Yep, the same. Good to see him give this a go as he doesn't do much of Futures qualies.

Very bad draw, though! Where's our Starakiewicztard, now?



I'm slightly surprised to see Kukhalashvili here. I wonder if it means that he is going to play for Britain like he once considered or it's just far fetched wishful thinking.

Maybe Kyle wanted to try Nottingham qualifying or something like that, only to find out today he was unlikely to make the cut and so hopped over to Dublin and signed in here?

Or he wanted the match practice and so wanted to have to qualify rather than play directly?

Either way it's strange, but he'll qualify easily, as should Kinsella, Bradshaw, and Patient for Britain, with Alridge having a chance, and one of Campbell/Harfield getting through the bottom section.

Starakiewicz will qualify will ease here, and I'm surprised he hasn't moved up the rankings that much yet, so unfortunately Matt James won't be winning a match here

QR1: (q1) Kyle Brassington WR 1179 v David O'Hare (IRL) UNR
QR1: Alex Watt UNR v (WC) Conor Taylor (IRL) UNR
QR1: (q2) Jonny Kinsella WR 1246 v (WC) Karl James Rogers (IRL) UNR
QR1: Dominic Ross-Hurst UNR v Ciaran Fitzgerald (IRL) UNR
QR1: (q3) Tim Bradshaw WR 1586 v Jordan Miles UNR
QR1: Rogan Egerton UNR v Justin Flynn (IRL) UNR
QR1: Burnham Arlidge UNR v Mark Bowtell (IRL) UNR - winner likely to play (q4) Niko Trkulja (AUS) WR 1784
QR1: Mathew James UNR v (q5) Wojciech Starakiewicz (POL) WR 1833 - winner will play an unranked Irishman
QR1: Timothy Patient UNR v Glann Jackson (AUS) UNR - winner will play an unranked Irishman
QR1: Marc Beckles UNR v Barry King (IRL) UNR - winner will play an unranked Irishman or Russian
QR1: (WC) Connor Schelling-Tisza UNR v Christopher Harfield UNR
QR1: Luke Campbell UNR v Fiachra Lennon (IRL) UNR

We also have five DAs here, including Brewer who is playing in his first Future for weeks:

- Miles Kasiri WR 608, likely to be seeded
- David Brewer WR 923
- Sean Thornley WR 993
- Maniel Bains WR 1057
- Edward Allinson WR 1070

Edward Corrie WR 1280, Philip Barlow WR 1329 and Alex Miotto WR 1443 were all above Kinsella in the Alt list, so may have scraped in too.

James won 1 and 3!!!!!!!

What the hell???

Hell of a result if it's correct though and shows that he's got some great promise if he can produce results like that, as Starakiewicz has a huge serve, and has some massive groundstrokes as well, so to win 1 and 3 against him is very impressive indeed

No surprises in the rest of the matches really, although I'd have though Campbell should have won

FQR: (q1) Kyle Brassington WR 1179 v (WC) Conor Taylor (IRL) UNR
FQR: (q2) Jonny Kinsella WR 1246 v Ciaran Fitzgerald (IRL) UNR
FQR: (q3) Tim Bradshaw WR 1586 v Rogan Egerton UNR
FQR: Burnham Arlidge UNR v (q4) Niko Trkulja (AUS) WR 1784
FQR: Mathew James UNR v (WC) Michael Hayes (IRL) UNR
FQR: Timothy Patient UNR v Sam Barry (IRL) UNR
FQR: Christopher Harfield UNR v Fiachra Lennon (IRL) UNR

So the FQR consists of 1 all-GBR match, 5 GBR v IRL matches, 1 GBR v AUS match plus Barry King (IRL) UNR v Dmitri Perevoshchikov (RUS) UNR.

I bet that your classmate would get a shock if he had seen you come to see him play after hearing of him on a tennis site.

He could play at the Dublin Challenger, by the way. Last year the qualies draw didn't have an ATP cut and there were 10 byes, so maybe he can get in this time if he wants to - do keep an eye on the draw!

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 02:36, 2008-06-15