Australia F13 Future

steven · Tennis legend

Australia F13 Future

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Great run from Ed Corrie again! Bodes well for British grass court futures next year. He's obviously good on this surface!

He's also got the best main draw draw!

I think Blake played junior wimby acouple of times so may be more succesful on grass than hard. Its been a real slog for these young Brits down under. Hopefully they can get some points this week...

Sheddie · administrator

I'd say it bodes well for the indoor circuit aswell next year, Ed seems to have a great game for fast surfaces. He beat Colin Fleming in straight sets in the Cardiff Challenger indoors, earlier this year. I can see him into the top 1000 by next June.

Very convincing wins in qualifying, especially beating the 2nd seed like that. He's got a great chance to earn his 2nd point now. His rd1 opponent, Nick Hew lost in qualifying to Haydn Lewis last week. Ed beat Lewis in straight sets in rd1 in the main draw.

Can't see any further than a straight sets defeat for Kennaugh. Feeney has made 4 finals and 4 semis in futures this year and hammered Kennaugh 2 and 0 in September. Kennaugh's best surface is grass but unfortunately grass is also Feeney's fav surface.

Chris has been steadily clocking up the ranking points down under, but Cerretani will be tough as he has such a big serve. He beat Andy Kennaugh 7-5, 6-0 earlier this month and reached a futures final in Greece in May, losing to Jonny Marray.

Blake had his best junior result at Wimbledon, he made rd3 before losing to eventual champion Jeremy Chardy in 2005. He could do with getting a point here, and has an excellent draw, he hasn't won a singles match since August. Myles is double-handed on both sides and he says that his favourite surface is clay !!!

-- Edited by UltimateMackinFan at 14:30, 2006-10-30

Sheddie · administrator

Just one British result in singles today:

A Feeney [Aus][3] bt A Kennaugh [GB] 6-1, 6-4

Pretty much expected though, the way Feeney's been playing of late

Mixed news in doubles:

Eaton and Kennaugh won in two tiebreaks. Corrie and Aussie O'Neil lost to the 2nd seeds, 10-5 in a champions tiebreak. Myles Blake partnered Aussie Andrew Roberts, they lost 2 and 4 to the top seeds

johnnylad · Tennis legend

All british eyes trained on Court 15 for Wednesdays play! Its a pommie revolution.

(Ed Corrie plays on another court but other than that there's Brits in every match!)

If Corrie and partner took the second seeds in doubles to a CTB then Kennaugh and Eaton must stand a fairly good chance of reaching the semis! It is grass after all!

Sheddie · administrator

Unfortunately it's mostly bad news:

Chris took a set off Cerretani but was eventually outserved and lost:
6-7[4], 7-6[3], 6-4

Myles had another shocker against a Chinese qualifier:

Y Bai [Chi][q] [wr: 1140] bt M Blake [GB] [wr:829] 6-4, 6-3

But the good news is that Ed gained his 2nd ranking point

E Corrie [GB] bt N Hew [Aus] 6-2, 6-3

Ed plays big serving American 8th seed Phil Stolt in rd2. Stolt is ranked 548 and won 9-7 in a 3rd set tiebreak in rd1.

Sheddie · administrator

and in the doubles, Eaton and Kennaugh lost 7-6[7], 6-3 to the 2nd seeds in the quarters

Niall · Pro player

Ed Corrie bt Nick Hew 6-2 6-3

Edward Corrie has earned his first world ranking point.

And he did it the right way, coming through qualifying and winning his first round match. Well done Edward it's onwards and upwards from here.

-- Edited by Niall at 10:23, 2006-11-01

Sheddie · administrator

Niall wrote:

Ed Corrie bt Nick Hew 6-2 6-3

Edward Corrie has earned his first world ranking point.

And he did it the right way, coming through qualifying and winning his first round match. Well done Edward it's onwards and upwards from here.

-- Edited by Niall at 10:23, 2006-11-01

It's actually his 2nd world ranking point, he got his first last week. Well done to Ed for taking advantage of two really good draws

Niall · Pro player

So he is on a roll then. Even better.

I missed his result last week, this run of events in OZ has been pretty depressing. It's good to finally have some good news.

Vonce · Club Coach

Great news for Ed. Lets hope does make the top 1000 by the summer of '07. Which he will hopefully

steven · Tennis legend

R2: (Q) Edward Corrie UNR lost to (8) Philip Stolt (USA) WR 549 by 3-6 6-3 6-4

Edward did brilliantly to take the first set off Stolt but couldn't quite finish him off. A very good performance though, which suggests that getting his first ranking points in these two tournaments has given him added confidence.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Good effort Ed!

Sheddie · administrator

Great effort from Ed to take a set

Stolt has a massive serve which I imagine is extremely difficult to break on grass so Ed did well to push him so close.

I reckon that Ed's ranking will be now into the 1400s.

It looks like the Australia futures have now finished for 2006 so I wonder where Kennaugh, Eaton, Blake and Corrie will head next. Maybe back to Britain for the two futures.