Ongoing British Tennis…

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PrincessFiona said:

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

Harris knocked out in Munich.

Fearnley gets into main draw at Barcelona as lucky loser. 

on now sky sports tennis. won the first set 6 - 1 but the tide is turning and been broken in the second

Excellent victory for Fearnley winning second set 7-5 from 5-2 down. Carballes a clay court specialist but struggling with injury at the end of the match.


Valuable ranking points for Fearnley.

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Norrie faces Khachanov today. Fearnley faces de Minaur in the last 16 tomorrow - a difficult challenge...

hoof_it_up_to_benty

Norrie takes first set - olaying well so far.

hoof_it_up_to_benty

Norrie loses in three sets. In danger of soon dropping out of the top 100 in the rankings.

hoof_it_up_to_benty

Fearnley loses in straight sets to de Minaur.

Callumcafc

Madrid Open draw…

Draper 5th seed has a bye into round 2 and will play Griekspoor or a qualifier.

Norrie will face Spanish wildcard Landaluce in round 1 with the winner facing 26th seed Lehecka in round 2.

Fearnley has already won a qualifying match and will play his second qualifying round against Dellien tomorrow.

Raducanu will play Lames in round 1 - the winner of that will meet 24th Kostyuk in the second round.

Kartal will face Cristian in round 1 - the winner will come up against 17th seed Svitolina.

Boutler is scheduled to play Siniakova in the first round - whoever wins will play 6th seed Paolini in round 2.

Dart already lost in qualifying. Jones has one more match to win against Bucsa to get into the main draw.

hoof_it_up_to_benty

Fearnley through the qualifiers and up to 61st in latest rankings. Hopefully he won't have to play too many qualifiers as his ranking improves.

killerandflash

Boutler beats Siniakova in 3 sets, her first ever WTA Tour clay-court win of her career.

hoof_it_up_to_benty

Raducanu, Jones and Kartal in action today. Fearnley and Norrie start tomorrow.

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Raducanu just started on Sky Sports Main (Madrid Open).

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Raducanu lost her serve 2-3 down to Lamens.

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3-3

PrincessFiona

Good win in 2 sets for Raducanu. Clay clearly her least favourite surface. Commentator said only her (senior?) 17th match on clay. Especially after her worst performance last year was there in the first round

Against the player who beat Boulter in the BJK Cup

hoof_it_up_to_benty

PrincessFiona said:

Good win in 2 sets for Raducanu. Clay clearly her least favourite surface. Commentator said only her (senior?) 17th match on clay. Especially after her worst performance last year was there in the first round

Against the player who beat Boulter in the BJK Cup

Most of the British players struggle on clay - don't get enough exposure to the surface.

killerandflash

I guess the issue is that while our players can practice on clay courts in the UK, they haven't grown up on them unlike a lot of European and Latin American players.

fenaddick

I know it’s anecdotal but when I played club tennis around SE London/Kent I only came across 2 clubs clay courts and they were in very affluent areas. There’s virtually no access to them here 

PrincessFiona

Great win for Sonny Kartal against a player ranked close to her in straight sets

hoof_it_up_to_benty

The last British player to win a clay court major was Sue Barker at the French in 76. 

Addick Addict

fenaddick said:

I know it’s anecdotal but when I played club tennis around SE London/Kent I only came across 2 clubs clay courts and they were in very affluent areas. There’s virtually no access to them here 

Things have moved on it appears since then. Emma Radacanu's club, Parklangley in Beckenham have seven floodlit clay courts, both the Bromley Wendover Tennis Club and the Bromley Lawn Tennis & Squash Clubs have five clay courts each, Sundridge Park has seven floodlit clay court and the Bromley Sports Club have two. That's 26 within a two mile radius. Ironically, though, the Bromley Tennis Centre which is an LTA performance centre and where Radacanu trained daily has never had any as far as I'm aware.     

fenaddick

Addick Addict said:

fenaddick said:

I know it’s anecdotal but when I played club tennis around SE London/Kent I only came across 2 clubs clay courts and they were in very affluent areas. There’s virtually no access to them here 

Things have moved on it appears since then. Emma Radacanu's club, Parklangley in Beckenham have seven floodlit clay courts, both the Bromley Wendover Tennis Club and the Bromley Lawn Tennis & Squash Clubs have five clay courts each, Sundridge Park has seven floodlit clay court and the Bromley Sports Club have two. That's 26 within a two mile radius. Ironically, though, the Bromley Tennis Centre which is an LTA performance centre and where Radacanu trained daily has never had any as far as I'm aware.     

The two I could think of were in that list (if my dodgy memory is correct)! It was less than a decade ago I was playing in the area. There may be 26 but they’re concentrated in clubs that had a comparatively hefty cost to them 

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fenaddick said:

Addick Addict said:

fenaddick said:

I know it’s anecdotal but when I played club tennis around SE London/Kent I only came across 2 clubs clay courts and they were in very affluent areas. There’s virtually no access to them here 

Things have moved on it appears since then. Emma Radacanu's club, Parklangley in Beckenham have seven floodlit clay courts, both the Bromley Wendover Tennis Club and the Bromley Lawn Tennis & Squash Clubs have five clay courts each, Sundridge Park has seven floodlit clay court and the Bromley Sports Club have two. That's 26 within a two mile radius. Ironically, though, the Bromley Tennis Centre which is an LTA performance centre and where Radacanu trained daily has never had any as far as I'm aware.     

The two I could think of were in that list (if my dodgy memory is correct)! It was less than a decade ago I was playing in the area. There may be 26 but they’re concentrated in clubs that had a comparatively hefty cost to them 

Cost is probably the issue with the Bromley Tennis Centre. As I say, it has for years been an LTA hub but is actually owned by Newstead Wood School. Up until 2014 the centre was managed by Bromley MyTime but has since then been run by Virtus which is owned by coach and former GB player, Steve Matthews. The school is probably not worried about converting their four outdoor courts and no management company is likely to do so but it is strange that the BTC should be given such an accreditation when they don't have any clay courts. 

hoof_it_up_to_benty

Norrie through in three sets - battling performance.

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Fearnley through in straight sets - played some good tennis.

Six British players in the second round.

Boulter, Radacanu and Kartal play tomorrow.

oohaahmortimer

1984ish I used to have a child’s membership to Shooters Hill Tennis Club (don’t know if it’s still about ) think it had 6 clay courts 2 decent ones and 4 shit ones 
it was a first come first play set up, except if you were a kid when we’d get kicked off the good courts on to the other courts when the adults came along ….. cnut club 

Billy_Mix

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

Fearnley through in straight sets - played some good tennis.

Six British players in the second round.

Boulter, Raducanu and Kartal play tomorrow.

Boulter got a roasting off Paolini this morning
The height difference between them when they shook hands at the end!

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Raducanu probably starting @3.30pm.

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Kartal out in straight sets.

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Raducanu 2-0 down (games).

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Kostyuk took first set v Raducanu 6-4.

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Raducanu takes 2nd set  6-2.