L16: Smethurst/Milman (GBR/AUS) lost to (WC) Gaio/Giannessi (ITA) 6-3 7-5

No, that's fairly promising and at least he has his 3 points

Wimbledon WC im thinking - too lenient do you think? he's outside top 250 but only 19...very inexperienced too

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The Knight wrote:

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Wimbledon WC im thinking - too lenient do you think? he's outside top 250 but only 19...very inexperienced too

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With Draper and the LTA under fire, my fear is that they will take no chances they don't have to.  If they don't give WC's away, then players cannot lose in the 1st round.  Preventing more criticism may affect their decision making.

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That would be so short-sighted though, even from a PR point of view. The worst thing of all is to get no GB men through to R2 apart from Andy and past experience (not to mention logic) suggests that the best way to get someone through to R2 is to give WCs to any Brits who could conceivably win a R1 match given a decent draw, for the obvious reason that this maximises the chance of at least one of them drawing a Berlocq or a Pashanski ...

At last a bit of good news to relieve the gloom on the men's side today:

L16:  (2) Jamie Delgado & Sadik Kadir (AUS) defeated Tobias Kamke & Dominik Meffert (GER/GER) by 7-6(4) 6-1

QF:  (2) Jamie Delgado & Sadik Kadir (AUS) vs Carlos Berlocq & Sebastián Decoud (ARG/ARG)

**** the LTA and Draper and their spin and PR, how about just do the right thing eh ?

Anyway, Dan S is a younger player making real progress which is the other thing the LTA mentioned they would use for Wimbledon WC recommendations apart from being in the top 250.  He is deserving of a chance here while others around his age have not come through as much lately or indeed fallen back.

They should bve prepared to stretch this as far is is reasonable to give GB players an opportunity at their home Grand Slam ( and as suggested you can draw a grass numpty   )