Week 6 - Great Britain F2 ($15,000) - Tipton (indoor, hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Week 6 - Great Britain F2 ($15,000) - Tipton (indoor, hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
QR2: (q1) Farris Gosea WR 797 defeated Yanaïs Laurent (FRA) WR 1157 by 6-3 7-6(1)
QR2: Alexis Canter WR 1597 defeated (q13) Luca Roncalli (ITA) WR 1120 by 7-6(3) 6-4
QR2: Scott Duncan UNR defeated (q16) Corrado Summaria (ITA) WR 1136 by 2 & 3
QR2: (q3) Gian Marco Moroni (ITA) WR 816 defeated (qWC) Anton Matusevich UNR by 7-6(8) 6-2
QR2: (q4) Pietro Licciardi (ITA) WR 839 defeated (qWC) Ryan Storrie UNR by 5-7 7-5 6-4
QR2: Oliver Hudson WR 1593 defeated (q9) Adrian Andrzejczuk (POL) WR 967 by 6-2 1-6 7-6(5)
QR2: (q15) Simon Carr (IRL) WR 1131 defeated Isaac Stoute UNR by 7-6(3) 6-4
QR2: (q10) Josh Paris WR 970 defeated (qWC) Will Davies UNR by 6-3 3-6 7-6(4)
QR2: (q11) Nicholas Hu (USA) WR 1012 defeated (qWC) Max Stewart UNR by 4 & 3
QR2: (q8) Pirmin Hänle (GER) WR 947 (CH = 526 in September 2009 - he's 29) vs Luke Oakley WR 1359
QR2: Jonathan Binding WR 1769 vs (q12) Vincent Jänsch-Müller (GER) WR 1107
*****
FQR: (q1) Farris Gosea WR 797 vs Alexis Canter WR 1597
FQR: (q2) John Lamble (USA) WR 807 (CH = 796 last October) or Tadas Tarasevicius (LTU) WR 1772 vs Scott Duncan UNR
FQR: (q4) Pietro Licciardi (ITA) WR 839 vs Oliver Hudson WR 1593
FQR: Ryane Roumane (FRA) UNR vs (q10) Josh Paris WR 970
FQR: (q8) Pirmin Hänle (GER) WR 947 or Luke Oakley WR 1359 vs Jonathan Binding WR 1769 or (q12) Vincent Jänsch-Müller (GER) WR 1107

QR2: Luke Oakley WR 1359 defeated (q8) Pirmin Hänle (GER) WR 947 by 7-6(7) 3-6 6-4 biggrin
QR2: (q12) Vincent Jänsch-Müller (GER) WR 1107 defeated Jonathan Binding WR 1769 by 6-4 5-7 6-3

*****

FQR: (q2) John Lamble (USA) WR 807 vs Scott Duncan UNR

FQR: Luke Oakley WR 1359 vs (q12) Vincent Jänsch-Müller (GER) WR 1107

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

The Optimist wrote:
Mervatron2 wrote:
I've been to Shrewsbury a few times and the viewing was good. Unless they've changed it recently.
Sure you're thinking of the right place? There's a line of courts with a cafe with a glass wall beside court 1, so you can see that clearly but not really any of the rest as you're looking down the line of them. There's also an upstairs viewing gallery where you can get a good look at the 2 middle courts. It's a reasonable size area but the viewing windows are quite small and depending on the number of people watching it can be quite hard to get a spot where you get a good view. But agree, very nice club and friendly venue.

-- Edited by The Optimist on Sunday 5th of February 2017 11:26:27 AM

Oops!! It's me whose thinking of the wrong place - I was describing Wrexham

Mark1968 · Intermediate Club Player

paulisi wrote:
Shrewsbury is a great venue, but viewing on the main courts near the balcony is great. The far courts are not great to watch.

Yes that's the problem, you can only see the two end courts from the small balcony ( if you get your place early enough), you can't watch the other courts very well. Properly designed tennis halls such as Loughborough, Edgbaston etc have a raised walkway between the two sets of courts so you can walk up and down and stand directly behind any court and view without obstruction.

paulisi · Tennis legend

The Optimist wrote:
The Optimist wrote:
Mervatron2 wrote:
I've been to Shrewsbury a few times and the viewing was good. Unless they've changed it recently.
Sure you're thinking of the right place? There's a line of courts with a cafe with a glass wall beside court 1, so you can see that clearly but not really any of the rest as you're looking down the line of them. There's also an upstairs viewing gallery where you can get a good look at the 2 middle courts. It's a reasonable size area but the viewing windows are quite small and depending on the number of people watching it can be quite hard to get a spot where you get a good view. But agree, very nice club and friendly venue.

-- Edited by The Optimist on Sunday 5th of February 2017 11:26:27 AM
Oops!! It's me whose thinking of the wrong place - I was describing Wrexham

Wrexham hasn't hosted an ITF indoor tournament for a while, the previous one's were outdoors and spectator facilities were limited.

