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Well, look who's popped up in singles qualifying here - one of just three unseeded non-Brazilians in the draw.

QR1: Jamie Delgado WR 1208 v (q5) Diego Cristin (ARG) WR 482

OoP says 4th on Center after 10 am (noon GMT) on Monday 29th - I assume they mean Saturday 29th.

It's virtually unheard of for a Brit to head out to one of the Brazilian events, which are usually full of Brazilians + the odd Argentinian. I wonder if Jamie is just chasing relatively easy points, perhaps more in doubles than singles (I imagine this will be relatively weak for a 100K+H) or if he's decided to camp out in South America in the hope that JL will pick him for the DC doubles rubber!

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Hope he does well in doubles.

If he beats the 5th seed and 1st seed in qualies on clay he should probably give singles another crack!

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Unusually for South America, this is being played on a hard court, not clay.

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oh right yeah! I just assumed.

He'd still do very well to qualify.

Makes his chances better in doubles though! Wonder who he'll be partnering?

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QR1: Jamie Delgado WR 1208 beat (q5) Diego Cristin (ARG) WR 482 by 7-6(5) 6-2 biggrin

... and what's even better is that he plays the winner of WC v WC in QR2!

QR2: Jamie Delgado WR 1208 v (WC) Alain Michel (BRA) UNR

However, no. 1 seed Thiago Alves would stand in the way of him getting to the main draw and hence actually scoring any points - a pity points aren't given in the men's game for winning Challenger qualifying matches!

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a real pity, great win from Delgy. Alves would be a tough ask but one match at a time and you never know in tennis...

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If you think about it though, Delgado will have achieved a lot more in tennis than Alves, just because he doesn't play singles any more doesn't mean he can't play. C'mon Jamie roll back the years!

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A snippet of Jamie in action.

[youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mUlY-V_KzkI&feature=related]

-- Edited by wolf at 14:27, 2007-12-30

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Who is he playing with in doubles?

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Results from today.
Thiago Alves (BRA) d. Ivan-Garcia Castro (BRA) 6-3 6-0
Jamie Delgado (GBR) d. Alain Michel (BRA) 6-2 6-0

So it is Alves-Delgado later today.

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Alves d. Delgado 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(0)

Doubles R1
Jamie Delgado (Gbr) and Bruno Soares (Bra) v Julio Silva (Bra) and Alexandre Simoni (Bra)

That match is played tommorow.

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Took Alves to a third set breaker. Good going.

All the best for the doubles Delgy! I hope he gets into singles qualies a lot this year. He could suprise some people!

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very close from Delgy, much better than I was expecting.

Hope he does well in the doubles, I've not heard of his partner, anyone else got more information?

I have heard of Julio Silva though, he's a relatively good (top 300 but can't remember exactly) singles player but hopefully rubbish at doubles!!

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Jamie and Bruno are 4th seeds.

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Delgy has no points to defend for the first 3 months of this year as he was injured this time last year.

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