Another huge qualifying draw here. Smethurst, Phillips and Cox are DAs once again. You would have thought the Wardinator must have a special exempt place here, but no, he seems to be being forced to qualify again, which implies that he had to play two matches in different locations today, since qualifying started today!
QR1: (q3) Josh Milton WR 556 v Adam Liu (USA) UNR QR1: Matthew Short UNR v Hunter Callahan (USA) UNR QR1: Luke Campbell UNR v Frederick Saba (USA) UNR QR1: (WC) Sean Smith v Robert Dubuque (USA) UNR QR1: (q7) Neil Pauffley WR 711 v Bowen Ouyang (CHN) WR 1343 QR1: (q8) Alex Ward WR 717 v Justin Lunn (BAH) UNR
-- Edited by steven on Friday 22nd of January 2010 09:53:18 PM
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QR1: (q3) Josh Milton WR 556 def. Adam Liu (USA) UNR 6-0 6-0 QR1: Matthew Short UNR def. Hunter Callahan (USA) UNR 7-6(5) 7-6 (4) QR1: Luke Campbell UNR lost to Frederick Saba (USA) UNR 4-6 5-7 QR1: (q7) Neil Pauffley WR 711 beat Bowen Ouyang (CHN) WR 1343 6-3 6-1
As for the other two matches, there isn't a Brit Sean Smith on the drawsheet - Dubuque played an American Ryan Smith though...
And, more importantly, Alex Ward has disappeared from the draw, replaced by an alternate. Seeing as I have nowhere near the level of understanding of Futures qualifying draw entry regulations as some of you lot , does this mean he's had to pull out, or could he have been granted a late SE?
-- Edited by JM1138 on Saturday 23rd of January 2010 01:47:53 AM
JM1138 wrote:QR1: (q3) Josh Milton WR 556 def. Adam Liu (USA) UNR 6-0 6-0 QR1: Matthew Short UNR def. Hunter Callahan (USA) UNR 7-6(5) 7-6 (4) QR1: Luke Campbell UNR lost to Frederick Saba (USA) UNR 4-6 5-7 QR1: (q7) Neil Pauffley WR 711 beat Bowen Ouyang (CHN) WR 1343 6-3 6-1
As for the other two matches, there isn't a Brit Sean Smith on the drawsheet - Dubuque played an American Ryan Smith though...
And, more importantly, Alex Ward has disappeared from the draw, replaced by an alternate. Seeing as I have nowhere near the level of understanding of Futures qualifying draw entry regulations as some of you lot , does this mean he's had to pull out, or could he have been granted a late SE?
Hopefully Alex has got an SE then - I've checked the ATP rulebook and I can't see any reason why he wouldn't have got one. The rules do assume qualifying draws are made on Friday with qualifying starting on Saturday, so maybe that was causing some confusion and they had to get it clarified before confirming his SE.
As for the Sean Smith GBR turning into Ryan Smith USA mystery, I picked up the Brits in the draw by doing a search for GBR on the page and it definitely stopped on that slot in the draw. I double checked it as well because I was surprised to see an unknown Brit getting a QWC in Florida and even I can't mis-read Ryan as Sean LOL. Hopefully it just means there was an error on the original drawsheet that got corrected when the R1 results went on.
QR2: (q3) Josh Milton WR 556 v Younes Rachidi (MAR) WR 1086 QR2: Matthew Short UNR v (q9) Alessandro Giannessi (ITA) WR 766 QR2: (q7) Neil Pauffley WR 711 v Ryan Young (USA) WR 1292
BIZ is indeed Belize.
-- Edited by steven on Saturday 23rd of January 2010 08:17:29 AM
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