Jamie Baker would appear to be sticking to his guns here. No main draw on the ATP site yet, but going by the ITF entry list (last modified yesterday), he could be the 7th seed. Qualies draw is on the ATP site & there are currently four Brits in it:
Q1: Joe Cooper UNR vs John Valente (USA) UNR Q1: (q4) Manuel Sánchez (MEX) WR 951 vs Neil Pauffley WR 1483 Q1: (q5) Alex Ward WR 978 vs E Autrán Niedbalski (CHI) UNR Q1: Lorenzo Papasidero (ITA) UNR vs Thomas Knights UNR
This bloody board's gone completely mad. I swear I have not started this thread more than once, yet like mjd's LTA bonus thread, it's appeared in triplicate! What the hell's going on?
I've got it down to one (copied the first post so I could paste it back in if taking out one took out them all) ... activeboard seems to find ever weirder ways to mess around.
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Q2: Joe Cooper UNR v (q11) Dennis Zivkovic (USA) WR 1163 Q2: Neil Pauffley WR 1483 v Noam Yitzhaki (ISR) WR 1483 Q2: (q5) Alex Ward WR 978 v Jesus Francisco Felix (DOM) UNR
That's a great result for young Neil! I just hope that, having done the hard work, he doesn't now go & fall flat on his @rse against a player of equal ranking! Alex must have a good chance of going through to the FQR & Joe has nowt to lose...
P.S. Thanks for sorting out the multiple posting, Steven.
Q2: Joe Cooper UNR v (q11) Dennis Zivkovic (USA) WR 1163 Q2: Neil Pauffley WR 1483 v Noam Yitzhaki (ISR) WR 1483 Q2: (q5) Alex Ward WR 978 v Jesus Francisco Felix (DOM) UNR
My expectations were confirmed (Joe lost by 0 & 1 , while Alex won by 3 & 4 ) & my fears unfounded (Neil won by 5-7 7-5 6-4 ).
Q3: Neil Pauffley WR 1483 vs Nicholas Edlefsen (USA) WR 1463 Q3: (q5) Alex Ward WR 978 vs (q10) Ilie-Aurelian Giurgiu (ROU) WR 1131
Neil seems to be on a bit or a roll at the moment, so at least one qualifier to join Jamie B in the MD (I hope ), maybe two...
Q2: Joe Cooper UNR v (q11) Dennis Zivkovic (USA) WR 1163 Q2: Neil Pauffley WR 1483 v Noam Yitzhaki (ISR) WR 1483 Q2: (q5) Alex Ward WR 978 v Jesus Francisco Felix (DOM) UNR
Neil won 5-7 7-5 6-4 & plays Nicholas Edlefsen (USA) Wardy won 6-3 6-4 and will play Giurgiu (ROU/10) Joe lost 0-6 1-6, perhaps not unexpected.
Neil seems to be on a bit or a roll at the moment, so at least one qualifier to join Jamie B in the MD (I hope ), maybe two...
No Jamie B in the MD, Stircrazy!
So I see! Didn't bother checking that earlier when I looked for the Q2 results - assumed it was too early for the MD to be posted! Hope his non-appearance is simply because he's decided to call it year & take a proper break to go & recharge his batteries in preparation for next season... Fingers firmly crossed for the two boys in qualies!
great resulta here for the young guns.. shame about knightsy i wonder what happened..
i thought fitzy would have been here as its one of those places that could have been weak.. but seeing the draws they are tough no wonder he decisdeed against it!!!
helki wrote: Alex has teamed up with Manuel Sanchez (MEX) in the doubles and their match is also on tomorrow *eek* against a pair of higher-rated Italians.
Alex may have bombed out of the singles qualies, but he & Sánchez disposed of the Italians without too much difficulty: 2 & 3! Only trouble is:
QF: (1) Ivan Anikanov/Philipp Oswald (UKR/AUT) WR 829 vs Manuel Sánchez (MEX)/Alexander Ward WR 2128...
yeh bit of a shock fitzy not here???should have been easy points. im sure we will se him back in pakistarn next year! i hope....come on neil you can do it!