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Richard Bloomfield should be top seed in the main draw here, Jamie Baker also on the the entry list.

Qualies R1:

Chris Harfield (Gbr) UNR vs Kenny De Schepper (Fra) UNR

Winner plays (11)Charly Villeneuve (Fra) WR 755

Other seed in Chris's section - (4)Denis Matsukevitch (Rus) WR 481

Thought a few others might try their hand in qualies here - hard courts, 15 byes in round 1 of qualies and a 15k+H tournament. 

-- Edited by RobC at 19:13, 2007-03-22

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24 points for the winner and 16 for the runner up. Bloomers can pick more points here than he would by finishing in the last four of some Challenger.

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Main draw R1 (top quarter):

(1)Richard Bloomfield (Gbr) WR 176 vs Qualifier
Adam Feeney (Aus) WR 343 vs Qualifier
Joseph Sirianni (Aus) WR 286 vs Qualifier
(7)Jamie Baker (Gbr) WR 249 vs Qualifier

Pity the 2 Brits are both in the same quarter. Hopefully we'll get one of them into the semi finals.

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QR1:

Kenny De Schepper (Fra) UNR bt Chris Harfield (Gbr) UNR 6-1 6-1 

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Have to root for Bloomers in this one.

Indoor season is ending and this is one of the last opportunities he'll get for some easy points. Tsonga is in the same half!

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Pity they're in eaach other's section...

Wonder if they'll team up for doubles...

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Is Qureshi playing here ? If not, I'd be very surprised if they didn't team up for doubles. Both are trying to play more to improve their net games for singles.

Really gutted that they're in the same section...this 15K+H is amazingly strong given that Jamie's ranked 249 but is only seeded 7th !!

They've played once before, Richard won in straights in rd1 of Surbiton last year. However, Jamie has improved a lot since then, he has by far the better baseline game so a lot will come down to how well he can return the Bloomfield serve. On fast indoor hard, Richard's going to get a lot of cheap points and he'll be serve-volleying. Richard's a good volleyer but can still miss some relatively easy ones at times, particularly on the backhand. If Jamie can keep making him play after the serve, it may tell on the big points.


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R1: (1) Richard Bloomfield WR 183 v (LL) Antoine Benneteau (FRA) WR 1518
R1: (7) Jamie Baker WR 269 v (Q) Clément Morel (FRA) 568


Unfortunately, both Brits are in the top quarter of the draw, but with the other players in that quarter being Adam Feeney (Aus) WR 343 and Joseph Sirianni (Aus) WR 286, both of whom are also due to play qualifiers in R1, it'll need a disaster to avoid us getting at least a semi-finalist out of it.


On Tuesday, Richard is 3rd on Court B not before 13.00 GMT and Jamie is 5th on Court A at about 16.00 GMT.

No Brits in the doubles, surprisingly.



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Should be a nice straightforward start to the week from Jamie. I have a feeling if Jamie and Richard meet, then the Baker boy will come out on top. Certainly, I'm expecting Jamie to make the semi final here. Should round off a nice few weeks on the Future circuit ready for him to make a triumphant return to challengers.

-- Edited by john at 00:52, 2007-03-20

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Tsonga won on the match before Bloomers!

This draw updates sporadically:

http://www.ti.fft.fr/EvMenu.asp?CodeEvent=0611291993&NumDraw=2

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R1: (1) Richard Bloomfield WR 183 beat (LL) Antoine Benneteau (FRA) WR 1518 by 7-6(1) 6-7(3) 6-4
R1: (7) Jamie Baker WR 269 beat (Q) Clément Morel (FRA) 568 by 7-6(7) 7-6(6)

R2: (1) Richard Bloomfield WR 183 v Ouanna/Feeney
R2: (7) Jamie Baker WR 269 v Bourgeois or Sirianni


Bloomers made unbelievably heavy weather of beating a LL with just one ranking point and Jamie was taken to 9-7 and 8-6 t/bs, but at least they both lived to fight another day. Tsonga took two t/bs to get past qualifier Charly Villeneuve too, so there must be something odd in the Poitiers air!



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Bloomers won 7-6 (1) 6-7 (3) 6-4 phew!
Baker Boy won 7-6 (7) 7-6 (6)

Tiebreaks were the order of the day for the brits!

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Much closer than we thought eh!?!

Nice to put those wins behindthem and move on to R2 though!

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Benneteau served 13 aces to Bloomers 16.

Match lasted 2 hrs 46mins!!!! Unbelievably low level from Bloomers.

Morel and Baker served 6 between them

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Shocking scoreline for Bloomers, but he's through and that's what counts.

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