Doubles:

Colin Fleming in harness here with a former partner of his partner in Athens (if you see what I mean! ), David Martin:

R1:  (WC) Peter Polansky & Antonio Veic (CAN/CRO) vs (2) [I presume - the draw sheet on the site doesn't specify! ] Colin Fleming & David Martin (USA)

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Tuesday 19th of April 2011 11:32:25 AM

And takes it 6-3 in the decider! Good work Dan

Although he got a bit lucky with the top seed in his section getting moved into the main draw, Dan has still had to beat three higher-ranked players to get into the main draw here!

QR1: Dan Smethurst WR 510 beat (q5) Nicolas Devilder (BEL) WR 365 (CH 60 in 2008) by 3 & 3
QR2: Dan Smethurst WR 510 beat Goran Tosic (MNE) WR 460 (CH 263 last June) by 4 & 3
FQR: Dan Smethurst WR 510 beat Pedro Sousa (POR) WR 488 (CH 348 last July) by 3-6 6-3 6-3

The two remaining FQR matches are in progress now - qualifiers get Stadler WR 234, Viola WR 192, Guez WR 164 or (4) Haider-Maurer WR 95.

The Magician Santoro wrote:

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Smets gets Viola, not sure if that's ideal or not

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Depends. Is it fairly easily easily treatable ?

L32: (Q) Dan Smethurst WR 509 v Matteo Viola (ITA) WR 193

Viola hit a career high of 192 at the end of March when he reached the Final of the Caltanissetta Challenger, upsetting 4th seed Benoit Paire (who reached the Final in St Brieuc the following week) in R1.

dan up a break *3-5 in the first

Breaks back for 4 all...good effort this