Sections:

Alex Bogdanovic GBR (16) vs. Robert Smeets AUS
Micha Przysiny POL vs. Paolo Lorenzi ITA
Sam Warburg USA vs. Konstantinos Economidis GRE
Glenn Weiner USA vs. Lukasz Kubot POL (18)

Mischa Zverev GER (4) vs. Eduardo Schwank ARG
Bryan Koniecko USA (WC) vs. Richard Bloomfield GBR
Ricardo Mello BRA vs. Lukas Rosol CZE
Marco Crugnola ITA vs. Alexander Waske GER (26)

Raemon Sluiter NED (8) vs. Michal Mertinak SVK
Brendan Evans USA vs. Jamie Baker GBR
Julien Jeanpierre FRA vs. Rohan Bopanna IND
Adrian Menendez ESP vs. Pablo Cuevas URU (19)


-- Edited by Count Zero at 08:28, 2007-08-21

Good draws for Rich and Boggo.

Bloomers could not really ask for an easier opponent that a guy who has played 2 Futures match's all year on hard and lost both of them (however didn't he have a similar draw in Aus Open?)

Boggo has played Smeets twice already this year and won both:

6-4, 7-6 in Lanzarote and 6-4, 6-2 in the States...however Smeets has just won Wrexham and we all know about Boggo's recent problems.

Bakers task is trickier as he lost to Evans in Lexington in 2006 6-2, 6-7, 6-4 and Evans is a very experienced hard courter..

Could be 3 winners but any success would be nice!

if i can get any info on boggo i will pass it on, although at the moment i think expects to be coming home soon, make of that what you will.

If Boggo was fully fit, then he would probably be booking his hotel for next week, as there is no-one in his section of the draw that would really trouble him (in fact, it is probably the weakest section of all). However, with him still being injured, any win will be good for him, as well as not aggrevating the injury further (at least I didn't jinx him by mentioning Okun, which I thought I may have done as I missed his name in the draw, and got to Boggo's section without seeing him, and thought he had to play him)

Bloomers should win his first match, but unless he really improves his form he won't get any further, as Zverev is coming into form recently, and has made the top 100

Baker has a decent draw which he could take advantage of if he has a good week. Evans is a tough opponent, but lost to Skupski earlier this year so Baker should have enough to beat him. He will have to serve well though as Evans has a massive serve. Sluiter won't be easy, but is winnable if he has a good day. The 3rd match is probably the easiest of the lot, with 3 clay courters and Bopanna

Hopefully Boggo and Baker will qualify, and they all win at least 1 match, but unless Boggo's injury disappears, then I doubt we'll have any qualifiers (and much British interest in singles beyond day 4)

Gonna rain most of the day in NY I think

They are hoping to start at 4pm (9pm here) according to the revised schedule on the USO site. Jamie's match has been cancelled, as has Bloomers'.

Edit - snap, mjd!

-- Edited by Madeline at 21:10, 2007-08-21

All play cancelled for the day