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James Ward and Josh Goodall are at the top of the entry list here, though Evo will outrank Josh for the no. 2 seeding place if he qualifies and the draw is made after qualifying ends.

Other potential GB seeds are Rice, Milton and Slabba, with Willis, Inglot, Thornley and Arlidge other GB DAs. Brassington and Bradshaw were higher on the alt list than anyone in qualifying who was on the Alt list in the first place, so they must be in as late DAs or as WCs.

Obviously Dom won't be able to take up his place if he and Chris win another doubles round at Wimbledon on Monday, but I assume he will be able to make it in time for the Tuesday start if they don't win. Indeed, I'm not sure why Eaton and players like Bloomers (who reached the Final of the Manchester Challenger two years ago) were never on the entry list here.

All GBR and/or UNR unless otherwise stated:

QR1: Christopher Simpson v Zack Evenden
QR1: Benjamin Smith v Alan Bevan
QR1: Alex Golding v Connor Glennon
QR1: Eamon Soulsby v Ahmed el Menshawy
QR1: Thomas Knights v John Richards
QR1: Harry David Meehan v Ravi Patel
QR1: James Turbervill v Filippo Bettini (ITA)
QR1: Joseph Gill v Simon Musset (FRA)
QR1: Adam Thornton-Brown v Keelan Oakley
QR1: Michael Ward v David O'Leary
QR1: Toby Martin v Cristian Gonzalez Mendez (ESP)
QR1: Mathew James v Oliver Hudson

QR2: (q1) Dan Evans WR 325 v Simpson or Evenden
QR2: Charlie Goode v Juraj Semjak (SVK)
QR2: Smith or Bevan v (q2) Christian Welte (USA) WR 1023
QR2: Dominic Mcluskey v Martin Colenbrander (NZL)
QR2: Golding or Glennon v (q3) Joss Espasandin (SUI) WR 1042
QR2: Alex Parry v Patrick Ogier
QR2: Soulsby or Menshawy v (q4) James Cluskey (IRL) WR 1195
QR2: Daniel Cochrane v Joe Cooper
QR2: (q5) Matthew Short WR 1225 v Knights or Richards
QR2: Jordan McCulloch v Meehan or Patel
QR2: Turbervill or Bettini v (q6) Nicolas Grammare (FRA) WR 1448 (*)
QR2: Gill or Musset v Sebastian Jackson
QR2: (q7) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1770 v Thornton-Brown or Oakley
QR2: Sundeep Ubhi v Ward or O'Leary
QR2: Rogan Egerton v Martin or Gonzalez Mendez
QR2: James or Hudson v Mihai-Sorin Dobre (ROU)

(*) sounds like SC's kind of Frenchman wink

Good luck to Fitzy on his return to Futures action! smile

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WC's for Chris and Bloomers even though, they should have entered?

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Anyone planning on going down later in the week?

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Smidster wrote:

Anyone planning on going down later in the week?



I'm planning on going down with a few friends on either Tuesday or Wedesnday. 

I assume in asking you are also planning on attending - what day(s)? 

 



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There should be a British winner of this event - the question will just be which Brit manages to get the win.

No Eaton is a bit of a surprise. I originally thought that he may have planned to play Newport qualies instead of this event, but the fact he is entered for next week's event suggests that isn't going to happen.

Guess he'll get a wild card if he is able to play though.

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He's at Wimbledon confused.gif

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johnnylad wrote:
He's at Wimbledon confused.gif

True, but the main draw doesn't start until Tuesday, so if they go out on Monday, he should be able to play ... as should BBD who's already a main draw DA.


 



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The fact that Eaton didn't originally sign up for this event is where the surprise comes, but he is playing next week.

So that suggests either he expected still to be involved in the second week of Wimbledon (which given his form wasn't very likely), fancied a week off (but having barely played recently he wouldn't need one), or was going to head to Newport qualies (but the fact he's playing next week suggests he isn't doing that).

Most likely is he forgot to enter the event and would either have got a wild card or entered qualies and got some easy wins.

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QR1: Christopher Simpson beat Zack Evenden by 5 & 3 smilecry
QR1: Alan Bevan beat Benjamin Smith by 4 & 5 smilecry
QR1: Alex Golding beat Connor Glennon by 3-6 7-5 7-6(6) smilecry
QR1: Eamon Soulsby beat Ahmed el Menshawy by 6-2 3-6 7-5 smilecry
QR1: Thomas Knights beat John Richards by 2 & 3 smilecry
QR1: Ravi Patel beat Harry David Meehan by 1 & 2 smilecry
QR1: James Turbervill lost to Filippo Bettini (ITA) by 7-6(4) 7-6(6) cry
QR1: Joseph Gill beat Simon Musset (FRA) by 1 & 1 smile
QR1: Keelan Oakley beat Adam Thornton-Brown by 4 & 2 smilecry
QR1: David O'Leary beat Michael Ward by 5-7 7-5 7-5 smilecry
QR1: Toby Martin beat Cristian Gonzalez Mendez (ESP) by 4-6 6-3 7-5 smile
QR1: Mathew James beat Oliver Hudson by 6-4 5-7 6-2 smilecry

