Another Spanish week, this time with fewer GB juniors but some stronger names added. It's also a 64 qualifying field rather than 128.
QR1 : (q10) Andrew Bettles WR 1631 vs Fabian Spaar (SUI) UNR QR1 : (q12) Jack Carpenter WR 1727 vs (WC) Carlos Gonzalez-Tarriro (ESP ) UNR QR1 : George Morgan UNR vs (WC) Manuel Estrago Soler (ESP) UNR QR1 : (q11) Richard Gabb WR 1684 vs Gabrielle Dutto (ITA) UNR QR1 : (q7) Ashley Hewitt WR 1429 vs Lewis Burton UNR QR1 : Nikki Roenn UNR vs Oriel Roca Batalla ( ESP ) UNR QR1 : Tom Farquharson UNR vs (q13) Oliver Golding WR 1727
Ashley, Lewis, Nikki, Tom and Oliver are ALL in Ashley's 1/8th of the draw !! i.e. 5 of the 8 names in that part after one qualifying place, and Richard is actually the name immediately above Ashley in the draw.
They clearly couldn't have the other 3 seeded GB players in the same part, though don't know how George escaped
I think they really should try spinning these balls about a bit better or whatever they did here
-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 22nd of October 2009 10:29:00 PM
Morgan Phillips (if he gets out of Croatia in time - he still hasn't played R1 there) and Dan Smethurst (if he has recovered from whatever made him have to pull out of his first match in Croatia) are down as DAs for this event.
The Wardinator is 6th Alt and reading rule C6 at http://www.itftennis.com/shared/medialibrary/pdf/original/IO_38972_original.PDF, it appears that he might be eligible for a SE place even though he has only reached R2 in Dubrovnik so far, but I'm not certain about that because this is a 10K and Dubrovnik is a 15K and this rule seems to suggest that going deep into a 15K can't get you into a SE into a 10K, crazy as that sounds.
-- Edited by steven on Friday 23rd of October 2009 04:53:13 AM
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QR2 : (q10) Andrew Bettles WR 1631 vs Krunoslav Sven Lupis (CRO) UNR QR2 : (q12) Jack Carpenter WR 1727 vs (WC) Ronald Slobodchikov (RUS) UNR QR2 : George Morgan UNR vs (q14) Allen Perel (AUS) 1727 QR2 : (q11) Richard Gabb WR 1684 vs Nicolas Pinones-Haltenhoff (CHI) UNR QR2 : (q7) Ashley Hewitt WR 1429 vs Oriel Roca Batalla ( ESP ) UNR QR2 : (q13) Oliver Golding WR 1727 vs Jaume Martinez Vich (ESP) UNR
FQR: (12) CARPENTER, Jack lost to (2) TORRONI, Giulio (ITA) 3-6 0-6 FQR: MORGAN, George lost to (4) GOVAERTS, Bart (BEL) 6-7 (6) 0-6 FQR: (7) HEWITT, Ashley def. (13) GOLDING, Oliver 6-4 6-4
L32: (SE) WARD, Alexander WR 768 v (WC) LIZARITURRY, Juan (ESP) WR 1117 - top seed would probably await L32: (Q) HEWITT, Ashley WR 1429 v (8) PHILLIPS, Morgan WR 454 L32: SMETHURST, Daniel WR 465 v GRANOLLERS-PUJOL, Gerard WR 506 - 2nd seed would probably await