He is a 36-year-old who reached the Final of the National Seniors Championship last year, a report on that Final in the winner's local paper describes Howe as a "Middlesex-based Australian" (!)

He has been playing Satellite and Futures qualifying intermittently since the mid-1990s without qualifying for a main draw until October 2006.

He's no Dee or Lownsborough though - he scored ranking points in Tunisia, Senegal and Pakistan last year and I assume he's funding himself - maybe the need to be able to fund himself explains why he's playing more overseas tournaments in his mid 30s than he ever did before.

His best performance last year, however, was probably taking a set off a young Indian now ranked in the 700s in Mumbai qualifying last September.

Doubles Draw
Andy Murray and Ross Hutchins v Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic (1)
Jamie Murray and Max Mirnyi v Frantisek Cermak and Lukas Dlouhy (3)

nice to see Hutchins going for the ATP, shame about the draw, hope they can pull off a surprise though.

Not the kindest draw for M&Ms either, but I'm very curious to see how this partnership shapes up.

British Eurosport appears to have coverage of Doha next week so I'm hoping to get a Murray fix before heading back to uni and no Sky tv!!

some of them but it's pretty hit and miss.

lol, no it's because of the internet I've chosen in my house, you'll just have to choose a slightly more expensive service. The internet on campus was excellent, and very fast.

both, it was the same thing.

And, yes I've got a reasonably good internet connection but every now and then it has a moment.