Oli is a DA here, so he will have one last chance to nick the year-end top GB teenager in the ATP rankings spot from Lewis Burton - he will need to reach the semis to overtake him though and the QFs to tie Liam's points total for 2nd place in that mini-contest.
QR1: Joshua Bexon UNR v Aggelos Venizelos (GRE) UNR QR1: Luke Wainwright UNR v Ferdun Shevkedov (BUL) UNR
QR2: Bexon or Venizelos v (q2) Marko Djokovic (SRB) WR 1038 (CH 628 in 2010) QR2: (q13) Darren Walsh WR 1513 v Wainwright or Shevkedov
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!
A good start for Darren in his FQR match, winning the 1st set 6-3, but it has all gone horribly wrong since then - he lost the 2nd set by the same score and is now *0-4 down in the 3rd
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!
A good start for Darren in his FQR match, winning the 1st set 6-3, but it has all gone horribly wrong since then - he lost the 2nd set by the same score and is now *0-4 down in the 3rd
Sadly, Darren lost by 6-3 3-6 2-6.
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At least Oli has a better first-round draw this week:
L32: Oliver Golding WR 688 vs Sébastien Boltz (FRA) WR 724
Let's hope the Frog doesn't come like a Boltz from the (red, white &) blue...
L32: Oliver Golding WR 688 (eventually - he led by 4-0 & had MPs for 6-2, but couldn't convert them!) defeated Sébastien Boltz (FRA) WR 724 by 6-3 1-6 6-3
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L16: Oliver Golding WR 688 vs (Q) Vasile-Alexandru Ghilea (ROU) WR 1177
The 17-year-old Romanian qualifier dumped out Lisnard, the third seed, in the first round yesterday (6-2 3-6 4-0 retired)!
L32: Oliver Golding WR 688 (eventually - he led by 4-0 & had MPs for 6-2, but couldn't convert them!) defeated Sébastien Boltz (FRA) WR 724 by 6-3 1-6 6-3
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L16: Oliver Golding WR 688 vs (Q) Vasile-Alexandru Ghilea (ROU) WR 1177
The 17-year-old Romanian qualifier dumped out Lisnard, the third seed, in the first round yesterday (6-2 3-6 4-0 retired)!
I was able to see the last 2 games of Oli's match, and the 8th game with 3 matchpoints was rather frustrating. It was a case of aggressive play to set up each matchpoint and then a passive return to allow Boltz an immediate winner on the matchpoints.
Some of the information being displayed wasn't correct this morning, such as which court Oli was on and the right court was showing the score off another court , but it wasn't hard to find the correct court and score