Tricky draw....Slanar has been playing a mix of challengers and futures with more sucess in futures. He beat Rushby in the first round of the Barnstable Challenger and just lost the semi in China F9.
If he does progress he could meet the likes of Pless and Balleret.
I was priming Sheddie and Arka for another cow dung argument!
I think Josh stands a good chance on hard. Wonder if a coach has travelled with him. If he can learn to calm down and collect his thoughts when a point or a call don't go his way, he's got plenty of talent to take Slanar and maybe a couple more out!
Decent draw for Josh, with all the withdrawals he'd probably still make AO qualies at this point but it'd be great if he could have a good run next couple of weeks and maybe move up a few places
The Delhi dung suits big servers so he should do well
Should beat Slanar but Schuettler lurks in rd2....
Josh's draw looks a hell of a lot better now as Schettler has pulled out and Pless retired so if he can win tomorrow it's either Yu or Skugor in R2 with Balleret or Kindlmann in Q/F!
Here's hoping for Josh. With this being a 50K there will be more points on offer so let's hope he can really take advantage and get that ranking moving back up.
That's a big stroke of luck and it's times like this that Josh needs to play at his best because he won't get an easier route in a 50k again anytime soon! Hope that there isn't an anti-climax after such a good chance!