Week 1 - USA F1 ($25,000) - Los Angeles, CA (Hard)

gazzpash · Club Coach

Week 1 - USA F1 ($25,000) - Los Angeles, CA (Hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

gazzpash wrote:
I know from talking to Joe that he had been suffering a recurring injury whilst playing singles so for the foreseeable future he will be focused on Doubles and climbing those rankings.

Thanks for that. Hope he gets over the problem.

In the meantime if Luke & Joe are going to be regular partners it will be interesting to see how they do. While wanting players to give singles every chance we for a number of years have not had anyone anywhere close to joining what I have referred to as our "big six" - our consistent too 100 performers. And while doubles players can and do go on for a long time it would be good to see some new blood.

indiana · Tennis legend

gazzpash wrote:
I know from talking to Joe that he had been suffering a recurring injury whilst playing singles so for the foreseeable future he will be focused on Doubles and climbing those rankings.

Thanks for that. Hope he gets over the problem fairly soon.

In the meantime if Luke & Joe are going to be regular partners it will be interesting to see how they do. While wanting players to give singles every chance we for a number of years have not had anyone anywhere close to joining what I have referred to as our "big six" - our consistent top 100 performers. And while doubles players can and do go on for a long time it would be good to see some new blood.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 4th of January 2017 08:01:38 PM

Oakland2002 · All-time great

"Big Six" has American "World series" like connotations.

I greatly appreciate the cunning Ransome reference (he married Trotski's secretary) as an antidote to the impending Trump inauguration and his alt right transatlantic anointment but would prefer the more subtle irony of an alternative Ransome tittle as a monica for our better doubles players: "The Coot club".

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Thursday 5th of January 2017 03:02:34 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

Ha Ha, I thought this time, with my even clearer pointing of what I meant by our doubles "big 6", I might have got a clear path.

Expect it to still occur from relevant time to time

PS: you lost me with your second paragraph.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 4th of January 2017 07:26:18 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (1) Luke Bambridge & Joe Salisbury CR 536 (218+318) defeated Dekel Bar & Nathaniel Lammons (ISR/USA) CR 1343 (729+614) by 3 & 5 smile

indiana · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Luke Bambridge & Joe Salisbury CR 536 (218+318) vs (4) Markos Kalovelonis & Timur Khabibulin (RUS/KAZ) CR 738 (427+311)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Arthur Ransome wrote some beautiful children's books, the most famous, "Swallows and Amazons" based in the Lake District. The most recent film of which is top draw if you have kids, a healthy antidote to animated Pixar fare, although I can see the swallows Mum having serious problems with social services for letting her 7 yr old sleep out on a Lakeland Island.

He also wrote a couple based in the Norfolk broads, the "Big Six" a reference to the commonest six types of birds found on the Norfolk broads and being spotted by the kids in the book, the second, "The Coot Club" referring to a gang of children (all excellent doubles players! Or was it sailors) who worked as a group to protect the coots nests from ignorant tourists who destroyed them when mooring their boats inconsiderately. A fine band of brothers and sisters not unlike our doubles specialists.

Interestingly Arthur Ransome spent time as a journalist in Russia before the First World War where he met his second wife who worked directly for Trotsky. Ransome although a patriot working for MI5 had left wing views. This is where I lover your irony. He was in every respect the antithesis of the next US president who left to his own devices would I am sure rename the US closed tennis championship the "World tennis championship" to go along with the world championships they currently hold (for their own teams only) in Baseball, American football and Basketball.

I just thought the monica, "Coot Club" , would also avoid any nonsense (ie a British elite of 8! The Big 8 is not a Ransome book!) should Mr Salisbury and Bambridge join our other eminent doubles players and spend time as members of the "coot club" sailing closer to the pinnacle of the game.

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Thursday 5th of January 2017 03:45:35 AM

Spectator · All-time great

Fascinating. Lots of new and interesting information from you, today, Oakland! I had no idea of Ransome's 'other' life. Some of Trotsky's secretaries clearly had better judgement than others.
On a tournament-related note, the doubles pairing in the next round is a complete unknown so far as I'm concerned. Anyone else know anything about them? On the bottom half of the draw, there is an excellent (could be Challenger-level) SF involving Clay Thompson and Marcos Giron v Hanfmann and Quiroz.

-- Edited by Spectator on Thursday 5th of January 2017 09:49:10 AM

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Thank you it's a pleasure!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (1) Luke Bambridge & Joe Salisbury CR 536 (218+318) defeated (4) Markos Kalovelonis & Timur Khabibulin (RUS/KAZ) CR 738 (427+311) by 2-6 6-1 [10-4] smile

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Final: (1) Luke Bambridge & Joe Salisbury CR 536 (218+318) vs Yannick Hanfmann & Roberto Quiroz (GER/ECU) CR 1067 (801+266)

Spectator · All-time great

Good win and a good test in the final. Watched a bit of the streamed match between Kwiatkowski/Altamirano and Hanfmann/Quiroz. It confirmed that Quiroz in particular is excellent - doesn't belong in Futures.

goldfish · Futures qualifying

My Canadian-based sister-in-law told me only yesterday that the 'World Championship' title was based on it originally being sponsored by 'The World' newspaper. Having just checked this, however, it looks like even this is a myth and that they were originally called the World's Championship, with the intention of other countries joining in. This hasn't happened and in the meantime the name has been shortened.

roadsidephotos.sabr.org/baseball/name.htm

Jared · Social player

From the U.S. college tennis perspective, this tourney is interesting because it's the last pro "warm-up" prior to the commencement of the Spring season. And, for some reason, 5 of the top 6 Virginia players (they are the two-time defending NCAA champs) are there and they're all playing in mid-season form already - including J.C. Aragone, Thai-son Kwiatkowski (who upset #1 seed Tommy Paul - a friend of Cameron Norrie), Carl Soderland and Collin Altamirano. Virginia is preseason #1 and TCU is #2 (according to collegetennistoday) and all these guys are rivals of Cam - Frog fans watch Virginia players closely. Go Bambo (in the doubles)!