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Week 46 Futures - Iran F4 ($15K) - Kish Island - Clay
(Preview)
L32: James Feaver WR 799 v (7) Mikhail Vasiliev (RUS) WR 458 H2H 0-1, 6-4 3-6 6-3 Islamabad Fut QF 2008
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steven
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7
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1376
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Week 46 Futures - USA F31 ($10K) - Amelia Island, Florida - Clay
(Preview)
QR1: Matthew SHORT (GBR) (4) BYE QR2: Matthew SHORT (GBR) (4) defeated Jeff ZENISEK (USA) 7-6(2) 4-6 6-4 QR3: Daniel SOTOMARINO (PER) defeated Matthew SHORT (GBR) (4) 1-6 6-4 6-4
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SMC1809
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5
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799
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Week 46 - Challenger (€85,000 +H) - Bratislava, Slovakia - Hard
(Preview)
QR1: (q5) Joshua Milton WR 373 v (WC) Oliver Nagy (SVK) UNR Pretty crapy draw for Milton as he potentially face (q1) Kamil Kapkovoc (SVK) WR 261 in the final round of qualifying.
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RJA
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8
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1632
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Week 46 - Challenger (€42,500) - Salzburg, Austria - Hard
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1 2
)
(Preview)
If you thought Josh Milton's draw in Bratislava was bad ... QR1: David Rice WR 508 v (q1) Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) WR 240 QR1: Sean Thornley WR 567 v (q4) Peter Gojowczyk (GER) WR 281
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steven
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17
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1815
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Week 45 - Challenger ($50,000) - Knoxville TN, USA - Hard
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1 2 3 4 5 … 9
)
(Preview)
QR1: (q7) Chris Eaton WR 361 v Antoine Benneteau (FRA) WR 747 (CH 718 in Aug) Antoine is world no. 53 Julien's younger brother by 4.5 years. The other seed in Chris's section is (q3) Peter Polansky (CAN) WR 334 (CH 164 in 2009) Oddly (and somewhat disappointingly!), neither Baker nor Boggo are in the dr...
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steven
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134
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9397
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Week 45 - Challenger: Aegon GB Pro Series, Loughborough (€42,000) - indoor hard - doubles
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1 2 3 4
)
(Preview)
A fair amount of Brit involvement in the doubles, hence the separate thread: R1: (1) Jamie Delgado & Jonny Marray vs (WC) Miles Bugby & Andrew Fitzpatrick R1: Aljaz Bedene & Grega Zemlja (SLO/SLO) vs Josh Go...
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Stircrazy
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47
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3299
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Week 45 Futures - India F9 ($10K) - Chennai - Hard
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1 2
)
(Preview)
R1: MARSALEK, James (GBR) 8 WR 815 v VEERABADRAN, Vignesh (IND) WR 1519
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SMC1809
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3419
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Week 45 Futures - USA F30 ($10K) - Pensacola, Florida - Clay
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1 2
)
(Preview)
QR1: MANLOW, Daniel def. GORHAM, Nathaniel (USA) 6-4 6-4 QR1: (5) SHORT, Matthew v BYE QR1: HELLIAR, Christopher def. FOTI, Fortunato (AUS) 6-1 6-4 QR2: MANLOW, Daniel UNR v (15) NAGY, Peter (HUN) WR 1270 QR2: (5) SHORT, Matthew WR 816 v PEREZ, Alejandro (USA) UNR QR2: HELLIAR, Christopher UNR v KO...
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alex03maccy
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2827
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Week 45 - Challenger (€64,000) - Geneva, Switzerland (indoor hard) - doubles
(
1 2
)
(Preview)
The "Forgotten Man", Ken Skupski, spurns the home tournament to compete for a bigger prize in sunny Suisse with yet another partner: R1: (3) Ken Skupski & Horacio Zeballos (ARG) vs Kristijan Mesaros & Ante Pavic (CRO/CRO) I hope he fares better there than he did in Eckental! :pr...
