I can't believe it that they are making Cox qualify.

Ah well... he will get some practice.




I want to see what Lewis barnes and Marcus Willis does out here. It's time that they start getting the results.

Yep, Barnes hasn't done much during the last year or so.... But he is very young, so I have a lot of hope.


Willis is still 15 and is playing some good tennis at this moment. He won his first ever G5 last month in Latvia. Willis also qualified and reached the quarters of Donnybrook before losing to Josh Milton.

His great moment came earlier this year, when he reached the finals of the doubles in Marcq-en-Baroeul with Evans! That performance, coupled with the singles title, took Evans up to number one in the European U16 circuits.


Although he isn't of the same class as of Evans and Cox, he can be a good player if he plays like he did for the greater part of the year.


Akhazzan isn't playing here.....

(1)Neil Bamford/Jim May (GBR) vs Bradley Bant/Edward Ellis (GBR)
Kyle Brassington/Charlie Crisp (GBR) vs Nikki Peel/Sean Thornley (GBR)
(3)Richard Irwin/Tom Rushby (GBR) vs James Prescott/William Rollo (GBR)
David Brewer/Mat Lowe (GBR) vs Patrick Eichenberger/Dean Jackson (SUI/GER)
Tom Burn/Robert Searle (GBR) vs Bojan Jelovac/Konstantinos Kalaitzis (GBR)
(4)Rameez Junaid/David Klier (AUS/GER) vs Daniel Evans/Mark Hilton (GBR)
Armin Sandbichler/Christoph Steiner (AUT) vs Edward Allinson/Thomas Greenland (GBR)
(2)Martin Fischer/Philipp Oswald (AUT) vs Brunham Arlidge/Matthew Taylor (GBR)


Good to see Evans team up with Hilton again. That boy can be an excellent doubles player if we go by results so far. He can learn a lot from Hilton.

Final round qualifying results: [from Monday]:

J May [GB][1] bt J Dewhurst [GB] 6-1, 6-1

P Oswald [Aut][2] bt D Smethurst [GB] 6-7[5], 7-6[6], 6-1

R Connolly [GB][10] bt R Irwin [GB][3] 6-3, 1-0 ret

D Jackson [Ger][12] bt R Searle [GB][4] 2-6, 6-4, 6-3

S Groth [Aus][5] bt E Allinson [GB][15] 6-4, 2-6, 6-4

M Taylor [GB] bt K Kalaitzis [GB][9] 6-3, 6-4

D Cox [GB][7] bt M Willis [GB] 6-3, 4-6, 6-4

P Eichenburger [Swi] bt S Thornley [GB] 3-6, 6-4, 6-2

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(2)Jamie Baker (GBR) vs Alexander Slabinsky (GBR)

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pity for you UBF. Where's your allegiance here?

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I'm absolutely furious at this draw, don't know who to support, both badly need a win. Baker needs to win and go far here as he's got lots to defend from Bolton and Edinburgh in October and not winning any pts in October will send him down to about 348. After this futures, it's all challengers, all of which he will have to qualify for apart from Nottingham where he'll get a wc.

Slabba needs to win to boost confidence and he's defending qf points at Jersey his next tourney.

They've played once before, Jamie won 6-3, 7-6 last autumn.

I think Jamie will win but don't know who to root for.

UltimateBoggoFan wrote:

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Final round qualifying results: [from Monday]:
J May [GB][1] bt J Dewhurst [GB] 6-1, 6-1
P Oswald [Aut][2] bt D Smethurst [GB] 6-7[5], 7-6[6], 6-1
R Connolly [GB][10] bt R Irwin [GB][3] 6-3, 1-0 ret
D Jackson [Ger][12] bt R Searle [GB][4] 2-6, 6-4, 6-3
S Groth [Aus][5] bt E Allinson [GB][15] 6-4, 2-6, 6-4
M Taylor [GB] bt K Kalaitzis [GB][9] 6-3, 6-4
D Cox [GB][7] bt M Willis [GB] 6-3, 4-6, 6-4
P Eichenburger [Swi] bt S Thornley [GB] 3-6, 6-4, 6-2

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More info on the qualies:

21 year old Joseph Dewhurst did well, he beat the 16th seeded Ukranian Varga in rd2 in 3 sets, however, he was thrashed pretty comprehensively by May.