QR2: (q1) Dan Evans WR 325 beat Christopher Simpson by 1-6 6-2 6-3 smilecry
QR2: Charlie Goode beat Juraj Sedmak (SVK) by 1 & 2 smile
QR2: Alan Bevan beat (q2) Christian Welte (USA) WR 1023 by 7-6(4) 6-4 biggrin
QR2: Dominic Mcluskey lost to Martin Colenbrander (NZL) by 2 & 2 cry
QR2: Alex Golding lost to (q3) Joss Espasandin (SUI) WR 1042 by 2 & 1 cry
QR2: Patrick Ogier beat Alex Parry by 6-7(8) 6-2 6-4 smilecry
QR2: Eamon Soulsby lost to (q4) James Cluskey (IRL) WR 1195 by 5 & 0 cry
QR2: Daniel Cochrane beat Joe Cooper by 1 & 0 smilecry
QR2: (q5) Matthew Short WR 1225 beat Thomas Knights by 7-6(5) 6-1 smilecry
QR2: Jordan McCulloch beat Ravi Patel by 4 & 1 smilecry
QR2: Sebastian Jackson beat Joseph Gill by 6-2 7-6(5)
QR2: (q7) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1770 beat Keelan Oakley 6-2 3-6 7-6(3) smilecry
QR2: David O'Leary beat Sundeep Ubhi by 3 & 4 smilecry
QR2: Toby Martin beat Rogan Egerton by 7-6(3) 6-2 smilecry
QR2: Mathew James beat Mihai-Sorin Dobre (ROU) by 3 & 2 smile

FQR: (q1) Dan Evans WR 325 v Charlie Goode - guaranteed GB qualifier
FQR: Alan Bevan v Martin Colenbrander (NZL)
FQR: Patrick Ogier v (q3) Joss Espasandin (SUI) WR 1042
FQR: Daniel Cochrane v (q4) James Cluskey (IRL) WR 1195
FQR: (q5) Matthew Short WR 1225 v Jordan McCulloch - guaranteed GB qualifier
FQR: Sebastian Jackson v (q6) Nicolas Grammare (FRA) WR 1448
FQR: (q7) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1770 v David O'Leary - guaranteed GB qualifier
FQR: Toby Martin v Mathew James - guaranteed GB qualifier

I'm a bit shocked that Evo managed to get fed a breadstick by Christopher Simpson in the 1st set in QR2, but he survived to set up the FQR match I'm sure a lot of us wanted against Robert Dee's erstwhile dubs partner Charlie Goode, whom I might have to stop nicknaming 'notso' if he carried on getting results like the one against Sedmak!

Someone on here knows Keelan Oakley quite well, don't they? He must have been pleased to take a set off Fitzy.

Four guaranteed GB qualifiers then ... and a very good win for Alan Bevan against someone just outside the top 1000 in QR2 hopefully means he has a good chance against the kiwi too.

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Yeah Keelan belongs to my club...hope Fitzy comes on here to tell us how he played

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FQR: (q1) Dan Evans WR 325 beat Charlie Goode by 0 & 3 smilecry
FQR: Alan Bevan beat Martin Colenbrander (NZL) by 4 & 5 smile
FQR: Patrick Ogier lost to (q3) Joss Espasandin (SUI) WR 1042 by 2 & 5 cry
FQR: Daniel Cochrane lost to (q4) James Cluskey (IRL) WR 1195 by 4-6 6-2 7-5 cry
FQR: (q5) Matthew Short WR 1225 beat Jordan McCulloch by 6-0 2.1 ret. smilecry
FQR: Sebastian Jackson lost to (q6) Nicolas Grammare (FRA) WR 1448 by 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 cry
FQR: (q7) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1770 beat David O'Leary by 1 & 2 smilecry
FQR: Toby Martin beat Mathew James by 6-3 3-6 6-3 smilecry

A pretty good qualification campaign here, with all of our seeds through and an impressive qualifying run by Alan Bevan. smile

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L32: (1/WC) Jamie Baker WR 253 v (Q) James Cluskey (IRL) WR 1195
L32: (Q) Toby Martin UNR v (Q) Joss Espasandin (SUI) WR 1042
L32: Alex Slabinsky WR 565 v Sean Thornley WR 654
L32: Burnham Arlidge WR 889 v (6) Laurynas Girgelis (LTU) WR 444

L32: (WC) Maniel Bains WR 1114 v (4) Vishnu Vardhan (IND) WR 365
no-GB: Ashwin Kumar (USA) WR 728 v (Q) Nicolas Grammare (FRA) WR 1448
L32: (Q) Alan Bevan UNR v Colin Ebelthite (AUS) WR 575
L32: (7) David Rice WR 489 v Marcus Willis WR 586

L32: (6) Josh Goodall WR 397 v (WC) Nick Cavaday WR 1266
L32: (WC) Ben Pritchard WR 1258 v Baptiste Bayet (FRA) WR 875
L32: (Q) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 1770 v Barry King (IRL) WR 615
L32: (3/Q) Dan Evans WR 325 v Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA) WR 937

L32: (8) Josh Milton WR 536 v Matthew Asciak (MLT) WR 900
no-GB: Patrick Brydolf (SWE) WR 874 v Divij Sharan (IND) WR 878
L32: Kyle Brassington WR 984 v Tim Bradshaw WR 984
L32: (2) James Ward WR 304 v (Q) Matthew Short WR 1225

With 6 of the 8 seeds, including all of the top 3, the Brits had better hoover up some decent points here!




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Evo v Goodall QF should be good, Dan's been more impressive on the grass but he was poor in his last match against Yoshi

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and WOW, a whole 3 games for Goode, im thinking a DC call-up for him as our dead rubber specialist

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Anything other than a British winner of this event would be a very huge disappointment given that Baker, Ward, Evans, Goodall etc are the class apart in this field.

Would hope to see Ward or Baker take the title to have some good grass court form going into the Davis Cup tie, and it would also be a bit embarassing for them to be selected if they are losing to other Brits.

Although, I wouldn't be surprised to see Baker lose to Slabba if they met, and both Goodall/Evans could trouble Ward if they play their best and Ward isn't in his Eastbourne form.

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