Week 25 - ATP 250 - Nottingham (grass)

murrayman650 · ATP level

RE: Week 25 - ATP 250 - Nottingham (grass)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Conceded just 7pts

Ernie · Junior player

Great first set for Milton!!! surprised but thrilled to see Storrie take WR 79 to a 3rd set

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ryan bows out but that set wasn't a walkover, despite the score (took Robert to 40 on his serve, got broken to 40....)

Great show. Well done, all the same....

And allez, Josh !

steven · Tennis legend

Very impressed that Ryan took a set off the veteran Brit-basher, while Josh seems to be taking full advantage of the fact that this is Arevalo's first senior match on grass

, though the Salvadoran did play Wimbledon juniors 8 years ago, going out in straight sets in R1.

paulisi · Tennis legend

No suprise that Ryan took a set. I saw him at Ilkley and he outplayed a good challenger player in the first set.

He has all the shots. Not sure he is tactically or mentally astute yet, but that will come.

indiana · Tennis legend

Impressive scorelines from Ryan and Jay.

These two certainly seem to stand out among our juniors at the moment. And at a time when the cupboard is a bit bare there and notably also into the early senior years of GB men's tennis they are two players who the LTA need to really be helping along the way much more than the odd WC, while no doubt these are appreciated.

Things are really going very well at the top end of GB men's tennis just now but it is a worry how little we have in late teens and early twenties. Hence assuredly the need to support these two guys.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Some very welcome points for Josh, who has had a lean spell recently.

indiana · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Some very welcome points for Josh, who has had a lean spell recently.

Yes, very welcome, though with a 48 man MD just 3 points so far and 5 if he wins his FQR.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yes. Not much in the points department.

But a decent cheque.

And so nice to see a win, and boost for him.

RJA · Hall of fame

Coup Droit wrote:
Such a shame Lloyd didn't get that second set.

Perhaps. Personally however I would rather see him playing Wimbledon qualifying than making the main draw here so I am not too upset by the result.

philwrig · Hall of fame

wolf wrote:
QR1: (q1) Stephane Robert (FRA) WR 79 v (qWC) Ryan James Storrie UNR
QR1: (qWC) Jay Clarke WR 1446 v (q5) Matthew Barton (AUS) WR 251
QR1: (q3) Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) WR 227 v Joshua Milton WR 440
QR1: (ALT) Lloyd Glasspool WR 307 v (q8) Michal Konecny (CZE) WR 294

R1: Malek Jaziri (TUN) WR 64 v (WC) James Ward WR 178
R1: (WC) Alexander Ward WR 246 v Qualifier
R1: Lukas Rosol (CZE) WR 72 v Kyle Edmund WR 85
R1: Daniel Evans WR 92 v (WC) Liam Broady WR 234
R1: (WC) Brydan Klein WR 275 v Qualifier

Evo is up in the H2H 1-0, but Liam was only 15 at the time, so I think we can scrap that.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Milts was on fire today, until 6-0 5-2 40-0, it got a bit tense for us spectators at the end, but Milts always had it under control I think. When he plays like that, you want him to carry on and never hang up his racquet.

Ryan also played a great match, and Lloyd was so unlucky not to get anything out of his match.

Finally Jay showed again why he's got a great future, pushing his much higher ranked opponent all the way. He doesn't really have any weaknesses and looks like he enjoys every second on court.

-- Edited by philwrig on Saturday 18th of June 2016 09:13:01 PM

-- Edited by philwrig on Saturday 18th of June 2016 09:13:52 PM

Priesty · Challenger level

Anyone planning to be there on Monday? I hope to be depending on weather and OOP. Hoping for better luck than at Edgbaston the other day.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The weather is forecast to be really dodgy for Monday, and then a lot better for the rest of the week, Priesty.

To be honest, the forecasters here have had problems this last week, and may well be wrong, but if you could, you might want to try and re-arrange to go on Tuesday?????