Tropicana British Tour - Billesley - 2007.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Tropicana British Tour - Billesley - 2007.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

The link doesn't work for me

Salmon · Tennis legend

Thatt's odd.

Here it is anyway:

Ian Flanagan.
Tom Rushby.
Rob Searle.
Daniel Evans.
Sean Thornley.
Robert Varga.
Matthew Taylor.
Maniel Bains.
Jamie Feaver.
Oscar Podlewski.
Chris Nott.
Simon Ferguson.
Ben Pritchard.
Jagdev Sagoo.
Matt Ward.
Alexander Jackson.
Seb Jackson.
Orion Modebe.
Bobby Brooke.
Lloyd Bruce-Burgess.
Ben Dunbar.
Andrew Brigham.
Matt Bright.
Michael Hayes.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I don't get why players with world rankings in the top 1000 are playing these events.

Do they want to imporve their world rankings???

Is there some sort of appearance money here to pay for a trip abroad?

Sheddie · administrator

johnnylad wrote:

I don't get why players with world rankings in the top 1000 are playing these events.

Do they want to imporve their world rankings???

Is there some sort of appearance money here to pay for a trip abroad?

This tournament is in the first week of 2007, there are no futures tournaments till week 2.

Players like Flanagan, Rushby, Searle, Thornley etc will be using this event as a warm-up for the 15K in Sheffield the following week.

Not sure if there's prize money available or not

Salmon · Tennis legend

No Futures during the first week of the new year this time. So this gives good practice. And you get some money too.

The idea of the British Tour is helping people who want to turn pro but don't have the required amount of money.

Sheddie · administrator

Greenleaf wrote:

No Futures during the first week of the new year this time. So this gives good practice. And you get some money too.

The idea of the British Tour is helping people who want to turn pro but don't have the required amount of money.

Great minds think alike

I think the British tour is great, top juniors get the chance to compete against players with world ranking points and sometimes even guys of the class of Lee Childs and Matt Smith enter when they are coming back from injury or out of form.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

My worry is that players like Rushby and Brewer who seem to play this tour a fair bit would be better off trying to improve their ranking

Sheddie · administrator

johnnylad wrote:

My worry is that players like Rushby and Brewer who seem to play this tour a fair bit would be better off trying to improve their ranking

I think they only play it when there are no futures in GB, for match practise and dosh (I think)
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They do go abroad for tournaments but you have to remember that for players of their ranking, they are generally making a loss at each tournament. So, they only tend to go abroad on special tours organised by the academies where they train, that way they can afford it.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

fair enough.

Maybe Draper, Annacone and Gilbert would like to fund a few tours with their personal spare change. They wouldn't even notice the money gone from their wallet and it may help brits to develop better than their master plan

Salmon · Tennis legend

ultimateshedman wrote:

Great minds think alike

I think the British tour is great, top juniors get the chance to compete against players with world ranking points and sometimes even guys of the class of Lee Childs and Matt Smith enter when they are coming back from injury or out of form.

Yep.

Also on the female front, girls like Jess Ren get to play people ranked in the top 1000. That can teach them a lot.

ultimateshedman wrote:

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They do go abroad for tournaments but you have to remember that for players of their ranking, they are generally making a loss at each tournament. So, they only tend to go abroad on special tours organised by the academies where they train, that way they can afford it.

Yep. And instead of giving our players money, we are busy signing high profile names as coaches every alternate week.

Sheddie · administrator

johnnylad wrote:

fair enough.

Maybe Draper, Annacone and Gilbert would like to fund a few tours with their personal spare change. They wouldn't even notice the money gone from their wallet and it may help brits to develop better than their master plan

Well I think that the LTA does fund the academies to do these tours to be fair. For example the Sutton academy tour to Aus, NZ and Japan earlier this year was LTA funded.

I agree though, I think they should use some of the dosh they're spending on coaches to fund some more of those tours. There's a lot of emphasis on the future and not so much emphasis on helping the current batch of pros battling it out on the tour.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Main Draw:

ftp://downloads.lta.org.uk/webservices/TempResults/070102BillesleyBritishTour/men.pdf

Evans is due to play Rushby in the semis.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

I hope the big four get to the semis to get decent practice ahead of next week!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Men’s 1st rd:

J Sagoo (Cambridgeshire) bt L Bruce-Burgess (Hants & IOW) 6-3 6-2

M Bains (Warwickshire) bt B Brooke (Yorks) 6-2 6-0

C Priddle (Staffs) bt E Ellis (Sussex) 6-3 6-2

P Raynes (Yorks) bt N Hatchett (Middlesex) 6-3 6-1

S Thornley (Kent) bt O Podlewski (Middlesex) 6-2 3-6 6-3

B Pritchard (Essex) bt M Bright (Cheshire) 6-3 7-5

M Hayes (Middlesex) bt C Nott (Lancs) 7-6 (8-6) 4-6 6-0

S Ferguson (Warwickshire) bt T Williams (Wilts) 6-3 6-3

K Brassington (Yorks) bt B Dunbar (Notts) 6-3 6-4

Men’s 2nd rd:

J Sagoo (Cambs) bt I Flanagan (Notts) 6-1 6-3

M Bains (Warwickshire) bt A Parry (Shropshire) 6-3 6-4

R Searle (Kent) bt C Priddle (Staffs) 6-3 6-3

P Raynes (Yorks) bt M Ward (Hants & IOW) 6-2 6-4

B Pritchard (Essex) bt S Thornley (Kent) 6-2 6-4

M Hayes (Middlesex) bt D Evans (Warwickshire) 6-3 6-1

M Taylor (Cambs) bt S Ferguson (Warwickshire) 6-0 6-1

T Rushby (Derbyshire) bt K Brassington (Yorks) 6-3 6-1