I've been to many a venue to watch ITFs/Challengers/ATP/WTA events(Liverpool, Wirral, Wrexham, Preston, Manchester(SC), Didsbury, Ilkley, Edgbaston, Nottingham, Wimbledon, Sydney etc and they all have their downfalls in one way or another, but most indoor centres have a raised walkway with viewing behind one end of the court. Shrewsbury have floor level curtains.

Still no results or draws up for Tipton yet.

-- Edited by paulisi on Monday 6th of February 2017 04:26:56 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Glasgow is very good with its one stand facing side on to 3 courts on one side with four courts on the other side, two being mainly practice courts, and a raised a walkway in between so yes can easily watch any match from one end of the court as well as side on to the 'main' court from the stand with two courts beyond.

Would clearly be potentially more difficult with more people on the walkway, but seemed generally just coaches, acquaintances and a few general spectators so as I say was very easy to just make a choice where to hang for a while.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L16: (1) Scott Clayton & Jonny O'Mara CR 593 (281+312) vs Florian Fallert & Tobias Simon (GER/GER) CR 1818 (788+1030)
L16: Neil Pauffley & Marcus Willis CR 1773 (716+1057) vs Nicholas Hu & John Lamble (USA/USA) CR 1504 (967+537)

L16: (4) Jannis Kahlke & Oscar Otte (GER/GER) CR 952 (745+207) vs (WC) Jonathan Binding & Matthew Hingley CR (2922 (1319+1603)
L16: (WC) Lloyd Glasspool & Luke Oakley CR 1707 (357+1350) vs Erik Crepaldi & Pirmin Hänle (ITA/GER) CR 1217 (455+762)

L16: Pietro Licciardi & Gian Marco Moroni (ITA/ITA) CR vs Farris Gosea & Tim Kopinski (USA) CR 1279 (488+791)
(WC) Will Davies & Joe Tyler UNR vs (3) Adrian Andrzejczuk & Adam Majchrowicz (POL/POL) CR 866 (552+314)

L16: Jay Clarke & Jonny Gray CR 2082 (735) vs Clement Geens & Omar Salman (BEL/BEL) CR 1360 (684+676)

indiana · Tennis legend

Glasgow efforts certainly being rewarded with WCs for Aidan McHugh, Jonathan Gray and Marcus Walters. The fourth goes to Joel Connell.

Interesting little section :
(5) Willis vs (WC) McHugh
(WC) Cannell vs (WC) Gray

Jay Clarke meets his SF conquerer from last week, Hugo Grenier (FRA), the Glasgow losing finalist.

With *no Brits through from qualifying, our 10 in R1 are very unevenly spread through the quarters, i.e. 1 (Jay), 4, 5 and 0.

* Evidently Canter lost in QR2 6-4 6-4 so we did not have an all Brit Gosea vs Canter match in the FQR.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 6th of February 2017 06:19:49 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

To lose all five FQR matches is a little disappointing, to say the least....

indiana · Tennis legend

Indeed, no wins, no sets in the FQR :

(q1) Farris Gosea WR 797 lost to (q13) Simone Roncalli (ITA) WR 1120 6-3 6-3
Scott Duncan UNR lost to (q2) John Lamble (USA) WR 807 6-2 4-0 retired
Oliver Hudson WR 1593 lost to (q4) Pietro Licciardi (ITA) WR 839 6-4 6-4
(q10) Josh Paris WR 970 lost to Rayane Roumane (FRA) UNR 6-4 6-4
Luke Oakley WR 1359 lost to (q12) Vincent Jaensch-Mueller (GER) WR 1107 7-5 6-3

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

L32: Jay Clarke WR 504 (= CH) vs Hugo Grenier (FRA) WR 432 (= CH)

L32: (3) Lloyd Glasspool WR 364 (CH = 282 last July) vs (Q) Simone Roncalli (ITA) WR 1116 (CH = 908 last September)
L32: Neil Pauffley WR 623 (CH = 406 in August 2015) vs Jonny O'Mara WR 513 (CH = 502 last month)
L32: Scott Clayton WR 769 (CH = 689 last October) vs (Q) Nicholas Hu (USA) WR 983 (= CH)

L32: (5) Marcus Willis WR 445 (CH = 322 in June 2014) vs (WC) Aidan McHugh UNR
L32: (WC) Joel Cannell WR 825 (CH = 822 last December) vs (WC) Jonny Gray WR 1361 (CH = 1205 last October)
L32: (Q) Marcus Walters UNR (CH = 1592 in September 2015) vs (4) Erik Crepaldi (ITA) WR 437 (CH = 282 in September 2015)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Not great draws in reality. Glasspool and Willis should go deep, but the rest may struggle. Neil v Jonny should be interesting

Spectator · All-time great

Agree - rather grim draws for the younger players. And a real pity that Neil Pauffley and Jonny O'Mara, two of our best, play each other in the first round. Ah well ...

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Jonny O'Mara has retired midway through the 1st set against Neil Pauffley. Now I'm worried.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Scott lost the 1st set on a TB and Jay C is already *0-2 down. Not a good day for the Brits so far, but a long way to go.