MD draw sheet from the LTA site: Slabba qualified & is the top seed; no other Brits seeded. Other qualifiers: Alessandro Piccari (presume it's his brother, Francesco, who's the N° 2 seed), Pritchard, Bains, Closa, de Sousa, Cavaday & Piro, Regus (GER) in as a LL. No scores, as the link to the qualies draw sheet goes straight to the MD! I'll leave steven to sort out the R1 pairings. With 11 Brits among them, I haven't time to type 'em all out!
* WCs: Dan Smethurst, Jack Carpenter, Tom Farquharson & James Marsalek.
-- Edited by Stircrazy on Tuesday 28th of April 2009 02:33:01 PM
L32: (1/Q) Alex Slabinsky WR 353 v Peter Lucassen (NED) WR 694 L32: (WC) Dan Smethurst WR 1056 v (Q) Alessandro Piccari (ITA) WR 377 L32: (Q) Ben Pritchard WR 1418 v Mattia Livraghi (ITA) WR 772 Other seed in Q1: (8) Andoni Vivanco-Guzman (ESP) WR 611
L32: (Q) Nick Cavaday WR 1170 v (4) Claudio Grassi (ITA) WR 449 L32: David Rice WR 904 v (WC) Jack Carpenter UNR Other seed in Q2: (5) Nacho Coll-Riudavets (ESP) WR 517 (in 1/8th with no Brits)
L32: James Feaver WR 820 v (6) Tim Goransson (SWE) WR 539 L32: (Q) Maniel Bains WR 1070 v Agustin Boje-Ordonez (ESP) WR 626 L32: Matthew Illingworth WR 705 v (Q) Gilles de Sousa (FRA) WR 1898 Other seed in Q3: (3) Pierre Metenier (FRA) WR 405
First seed in Q4: (7) Marcel Zimmermann (GER) WR 553 L32: (WC) Tom Farquharson UNR v James Lemke (AUS) WR 744 L32: (WC) James Marsalek WR 1545 v (Q) G Closa-Puncernau (ESP) WR 1475 Other seed in Q4: (2) Francesco Piccari (ITA) WR 377
They should already be in the middle of playing these matches if the rain has held off.
I'm quite impressed that we got 11 into the main draw in the end, but it's hard to see more than 2 or 3 R1 winners, though we will have at least one player in R2.
-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 28th of April 2009 02:44:42 PM
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I'm quite impressed that we got 11 into the main draw in the end, but it's hard to see more than 2 or 3 R1 winners, though we will have at least one player in R2.
-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 28th of April 2009 02:44:42 PM I'll go for 3, too. Even prepared to name 'em: Slabba, Rice & Illy. Anymore will be a bonus.