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Coup Droit


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R32: Mark Whitehouse WR 1018 def. Joshua Luck (RSA) (Q) WR 1533 6-3 6-1

Instead of the 6th seed, Mark now gets a Pakistani wildcard unranked opponent, who was actually born in Guildford, it says, so GB followers may know him - Samir Iftikhar. I believe he's just finished college in the US.


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Coup Droit wrote:
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Well done to Mr Bambridge. Fascinating score with the Tunisian for Mr Broady, especially in the absence of any further information (is this someone who doesn't travel outside Tunisia, so is underranked? young? old? playing a blinder?)

 

To be honest, I don't think there's anything particularly strange about Liam's score.

If you look at the lower events this week, Matt Short defeated a top 140 player, Ed Corrie lost to a guy ranked about 900, the second seed in Tunisia lost to a guy ranked 1000 places lower, the second seed in France very nearly lost to an unheard of 16 year-old ......

There's not a lot between a lot of these guys on one particular given day.

 

Players have good days and bad days, shocks ( to various extents ) happen. It's very much part of the beauty of tennis.

But if they keep happening or nearly happening against certain players, I tend to call that a trend, and one good to reverse asap. 



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Sami was quite a strong player as a youngster and presumably has continued to improve at Uni New Mexico.  He ended last season at 90 in the college rankings. Believe he has also played Davis Cup for Pakistan.



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Mark and Luke won their doubles, 10-7 in the MTB

Mark has his one mega counter from last year about to roll off quite soon. Wish him luck in his singles.

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Liam Broady decided that his R1 match was just a drawn-out warm-up and now it's time to get serious.

Dispatched the wildcard Pakistani (not Sami, who Mark is playing, but another) by 6-1 6-0

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Bambo and Mark W have both won their opening sets

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Mark W won on straight sets
Bambo lost a second set tie break, but broke straight away in set 3

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Luke finally holds after a monster game to lead 3-1* in the 3rd set. Match is over 2 1/2 hours already.

Don't know if Luke had MPs in the 2nd set tie break but as he eventually lost it 12-10, I would think he probably did at some stage.



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Thursday 1st of October 2015 02:37:41 PM

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A 2nd break for Luke now and he serves for the match at *5-2.

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Luke wins 6-4 6-7(10) 6-2

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Summary:

R16: Liam Broady(1) WR 210 bt Aqeel Khan (PAK) (WC) UNR - 6-1 6-0
R16: Luke Bambridge (7) WR 833 bt Thomas Statzberger (AUT) WR 1469 6-4 6-7(10) 6-2
R16: Mark Whitehouse WR 1018 bt Samir Iftikhar (PAK) (WC) UNR 6-4 6-4


QF: Liam Broady(1) WR 210 v BarKin Yalkincale (TUR) (8) WR 895
QF: Luke Bambridge (7) WR 833 v Edoardo Eremin (ITA) (2) WR 402
QF: Mark Whitehouse WR 1018 v Isaac Frost (AUS) WR 1154


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Let's just hope that in the next round, Liam's opponent's game goes to the dogs and that Mark catches his opponent cold......wink



-- Edited by Priesty on Thursday 1st of October 2015 07:18:36 PM

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Good to see all three through to the QFs. Wish Mr Bambridge hadn't drawn the 2nd seed, but he has beaten players higher ranked than that before, so ...

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Luke and Mark are through to the doubles SF

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Mark and Liam are both a set up, Bambo on serve opening set

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