GB F16 - Glasgow - 15K

mjd · Challenger qualifying

RE: GB F16 - Glasgow - 15K

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Great win for rIchard!!

any ideas on who his final opponent will be. I hope its the Irishman!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

From LTA report...

The Norfolk player will face Conor Niland in the final after the Irishman put out Germany's David Klier 6-4, 6-1.

So a Bloomers vs Niland final

mjd · Challenger qualifying

johnnylad wrote:

From LTA report...

The Norfolk player will face Conor Niland in the final after the Irishman put out Germany's David Klier 6-4, 6-1.

So a Bloomers vs Niland final

Well done LTA - they had results on news page within minutes of the finish of the 2nd semi.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Doubles final:

Joshua Goodall & Ross Hutchins (Gbr) bt Philipp Marx (Ger) & David Olejniczak (Pol) 7-6 (7-2) 7-5

Success!

Stew_B · Intermediate Club Player

Good stuff, a Brit and an Irishman in the men's final. So, as a general member of the public, could anyone confirm that I'd be able to just turn up tomorrow morning and watch the tennis, as there's not really much spectator room in there, although, there propably won't be massive crowds turning up for the tennis...

Sheddie · administrator

Yeah, you'll be able to just turn up and watch the match. Will you watch Anne Keothavong in the women's 25k semis aswell ?

Looking ahead to the final: Richard has to be the big favourite. Niland is ranked 522 with a career high of 382 reached in August. Niland also reached the final of GB F12 in Wrexham this year, beating Eaton, Irwin, Rushby and Childs along the way. He beat Ghedin in the final.

They've played once before, Niland won 6-3, 6-3 in an U18 tournament in Ireland in 1999. I doubt that'll have much relevance psychologically on the match

Stew_B · Intermediate Club Player

UltimateBoggoFan wrote:

Yeah, you'll be able to just turn up and watch the match. Will you watch Anne Keothavong in the women's 25k semis aswell ?

It depends, I'll see how I feel.

Stew_B · Intermediate Club Player

Oh dear, I forgot to set my alarm clock last night, and I slept in this morning, but I'm just about ready now, and will hopefully be down there at 12:15, albeit, unshaven and generally looking quite scruffy.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

Guess Stew B might have seen the final set TB.

Richard Bloomfield bt Conor Niland 6-3 7-6(5)

So got through the week without losing a set.

-- Edited by mjd at 14:45, 2006-10-21

Sheddie · administrator

When did the final start ? Any chance that Stew might have seen the 2nd set ?

Fantastic result for Richard, it's been a superb couple of weeks for him, hopefully he can continue this rich vein of form in Nottingham. He'll drop down to 226 again on Monday but next Monday he'll move up to 210 when the Glasgow points are added on and maybe higher if he does well in Nottingham.

It could be a very productive end to the year for Richard as after Nottingham he's heading to Canada to play some challengers which have pretty weak entry lists, Richard should be seeded for them all.

Stew_B · Intermediate Club Player

Hey, I'm just back, I got to the tennis courts, and saw 3 points of the Bloomfield/Niland match, and then, next thing I know, they're up at the net shaking hands

. I didn't even know what the score was until just a minute ago when I saw it posted on here! After the match I went up to Richard and got a picture of him, so I'll post that soon. Oh, and even though this isn't the right thread to post this, I saw virtually all of the Flipkins match, and I saw the end of the second (and final) set in which the British girl got thumped 6-0.

Stew_B · Intermediate Club Player

All the other photos are at the same resolution as the 2nd one.

-- Edited by Stew_B at 14:45, 2006-10-21

-- Edited by Stew_B at 14:46, 2006-10-21

Stew_B · Intermediate Club Player

The rest of the pictures are from the Flipkins/Gubacsi match, I didn't want to take a picture of the British girl as she wasn't looking too happy after the match (no surprise with that), and whilst I could have taken a picture of the German girl (I was within a few metres of her), I really didn't want to.

Only a few more pictures remaining.

-- Edited by Stew_B at 14:58, 2006-10-21

Stew_B · Intermediate Club Player

There was one final photograph, but it's by far the blurriest, and probably not worth posting.