Hopefully more will sign up as going to make my way down to that tournament. Hopefully getting down for the Sunday Quallies then on Tues, Wed and the Sat and Sunday semis/finals.

I'll try doing running scores for anyone who wants them

It'll be great to get score updates gazzpash I've never been to this challenger but I'm told that it's one of the nicest venues

I'm really pleased that Bloomers has gone for this instead of heading to the States early like last year. He's at his best on grass so it makes sense to try and rack up the points in the two challengers and he really needs it after dropping all those pts from Wimbledon. He had a really miserable time in the USA last year, didn't win many matches...August will be a tough month for him as the challengers before US Open qualies are really strong - Vancouver, Binghampton and Bronx and it's not his fav surface so best to make hay while he can

The field is really open, anyone could come through to win it. The main foreigners to watch out for will probably be Wessels who made an ATP final last week, Dupuis is always a threat on grass and Qureshi looked impressive in the qualies and against Childs. Norman's had a poor year so far so can't really see him winning.

Goodall has tons to defend this month having won Felixstowe, made the Manchester final and made Nottingham quarters...hopefully he can put "Lundgren-gate" behind him and get some wins...I don't think he's won a challenger match in 2007.

I have mixed feelings about who should get the wcs....if Childs gets in then Kasiri, May, Irwin, Slabba, Eaton...are the ones next in line who deserve wcs but on the other hand, I'd prefer to see all of them playing Frinton where they have a better chance of getting some pts..

I think that the juniors should play Frinton, fairly weakish field so good chance to get some wins

surely a good chance to pick up some point here! i guess rich seeding will slip down after his wimby points come off, but with no top 150 players there he surely has a great chance to go deep.
the other too good maybe progress, i assume we will see a similar field at notts too.

maybe he self moderated?

Alternates -


1. Uebel, Lars GER 383
2. Nieminen, Timo FIN 384
3. Niland, Conor IRL 385
4. Coelho, Andrew AUS 387
5. Burniol, Guillem ESP 398
6. Childs, Lee GBR 408
7. Cruciat, Adrian ROU 417
8. Amritraj, Prakash IND 418
9. Kretschmer, Gero GER 420
10. Alcaide, Guillermo ESP 426
11. Ysern, Pierrick FRA 433
12. Al Ghareeb, Mohammed KUW 438
13. Petzschner, Philipp GER 442
14. Sharan, Divij IND 448
15. Brunstrom, Johan SWE 451
16. Palencia, Carlos MEX 454
17. Stancik, Jan SVK 489
18. Groth, Samuel AUS 490
19. Moser, Frank GER 501
20. Stolt, Phil USA 518

Bloomers probably won't be seeded here as his ranking has shot down (while Bopanna and Quereshi's have gone the other way)...let's hope for a withdrawal or two.

Both Olejniczak and Niemienen are playing in Davis Cup so will pull out so Childs may just make it