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Josh Goodall, Chris Eaton and James Ward are all down to play in this challenger.

The doubles draw is out, but Goodall and Ward have drawn the Thai twins, who are the top seeds.

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Main draw now out, I'll edit to add in up to date rankings when they come out tomorrow.

L32: (4) Josh Goodall WR 222 v Matthew Ebden (AUS) WR 303
L32: Chris Eaton WR 385 v (Q) Brett Ross (USA) WR 725
L32: James Ward WR 322 v (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND) WR 213

Reasonable draws for Josh & Chris, tough for Wardy.

Edit: added in rankings

-- Edited by steven at 16:36, 2008-11-03

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looking at the draw im going to be bold and say that i think ward and eaton will meet in the QFs

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tough draw for Josh, Ebden is a good player

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When I saw this week's Challenger main draws, I thought there was one match win we were sure of this week, but no ...

L32: Chris Eaton WR 385 lost to (Q) Brett Ross (USA) WR 725 by 4 & 4 bleh

What's going on?! doh

One bit of good news though, Brit-basher extraordinaire Nielsen (the other seed in Josh's quarter) went out today too.

L32: (4) Josh Goodall WR 222 v Matthew Ebden (AUS) WR 303 - Tuesday
L32: James Ward WR 322 v (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND) WR 213 - Tuesday

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EDIT (*hangs head in shame*)

Surprisingly this is the one R1 match I expected GB to lose.

Wardy for the top 300!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



-- Edited by johnnylad at 07:58, 2008-11-04

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I wasn't suggesting that the other two don't have chances, just that I thought the other two matches might be close but Chris would prevail over a 24-y-o with a career high just inside the top 700.

I'm intrigued as to what the error was that made you hang your head in shame. smile.gif

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oo oo ooo, i know, i know, pick me, pick me

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When was the last GB win at challenger level? I think there must be a curse on them!!

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steven wrote:

What's going on?! doh

One bit of good news though, Brit-basher extraordinaire Nielsen (the other seed in Josh's quarter) went out today too.

Good question!  Bad day all round for the seeds yesterday:  the second seed, Matthias Bachinger (GER), was dumped out 7-5 2-6 2-6 by the American qualifier, Michael Rubin, & the fifth seed, Colin Ebelthite (AUS), 4 & 1 by our old friend, Gary Lugassy! disbelief.gif  I'd love to think that augurs well for James, but pray that the "seeds' curse" will not strike Josh! pray.gif

*  James & Josh also play their doubles match against the Thai top seeds, Sanchai & Sonchat Ratiwatana, today...



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Back in September when Marray beat Malisse in the first round in Mons.

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I'll pick the Count to answer that one then LOL

Sadly, the Hoose is right. In Challenger main draws, we are 0-11 since Jonny beat Malisse in Mons 5 weeks ago, Boggo 0-4, Josh 0-3, Slabba, Bloomers, Chris & Jonny all 0-1.

The week before Mons, Josh & Bloomers both won R1 matches in Grenoble, but no Brit has had back to back Challenger main draw wins since Boggo reached the QFs in Orléans 8 weeks ago, the week before the DC tie.

Even in Challenger qualifying, we are 0-4 (Slabba 2, Marray, Evans) since Jonny qualified in Rennes in early October.

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I had accused you of thinking this tournament was in Hawaii based on a comment you made in the Nashville thread.

I then realised this weeks US futures tournament is in Hawaii and proceeded to attempt to remove the egg from my face with the edit!

I suspect Ross has a very similar game to Eaton. Huge serve not too much else - but his prbably not too much else outweighs Eaton's probably not too much else.

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Ah! smile.gif Yes, confusing when there are two events on in the same country in the same week. The US even had two Futures in the same week once this year.

With no pick 'em this week, hopefully my mistake count is going down a bit smile.gif

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I remember Ebden getting spanked by Myles Blake back in the early days, and he's gone on to be a decent enough player where as Blakey has some how not managed to progress at all..........

Anyway, i would expect Goodall to beat Ebden and will therefore predict an Ebden win!

Hopefully Wardy can continue his good recent form but he's up against it for sure!

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