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Stircrazy
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1496
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Week 45 - ATP 1000 - BNP Paribas Masters (€2,750,000), Paris (indoor hard) - doubles
(
1 2 3
)
(Preview)
Our top doubles players are playing musical partners! I suppose it's one way of getting both Colin & Ross into a Masters tournament! R1: Ross Hutchins & Andy Murray vs Nicolás Almagro & David Marrero (ESP/ESP) (the Austrian eighth seeds, Oliver Marach & Alexander Peya, lie in wa...
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Stircrazy
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31
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2519
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Week 45 - Challenger Aegon GB Pro Series, Loughborough (€42,000) - indoor hard
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1 2 3 4 5 … 11
)
(Preview)
The qualies have just got under way & blow me if there isn't live scoring! Wonders will never cease! The first-round matches between Miles Bugby & Dave Rice (q6), Connor Glennon (a new name to me!) & David Hodg...
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Stircrazy
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155
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11353
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Week 45 Futures - Rwanda F1 ($10K) - Kigali - Clay
(Preview)
QR1: Marc Beckles UNR lost to (q3) Marko Rajic (SRB) WR 1301 by 1 &  QR1: (q9) Dominic Ross-Hurst WR 1634 beat (wc) Jean-Claude Gasigwa (RWA) UNR by 3 & 5  FQR: (q9) Dominic Ross-Hurst WR 1634 trailed (q8) Conrad Olson (BEL) WR 1519 4-6 5-5 when play was suspended
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steven
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1
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830
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Week 44 - Challenger ($75,000) - Charlottesville VA, USA - Hard
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1 2 3 4 5 … 12
)
(Preview)
Jamie Baker is a DA here. Boggo and Chris are in the same qualifying section. A bit of a dodgy QR1 draw for Boggo too, though Brian Baker has not been anywhere near the top 200 for more than 5 years. The other players in the section are (wc) Domijan WR 748, (wc) Britton WR 745, whom Boggo took 3 sets to beat in N...
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steven
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10159
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Week 44 - ATP 500 series (€1,838,100) - Swiss Indoors Basel (indoor hard) - doubles
(
1 2
)
(Preview)
In the same (bottom) half of the draw (Mad ain't gonna like this! ): R1: (WC) Stéphane Bohli & Marco Chiudinelli (SUI/SUI) vs Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins R1: Andy Murray & Jamie Murray vs (2) Max Mirnyi & Daniel Nestor (BLR/CAN)
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Stircrazy
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23
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2053
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Week 44 Futures - USA F29 ($10k) - Niceville, Florida - Clay
(Preview)
QR1: Joe SALISBURY (GBR) defeated Michael KAY (USA) 6-2 1-6 6-2 QR1: Matthew SHORT (GBR) (3) BYE QR1: James CHAUDRY (GBR) BYE QR1: George COUPLAND (GBR) BYE QR2: Alexandre LACROIX (FRA) (2) defeated Joe SALISBURY (GBR) 3-6 6-3 7-6(5) QR2: Matthew SHORT (GBR) (3) defeated David O'HARE (IRL) 6-4 7-5...
