British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Julia Carrot wrote:

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Well, I'm exhausted after watching Henry's first set.... What a tussle !! Sadly he lost 9-10 in the tie break. Very windy conditions for serving which I though he managed better than his opponent, but some long tiring rallies and having saved many set points he lost the last one.

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Continues to be tight. 2 breaks in the second set so far ( Henry was down a break then up a break ).

6-7(9) *4-4

indiana wrote:

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Henry takes it into a third set with over 2 hours now gone.

6-7(9) 6-4

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 And now suspended due to rain.  Maybe that will suit Henry......

 

Chance to say thank you to CD and JonH for  reassuring me about my use of 'gubbins' and expanding my definition - as an aside, I liked 'mishmash' also..... 

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Friday 3rd of April 2026 12:20:55 PM

Henry was broken back for 3-2* and has just missed out on 2 MPs at 5-4* 40-15 and a 3rd at Ad to him. It was quite a rally on the 3rd MP at least.

*5-5

Well done Henry

QF:   (6) Henry Searle WR 470 defeated (4) Ioannis Xilas (GRE) WR 352 by 6-7(9) 6-4 7-6(3) in three hours & nine minutes!  

Now a repeat of last week's semi.  Henry leads the head-to-head by 3-0 following a relatively comfortable win then:

SF:  (6) Henry Searle WR 470 vs (2) Robin Bertrand (FRA) WR 286 (CH = 260 in January last year)

Well done Henry. I'd nodded off for the final point so had to replay LOL. He Aced it, of course.

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Friday 3rd of April 2026 01:30:25 PM