Hopefully that's not Jamie with a recurrence of his injury there. No offence meant to Zovko but I would rather it was him that retired injured

Fortunately it appears that it was Zovko who was injured.

Bethan, Delgado tore a muscle in his leg at the end of 2006/start of 2007 and that's why he's been out for 3 months. Must have been so frustrating as he was on the verge of reaching his holy grail, the top 100...really hope he can do it. Singles-wise, he got to 121 back in 2001, but from 2002 onwards his form pretty much nose-dived for some reason. It's a shame as he had the talent to be top 100 (similar to Parmar and Cowan), made an ATP quarter-final in 2000 and also reached consecutive 25K finals in the Manchester and Bristol challengers that year. He also qualified for several masters series and ATPs in 2000-2001 and from 1999-2006, he's won matches at Queens, Nottingham and Wimbledon a number of times, always seems to save his best for the grass.

Encouraging that he reached a final in his first tourney back, don't think he's got too much to defend until June so hopefully he can rack up some points over the next couple of months as in June there's loads coming off from Queens and Wimbledon. I wonder what he's going to do regarding doubles partners with Aucks now with Huss. Teaming up with Ross Hutchins for some challengers could be an option.

Argentina has eight players in the doubles top 100 right now.

Can you ever have enough players in the top 100? I want a hundred British guys in there.

Good to see Irwin building on the success of the first Bath tourney Unfortunately it's going to be now mostly the nasty red stuff and slow hard courts till June which don't suit his game. However, here's hoping he can adapt, the wins he's had should give him lots of confidence.

Brilliant round 1 win for Rushby, I guess Elseneer must have been injured as he's a lot, lot better than his current ranking in the 500s...quality player on fast surfaces - massive serve and forehand. Shame about the rd2 loss but Rieschick is a former world junior no 1 !!! Just shows how tough it is at this level. Rushby has the potential to be top 400 and higher, from what I've heard he's plagued by inconsistency from one match to another (sometimes even 1 set to another !). There are signs though that he's starting to develop more consistency week in, week out.

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Argentina has eight players in the doubles top 100 right now.

Can you ever have enough players in the top 100? I want a hundred British guys in there.

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   I think that we could have 6 for sure in the next few years. Goodall, Hutchins and Delgado all have the potential to make it as does Jonny Marray who's a superb doubles player and had a great partnership with Martin Lee before he retired. Maybe Jonny could link up with Jamie on a regular basis, once he returns, I think they've played together in the past  

why don't you think he should try and become a doubles specialist ?

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