Josh shouldn't have let that lad get 6 points. Seriously.

We all know the shed jibe was in jest at David! Leave me alone you bullies!

Well done to all those who got a win yesterday, and great to see Cavaday and Pauffley get their first ranking points.

Looks like we're pretty much guarenteed a finalist here from the top half, which should be Goodall, but probably won't be getting a lot from the bottom half.

I'd expect Goodall, Evans and Thornley to win today, and I think Skupski should beat Milton as well, but that could go either way.

Ken Skupski (Gbr) bt Joshua Milton (Gbr) 6-1 6-3

Daniel Evans (Gbr) bt Ben Pritchard (Gbr) 6-2 6-3

Stephane Roberts (Fra) bt Burnham Arlidge (Gbr) 6-3 6-0

Colin Fleming (Gbr) bt Sebastian Rieschick (Ger) 7-5 6-1,


Go Colin! Robert will be tough next round though

Colin just beat the 4th seed so the 5th seed beware !

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S/F
RIESCHICK (GER) / SKUPSKI (GBR) (1) Vs KLINGEMANN (USA) / POKRAJAC (CAN) (4)
RICE (GBR) / THORNLEY (GBR) Vs BREWER (GBR) / FLANAGAN (GBR) (2)

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        Klingemann & Pokrajac (4) defeated Rieschick & Skupski (1) 2-6 6-3 [10-7]

         Brewer & Flan (2) defeated Rice & Thornley 6-3 6-1.

         Come on the Brits in the final. A bit of a letdown for Thornley today.

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Interestingly, Pokrajac beat his doubles partner in a ding-dong battle in the singles (7-6(4) 6-7(2) 7-6(6)) & will face Filip Prpic, who beat Neil Pauffley 1&2, in the QFs.  In the top half, Goody beat Sabate Bretos 7-5 4-6 6-3 & so plays Skups in the QFs, while Nick Cavaday accounted for Sean Thornley 6-4 0-6 (  ) 6-3 & so plays Dan Evans!


-- Edited by Stircrazy at 19:31, 2008-09-17

R2 ROUND-UP & QF DRAW

L16: (1) Josh Goodall WR 199 beat (PR) Adil Shamasdin (CAN) WR 1034 by 7-5 4-6 6-3
L16: (7) Ken Skupski WR 556 beat Josh Milton WR 942 by 1 & 3
L16: (WC) Nick Cavaday UNR beat Sean Thornley WR 830 by 6-4 0-6 6-3
L16: (8) Dan Evans WR 592 beat (Q) Ben Pritchard WR 1728 by 2 & 3
L16: Burnham Arlidge WR 1017 lost to (5) Stephane Robert (FRA) WR 525 by 3 & 0
L16: (WC) Colin Fleming UNR beat (4) Sebastian Rieschick (GER) WR 431 by 5 & 1
L16: (Q) Neil Pauffley UNR lost to (2) Filip Prpic (SWE) WR 345 by 1 & 2

QF: (1) Josh Goodall WR 199 v (7) Ken Skupski WR 556
QF: (8) Dan Evans WR 592 v (WC) Nick Cavaday UNR
QF: (WC) Colin Fleming UNR v (5) Stephane Robert (FRA) WR 525

Nick seems to be another of those players who has recently got a ranking point and decided he likes it so much, he'll go and get a few more as quickly as possible.

We now have a guaranteed finalist in the top half of course  but the most encouraging thing about this week so far, I think, is Colin Fleming getting back to his old self again. After a shaky July/August (W 3 L 3 in qualifying, lost his only main draw match), he won 6 matches last week and having upset Rieschik 11-9 in the 3rd set t/b last week, he's gone and blown him away this time around.