1 Pless, Kristian DEN 79 2 Bracciali, Daniele ITA 114 OUT 3 Zverev, Mischa GER 128 4 Moodie, Wesley RSA 139 5 Kubot, Lukasz POL 156 6 Healey, Nathan AUS 173 7 Bloomfield, Richard GBR 189 8 Jones, Alun AUS 201 9 Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 202 OUT 10 Goodall, Joshua GBR 223 11 Tourte, Nicolas FRA 225 12 Stadler, Simon GER 227 13 Smeets, Robert AUS 229 14 Juska, Andis LAT 245 15 Baker, Jamie GBR 247 16 Lugassy, Gary FRA 248 17 Sirianni, Joseph AUS 249 18 Evans, Brendan USA 252 19 Oger, Thomas FRA 257 20 Marray, Jonathan GBR 262 21 Bohli, Stephane SUI 263 22 Chen, Ti TPE 264 23 (SE) 24 (SE) 25 (WC) 26 (WC) 27 (WC) 28 (WC) 29 (Q) 30 (Q) 31 (Q) 32 (Q)
Bloomers likely to be seeded. One or two people still invovled in Wimbly doubles who may or may not be last minute withdrawals from here...
I expect some of our futures bods are hanging around to see how low the qualies cut goes.
At the moment... Kubot, Bloomfield, Smeets, Moodie and Marray are all still playing doubles at Wimbledon, so it may be that all of them have to withdraw from this tournament
Maes looks to be a thorn in the side for the Brits in that draw once again.
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Well the Skupster has done it again pulling off a great win against 2nd seed Maes 7-5 6-3, Slabs through as well but made harder work of it winning 6-2 4-6 6-3. They play each other now for a place in the main draw.
Well done to the Skupster!! I'm kind of hoping he beats Slabba, though it's a shame they have to meet.
All the other Brits at challenger level are still in the doubles/mixed doubles at Wimbledon so would've have to pull out. Hopefully they manage to win and make up for it that way (I'm thinking Goodall/hutchins and Bloomfield/Marray in particular here). On the bright side, it will mean more of them can head over to Newport qualies and be rewarded that way.
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