Not surprised he dropped a set today...is that 16pts so far ?

Way to go Alex!

8 points. I've put him in the little section of the GB top 25 table for those with PRs in the top 25 for this week and next week, since he'll be top of the Brits with 8 points having only played in two main draws and thus in the GB top 25 from week 22.

I'm pretty sure that at the start off week 22, Flan will drop out of the top 25 and Thornley & Ward will move in, thus also ending Matt Illingworth's short stay there.

That question has already been answered twice LOL but the answers are about 2 pages back now. It says Alexander on all the official drawsheets (it only says J Ward on the list of games involving Spaniards on the tenispain site) and if it had been James, he would have been top seed in qualies and seeded in the main draw.

Super result. I expect a loss tomorrow, but then I've expected a loss every match so far so I can't help but get my hopes up!!

Alex plays at 11.30am local time (10.30 bst)

Hopefully we will find out the result early pm.

Oh yes, I remember that. So this isn't the best run by an unranked Brit since 2003 - or than again, maybe it is now that Alex has reached the Final too, given where he's done it and how convincing most of the scorelines have been.

Harston reached the Final in Jersey, which is always relatively weak, though he did beat Slabba and Jamie Baker on the way. He got to a career high of 950 on the back of that, but lost in straight sets to Slabba the following week then only ever scored one more ranking point before giving up just over a year later.

That does show how success like this can be here today then gone tomorrow and I hope the same doesn't happen to Alex. The difference in ages gives cause for hope though - Harston was already 26 back then, Alex is just 18.