Just to emphasise what a shocker of a tournament this has been for the Brits, here are the relative rankings:
R1: Ross Hutchins WR 820 lost to (Q) Dusan Mihailovic (SRB) WR 909 by 4 & 4 R1: (PR) Miles Kasiri WR 1222 lost to (WC) Robin Brage (SWE) WR 906 by 4 & 4 (or maybe since Miles's PR is higher than 906) R1: Neil Bamford WR 718 lost to (Q) Carl Bergman (SWE) WR 954 by 4-6 7-5 7-6(2)
Did they all go out on the town the night before their matches?
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Confused by how well qualifiers have done at both Swedish futures tournaments this year. Maybe its a really odd surface so the qualifiers have a distinct advantage?
Or British players suck, which is equally as viable an answer....
johnnylad wrote: Confused by how well qualifiers have done at both Swedish futures tournaments this year. Maybe its a really odd surface so the qualifiers have a distinct advantage?
The courts in Sweden are really, really fast so qualifiers will have a big advantage as they'll tend to be the big servers and they've already come through 2 matches