Week 14 - ITF M25 - Bolton, Great Britain (indoor hard)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 14 - ITF M25 - Bolton, Great Britain (indoor hard)

Jaffa · Challenger level

To be fair there was a video of Huesler and Lloyd walking off the court. I dont think Huesler wouldve gone to that much trouble if he wanted to be somewhere else.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Lloyd is struggling early on.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
seagull wrote:
the addict wrote:
I thought I saw something on twitter that said he "retired" after the warm-up
Had a plane to catch!!
Well, there may be some sceptics here () but the official line, as above, is:
LTA Competitions @LTACompetitions 6h6 hours ago

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An early end to the first match of the day! No. 2 seed Marc-Andrea Huesler calls it a day after the warm-up due to injury, and GB's Lloyd Glasspool is straight into the singles semifinals! #GBProSeries #tennis

It looks as though the LTA was telling porkies: Hüsler is definitely in Taipei!

paulisi · Tennis legend

Lloyd got a good beating

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Bloody Sijsling:

SF: Igor Sijsling (NED) WR 424 (ITF 372) defeated Lloyd Glasspool WR 430 (ITF 90) by 2 & 0 cry furious

paulisi · Tennis legend

Don't worry, he'll be playing challengers soon when his ITF ranking gets bumped up

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Don't worry, he'll be playing challengers soon when his ITF ranking gets bumped up

Maybe so, but the sod's still in the Sunderland main draw next week! evileye

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

But on the other hand, while I'm not as interested in the men's game and didn't watch the match, so don't know the context, nor do I know much about this Sizzling fella and if he should really be competing above this level, you'd think if Lloyd is losing routinely in next to no time in a 25k match, especially being fresh from a QF bye, it wouldn't bode too well going into the generally stronger challenger level.

Miriambee · Futures level

Ace Ventura wrote:
But on the other hand, while I'm not as interested in the men's game and didn't watch the match, so don't know the context, nor do I know much about this Sizzling fella and if he should really be competing above this level, you'd think if Lloyd is losing routinely in next to no time in a 25k match, especially being fresh from a QF bye, it wouldn't bode too well going into the generally stronger challenger level.

this Sizzling fella (as your predictive texting has it presumably!), did have a career high of 52 5-7 years ago, and was below 200 until 3 years ago. He should have always been one to watch this week and next as the potential winner. I think it's no surprise that he trounced Lloyd, though in 45 minutes is pretty impressive.

Miriambee · Futures level

Noticed it's going to be an all Dutch singles and doubles finals.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Sijsling's scores in his 4 matches so far this week.

6-1 6-2 (against 3rd seed with WR 364)
6-2 6-1
6-2 6-2 (against Evan on a hot streak)
6-2 6-0

So I don't think we should read too much into Lloyd's result other than Sijsling, when fit, is far too good for this level.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Yep, that is impressive, especially the ones you expanded on.

On the other hand, I suppose it's just tennis as well. In the women's, 7th seed Shinikova, ranked circa 200, won a 25k title a few weeks ago and her fans would see her come up against a qualifier in Jodie, ranked 350, and expect her to have a great chance of making the semi final, yet goes down 1-6 0-6.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Ace Ventura wrote:
Yep, that is impressive, especially the ones you expanded on.

On the other hand, I suppose it's just tennis as well. In the women's, 7th seed Shinikova, ranked circa 200, won a 25k title a few weeks ago and her fans would see her come up against a qualifier in Jodie, ranked 350, and expect her to have a great chance of making the semi final, yet goes down 1-6 0-6.

That's why we love tennis. Anything can happen.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Hi level final and the better player won (just) - no wonder Liam lost to him...