wolf wrote:

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Thanks both.

I was looking at Paulsi's twitter, apparently he was the only person watching the Glasspool match. I loved going to the Nottingham challenger as there was a good feel around the grounds, but I can just see myself hating this tournament but might go because my mom would love to watch Dustin.

If it rains, is there anywhere I can go inside and watch the French Open and have a bite to eat?

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 I have just had a look at Paul's twitter feed and see that he tweeted just before the start of the match from the small stand. There were a handful or two of people later on, plus about 15 'part-timers' like myself watching occasionally from Centre (you can see the back of that stand on the left of Paul's pic).

The friend I was with went to get food at one point and had no problem finding something suitable, but I have no idea whether there is anywhere to watch the French Open. Anyway the weather forecast for Manchester is quite reasonable this week. Getting a ticket may be more of a problem for Friday onwards though.

I watched all 3 matches.

Dan came out and literally complained from the first point through to the last point. He even turned on some of his own supporters at one point and was mean to them. I didn't want him to win (with such a crappy attitude)and he didn't play well enough to win. Not impressed!

I watched chunks of Lloyds match. I like his game and he's got plenty of shots. He had break points in the first game of the second set. If he'd gotten that game it may have taken a different direction. However Lu seemed to take control and was never behind from that Point.

I loved Liam / Sam match. Unlike evo's it was played in good spirits, had lots of good rally's, passing shots and volleys. A great grass court match. Liam had an extensive injury time out in the final set with ongoing treatments. You wouldn't have guessed he was injured, as he moved so well. At one point diving across court full stretch for a winning volley.

It's been a while since I've seen
Liam play this well. Sams serve got motoring middle of set 2 and got better and better. That was the main difference between them.

Brydan / ed.
ed could have won this in 2. I thought he was playing the better tennis. As with evo's attitude brydan needs a good shake. Injury time out for ed in set 2. His form did slip a little. I left at the start of set 3 as my fingers were turning blue.

Btw.... I was told off (as others were) for excessively using my phone. Apparently smaller taunaments are doing this to try to combat point by point Ilegal gambling. Whilst it's certainly a problem this isn't the way to do it.

-- Edited by Jiwan on Tuesday 31st of May 2016 04:48:28 PM

At last, a result goes the right way today.

Jiwan wrote:

Btw.... I was told off (as others were) for excessively using my phone. Apparently smaller taunaments are doing this to try to combat point by point Ilegal gambling. Whilst it's certainly a problem this isn't the way to do it.

-- Edited by Jiwan on Tuesday 31st of May 2016 04:48:28 PM

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 Then what is? 

Interesting day. Seems that there were a few forumites around today. It didn't feel that windy, but there were some gusty periods. it was very warm until 2.30

When I was there at 10.55, I was the only person on court 1, but Nick Weal followed alongside Fitzy and Lloyd's friends and a couple of others.

There is now a small stand behind court 1 and some seats around court 2. Parking is limited to street parking, unless you are well connected.
Bags are searched on entry, bands have to be worn as well as purchasing tickets and the mobile/internet rule is being enforced strictly.

There is a food hall which looked ok, but I'm not sure they had the tennis on( not that there was much play in Paris)

As for the tennis - Glasspool has all the weapons. Dominated the first set, with Lu making lots of errors. Second set, Lloyd's first serve wasn't consistent enough and Lu cut out the errors and started to play well.
Lloyd always looked capable of breaking and despite going a break down in the final set, did break back only to give it away at the end.

Didn't see any of Evo's match, but he sounded frustrated.
Missed most of the first set of Liam's match, but I have to say he played very well. Dominated the second set and did well in the third set to break back, only to lose it right at the end. Excellent crowd for that match including a big Broady family following. Groth didn't look very fit - breathing hard and his serve was very hit and miss. Too many double faults. Liam had the better ground shots.
Corrie v Klein was tight, but Corrie was the better player and deserved to win. Klein needs more matches.

wolf wrote:

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There's a lucky loser spot available, any chance Luke can get it, what are the rules?

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 It'll depend on who signs in tomorrow first. Pretty sure it's a random draw now