Evo and Yoshi are likely to be seeded here in a draw that is significantly stronger than the one in Tipton, with Sijsling and Jan Minar slotting in above Bautista-Agut and serial Brit-basher Freddie Nielsen making an appearance and Samuel Groth looking to add to his 14-match Brit-bashing streak as well.
Eaton, Smethurst, Cox and Milton are also DAs, though Bloomers withdrew on Thursday, and it looks like Meatball, the Wardinator and Inglot have scraped in or been given WCs.
I'll put the Q draw in the next post, but I see I see that Sakinis (who played doubles for LTU in the DC tie) and Majauskas have turned up here - they are obviously under the impression that wins are easy to come by against Brits.
Comparing the entry list with the Q draw, the top two who are missing are Thornley and Fitzy, so I assume they have British Tour success-related WCs.
-- Edited by steven on Saturday 13th of March 2010 09:00:23 PM
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QR1: (wc) Connor Glennon v (wc) Ahmed el-Menshawy - winner to play (q1) Neil Pauffley WR 698 QR1: Pierre Clad v Olaf de Weerdt (BEL) - winner to play (q16) Oliver Golding WR 1704 QR1: Rogan Egerton v Toby Martin - winner to play (q2) Matt Illingworth WR 768 QR1: (wc) Adam Thornton-Brown v Keelan Oakley - winner to play (q10) Alex Miotto WR 1481 QR1: Francis Hazelwood v Fabian Patrutesco (ROU) - winner to play (q3) Dovydas Sakinis (LTU) WR 857 QR1: David O'Leary v (wc) Sid Hazarika - winner to play (q9) Olivier Charroin (FRA) WR 1152 QR1: Daniel Sidaway v (wc) Stefan Sterland-Markovic - winner to play (q4) Frederic de Fays (BEL) WR 947 QR1: (wc) Eamon Soulsby v Christopher Helliar - winner to play (q15) Richard Gabb WR 1652 QR1: James Hignett v Joshua Poullet - winner to play (q5) Maniel Bains WR 982 QR1: Lloyd Glasspool v Sebastian Jackson - winner to play (q13) Chris Priddle WR 1576 QR1: Jeffrey Zungunde v Lewis Burton - winner to play (q6) Tim Bradshaw WR 1015 QR1: Alex Parry v (wc) Daniel Cochrane - winner to play (q14) Liam Broady WR 1576 QR1: Simon Konov v Jens Heyndrickx (BEL) - winner to play (q7) Lazare Kukhalashvili WR 1076 QR1: Tom Farquharson v Benas Majauskas (LTU) - winner to play (q11) Jonathan Brooklyn WR 1481 QR1: Marc Beckles v John Rambotas - winner to play (q8) Burnham Arlidge WR 1078 QR1: Christopher Gardiner v Dan Cottier - winner to play (q12) Ben Davis WR 1481
4 guaranteed qualifiers, I would guess 5 actually will.
-- Edited by steven on Saturday 13th of March 2010 09:00:39 PM
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Glasspool won 6-3 5-7 7-6(3). Was a break down in the third. Sidaway won 6-1 4-6 6-1 soulsby won 6-2 6-0 Poullet won 2-6 6-2 6-3 Burton won 3-6 6-1 6-4 Cochrane won 6-3 3-6 6-1
re Oakley, he did lose as Thornton-Brown plays Miotto later.