 2015 03:17:05 PM

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Stircrazy wrote:

L32:  Antoine Bellier (SUI) WR 1124 defeated (1) Marcus Willis WR 409 by 5 & 3  bleh
L32:  (Q) Seydou Diallo (MLI) WR 1475 defeated Luke Power UNR by 4 & 3
L32:  Robbie Ridout WR 1157 defeated Yuri Andrade (BRA) WR 1413 by 4-6 6-1 6-3
L32:  (Q) Marcus Walters WR 1856 defeated (Q) Kohlman Lawrence (USA) UNR by 0 & 1

L32:  Joe Salisbury WR 777 vs (2) Dan Smethurst WR 562

Bellier's a bloody nuisance! furious

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L16:  (4) Javier Pulgar (ESP) WR 590 (CH = 581 last month) vs Robbie Ridout WR 1157
L16:  Pablo Vivero (ESP) WR 681 (CH = 671 last month) vs (Q) Marcus Walters WR 1856
L16:  (WC) Anton Desyatnik (RUS) UNR (CH = 2003 in December 2013) or Kris van Wyk (RSA) WR 1475 (CH = 1464 in January) vs (2) Dan Smethurst WR 562 or Joe Salisbury WR 777

Desyatnik has just beaten Van Wyk



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Joe has beaten Dan 6-3 in the 3rd.

When "Point-to-Prove" tweeted Dan's name as SmethRUST yesterday, their little Freudian slip may not have been to far off the mark.

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Hmm, well the draw's been opened up !

What's occurring with Marcus Willis these days? Still niggles? Yet he continues to play French League tennis at weekends??

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Hmm, well the draw's been opened up !

What's occurring with Marcus Willis these days? Still niggles? Yet he continues to play French League tennis at weekends??

Difficult to tell.  He is due to be in Egypt for 2 weeks but as soon as he lost, he tweeted

#SkyScanner

That means he must be considering going straight back to the UK.  Now, of course, that could just be disappointment talking in the heat of the moment, but it could also mean that his back is playing up again and he wants to get back for treatment.  I know from talking to him that it is an ongoing concern.

We will just have to wait and see, but with the grass court season around the corner, I really hope that he is firing on all cylinders when that time comes.



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French league for me is a huge distraction and takes up whole weekend sapping your emergy for a futures the following week . 

also can't understand why Eygpt would have gone for Broke in the Turkish challenger ! 



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French league for me is a huge distraction and takes up whole weekend sapping your emergy for a futures the following week . 

also can't understand why Eygpt would have gone for Broke in the Turkish challenger ! 

 

Well, the French league doesn't seem to have had a negative impact on Dave Rice or Dan Cox . . .

And, after all, Neil P's Croatia jaunt was hardly helped by playing GB Team tennis.

Net, net - it's all the same when you cut and dice it . . .

If you really can't hack it (and I have sympathy for I think team tennis and futures is hard going) then Lucy Brown's tweet makes sense: treat this time as a money-earning training block. 



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A1 tennis academy wrote:

French league for me is a huge distraction and takes up whole weekend sapping your emergy for a futures the following week . 

also can't understand why Eygpt would have gone for Broke in the Turkish challenger ! 

The problem is that to go to Turkey, he would have had to play qualies over the weekend and that would have meant missing the French League match.



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No French league involves a lot more travel and 2 days of matches compared with aegon 1 . There is an obsession with it for the playing fees . The source of the problem is the poor futures prize money . Also On a hiding to nothing playing futures need to make the break through at challenger events . 

If theres a high risk that going to lose in a futures might as well go for it at a challenger event . 



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No French league involves a lot more travel and 2 days of matches compared with aegon 1 . There is an obsession with it for the playing fees . The source of the problem is the poor futures prize money . Also On a hiding to nothing playing futures need to make the break through at challenger events . 

If theres a high risk that going to lose in a futures might as well go for it at a challenger event . 

 

Agree completely about challenger event versus future.

But French league is only one day of match, not two.

Yes, travel may make it longer. But all depends - some UK players have chosen clubs with very good travel links to where they live.

As mentioned, not all other players seem to find it a problem - Dave Rice and Dan Cox played in France on Sunday and won in futures straight after.

And, net net, it's only 5 weeks, say, out of 52.

i.e. Get the rest of the year right, and use these weeks as primarily an 'earner'.

Or don't if you don't need the money.

 



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So we start an event with five GB players, including Dan Smethurst and Marcus Willis.

And in round two we've only got three left - with no Dan and no Willis . . . who'd have thunk it . . .

Good luck to Marcus W junior, Joe and Robbie.

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