British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

QR1: George Loffhagen WR 211 vs (q7) Hugo Grenier (FRA) WR 177

QR1: (qWC) Daniel Jovanovski (AUS) WR 1755 vs (q9) Arthur Féry WR 189

QR1: Gilles Arnaud Bailly (BEL) WR 208 vs (q11) Jack Pinnington Jones WR 203

QR1: (q11) Jack Pinnington Jones WR 203 defeated Gilles Arnaud Bailly (BEL) WR 208 by 0-6 6-1 6-4

Loffers had to wait a long time to get his 2026 season underway. Out under the floodlights, he pushed Grenier close in the first set, but lost it 7-5 with a single break. Fingers crossed for another comeback

Stircrazy wrote:

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FQR:  (q3) Rafael Jódar (ESP) WR 168 (CH = 166 last November) vs (q9) Arthur Féry WR 189

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FQR:  (qWC) Marc Polmans (AUS) WR 396 (CH = 116 in October 2020) vs (q11) Jack Pinnington Jones WR 203

FQR:  (q3) Rafael Jódar (ESP) WR 168 defeated (q9) Arthur Féry WR 189 by 6-3 3-2 retired  

 

Sheddie wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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Sheddie wrote:

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Loffers had to wait a long time to get his 2026 season underway. Out under the floodlights, he pushed Grenier close in the first set, but lost it 7-5 with a single break. Fingers crossed for another comeback

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Sadly, no comeback:

QR1:  (q7) Hugo Grenier (FRA) WR 177 defeated George Loffhagen WR 211 by 7-5 4-6 6-0  

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Watched a few games - George didn't seem entirely comfortable with the conditions. Not sure why, maybe because he was playing much later in the evening than expected, but he kept glancing over to his team in frustration, even fairly early on in the match. Did well to get himself back in contention, but then played a very loose service game at the start of the third and that was that.

His first time down under, so I'm not expecting too much, but would be great if he could win a round next week.

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 I watched a few games of the first set

And George was right in it 

But then - at a key point - I think it was about 5-5 - decided to get weird about a fly on the court 

From what I could see it was a dead fly, at his feet, where he was about to serve

And he 'complained' to the umpire 

And the umpire said, not unreasonably, something along the lines of "it's a fly, push it away" 

And George got a little stroppy

So the umpire gestured, and a linesgirl/boy came and picked it up - and then George started a serve preparation and the umpire said: 'thank you' to the linesgirl/boy, and he had to stop

Tbh, it looked as though the umpire was taking the mick - and he wasn't wrong - George looked 'entitled', as though he couldn't deal with a dead fly, (princess and the pea, style) and didn't say thank you  

And I was watching, thinking, George, just play the tennis, for Lord's sake, and forget about the blinkin' dead fly 

And he lost that set 

It was plain daft 

Stircrazy wrote:

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FQR:  (Q) Jack Pinnington Jones WR 201 defeated (qWC) Marc Polmans (AUS) WR 391 by 6-1 4-6 7-6(8)

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L32:  (Q) Jack Pinnington Jones WR 201 vs (5) Brandon Holt (USA) WR 109 (CH = 99 last June)

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 JPJ won in straight sets.