There are five Challengers next week and this is the only one in Europe. Three of the other qualifying draws are out as well (and I doubt the remaining one, Salinas, will change this) and all 8 qualifying seeds in Cherbourg are ranked higher than any of the qualifying seeds anywhere else!

QR1: David Rice WR 429 beat Roberto Marcora (ITA) WR 718 6-1 6-4

Evo starts a procession of 4 matches involving the other Brits on the same court, after the current match which is deep into the first set.

Mervatron wrote:

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Good luck guys.

Would be good to see Dan do well here and build on the Davies Cup

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I could see this going one of two ways. We could either see a new much more confident Dan playing at the level that we have long thought him capable of, or we could see a post Davis Cup anti-climax.

In any event he should be on court in a few minutes.

Evo saved two early BPs but then missed two chances to break

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RJA wrote:

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Bad news is that going by a Sean Thornley tweet it looks like him and Rice will not make it into the doubles so presumably neither will Eaton and Inglot. Skupski and Delgado will be playing here.

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Could Dom use his protected ranking? That would shift them up around 90 places i think

Chris Eaton 6-4 1-1 vs Dustov

Dustov breaks