Week 9 - Canada F1 ($25,000) - Gatineau - Hard (indoor)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 9 - Canada F1 ($25,000) - Gatineau - Hard (indoor)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Not to be but a great effort by the youngster:

QR1: Josh Wilson (GBR) UNR (age 15) lost to GHINDA, Iancu-lustinian (CAN) UNR 7-6(4) 7-5

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

You can't get a much better draw than this.....

In the MD:

R1:

Ed Corrie WR 458 v Q

Luke Bambridge WR 490 v Q

Daniel Smethurst WR 491 v (7) Adrian Sikora (SVK) WR 411 (CH 275 in Feb 14)

Lloyd Glasspool WR 439 v (PR) Christian Harrison UNR (CH 351 in July 13)

(1) Liam Broady WR 290 v Q

The two LBs playing doubles together, the Ed-Dan dream team together, and Lloyd with Peliwo

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

I notice if Dan manages to win through then might have a second round match against the young Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Spectator · All-time great

What happened? Potentially decent draws for three of our players? Something must have gone amiss. Hope that when the Qs are assigned they really are good draws.

Hard for Mr Glasspool to be up against the younger Harrison - both a fine player and someone it would feel churlish not to wish well. I noticed he and Ms Robson were tweeting each other a little while ago about their respective injury comebacks.

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

First set Lloyd 7-6(2)

indiana · Tennis legend

Second set Lloyd 6-3

G,S & M

All the best going forward though for younger Harrison.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 1st of March 2016 01:12:59 AM

Spectator · All-time great

Nicely put

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

This six months is going to be very interesting with Lloyd.

He's shown he's a very able 10-15k player. The question is can he now move up to the next level.

Sim's table shows that pretty much half of us think 'yes' and half think 'no'.

I'm in the 'yes' camp. But it's all to be seen. Consolidating where he is now would not be so bad either, and would move him up a fair bit, given his lack of points till summer.

But it's not what the big picture is about.

His next match will be against Halebian who put out Evan King in two sets.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Bambo a set and a break up

paulisi · Tennis legend

Bambo won 7-5 7-6(5)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Ed breaks straight away 2-0 up

Ed is very much a confidence player and tends to have good results in batches, so I'm expecting a good few weeks in Canada after his good week in Shrewsbury.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Ed won 1&1

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well done, Ed.

So much trouble with injury in the last 6 months - so good to see him back and feeling fit and up-beat.

Of course, he's in line to get the top seed in the next round so that's a whole different kettle of fish from a 29 year-old WR 866 qualifier but well done, all the same.

Bambo too may well end up with Quigley in R2 which is a tricky match, to say the least, but this is a 25K after all.....

DF · Tennis legend

Lloyd+ won their doubles 6-2 6-2