Really good wins there, what's Josh Milton on this week?! I thought Chris would win, but the encouraging thing is that he seems to be playing at or just above his (Wimby-enhanced) ranking this month even though these are only Futures, which is the one thing he wasn't doing before. Well done to Pauffley for taking a set off Robert too - that's more than most Brits have managed in the last 12 months!

We've now got all the R2 results, so here is a summary:

L16: Colin Fleming WR 648 beat (1) Richard Bloomfield WR 299 by 4 & 3
L16: Chris Eaton WR 390 beat Timo Nieminen (FIN) WR 482 by 7-6(3) 6-3
L16: Dan Evans WR 477 beat (WC) Dan Smethurst WR 974 by 7-6(2) 6-7(5) 7-6(3)
L16: (WC) Joshua Milton WR 748 beat Ilya Belyaev (RUS) WR 400 by 0 & 2
L16: (Q) Neil Pauffley WR 1524 lost to (5) Stéphane Robert (FRA) WR 367 by 6-0 3-6 6-2
L16: Matthew Illingworth WR 709 beat (2/Q) Aisam ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) WR 302 by 4 & 2

QF: Colin Fleming WR 648 v Scott Oudsema (USA) WR 649
QF: Chris Eaton WR 390 v Dan Evans WR 477
QF: (WC) Joshua Milton WR 748 v (3) Lukas Lacko (SVK) WR 325 
QF: Matthew Illingworth WR 709 v (5) Stéphane Robert (FRA) WR 367

No seeds left in the top half. 5 Brits make the QFs despite us only having one seed in the draw.  Will it be revenge for Chris for last week or will Evo confirm his superiority?

Doubles
Quarterfinal

DELGADO (GBR) / QURESHI (PAK) (1) defeated JOUAN (FRA) / TOURTE (FRA) 6-3 6-4
BLOOMFIELD (GBR) / MARRAY (GBR) (4) defeated BELYAEV (RUS) / SANON (CIV) 6-3 6-2
KROTIOUK (RUS) / MANEGIN (RUS) defeated EVANS (GBR) / FITZPATRICK (GBR) 7-5 6-3
KAROL (CZE) / KRKOSKA (CZE) (2) defeated PAUFFLEY (GBR) / WILLIS (GBR) 2-6 6-4 [10-6]

Semifinals

DELGADO (GBR) / QURESHI (PAK) (1) Vs BLOOMFIELD (GBR) / MARRAY (GBR) (4)

KROTIOUK (RUS) / MANEGIN (RUS) Vs KAROL (CZE) / KRKOSKA (CZE) (2)

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Drew wrote:

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If Jamie Bakers gets into the DC team...then he will have earned it.

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No he won't. It will be because he is a favourite of John Lloyds.

 

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You have only quoted part of my post....look we can all believe what we want but even Lloyd cannot pick Baker if he keeps bombing out of Futures in R1/R2....regardless of his personal likeness of him if he does not get the results he would be on a hiding to nothing. Safe bet right now is Evo as he is doing well...to cement his place in the squad a coupld of wins in a CH would not go a miss.

If it turns out that Baker does get in the team without doing anything in terms of results / significant ranking improvement then feel free to re-quote this whole post with several smileys and 'I told you so'

 

Things really are looking more encouraging in British mens tennis, at this level anyway.

GavinUK wrote:

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More results published by the BBC.

Chris Eaton (Gbr) bt Timo Nieminen (Fin) 7-6 (7-3) 6-3

Daniel Evans (Gbr) bt Daniel Smethurst (Gbr) 7-6 (7-2) 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-3)

Joshua Milton (Gbr) bt Ilya Belyaev (Rus) 6-0 6-2

Stephane Robert (Fra) bt Neil Pauffley (Gbr) 6-0 3-6 6-2,

Well done to the winners. The match between the two Dans looks like a very close encounter. Shame anyone had to loose after all that effort.

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What makes you say that?