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RE: Week 22 - Challenger ($50K) - Nottingham, Great Britain


All five Brits managing to avoid seeds in R1 must make this a nice draw! smile.gif

Here are the Brit matches again, with comparative rankings, etc.

L32 Q1: (WC) Dan Evans WR 316 v Prakash Amritraj (IND) WR 161 (winner to play (7) Guccione or Klein)

L32 Q2: Alex Bogdanovic WR 196 v Qualifier (winner to play (3) Dancevic or G Lapentti)
L32 Q2: (WC) Dan Cox WR 632 v Sebastien Grosjean (FRA) WR 483 (winner to play (5) Bozoljac or Gregorc)

L32 Q3: (WC) Colin Fleming WR 497 v Brendan Evans (USA) WR 159 (winner to play (6) Devvarman or Q)
L32 Q3: (WC) Chris Eaton WR 342 v Kevin Anderson (USA) WR 146 (winner to play (4) Mannarino or Ilhan)

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Can't really complain with the draw for the five Brits with them all avoiding seeds, and hopefully a few of them can make the second round.

Boggo against the qualifier should be interesting as you'd expect Boggo to be the favourite, but his opponent will have had the experience of playing on grass already... and if it is someone like Dent then it could be a tough start for Boggo... and he could also draw a Brit which ahead of Wimbledon would be very interesting, and if he were to beat Goodall or Ward, it would be tough to deny him a WC.

Amritraj basically has all his points from the run to the Newport final last year, so Evans really should be looking to challenge him, but Amritraj is definately a strong grass courter, so will be a nice test for Evans.

Very interesting test for Cox against Grosjean... it probably all depends on the fitness and form of Grosjean, as if he's back to any kind of form then you would expect him to beat Cox, but as it's his first match back, Cox could give him a good run for his money.

Eaton vs. Anderson will involve plenty of TB's and there won't be many rallies, but Eaton has a chance if he can play well. Anderson doesn't look comfortable on the grass and struggles with the low ball, so if Eaton can hit a lot of quality slices, he can beat him.

Evans is also a big server, so Fleming isn't going to have it easy against him, and he has had a good year so far, so I'd be surprised if Evans lost to Fleming.

Qualifiers get Jenkins, Boggo, Devvarman or Ram - none of them stand out as the draw to get or the draw to avoid given that Devvarman will surely struggle on grass with his game, while the others are all decent grass courters


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Seba and the big trousers just spotted in the crowd on Chatrier, so he won't get too much grass court practice before Tuesday ...

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Yeh hes playing it cool. Lets hope Cox can school him, arrogant Frog!! (Im kidding)

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Apparently Dimitrov def. Thornley 6-3 6-2.

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any other results Guid?

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I'm going up tomorrow so can text scores in.

Is there someone who'd be around to post them up?
If so perhaps you'd PM me your mobile number.

I have mobs for Drew, Steven and the Count.

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ROBIN SODAARLING!!!!!!!!

SCANDINAVIAN TENNIS IS BACK

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QR1 Results

J Goodall bt J Marselek  6-2 7-5   smile  cry

T Bradshaw bt I Flanagan 4-6 6-0 6-3 biggrin 

G Dmitrov bt S Thornley 6-3 6-2 cry

J Milton bt I Kyu Tae 6-3 6-2  biggrin    brilliant win

J Ward lost to A Anderson 3-6 5-7   bleh  horrible

J Carpenter bt M Jones 6-3 6-3   biggrin  bleh

A Ward bt J Marray 6-3 7-6  biggrin  bleh   great win for Alex

L Broady lost to R Bemelmans 4-6 3-6 cry closer than i expected

A Slabinsky bt K Brassington 6-3 6-1 smile cry

K Skupski v I Marchenko blankstare no result yet 



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Impressive from Ward, well done as well to the effort from Broady and Marselek

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less impressive from J.Ward though, must have been against a huge server.

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josh miltons victory demonstrates that slight edge that our lower ranked players have at grass court events, excellent work josh

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Nice few upsets, some shock losses of our own tho. Good luck in R2.

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What happened to James Ward? That's an awful result against Anderson and it makes us who claimed who should have got a WC look a bit stupid... hope the press don't pick up on this result and report "Queens WC loses to player ranked outside top 1000 who has never played on grass before"

Much better result for the other Ward to beat Marray, who seems to have had a disappointing year, but it does like Groth is likely to come through that section now.

At least Josh won his opening match, but it does look like a final round showdown with Dimitrov is likely to happen.

Great win for Milton though against Im, which surely must be the best of his career, and hopefully he can capitalise on it and beat Bopanna and come through the weaker section.

Slabba looks to have had a decent win as well, but against a better opponent in the next round, it will be interesting to see how he gets on. Hope Skupski can come through the final match as well.

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Any news on 2nd round qualifying scores?

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