Week 45 - Great Britain F11 ($15,000) - Bath (Hard - indoor)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: Week 45 - Great Britain F11 ($15,000) - Bath (Hard - indoor)

Topemp · Strong Club Player

Clayton and Geerts in a battle royal.

CLayton led tie break 6-3 but lost four in a row, to leave Geerts serving at 7-6. SC took both points against the serve for 8-7 but then couldn't take the set point on serve or the next one, now Geerts match point again at *9-8.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Scott misses out in the end, 6-2 7-6(8) against his seeded opponent.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Mark battling hard. De Loore just served for the match at *5-4 in the 2nd but Mark has broken back.

Mark to serve *5-5

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Rich up 5-2* now

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

So it's Belgium 2 - Britain 1 so far this morning ......

Etienne · Club Coach

(Belgium also won 2-0 in the mini Fed Cup in the Bath 25k too)

Topemp · Strong Club Player

So to summarise,thus far:

Gabb bt Verboven 6-4 6-3
Geerts bt Clayton 6-2 7-6 (8)
de Loore bt Whitehouse 6-1 7-6(2)
and in non - GB tie, the #1 seed sneaks through

Kocevar-Desman bt Schonenberg 7-6 (4) 4-6 6-3

Live:

Cannell leads Oakley L 6-3
Short leads Glasspool 6-4 0-3*
O'Mara leads Oakley K *3-5
Hoyt- Barry *4-4
Wunner struggling to hold in opening game v Walters

Topemp · Strong Club Player

Cannell beats Oakley L 6-3 6-4
Short leads Glasspool 6-4 4-6 1-0*
O'Mara leads Oakley K 6-4 *5-4
Barry leads Hoyt 7-5 2-0*
Wunner leads Walters 6-5*
Ridout - Bothwell 2-2

Topemp · Strong Club Player

Glasspool beats Short 4-6 6-4 7-5
O. Mara bt Oakley (K) 6-4 6-4
Barry bt Hoyt 7-5 6-2

Live:

Walters leads Wunner 7-6 (6) *4-5 (did trail by two breaks in 2nd set just got one back and then held)
Ward- Hibbert leads Paris 5-3*
Thornton- Brown leads Kivanda 2-0
Ridout leads Bothwell 6-4 2-0

Topemp · Strong Club Player

Walters and Paris look to be heading for the exit door.

Wunner leads Walters 6-7 6-4 *4-1
Ward- Hibbert leads Paris 6-4 4-0
Thornton- Brown leads Kivanda *4-1
Ridout leads Bothwell 6-4 5-4*
Durasovic leads Bambridge 5-3*

Spectator · All-time great

This was just a nasty draw. Far too many of the GB players who could really use some solid runs were playing tricky seeds in the first round. Never ideal.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Robbie Ridout has just come through his match.

Not the greatest day for the GB players, but as you say the draw was pretty nasty.

6 x GB through and a chance for a couple more

Topemp · Strong Club Player

Bambridge wins 2nd set to level it up with Durasovic.

Pauffley early break down *1-4

Thornton- Brown cruised thru 1&1

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Luke takes the biggest scalp of the day so far from a GB perspective taking out the 5th seed 7-5 in the 3rd. Well played that man.