QR1: Philip Barlow WR 1790 def (q2) Jordi Marse-Vidri (Esp) WR 623 6-4 7-6 (5)
QR1: Adam Lawton UNR lost to Javier Foronda-Bolanos (Esp) UNR 6-1 6-0
QR1: Gary Chamberlain UNR lost to (q11) Abel Rincon-Vazquez (Esp) WR 1446 5-7 6-3 6-2
QR1: Antoni Gomez UNR def Jose Pablo Zamora (Esp) UNR 6-1 ret

QR2: Philip Barlow v Marc Giner UNR (ESP)
QR2: Antoni Gomez v Amador Romero-Torres (q8) WR 1273 (ESP)

Very good win for Philip in R1...Imperitive now that he carries it on

That's a brilliant win for Barlow - I seem to remember (dashes off to ITF to check!) that Marse-Vidri was the player the Wardinator beat to reach his Futures Final. He's clearly having a tough time at the moment, having lost in R1 9/11 times since then and now having to play in qualifying, but this is someone who won a Future as recently as March (one of the Turkish Futures in which Dan Cox lost in R1), reached a QF in Finland last month and has reached two semis this year.

Is this defo 10K?

ATP futures page had it at 15 the other day but it is famous for being wrong/I may have misread it!

James lost 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-5.

This one needed a bit of further investigation, I thought ...

Marti is a 16-year-old who has only played two junior ITFs, but must have played a lot in Spain. He is being touted as one of Spain's two great young hopes to follow Rafa to the no. 1 slot along with Carlos Boluda, who apparently is the only other player of the same age in the world capable of beating him at the moment.

There's an interview http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/tenis/es/desarrollo/1130312.html where he rather modestly describes himself as being good at just about everything, i.e. having a pretty complete game.

You can see from the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHRzsiNUwWk that he is a natural shot maker.

He got his first ranking pojts a couple of weeks ago, double bagelling his R1 opponent and then getting through 6-4 2-0 ret. against Jeanclaude.

However, he did lose 1 & 1 to Trujillo-Soler in the QFs that week, so I still think Wardy should have won. 6 points out of a possible 36 from two Futures in which he was the no. 1 seed is not a good haul.

-- Edited by steven at 21:43, 2008-09-15

Wardy should be looking at winning match's at challenger level not losing in R1 of futures to 16 year-olds