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SMC1809
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4
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1056
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Week 44 Futures - Australia F11 ($15,000) - Happy Valley - Hard
(Preview)
R1: (wc) Bradley MOUSLEY (AUS) UNR Vs Toby MARTIN (GBR) WR 1061 R1: Robert MCKENZIE (AUS) WR 1101 Vs Richard GABB (GBR) WR 978
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SMC1809
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12
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1161
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Week 44 Futures - Kuwait F3 ($10,000) - Meshref (Hard)
(Preview)
R1: MORGAN, George (GBR) WR 737 v (q) MICOV, Stefan (MKD) WR 1890
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SMC1809
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4
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1033
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Week 44 Futures - Burundi F1 ($10k) - Bujumbura - Clay
(Preview)
QR1: Dominic ROSS-HURST (GBR) (3) defeated Ted SINDABIZERA NTWARI (BDI) 6-2 6-1 QR1: Clayton GILBERTSON (RSA) defeated Marc BECKLES (GBR) 6-0 6-4 R1: (q) Dominic ROSS-HURST (GBR) WR 1642 Vs Younes RACHIDI (MAR) WR 1203 L16: BECKLES (GBR) / ROSS-HURST (GBR) Vs FELDMAN (USA) / OLSON (BEL)
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SMC1809
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2
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846
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Week 44 - Challenger: Bauer Water Technology Cup (€30,000 +H) - Eckental, Germany (indoor - carpet) - doubles
(Preview)
R1: Johan Brunström (SWE) & Ken Skupski vs Ruben Bemelmans & Olivier Charroin (BEL/FRA) For the record Aucks & Márcio Torres (BRA) were the runners-up in 2008, while Josh Goodall & Ross Hutchins actually won it in 2006...
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Stircrazy
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5
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872
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Week 44 Futures - Spain F41 ($10,000) - Madrid (Clay)
(Preview)
This event is being played a week earlier than originally planned, replacing Spain F40, which was due to be payed at a different club in Madrid but has been cancelled. QR1: (q1) James Feaver WR 816 beat (wc) Fernando Sala (ESP) UNR by 1 & 4 QR1: (wc) Tomas Pusic Whitmore UNR lost to Roque Roch...
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steven
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1
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790
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Week 43 - ATP 250 series ($663,750) - St Petersburg Open, St Petersburg (indoor hard) - doubles
(
1 2 3 4 5
)
(Preview)
Same "cast" as for the Kremlin Cup R1: (3) Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins vs Alex Bogomolov & Lukas Dlouhy (USA/CZE) R1: James Cerretani & Philipp Marx (USA/GER) vs Julien Benneteau (FRA) & Jamie Murray Here's hoping Colin & Ross fare better than they did in Moscow...
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Stircrazy
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66
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3908
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Week 43 Futures - Great Britain F17 ($15,000) - Cardiff (Hard)
(
1 2 3 4 5 … 7
)
(Preview)
The final British futures of the year and we have DAs for Goodall, Evans, Cox, Milton, Smethurst, Bloomfield, Thornley and Willis. I am guessing at wildcards for Fitzpatrick, Golding, Feaver and Jones as they were all on the entry list but don't feature in the qualifying draw. The qualifying draw ha...
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RJA
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9385
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Week 44- ATP 500- Valencia (Hard)
(
1 2
)
(Preview)
Wardy managed to sneak in qualifying here and has a decent draw. (4) Pere Riba (ESP) WR 76 vs. James Ward (GBR) WR 152 Vasek Pospisil (CAN) WR 123 vs. Eduard Roger-Vasselin WR 100 Riba is pretty hopeless on hard, lost 1-6, 2-6 against Benneteau last week. He is also on a 1-5 in his last 6 appearance on har...
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The Magician Santoro
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16
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1768
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Week 43 Futures - Kuwait F2 ($10,000) - Meshref (Hard)
(Preview)
L32: George Morgan WR 743 v (Q) Levente Godry (HUN) WR 1292 L32: (5) David Rice WR 510 v Jaime Pulgar-Garcia (ESP) WR 948 L32: Lewis Burton WR 660 v (Q) Richard Ruckelshausen (AUT) WR 1184 (CH 453 in 2008) Dave played his opponent in Orense in August, winning 4-6 6-2 6-2.
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steven
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11
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1710
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Week 43 Futures - Laos F1 ($10,000) - Vientiane (hard)
(Preview)
This is going to be short & sweet! R1: (Q) Ariez Elyaas Deen Heshaam (MAS) UNR defeated (WC) William Aherne UNR by & 0 Anyone on here heard of Mr Aherne before?
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Stircrazy
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804
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