So yet another missed oportunity for a number of British players - yet another bye in ATP qualifying.
Hopefully a number of players in doubles again this week - Stretch and Aucks, Delgado and Hutchins if they haven't gone back home for the challenger and Boggo if he's fit enough.
James is first up today at 10am local time. Is this about 3pm?
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So Boggo gets stepanek in round 1, could have been better could have been a worser draw, however stepanek is still playing in switzerland so there is a possibility he could still pull out if he makes the final today.
Auckland on the scoreboard, so he'll be in action soon
Okay draw for Bogdanovic, but Stepanek appears to have re-found his form this week and is starting to win matches again. Stepanek will be the big favourite for that match, so it could be another early exit for Alex
No luck with the draw again though, as there are so many players that he would fancy his chance against, and he finally draws someone with a lower rank than him... only for it to be a former top 10 player
Anyone any idea how Aucks fared earlier? I can't get any sense out of the site as far as the results of Q1 matches are concerned & the live scoreboard, usually a good source of "today's results", doesn't appear to be working...!
at least we have people doing tour events in the mens. dont even get me started on the womens schedule it annoys me! i want to be a tennis manager to sort it all out(clearly i wud be rubbish though)
James Auckland(Gbr)/Stephen Huss(Aus) CWR137 vs Amer Delic(USA)/Igor Kunitsyn(Rus) CWR159 (winner to play (probably) (1)Bryan/Bryan CWR2)
Ross Hutchins/Alex Bogdanovic(Gbr) CWR654 vs Mardy Fish/Sam Querrey(USA) CWR435 winner to play either: (2)Jamie Murray(Gbr)/Eric Butorac(USA) CWR63 vs Scott Lipsky/David Martin(USA) CWR156
I wonder why neither Ross nor Jamie entered singles qualies - maybe arrived too late I guess but would have been great chance of easy money/singles points
I wonder why neither Ross nor Jamie entered singles qualies - maybe arrived too late I guess but would have been great chance of easy money/singles points
Thanks for posting the draw. I thought Jamie was on record as saying he'd given up any aspirations he once had as a singles player now that he's comfortably established as a serious doubles player? If memory serves, he no longer has a singles ranking anyway, so the prospect of picking up a few points would hardly be mouth-watering & with his half-share of the prize money for the Wimbledon mixed title (£45,000), not to mention the £7,880 picked for reaching the third round of the men's with Booty, now safely in the bank, I doubt easy singles qualie money would hold much attraction now, either!