Dr No is likely to be seeded in the main draw here but oddly the two Brits who are doing well in Madrid this week are not down to play here - Meatball withdrew on 3 April and Morgan Phillips didn't enter in the first place. I wonder if one or both of them are intending to try to qualify for the Rome Challenger.
Don't know if the tennis is up to much, but Oliver Webb seems to have had a good day on the golf course - he's got a Hole in (QR) one. (I realise that could be an early contender for the always hotly-contested worst pun of the year award ... )
QR1: Paul Bishop WR 1781 v Alexandre Schnitman (BRA) WR 1570 - winner to play (q2) Abraham Gonzalez-Jimenez (ESP) WR 712 QR1: Oliver Webb UNR v Michael Hole (AUS) - winner to play winner of: QR1: Michael Barnfather UNR v Alejandro Argente Escamilla (ESP) UNR QR1: Gary chamberlain UNR v Nazeeb Shaikh (IND) UNR
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!
LOL - what makes this even odder than most of our cross-postings is that the Reus Q draw hadn't just gone up, I first saw it last night but didn't get a chance to post it, so nobody posted it for over 12 hours then we both posted it within 5 minutes of each other - bizarre!
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!
QR1: Paul Bishop WR 1781 beat Alexandre Schnitman (BRA) WR 1570 by 3 & 1 QR1: Oliver Webb UNR beat Michael Hole (AUS) UNR by 3-6 6-3 6-3 QR1: Michael Barnfather UNR lost to Alejandro Argente Escamilla (ESP) UNR by 0 & 2 QR1: Gary Chamberlain UNR beat Nazeeb Shaikh (IND) UNR by 1 & 0
QR2: Paul Bishop WR 1781 v (q2) Abraham Gonzalez-Jimenez (ESP) WR 712 QR2: Oliver Webb UNR v Alejandro Argente Escamilla (ESP) UNR QR2: Gary Chamberlain UNR v Igor Rud (RUS) UNR
Let's hope the Russian doesn't give Gary a Rud awakening after his convincing win today ...
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!
QR2: Paul Bishop WR 1781 lost to (q2) Abraham Gonzalez-Jimenez (ESP) WR 712 6-2 6-1 QR2: Oliver Webb UNR lost to Alejandro Argente Escamilla (ESP) UNR 7-6(6) 6-1 QR2: Gary Chamberlain UNR lost to Igor Rud (RUS) UNR 6-1 6-1
Looks like Dr No failed to get here for the main draw too - his place against a WC ranked outside the top 900 has been taken by a LL, one of three LLs in the draw so far.
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!