I thought I would flag this up early as it looks like Jonny Marray will be using his protected ranking for the first time. Its certainly good to have him back on the scene.
Dublin, Republic of Ireland - Original Cut Off 282 1. Clement, Arnaud FRA 86 2. Zverev, Mischa GER 97 3. Muller, Gilles LUX 105 4. Karanusic, Roko CRO 112 5. Pless, Kristian DEN 126 6. Qureshi, Aisam-Ul-Haq PAK 152 7. Stadler, Simon GER 167 8. Smeets, Robert AUS 169 9. Kudryavtsev, Alexandre RUS 192 10. Peya, Alexander AUT 194 11. Middelkoop, Matwe NED 212 12. Ebelthite, Colin AUS 216 13. Lugassy, Gary FRA 220 14. Beck, Karol SVK 229 15. Rehnquist, Bjorn SWE 236 16. Fischer, Martin AUT 254 17. Sorensen, Louk IRL 263 18. Goodall, Joshua GBR 269 19. Feeney, Adam AUS 275 20. Chekhov, Pavel RUS 277 21. Felder, Marcel URU 279 22. Amritraj, Prakash IND 282 23. (SE) 24. (SE) 25. (WC) 26. (WC) 27. (WC) 28. (WC) 29. (Q) 30. (Q) 31. (Q) 32. (Q)
Alternates 1. Oger, Thomas FRA 283 2. Bastl, George SUI 288 3. Nielsen, Frederik DEN 290 4. Coelho, Andrew AUS 292 5. Bopanna, Rohan IND 293 6. Niland, Conor IRL 301 7. Ryderstedt, Michael SWE 303 8. Marray, Jonathan GBR @303 9. Groth, Samuel AUS 304 10. King-Turner, Daniel NZL 308 11. Capkovic, Kamil SVK 311 12. Cerovic, Ivan CRO 312 13. Poch-Gradin, Carlos ESP 313 14. Mankad, Harsh IND @323 15. Slabinsky, Alexander GBR 324
Looks like most of the Brits will be in qualifying here, as the only reason not to would be either playing a futures, or still be involved in Wimbledon in the doubles somehow (or going to Newport, but with a 16 player Q Draw, including 3 WC's, I don't know what the cut would be)
Surprised Boggo isn't here, but maybe he wants a week off or just doesn't want to play this event.
Dam just when his time of the year comes around he gets injured and after making a good boost in his singles ranking he will drop again which is a real shame :( Hopefully he will be fit for davis cup.
Theres a few Brits led by Bloomers and Skupsk who could both get through. With at least three in the main draw, plus these one or two, plus Jamie Baker in the states, plus maybe Ward in Spain.....we've not had so much interest at Challenger level for ages. Fingers crossed the above make it through.
I dont think this tournament offers hospitality btw. I think its a straight $75k.
QR1: Jonny Kinsella WR 1333 v Tim Bradshaw WR 1598 QR1: (q3) Richard Bloomfield WR 383 v Alex Watt UNR QR1: Kyle Brassington WR 1175 v Edward Corrie WR 1279 QR1: (q6) Ken Skupski WR 527 v Philippe Grandjean (LUX) UNR
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!
The Times says http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article4232403.ece) that Chris Eaton "pulled out of his next tournament, in Dublin this week, mentally rather than physically drained by the run through qualifying and into the second round of Wimbledon that earned him the biggest pay cheque of his young life and honorary membership of that lucrative but dangerous club, the great British tennis hope."
The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/06/28/stdiar128.xml) has a different take on it, given that Chris has been offered a double page spread in 'Hello': "Eaton now faces a dilemma, which kind of sums up British tennis: to pose in Hello!, or play some tennis, at a futures event in Ireland. Let's hope he doesn't follow all those Brits who sparkled at Wimbers, before disappearing: a case of Hello - and goodbye... "
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!