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Stircrazy wrote:
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paulisi wrote:

Fuzion 100 = coconut water
Any guesses on the wildcards?
James Ward
George Loffhagen
Alex Ward
Neil Pauffley/Marcus Willis

 Hi - just to clarify I'm familiar with fuzion 100 drinks!  It was the reference to God's own county that tickled my fancy! 

And that's exactly how I interpreted it, knowing your Yorkshire background.  wink  Am Yorkshire-born myself, in the days when Middlesbrough was part of the North Riding & my family looked south for its allegiance rather than north to Skunk & Deckchair land, i.e. I'm Yorkshire before I'm English, English before I'm British & British before I'm European.  That said, I'm a convinced "Remainer"!  Haven't lived up there since the late 70s, though, & certainly don't sound like one.

now it all makes sense 



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QR1:  (qWC) Lloyd Glasspool WR 457 defeated Andrew Whittington (AUS) WR 291 by 5 & 4 

Nice way to justify the qWC.  smile



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Stircrazy wrote:

QR1:  (qWC) Lloyd Glasspool WR 457 defeated Andrew Whittington (AUS) WR 291 by 5 & 4 

Nice way to justify the qWC.  smile

 

QR2:   Akira Santillan (AUS) WR 211 (CH = 144 last November) vs (qWC) Lloyd Glasspool WR 457



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QR1:  (q4) Noah Rubin (USA) WR 173 defeated (qWC) Jonny Gray WR 593 by 3 & 3



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Finn 4-1* up on Billy ( was *4-0 )

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Finn eventually bags the set in a tie-break, 7-5.



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Finn is now a set and a break up, 7-6(5) *2-1, but in a Billy v Bass match, surely it's not over until the fat fish sings? (igmc ...)

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Main draw is out:

L32:  (WC) George Loffhagen WR 892 (CH = 875 last month) vs Qualifier

L32:  Liam Broady WR 167 (CH = 154 in April) vs (8) Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) WR 133 (CH = 31 in September 2010 - he's now 32)  bleh

L32:  (3) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA) WR 111 (CH = 70 in September last year) vs (WC) Alex Ward WR 327 (CH = 242 in June 2016)
L32:  Alexander Bublik (KAZ) WR 144 (CH = 95 last September) vs (WC) Aidan McHugh WR 957 (CH = 952 last month)

L32:  Darian King (BAR) WR 168 (CH = 106 in May last year) vs (WC) Jack Draper UNR (but only 16)



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Almost 2 1/2 hours into the match and Billy leads 4-2* in the decider against Finn. Sounds like quite a match.

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Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:

QR1:  (qWC) Lloyd Glasspool WR 457 defeated Andrew Whittington (AUS) WR 291 by 5 & 4 

Nice way to justify the qWC.  smile

 

QR2:   Akira Santillan (AUS) WR 211 (CH = 144 last November) vs (qWC) Lloyd Glasspool WR 457

Billy finally weathers the storm in the Bass Strait (sorry!  Very weak/poor):

QR1:  (qWC) Billy Harris WR 642 defeated (qWC) Finn Bass WR 789 by 6-7(5) 7-6(4) 6-2

*****

QR2:  Kamil Majchrzak (POL) WR 191 (CH = 181 last month) vs (qWC) Billy Harris WR 642

The Pole knocked out his compatriot, Hurkacz, the q1, in three sets.



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Pleased for Billy. Finn's has plenty of time on his side and is one for the future. Billy deserves some success given he is doing it the hard way, and as his only other QR1 match this year in Challengers was against a guy called Dan Evans, it is good to see him get the win today.

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So the MD WCs for Ilkley have largely gone to top junior aged players. I don't know what that tells us re whether some may usurp the old names for Wimbledon Q WCs.

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It tells us we have very few prospects ready to win at challenger level at the moment, other than the same old.

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It tells us we have a minimum of three exciting prospects in whose development it is well worth investing. Generally we would have one or no juniors worthy of pushing with any potential to gain experience likely to be of value later.

I see these guys and perhaps two or three others as having the potential to be Challenger regulars as teenagers. Jay sits in a void between Kyle/Cam and these guys but exciting times just round the corner in terms of British Challengrr Tennis relevant to the ATP tour later. You take it s number of ways but a glass half full moment for me.



-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Sunday 17th of June 2018 05:32:31 AM

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paulisi wrote:

It tells us we have very few prospects ready to win at challenger level at the moment, other than the same old.

 Appreciate Oakie's optimism but I'm rather with you, paulisi.

It's a sad state of affairs when you basically have to give all the wildcards to juniors (no matter how talented they are), and you have zero players age 18-23 to give them to.

Indeed, the fact that only one - Liam, age 24 - has qualified as of right - is awful. 



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