At last Richard's draw luck has changed - he has drawn the other qualifier Ivo Klec - 3rd match on ct 6 Tues, followed by Goodall/Skupski in doubles vs Koning/Middlecoop. First match on 6 at 11.am is Marray vs Mankad Slabba vs Niland is the evening match on Centre court at 6.30pm - Free admission all week (LTA note)
FQR: (q3) Richard Bloomfield WR 383 beat (WC) Daniel Glancy (IRL) UNR by 0 & 0 FQR: (q6) Ken Skupski WR 527 lost to (q4) Tomas Cakl (CZE) WR 477 by 1 & 3
L32: (Q) Richard Bloomfield WR 383 v (Q) Ivo Klec (SVK) WR 360 L32: Alex Slabinsky WR 333 v Conor Niland (IRL) WR 304 L32: (PR) Jonny Marray WR 1598 v Harsh Mankad (IND) WR 674 L32: Josh Goodall WR 272 v Andrew Coelho (AUS) WR 309
Preview for the new match
Klec lost to Wardy in Queen's Q and Josh in Wimby Q and to Bloomers himself 1 & 2 in Wolfsburg last year, though he had extended Boggo to three tiebreak sets shortly before that.Richard also beat him 6-1 3-0 ret. in Bahrain and 6-4 0-6 7-6(5) in Qatar in 2004, so you couldn't really ask for a much better history against a (now) slightly higher-ranked player, but after what happened to Wardy in Cordoba today, let's not count our chickens!
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Horrible loss for Goodall, as he shouldn't be losing matches to Coelho on a surface that he's the better player on, and given that Cox beat him a few weeks ago, it doesn't say a lot for how Josh is playing at the moment.
Bloomers got the nice easy win he was looking for, and then gets the best draw as well, and I think he should get the second round here.
Hoped that Ken would do a bit better than he did, but he doesn't seem to be able to beat the higher ranked players in singles at the moment