29-year-old Nedelcu (ROU) is currently unranked but reached a career high of 1091 back in 2004, c.f. Feaver's ranking of 817. More to the point though, Nedelcu beat James in a Romanian Future almost exactly a year ago. However, the score was 6-2 1-6 7-5, so it's not as if James wasn't within reach of winning it.
-- Edited by steven on Monday 11th of May 2009 09:11:23 PM
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L32: James Feaver WR 817 beat (Q) Florin Nedelcu (ROU) UNR by 1 & 4
That's some improvement on his loss to Nedelcu last year!
L16: James Feaver WR 817 v Erling Tveit (NOR) WR 706
Tveit, a member of Norway's DC team (so VdB may be able to provide some more info) last played a Brit 5 years ago, when he lost to Mark Hilton, though he beat Bloomers that year in a Swedish Future and lots of unranked Brits in GB satellites.
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