Qualifying for Wimbledon is scheduled to start tomorrow. Oliver Golding, George Morgan, Liam Broady and Kyle Edmund are direct entrants. Judging from the qualifying draw all of the WCs at Roehampton apart from Sam Hutt will probably have received main draw WCs. Peter Ashley withdrew and Joshua Sapwell has been handed a tough draw against the top seed and French Open quarter-finalist. There are two rounds
weird sapwell not in main draw, liam and kyle both got mdwc's last year
Kyle and Luke got one last year, but Liam only got a QWC the previous year - Liam's ranking then was similar to Josh's now (below Kyle & Luke last year) so it's consistent.
(1) Robin Kern (GER) d. (WC) Joshua Sapwell 6-1 6-4 (15) Jae Hwan Kim (KOR) d. (WC) Robert Carter 6-3 6-2 (WC) Sam Hutt d. (13) Benjamin Lock (ZIM) 7-5 6-4 (5) Dennis Novikov (USA) d. (WC) Joshua Page 6-2 6-1 (WC) Alexander Sendegeya v (9) Maxim Lunkin (RUS) 4-5 suspended
The main draw is out and Liam's draw is remarkably similar to the one in Roehampton - same 1/8 as Vesely, same 1/4 as Whittington (tho Horansky too) and same 1/2 as Oli/Mate.
Oli, as he says himself, has a horror draw - Karantsev (the Russian qualifier who beat George Morgan this week and went on to reach the semis) in R1 with the winner to play Delic (who beat Oli in the QFs this week) or (WC) Kubler, whom he edged out 7-5 in the 3rd in the same event last year - one of his biggest wins.
George is in the slightly less scary bottom half.
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George is certainly in the best half of the draw - perhaps this is his moment to shine
R1 (L64)
(1) Jiri Vesely (CZE) v (WC) Jonathan Cornish (Q) Nick Kyrgios (AUS) v (15) Liam Broady (9) Andrew Whittington (AUS) v Luke Bambridge (4) Oliver Golding v (SE) Aslan Karatsev (RUS) (11) Joao Pedro Sorgi (BRA) v Kyle Edmund (WC) Joshua Ward-Hibbert v Maxim Dubarenco (MKD) (Q) Axel Alvarez Llamas (ESP) v (WC) Evan Hoyt (WC) Toby Martin v Kimmer Coppejans (BEL) (6) Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP) v (WC) Andrew Bettles Teodor Nicolae Marin (ROU) v (10) George Morgan Wayne Montgomery (RSA) v (WC) Oliver Hudson
George is certainly in the best half of the draw - perhaps this is his moment to shine
R1 (L64)
(1) Jiri Vesely (CZE) v (WC) Jonathan Cornish (Q) Nick Kyrgios (AUS) v (15) Liam Broady (9) Andrew Whittington (AUS) v Luke Bambridge (4) Oliver Golding v (SE) Aslan Karatsev (RUS) (11) Joao Pedro Sorgi (BRA) v Kyle Edmund (WC) Joshua Ward-Hibbert v Maxim Dubarenco (MKD) (Q) Axel Alvarez Llamas (ESP) v (WC) Evan Hoyt (WC) Toby Martin v Kimmer Coppejans (BEL) (6) Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP) v (WC) Andrew Bettles Teodor Nicolae Marin (ROU) v (10) George Morgan Wayne Montgomery (RSA) v (WC) Oliver Hudson
Ever the consummate pro, George told Liam not to look more than one match ahead, to which Liam said something like "meet you in the Final". Can't fault either of them really!
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none of oli liam george luke kyle in action tomorow, so liam has 2 days to prepare for his assualt, not that oli and george dont have a decent chance aswell