Week 7 - UK F3 ($10,000) - Shrewsbury (hard) - indoor

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 7 - UK F3 ($10,000) - Shrewsbury (hard) - indoor

paulisi · Tennis legend

FQR
James MARSALEK (GBR) [1] 1-6 6-4 6-3 Robbie RIDOUT (GBR) [12]
Raymond SARMIENTO (USA) [2] 6-1 6-2 Jack MOLLOY (GBR)
Alexander JHUN (GBR) [14] 7-6(3) 6-2 Marcus WALTERS (GBR)
Carl SODERLUND (SWE) [4] 7-5 6-3 Andrea VAVASSORI (ITA) [10]
Daniel WINDAHL (SWE) [9] 6-3 6-3 Daniel APPELGREN (SWE) [5]
Connor FARREN (USA) [13] 6-1 6-4 Jamie Asanee PRADITNGAM (GBR)
Milos SEKULIC (SWE) [7] 2-6 6-3 6-2 Denis NGUYEN (USA) [16]
Oliver HUDSON (GBR) 6-3 3-6 6-3 Joshua PARIS (GBR) [15

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

as suggested, Josh Sapwell has one of the wildcards.

Luke Oakley another, Jay Clarke another and one for Josh WH.

But Josh WH gets Liam, and there are way too many all-Brit match-ups to be ideal (although you'd expect some obviously)>

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Hudson v Bambo
Oakley v Marzi
Joe v Ed
Lloyd v Dan Cox
JWH v Liam

and

Sapwell v Simonsson
Rice v Napolitano (4)
Jhun v Sarmiento (q)
Smethers v Windhahl (q)
Jay v Dubarenco (3)
Neil v Vorster (1)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Pauffers gets the top seed again.

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Monday 15th of February 2016 10:02:31 PM

Spectator · All-time great

More than one, I suspect! But he's done well in difficult circumstances before.

-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 15th of February 2016 09:09:50 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Pauffers gets the top seed again.

That's the first thing I thought when I saw the draw too - Neil hasn't been too lucky recently, has he (apart from drawing unseeded Bambo in Glasgow, I think, which didn't turn out to be that lucky anyway!) - and I don't remember him having much luck in draws late last year either

A few interesting R1s - 2nd seed Liam v former juniors partner in crime JWH, 8th seed Lloyd v Dan Cox (who hasn't played an ATP-ranked event for about 5 months - I thought someone said he was only coaching now, so whether this is a comeback or a Josh Goodall-style one-off, I don't know) and a battle of former US college players between Ed and Joe.

I haven't got time to post the full draw now, unfortunately (apart from on the T25 table) - I'm only saying this so that anyone else who is thinking about doing it knows that I'm not going to be duplicating their work!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Pauffers gets the top seed again. I know one board member who won't be too happy with that.

I'm treading VERY carefully here - but sherb hasn't been around for some time, and with it being posted that Neil has moved back down south, I did rather wonder if things were OK between them......

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Matches involving Brits only:

L32: (1) Tucker Vorster (RSA) WR 299 (CH =278 last September) vs Neil Pauffley WR 554 (CH = 406 in August 2013)
L32: (Q) Oliver Hudson WR 2240 (CH = 986 in April 2012) vs Luke Bambridge WR 496 (= CH)

L32: (WC) Luke Oakley UNR (CH = 2054 last September) vs (Q) James Marsalek WR 729 (CH = 537 in May 2103)

L32: (3) Maxim Dubarenco WRb 348 (CH = 260 last August) vs (WC) Jay Clarke UNR
L32: (Q) Daniel Windahl (SWE) WRb960 (CH = 825 in September 2014) vs Dan Smethurst WR 490 (CH = 234 in June 2014)

L32: Joe Salisbury WR 648 (CH = 559 last October) vs Ed Corrie WR 486 (CH = 215 in October 2014)

L32: (8) Lloyd Glasspool WR 460 (= CH) vs Dan Cox WR 485 (?) (CH = 206 in July 2014)

L32: Raymond Sarmiento (USA) WR 717 (CH = 692 last June) vs (Q) Alex Jhun WR 1039 (CH = 1034 at the start of this month)
L32: Dave Rice WR 527 (CH = 283 in February 2014 vs (4) Stefano Napolitano (ITA) WR 414 (CH = 348 last June)

L32: Fred Simonsson (SWE) WR 664 (?) (CH = 655 last October) vs Josh Sapwell UNR
L32: Josh Ward-Hibbert WR 1068 (CH = 588 last February) vs (2) Liam Broady WR 287 (CH = 158 last August)

paulisi · Tennis legend

top half is a bit Brit heavy, but someone needs to take out the top seed.

Jaffa · Challenger level

Coup Droit wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
Pauffers gets the top seed again. I know one board member who won't be too happy with that.

I'm treading VERY carefully here - but sherb hasn't been around for some time, and with it being posted that Neil has moved back down south, I did rather wonder if things were OK between them......

Less said the better I'm afraid

Spectator · All-time great

Top half is indeed Brit-heavy, but not unusually Brit-friendly.

In the doubles, good to see the two Bs back together, and also Mr Corrie and Mr Smethurst. And Mr W-H and Mr Glasspool. Could be quite high level.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Edited my earlier post, just in case.

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Monday 15th of February 2016 10:03:14 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

Jaffa wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
Pauffers gets the top seed again. I know one board member who won't be too happy with that.

I'm treading VERY carefully here - but sherb hasn't been around for some time, and with it being posted that Neil has moved back down south, I did rather wonder if things were OK between them......
Less said the better I'm afraid

Opportunity for Pauffers to have a Liam moment so not all bad.

Spectator · All-time great

Was noting the strength of this tournament - but I just took a look at Plantation (this week's US futures). My general guideline for estimating strength is to look at the ranking of the 8th seed ... who there is Peter Torebko at 368. Top four are all in the 200s. The Murcia and Tunisian tournaments are also strong. I can see why people travel to some of the more out-of-the-way places!