A huge chance for Myles to pick up more points in a week than he has managed to amass in the first six months of the year as a whole:
L32: (8) Myles Blake WR 779 v Sunday Emmanuel (NGR) WR 1314 - the winner to play the winner of a match between two unranked qualifiers for a place in the QFs.
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Wow, what an amazing draw. Don't mess things up Myles
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He did indeed - if we had a muppet of the week award for the British players like we have muppet of the day in the pick 'ems ...
L32: (8) Myles Blake WR 779 lost to Sunday Emmanuel (NGR) WR 1314 by 4-6 6-3 6-4
In fairness to Myles, he was quite brave to go here looking for a nice draw in the first place, but when he got the kind of draw he could only have dreamt of, losing in R1 probably wasn't a great idea.
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Myles has been beyond awful this year. So dreadfully disappointing. he's gone from being a potential top 500 breaker to a guy struggling to hold onto his ranking at all if he doesn't drastically improve
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive.... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience
I would love to know what is going through Myles' mind at the moment as this run can't surely just be put down to bad form, for a guy who was about to break into the Top500 to lose to a player outside of the top 1300 there must be other factors playing a part. I just hope that Myles is ok and can sort himself out, whether that be mentally/physically, whatever.. and come back and start playing like he we know he can and proved last year.