Week 30 - St. James’s Place Battle of The Brits Team Tennis - NTC, Roehampton, United Kingdom (Hard)

the addict · Tennis legend

Week 30 - St. James’s Place Battle of The Brits Team Tennis - NTC, Roehampton, United Kingdom (Hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Looking at points and matches, I can see bulldogs winning a few early ones, UJs coming back and it going down to the last mixed. Could be close! 16-13 last day to UJs...maybe

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Saturday 1st of August 2020 10:40:17 PM

PaulM · Tennis legend

No Boulter or Konta. Difficult for the BB with Norrie injured too.

Barnett v Lumsden for three points is quite a big one.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
No Boulter or Konta. Difficult for the BB with Norrie injured too.

Barnett v Lumsden for three points is quite a big one.

Agreed, my instinct though is as per BOLD. I am very often wrong though!!! smile

Anton Matusevich vs Alastair Gray 2 Points GRAY
Naomi Broady vs Emma Raducanu 2 Points RADUCANU
Jan Choinski vs Kyle Edmund 3 Points EDMUND
Jodie Burrage vs Harriet Dart 3 Points DART
A Murray / N Broady vs K Edmund / E Raducanu 4 Points MURRAY/BROADY
J Murray / H Watson vs J Salisbury / H Dart 5 Points MURRAY/WATSON

Court One
Alicia Barnett vs Maia Lumsden 3 Points LUMSDEN
Ryan Peniston vs Liam Broady 2 Points PENISTON
Heather Watson vs Beth Grey 2 Points WATSON
Dan Evans vs Aidan McHugh 3 Points EVANS

ROSAMUND · Futures level

PaulM wrote:
No Boulter or Konta. Difficult for the BB with Norrie injured too.

Barnett v Lumsden for three points is quite a big one.

Why no Katie or Jo ? Apart from the fact in the actual event Jo just met the minimum requirements for playing.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

ROSAMUND wrote:
PaulM wrote:
No Boulter or Konta. Difficult for the BB with Norrie injured too.

Barnett v Lumsden for three points is quite a big one.
Why no Katie or Jo ? Apart from the fact in the actual event Jo just met the minimum requirements for playing.

Annie talked about injuries in the team a few days back, so we know that Cam is deffo injured, but I suspect that's the main reason. Only other thing that I can think of is that Jo's resting for the tour, but she's pulled out of Palermo as far as I know. Shame, I was rooting for the underdogs. I think Emma's burnt out too, good experience for her though especially early in the week playing a blinder against Andy.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Helen40 wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
PaulM wrote:
No Boulter or Konta. Difficult for the BB with Norrie injured too.

Barnett v Lumsden for three points is quite a big one.
Why no Katie or Jo ? Apart from the fact in the actual event Jo just met the minimum requirements for playing.
Annie talked about injuries in the team a few days back, so we know that Cam is deffo injured, but I suspect that's the main reason. Only other thing that I can think of is that Jo's resting for the tour, but she's pulled out of Palermo as far as I know. Shame, I was rooting for the underdogs. I think Emma's burnt out too, good experience for her though especially early in the week playing a blinder against Andy.

Jo pulled out of Palermo because she decided to play Lexington in the USA in preparation for the US Open. By chance I heard an interview with Jo last week on Live Drive in which she talks about hiring a car in Lexington. She then discussed what conditions would be like at the US Open. I know Katie is not playing the US Open although she is qualified to do so.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
PaulM wrote:
No Boulter or Konta. Difficult for the BB with Norrie injured too.

Barnett v Lumsden for three points is quite a big one.
Agreed, my instinct though is as per BOLD. I am very often wrong though!!!
Anton Matusevich vs Alastair Gray 2 Points GRAY
Naomi Broady vs Emma Raducanu 2 Points RADUCANU
Jan Choinski vs Kyle Edmund 3 Points EDMUND
Jodie Burrage vs Harriet Dart 3 Points DART
A Murray / N Broady vs K Edmund / E Raducanu 4 Points MURRAY/BROADY
J Murray / H Watson vs J Salisbury / H Dart 5 Points MURRAY/WATSON

Court One
Alicia Barnett vs Maia Lumsden 3 Points LUMSDEN
Ryan Peniston vs Liam Broady 2 Points PENISTON
Heather Watson vs Beth Grey 2 Points WATSON
Dan Evans vs Aidan McHugh 3 Points EVANS

Lumsden a ser up on Barnett, Matusevich on Gray. If Anton wins , it really helps the UJs

SuperT · Futures level

ROSAMUND wrote:
Helen40 wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
PaulM wrote:
No Boulter or Konta. Difficult for the BB with Norrie injured too.

