21/09/15
Anotny Cotterill finished runner-up in the quad singles on the last day of the ITF 1 Series Open de L’Ile de Re after Israel's Itay Erenlib won the final 6-3, 6-1.
Cotterill's fellow Brits Richard Green and Alfie Hewett ended the tournament as runners-up in the quad doubles and men's doubles.
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20/09/15
Antony Cotterill clinched his third ITF 1 Series doubles title of 2015 and the fifth of his career on the penultimate day of action in Ile de Re, while also reaching the quad singles final.
Meanwhile, Alfie Hewett finished runner-up in the men’s doubles.
With two Brits in the quad doubles final, Cotterill and Israel’s Shraga Weinberg earned a 6-3, 6-2 win over Richard Green and Green’s Dutch partner Sam Schroder.
Cotterill plays Israeli fourth seed Itay Erenlib in the quad singles final after ending the title defence of Dorrie Timmermans-van Hall of the Netherlands with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 semi-final victory.
After reaching the men’s doubles final second seeds Hewett and Tom Egberink of the Netherlands faced US Open finalists Michael Jeremiasz and Nicolas Peifer, but the French duo lived up to their top seeding to take the title 6-1, 6-1.
19/09/15
Antony Cotterill maintains title hopes in the quad singles and quad doubles going into the penultimate day of the Open de L’Ile de Re, while Richard Green is already through to the quad doubles final and Alfie Hewett is into the men’s doubles final.
Cotterill plays defending champion Dorrie Timmermans-van Hall for a place in the quad singles final after defeating Israeli sixth seed Haim Lev 6-1, 7-6(7) in the last eight. After rain on the fourth day of play Cotterill and Lev’s countryman Shraga Weinberg are set to complete their quad doubles semi-final against Itay Erenlib and Lev. Victory would earn them a final against Green and Sam Schroder of the Netherlands. Green and Schroder upset the odds for the second day in a row when they beat French fourth seeds Thomas Huguenin and Sebastien Jance 6-2, 6-2 in their semi-final, with Green now set to contest his second ITF 1 Series doubles final.
Hewett and Dutchman Tom Egberink will play US Open runner-up Michael Jeremiasz and Nicolas Peifer in the men’s doubles final after surviving a thrilling quarter-final against fourth seeds Frederic Cattaneo of France Martin Legner of Austria. Second seeds Hewett and Egberink won 7-6(4), 4-6, (10-6).
However, Hewett and Marc McCarroll both bowed out of the men’s singles. Sixth seed Hewett was unable to make it three wins in three matches against Cattaneo this season as the Frenchman won their quarter-final 7-6(3), 6-2. Meanwhile, third seed Egberink beat McCarroll 6-3, 6-0.
18/09/15
Alfie Hewett and Marc McCarroll are into the men’s singles quarter-finals and Antony Cotterill is into the quad singles quarter-finals in Ile de Re. David Phillipson also joins McCarroll and Hewett in the men’s doubles semi-finals, with Cotterill and Richard into the quad doubles semi-finals with their respective partners.
Sixth seed Hewett will play French fourth seed Frederic Cattaneo for a place in the men’s semi-finals after racing past Israel’s Asi Stokol 6-0, 6-1. Eighth seed McCarroll was even more dominant in his second round singles match, defeating Fabien Bayon of France 6-0, 6-0 to earn a quarter-final against third seed Tom Egberink of the Netherlands.
Cotterill plays Israeli sixth seed Haim Lev for a place in the last four of the quad singles after beating Guatemala’s Julio Rueda 6-3, 6-2. ]
Second seeds Hewett and Egberink play Cattaneo and Austria’s Martin Legner for a place in the men’s doubles final after beating Frenchmen Antione Grelet and Geoffroy Schivi 6-1, 6-1. Third seeds McCarroll and Phillipson face a tough semi-final against US Open runners-up and French top seeds Michael Jeremiasz and Nicola Peifer after racing to a 6-0, 6-0 quarter-final win over Artur Saitgareev and Stokol.
Green and his Dutch partner Sam Schroder upset the second seeds to reach the last four of the quad doubles. Green and Schroder beat Italy’s Antonio Raffaele and Dorrie Timmermans van-Hall of the Netherlands 6-3, 6-4 and will play French fourths seeds Thomas Huguenin and Sebastien Jance for a place in the final. Cotterill and Israel’s Shraga Weinberg, the top seeds for the quad doubles, earned a 6-0, 6-1 quarter-final win over Brit Rebekah Coleman and Sweden’s Petter Edstrom. Cotterill and Weinberg take on the all-Israeli third seeded partnerships of Itay Erenlib and Lev in the semi-finals.
17/09/15
With rain forcing play indoors on the first two days of play on Ile de Re, Marc McCarroll eased to an opening men's singles victory on the second day of competition.
Eighth seed McCarroll beat Nicolas Vanlerberghe 6-1, 6-0 to join Alfie Hewett in the last 16 of the men's singles. McCarroll plays another Frenchman, Fabien Bayon for a place in the quarter-finals, with Hewett facing Israel's Asi Stokol.
Meanwhile, Hewett and Dutchman Tom Egberink have joined McCarroll and Phillipson in the quarter-finals of the men's doubles after the second seeds beat Didier Guiard and Thierry Vuillet. of France 6-0, 6-0. Hewett and Egberink's next opponents are another all-French partnership, Antoine Grelet and Geoffroy Schivi.
16/09/15
Alfie Hewett made a winning start to his men’s singles campaign on l’Ile Re, with Marc McCarroll and David Phillipson also getting off to a fine start in the men’s doubles.
Hewett beat Lauren Everaert of France 6-2, 6-3 and goes on to play Asi Stokol of Israel or Frenchman Pascal Chessel for a place in the quarter-finals. McCarroll also meets French opposition in his opening singles match, and takes on Nicolas Vanlerberghe.
McCarroll and Phillipson are third seeds for the men’s doubles and the Brits eased past Sebastien Husser and Gaetan Menguy of France 6-1, 6-3 to set up a quarter-final against Russia’s Artur Saitgareev and Stokol.
Hewett and Dutchman Tom Egberink are men’s doubles second seeds and their first round French opposition are Didier Guiard and Thierry Vuillet.
Antony Cotterill is top seed for the quad singles and is among the players to have had first round byes. However, after also having a bye into the last 16 Richard Green’s bid to reach the quarter-finals ended in a 6-4, 6-2 loss to Israel’s Haim Lev.
Cotterill and Israel's Shraga Weinberg are also top seeds for the quad doubles and British interest in the quad doubles got off to a good start when Green partnered young Dutchman Sam Schroder to beat French duo Jérôme De Meyere and Sophie Fraioli 6-4, 6-0. Green and Schroder face second seeds Antonio Raffaele and Dorrie Timmermans van Hall in the quarter-finals.
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