Coup Droit wrote:

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Great updates, paulisi

Although this seems slightly contradictory:

"Aidan was terrific, just keeps the ball in play".

But it certainly seemed a good game on livestream, only watched the first set, which was close.

Such a shame for George - there aren't many opportunities and you need the rub of the green - one win here or there can make such a difference.

NB You say Liam's next match will be tough. Were you impressed by the guy? He's only being making QFs in 15ks recently, it's not much on paper.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 3rd of April 2019 01:02:48 PM

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 Aidan's style is built around impressive defence and it was very impressive.

I'm suggesting Liam's match will be tough as the guy dispatched Penno very easily.

Stircrazy wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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QF:  Gijs Brouwer & Glenn Smits (NED/NED) UNR (552+0) (ITF CR 242 [163+79]) vs Peter Bothwell (IRL) & Scott Duncan CR 1340 (854+486) (ITF CR 660 [376+284])

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L16:  (WC) Aidan McHugh & James Story UNR (ITF CR 110 [501+604]) defeated Yannick Mertens & Botic van de Zandschulp (BEL/NED) UNR (381+0) (ITF CR 333 [56+277]) by 3 & 4

L16:  (2) Marc-Andrea Hüsler & Julian Lenz (SUI/GER) CR 733 (165+568) (ITF CR 747 [308+339]) defeated Liam Broady & Lloyd Glasspool CR 1108 (245+863) (ITF CR 1615 [879+736]) by 6-3 4-6 [12-10]

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QF:  (4) Antoine Escoffier & Manuel Guinard (FRA/FRA) CR 1098 (520+578) (ITF CR 801 [536+265]) vs (WC) Aidan McHugh & James Story UNR (ITF CR 110 [501+604]) 

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L16:  Ryan Nijboer & Tim van Rijthoven (NED/NED) UNR (ITF UNR [198+0]) defeated (ALT) Adam Jones & Harry Meehan UNR (ITF UNR [990+0]) by 6-7(4) 6-4 [12-10] 

paulisi wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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Great updates, paulisi

Although this seems slightly contradictory:

"Aidan was terrific, just keeps the ball in play".

But it certainly seemed a good game on livestream, only watched the first set, which was close.

Such a shame for George - there aren't many opportunities and you need the rub of the green - one win here or there can make such a difference.

NB You say Liam's next match will be tough. Were you impressed by the guy? He's only being making QFs in 15ks recently, it's not much on paper.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 3rd of April 2019 01:02:48 PM

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 Aidan's style is built around impressive defence and it was very impressive.

I'm suggesting Liam's match will be tough as the guy dispatched Penno very easily.

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 Thanks. I meant were you actually impressed with his game, not just the result against Ryan P. And if so what about the game, because he hasn't been doing too well. But we're nearly at the next match now and your reports have been great so I'm not trying to nag for more  

Re Aidan, I've seen him play several times and loved his ball skills, even as a youngster, a natural, not the hot-housed style you see in some. But I do not feel that his defensive skills will be enough, although I appreciate that, given his size, he's limited in his choices. 

Some very enjoyable tennis on livestream this morning.

So far:

Not surprisingly, Lloyd outpowered Aidan to take the first set, 6-3, giving Aidan the run around.
However, Lloyd often goes a bit AWOL in his head so it's not won yet.

Close for Luke Johnson but ended up losing it 4-6.

Jack FH's isn't streamed but he also lost the first 4-6

Good chance now the second sets for both will be rather quicker.

Evan is in a real tussle (also not streamed) - just gone into a TB

THe ITF livestream link shows both, Helen. Although the two streamed courts have men's matches at the moment.

live.itftennis.com/en/live-streams/video.php


Jack's second set was indeed a lot quicker, and he loses 4-6 2-6

However, Luke has shown good resilience, and is making it tough for the Swiss second seed, now 4-3* to Luke.

Lloyd at the moment has the match in hand against Aidan, *4-2 up in the second.

Evan won the first set TB

Aidan started well enough in the second but got a bit despondent as he realised he was going to lose - his only real hope was that Lloyd would blow up/go AWOL as, play for play, Lloyd was the stronger player. But, credit to Lloyd, he didn't.
As said, I don't really see Aidan as ready for this level yet, or not as his best option, at any rate. He's a smart kid, he must have considered college etc. But he has an attractive game and lots of skills, I like watching him play ...
Nice to see Lloyd looking injury free and back on form

Lloyd def. Aidan 6-3 6-2

Evan is certainly becoming well battle hardened! A great string of results he's putting together.