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emmsie69 · Masters Series Champion

Weeks 26 & 27 - The Championships, Wimbledon (grass) - main draw (singles)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
And the first British male lamb is slaughtered:
L128: (Q) Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN) WR 151 defeated (Q) Max Basing WR 329 by 3, 0 & 0
And Felix follows him out of the exit door after putting up a bit more of a fight against the 23rd seed:
L128: (23) Rafael Jódar (ESP) WR 26 defeated (WC) Felix Gill WR 220 by 3, 3 & 5

Yes, and Felix had a miles harder draw

Neil Gee · County player

wales1994 wrote:
Shame for Felix with regards to the draw, he was actually playing some great tennis. Definitely think he has a lot more potential to go further up the rankings. Nice groundies, good leftie serve, strong slicing on the backhand side. Some wild errors here and there, but showed a lot of grit.

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The draw was tough luck for FG but looking forward to seeing more of Jodar.

wales1994 · Pro player

Neil Gee wrote:
wales1994 wrote:
Shame for Felix with regards to the draw, he was actually playing some great tennis. Definitely think he has a lot more potential to go further up the rankings. Nice groundies, good leftie serve, strong slicing on the backhand side. Some wild errors here and there, but showed a lot of grit.

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The draw was tough luck for FG but looking forward to seeing more of Jodar.

Agreed, he seems such a complete player for someone so young

indiana · Tennis legend

Priesty wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
And the first British male lamb is slaughtered:
L128: (Q) Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN) WR 151 defeated (Q) Max Basing WR 329 by 3, 0 & 0
Disappointing. Had hoped for better than that against the WR 151.From the bits I saw Max was a puppet on a string.

Real pity for Max for his debut on such a stage and probably hit by stage fright. But after a slight hiccup in the Q WC play-offs, he fully deserved his place here, having done great to come through qualifying. Onwards ...

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

seagull wrote:
Hmm Im on court 3 but really want to see Max. Think I will start on 14 and see how he goes,

er.ok.

Passing up an opportunity to watch Jodar is an interesting one.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Cameron has won the first set

The rate things are going today, a set is a good result

But onwards and upwards, as Indy says

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And Team GB (M) finally gets a set on the board courtesy of Cam against Zheng (7-6(7) - 56 minutes), who's giving him a bit of a run for his money, retrieving a break when Cam served for it at 5-4.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Who's the plonker with the northern accent doing the voiceover when coverage is halted briefly on one court so that updates can be given on the progress (or the lack of it!) of British players in action other courts? I lost count of the number of times he pronounced "Basing" as "Bass-ing" before he eventually corrected it! furious He's also pronouncing "Zheng" as "Jeng". Utterly clueless! disbelief