Scott Dickson, our no 1 U18 from the national rankings, won a round but lost in rd2 to the Austrian 2nd seed Phillip Oswald, 7-6, 6-3. However, the 1st set breaker was a mammoth: 11-9. If Dickson had nicked that it could have been a different story.

16 year old Daniel Smethurst had a superb run, beating Dan Cottier in straights in rd1, then Matt Lowe [who qualified last week] in 3 sets in rd2. He came within a few pts of beating Oswald [who's ranked in the 800s] in rd3. A shame as he deserved to qualify.

Another really surprising defeat for Irwin, I wonder what's up with him at the moment. No reason given for his retirement, he seems to be ok now as he's accepted a lucky loser place.

Lewis Barnes beat 17 year old Josh Miller 2 and 3 in rd1, but lost 1 and 3 in rd2 to Dean Jackson who surprisingly beat Rob Searle in rd3. Searle has been a little off-form in the past couple of weeks, he'll probably do better once the indoor GB futures start, his game is better suited for fast courts.

Dan Evans thrashed his rd1 opponent 1 and 0 but then lost 6-4, 6-4 to Ed Allinson in rd2 which was a little surprising. Allinson's conqueror Groth also beat Matt Illingworth [who got his 1st ranking pts last week] in rd2 6-3, 7-5.

19 year old Matt Taylor from Cambridgeshire had some great results to qualify, beating Naim Lalji [who has been in the top 1000] in rd2. Taylor gave last week's eventual finalist Junaid his closest match before the final, it can't be long before Taylor gets his 1st ranking pts.

Josh Milton won the battle of the Welsh juniors over Chris Llewellyn 6-1, 6-4 but was dispatched in straights in rd2 by Dan Cox, 6-3, 6-3. Marcus Willis had some really great wins, beating Charlie Crisp 7-6, 7-6 in rd1 and then big serving Nikki Peel 6-4, 6-2 in rd2. His match against Cox was really close from the looks of things, Dan just edged through.

Sean Thornley had a great rd2 win beating the experienced Adam Barratclough in 3 sets.

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latest scores from Nottingham [Robxon]:

Rushby - Groth [Aus][q] 6-7, 6-1

Brewer bt Connolly 6-2, 6-4

Niland [Ir] bt Taylor - 2 sets don't know score

Burn bt Greenland 6-3, 6-2

Smith - Flanagan 7-5, 2-6

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Hopefully Tom Rushby can come through that one and continue his march up the rankings. If he reaches the quarters this week, he'll be very close to the top 600. It looks like after that close 1st set he upped his level in the 2nd, hopefully he can steamroller through the 3rd set aswell.

Great win for David Brewer, unfortunately if looks as if he'll come up against the no 1 seed in rd2

It's good to see Matt Smith making a comeback from injury. Flanagan was a tricky draw for him as he's caused Matt quite a few problems in previous matches, he's beaten him twice in straight sets this year. It looks like he's starting to take control of that one.

Tom Burn has an excellent draw, I'm sure he'll fancy his chances in rd2- either an out-of-form Smith or Flanagan.

Jonny Marray should hopefully get through to the quarters but then he's likely to have a really difficult match against Junaid.

If Baker gets past Slabba, Bamford could be a tricky rd2 match for him, he's beaten Jamie in the past and then in the quarters he'd be likely to play Baccanello who's probably the dark horse for this title having won several futures this year and been in the top 150 in the past. He's a lot better than 391, he's only ranked that low due to injury, in the past he's made challenger finals.