Entries Week 27 - 04/07/22

seagull · Hall of fame

Entries Week 27 - 04/07/22

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Anybody else here miss the old court one

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indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Anybody else here miss the old court one

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Not particularly. Always seemed to me a bit of an add-on beside Centre Court with often the noise from Centre Court coming in. I prefer the current Court One.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Anybody else here miss the old court one

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Not particularly. Always seemed to me a bit of an add-on beside Centre Court with often the noise from Centre Court coming in. I prefer the current Court One.

Oh I agree, but the old court certainly had atmosphere. It was sweaty, smoky, probably dangerous ! But certainly atmospheric. Its ageing me, but we played a Davis Cup tie there versus Italy way back around 1976 and the atmosphere was like being at a football match. Crazy place when a big match was on.

my last visit was seeing Jeremy Bates (yes, I know) beat Thierry Champion in 1994 in a 3rd round 5 setter- back in the day when a Brit making the second week was massive news! Still Is I guess!

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Monday 20th of June 2022 05:49:50 AM

seagull · Hall of fame

Updated with withdrawals

DF · Tennis legend

Katie, Anna and Maia have withdrawn from Portugal

seagull · Hall of fame

McHugh and Broom in Porto qualifying.

Harris in Todi qualifying

seagull · Hall of fame

Mark Whitehouse also in Porto Q, and Anton has now made Salzburg Q

seagull · Hall of fame

Jay out of Porto

seagull · Hall of fame

Billy Harris top seed in Todd qualifying. Could play Tomic in R2.

McHugh Broom and Whitehouse in Porto qualifying

DF · Tennis legend

Eden, Matilda, Emilie and Naiktha have withdrawn.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Quite a lot of our ranked players are playing the Tier 1 Tour event in Paddington this week

Josh Paris, Alexis Canter....

Also, VERY happy to see Joel Pierleoni on the list - it was reported, I think, in the US college thread that he'd dropped tennis

Still may be true but maybe he's regretting it - either way, great to see his name down here (and he's come through qualis) - don't quit, Joel !

Also, other good US college prospects here like Finn Murgett as well as youngsters like Lui Maxted

Rather bizarrely, in the women's, there's Joanna Garland, ranked WTA 383 with a wildcard

Also, Holly Hutchinson, some other interesting US college girls (Elisa van Meeteren was always a favourite of mine to watch, and there's Indy Spink too) and also some youngsters.

brittak · Pro player

Coup Droit wrote:
Quite a lot of our ranked players are playing the Tier 1 Tour event in Paddington this week

Josh Paris, Alexis Canter....

Also, VERY happy to see Joel Pierleoni on the list - it was reported, I think, in the US college thread that he'd dropped tennis

Still may be true but maybe he's regretting it - either way, great to see his name down here (and he's come through qualis) - don't quit, Joel !

Also, other good US college prospects here like Finn Murgett as well as youngsters like Lui Maxted

Rather bizarrely, in the women's, there's Joanna Garland, ranked WTA 383 with a wildcard

Also, Holly Hutchinson, some other interesting US college girls (Elisa van Meeteren was always a favourite of mine to watch, and there's Indy Spink too) and also some youngsters.

Perhaps the winning of the Berkhamsted club tournament last weekend is starting to entice Joel back! Incidentally he beat Josh Sapwell (another blast from the past) in the final.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

That's good to know, brittak

Joel has a wonderful game on grass

And - as you say - Josh Sapwell was a star in the making, if it hadn't been for such awful injury problems

brittak · Pro player

Coup Droit wrote:
That's good to know, brittak

Joel has a wonderful game on grass

And - as you say - Josh Sapwell was a star in the making, if it hadn't been for such awful injury problems

indeed Re Josh. Hes a really nice guy and is now coaching at the club - my daughter who just played a bit recreationally had some lessons with him just for exercise really and he was always very good with her. (Sorry have gone a bit off piste here!)