Marzi serving at *4-5, saves a match point. Come on James.

Pity for James 

One or two decent looking performances, but generally the teens arer continuing to underimpress this year so far, and certainly aren't getting the scores on the doors.  Lewis Burton leads them in ranking points scored so far this year with just 4.

They had generally not started getting much at all in the way of the ranking points early on last year save Liam Broady, so have generally moved a little up the actual rankings, but I did expect more moving on from last year.

Whatever they were all working on in the close season isn't esactly bearing fruit so far this year.

Could all change quite quickly I guess, and that woiuld be good to see.

QF:  (6) Marc Sieber (GER) WR 433 vs (4) Dan Smethurst WR 413

Dan has a 0-2 H2H against Sieber (one of them a retirement) but they played in 2009 and 2010. Hopefully he can make it 3rd time lucky in 2012!

4 games in a row for Dan - he leads 4-2*

Doh! Sieber breaks - 5-5*

Dan goes 0-15 down but otherwise makes no mistake, winning the next 4 points to take the 1st set 7-5