L32: (3) Kyle Edmund WR 22 (CH = 14 last August) vs Ugo Humbert (FRA) WR 63 (= CH) Kyle was the second seed here last year, but lost out in the final to the unranked Pablo Andújar by 2 & 2. Zverev is on a wild card & is the top seed.
L32: Henry Craig (USA) ITF 270 (ATP UNR, but a CH of 599 last August) vs (PR) Julian Cash ITF 1615 (ATP UNR, but a CH of 935 in December 2017) L32: Isaac Stoute ITF 446 (ATP UNR) vs (8) Lorenzo Frigerio (ITA) ITF 273 (ATP 632)
There is a British quartet here, with all bar Felix staying for another G2 next week Boys R1 (L32) Kristof Minarik (SVK) v (8) Felix Gill Jack Pinnington Jones v (LL) Radu Florin Macovei (ROU) Girls R1 (L32) Amarni Banks v Ekaterina Nikoforova (RUS) (7) Jiangxue Han (CHN) v Erin Richardson
A complete bus load of young Brits are here this week - five boys and TEN girls: BOYS R1 (L64)Oliver RICHARDS (GBR) 6-1 6-2 Neo NIEDNER (GER)Joel PIERLEONI (GBR) [4] 6-4 7-6(4) Maikel DE BOES (BEL)Harry LAZELL (GBR) [16] 6-0 6-2 Alessandro D'ANNA (ITA)Constantino...
Those of you who read my various scribes on here will no doubt remember that I have on occasions waxed lyrical about the facilities and the set up at the La Manga Club. The facilities remain unchanged but there has been a notable change in another way. James Rose, who had spent several years there and wa...
QR1: BYE vs (qWC/q10) Joshua Rose UNR (CH = 1643 in June 2017) (ITF 2025) ***** FQR: (q5) Joseph Imeh Ubon (NGR) UNR (CH = 1415 in December 2016) (ITF 1247) vs (qWC/q10) Joshua Rose UNR (ITF 2025)
L16: (1) Erik Crepaldi & Jakub Paul (ITA/SUI) CR 376 (239+137) (ATP CR 1159 [723+436]) vs Anurag Nenwani (IND) & Stuart Parker UNR (759+0) (ATP UNR [825+0]) I think Stuart must have sneaked into the singles main draw.
So here is the thing - I am 53 years old now and love my work, but I expected that by my age I would have seen everything and learnt not to be disappointed by how things dont always turn out the way you want! I went to see a client in November and after a couple of discussions talking them through various pro...
L48: Qualifier vs Jan Choinski WR 267 (CH = 234 last April) The winner of that encounter will face the Swedish 14th seed, Mikael Ymer, in the last 32, so not a bad draw (if Jan wins!).
So outside of Norrie, Evo and Edmund, the men of British tennis have been poor this year. Ward-done nothing really this year, but nothing was really expected Clarke- very disappointing, may now potentially face a challenger level career and never be an atp player Choinski- the new Brydan Klien, oft...
FQR: (q1) Brydan Klein WR 371 (CH = 169 in September 2015) vs (qWC) Hsieh Cheng-Peng (TPE) UNR (CH = 1098 in July 2011) Dare I say Brydan could hardly have hoped for a better chance to get into the main draw of a Challenger 125? That said, he needs to reach the second round to pick up five points. It is perh...
L32: (1) Nam Ji Sung (KOR) WR 362 (CH = 341 last November) (ITF 84) vs (IR) Mark Whitehouse UNR (CH = 566 last December) (ITF 238) The ITF rankings haven't been updated yet.