Barnett v Lumsden for three points is quite a big one.
Why no Katie or Jo ? Apart from the fact in the actual event Jo just met the minimum requirements for playing.
Annie talked about injuries in the team a few days back, so we know that Cam is deffo injured, but I suspect that's the main reason. Only other thing that I can think of is that Jo's resting for the tour, but she's pulled out of Palermo as far as I know. Shame, I was rooting for the underdogs. I think Emma's burnt out too, good experience for her though especially early in the week playing a blinder against Andy.
Jo pulled out of Palermo because she decided to play Lexington in the USA in preparation for the US Open. By chance I heard an interview with Jo last week on Live Drive in which she talks about hiring a car in Lexington. She then discussed what conditions would be like at the US Open. I know Katie is not playing the US Open although she is qualified to do so.

I think it's really disappointing that Jo has played so little this week, especially considering how tight the match is. As the top women's player the Bulldogs could really do with her experience and surely she could do with some match practice after so long out? I would fancy Emma to beat Naomi 99 times our of 100 but I agree Emma looks really tired and I'm worried this might be a match too far for her.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

BBs/UJs: Maia Lumsden WR 368 defeated Alicia Barnett WR 569 by 3 & 3

48-45

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
BBs/UJs: Maia Lumsden WR 368 defeated Alicia Barnett WR 569 by 3 & 3
48-45

UJs/BBs: Anton Matusevich WR 564 defeated Alastair Gray WR 1089 by 3 & 2

47-48

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
BBs/UJs: Maia Lumsden WR 368 defeated Alicia Barnett WR 569 by 3 & 3
48-45
UJs/BBs: Anton Matusevich WR 564 defeated Alastair Gray WR 1089 by 3 & 2
47-48

BBs/UJs: Emma Raducanu WR 338 defeated Naomi Broady WR 499 by 3 & 3

50-47

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
BBs/UJs: Maia Lumsden WR 368 defeated Alicia Barnett WR 569 by 3 & 3
48-45
UJs/BBs: Anton Matusevich WR 564 defeated Alastair Gray WR 1089 by 3 & 2
47-48
BBs/UJs: Emma Raducanu WR 338 defeated Naomi Broady WR 499 by 3 & 3
50-47

Despite BBs winning 2 of 3 so far today, that 1 win for UJs could be vital. Liam has won opening set v Ryan though, which could make it interesting.

telstar · Strong Club Player

the addict wrote:
And here we are, the final day

Sunday 2nd August From 10:00am
Centre Court

(Schedule shows Union Jacks first)

Anton Matusevich vs Alastair Gray 2 Points
Naomi Broady vs Emma Raducanu 2 Points
Jan Choinski vs Kyle Edmund 3 Points
Jodie Burrage vs Harriet Dart 3 Points
A Murray / N Broady vs K Edmund / E Raducanu 4 Points
J Murray / H Watson vs J Salisbury / H Dart 5 Points

Court One
Alicia Barnett vs Maia Lumsden 3 Points
Ryan Peniston vs Liam Broady 2 Points
Heather Watson vs Beth Grey 2 Points
Dan Evans vs Aidan McHugh 3 Points

So not playing at all on the final deciding day are

Lloyd and Cam (top scoring men for their respective teams)

Jo ( highest ranked woman in the competition) and Katie ( top 100 last year)

I appreciate that Cam is injured but the others look like either cases of players lacking team spirit or else very strange team selections.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
BBs/UJs: Maia Lumsden WR 368 defeated Alicia Barnett WR 569 by 3 & 3
48-45
UJs/BBs: Anton Matusevich WR 564 defeated Alastair Gray WR 1089 by 3 & 2
47-48
BBs/UJs: Emma Raducanu WR 338 defeated Naomi Broady WR 499 by 3 & 3
50-47

BBs/UJs: Liam Broady WR 211 defeated Ryan Peniston WR 393 by 7-6(1) 6-3 [12-10]

52-47