"Jack Carpenter faced the sternest test of the day in beating fellow Briton Marcus Willis 6-1 2-6 7-6 (2) to set up a second round clash with the Italian No.6 seed Claudio Grassi."
Surely facing Burquier (Slabba) and Nacho Coll (Liam) were much sterner tests?
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Alex Ward beat Josh Goodall 11-9 tie break in the final set. Slabba beat O'Brian in straight sets. Cox won a strange match against Liam Broady 6-1 2-6 6-0. He had too much power off the ground but I have no idea what happened in the second set!
Not so good:
Illingworth lost to Barry King in 3 sets having been 1 set up. Ashley Hewitt lost in straight sets to Eysseric. Carpenter was a set and a break down to Grassi.
Other matches still in progress but Sadecky was a set up on Mc Gee.
Alexander WARD (GBR) WR 608 vs Claudio GRASSI (ITA) (6) WR 449
(Q) Julien OBRY (FRA) WR 1012 vs Daniel COX (GBR) WR 554
Colin O'Brien (IRL) WR 671 vs Alexander SLABINSKY (GBR) WR 677
Jonathan EYSSERIC (FRA) (8) WR 487 vs Alexander SADECKY (SUI) (2) WR 342
Hopefully Wardy can give uspset Grassi, and you would hope Slabba would reach the SF
If Cox is playing Rodrigues i wouldn't hold out for him causing an upset
We should be looking at 1 hopefully 2 semi-finalists
Edited to reflect the outcome of the Rodrigues(6)/Obry (Q) match, which Obry won by 2 & 1! Even so, Coxy has to be in with a chance of making the SF...
-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 5th of May 2010 09:20:52 PM
clayfan, have you seen much of Slabba's matches over the past few days ? How do you think he's playing especially on clay ? I haven't watched any of his matches for some time so would be interested to know
Just noticed 4th seed rodrigues is out! So hopefully Coxy can get a win and Wardy's opponent Grassi hasn't been in great form, think his last 16 run last week was his best tournament so far this year, which dosn't say much.
Would be great to have a guranteed finalist if both guys win