Courtesy of the Beeb:

R1:  Kyle Brassington defeated Burnham Arlidge by 6-2 6-1

R1:  James Marsalek defeated Richard Gabb by 6-4 3-6 6-3

R1:  (6) Albano Olivetti (FRA) defeated Lewis Burton by 6-2 6-4

R1:  Marcus Willis defeated Alex Farquharson by 6-7(9) 6-4 6-1

R1:  (8) Sean Thornley defeated Joshua Jones by 1-6 6-2 6-2

R1:  Sean Berman (USA) defeated George Coupland by 7-6(7) 6-3

Still two to come from the first round!

I was there for a couple of hours today so can give a couple of results - sadly wasn't there as long as I had hoped due to not actually bieng able to find the venue!

Kle Edmund lost 6-4 7-6

When I had to leave Alex Ward was leading 7-6 3-5*
Goodall was leading T. Far 7-6 2-1*
Brassington was traling 2-5*

Should also say that all matches being played indoors - play started at 1.30

Finally (mostly - still five missing! ):

R1  (5) Alex Ward defeated Jiri Kosler (CZE) by 7-6(2) 4-6 6-3

R1:  Marvin Barker (NZL) defeated (WC) Kyle Edmund by 6-3 7-6(2)


R2:  (1) Alexander Sadecky (SUI) defeated Kyle Brassington by 6-3 1-6 6-3

R2:  (4) Josh Goodall defeated Tom Farquharson by 7-5 6-4

R2:  (2) David Rice defeated Sean Berman (USA) by 6-1 6-1

indiana wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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RJA wrote:

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I know I am repeating myself here but is it really asking too much of the LTA to try an keep British tennis fans informed of results at a home tournament when we have so many players involved. All they bloody well have to do is tweet the results.

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Whether it is or it isn't, RJA, I doubt the suits in charge of the LTA care.    After all, they're not in the business of keeping us fans informed of results at tournaments which are not blessed with a live score service (i.e. most of them in this God-forsaken country! ) at the earliest practicable opportunity, are they? 

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Hmm.  At the backend of last year I had a very pleasant email discussion with an LTA lady about ( in my view ) the considerable shortcomings with regards to a results service in this country.

She went into some length re such as in some way absolving LTA ( in a way that lost me ) for not having livescores at a challenger and more particularly the improvements that would be coming in the new year, and I think twitter was mentioned ( which at times they do use but irritatingly not with any consistency ).

I can see a new communication happening soon.

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Perhaps, Indy, if said communication does happen & you should happen to find yourself in dialogue with the same lady, you could endeavour to find out just what it is about updating draw sheets that is so time-consuming that the LTA can't manage it until literally hours after play ends for the day!

QF:  (1) Alexander Sadecky (SUI) WR 351 vs (6) Albano Olivetti (FRA) WR 525
QF:  (4) Josh Goodall WR 462 vs Marcus Willis WR 637
QF:  (8) Sean Thornley WR 611 vs (3) Chris Eaton WR 434
QF:  (WC) Andrew Fitzpatrick WR 877 vs (2) David Rice WR 413