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The good news: Evo is 2nd seed in qualifying and Alex is 5th, i.e. the best of the lower seeds.

The bad news: I'll give you 3 guesses (*) - though 1 will be more than enough ...

QR2: (q2) Dan Evans WR 291 v Darian King (BAR) WR 753 (CH 700 last Nov) or Andreas Siljeström (SWE) UNR (CH 964 in 2010, current DWR 65)
QR2: (q5) Alex Ward WR 341 v (wc) Calvin Hémery (FRA) UNR or (wc) Marcel-Ioan Miron (ROU) UNR (CH 697 in 2006, H2H 0-1, 3&2 BEL F2 2009)

(*) The winners play each other in the FQR.

Hémery has no senior record on ITF but I thought I recognised his name - turns out Jonny O'Mara beat him in the Sarawak Cup Final last year - http://www.arbroathherald.co.uk/sport/local-sport/jonny_wins_yet_another_title_in_malaysia_1_1933688

 



-- Edited by steven on Sunday 25th of March 2012 01:58:27 AM

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Hemery could still be quite a hurdle though  ashamed 



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oh dear! there will be many who are too young to appreciate that!

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LOL yes, that might well pass the youngest members of the forum by. My first memory of seeing sport on TV is watching the first day of the athletics at the Munich Olympics when David Hemery was running in the heats of the 400m hurdles trying to defend his title. He eventually won the bronze medal, with Akii-Bua (now there's an athlete who had a story to tell!) winning the gold medal. The new Hémery has just lost the 1st set in a tiebreak but King has beaten the doubles specialist, so:

QR2: (q2) Dan Evans WR 291 v Darian King (BAR) WR 753 (CH 700 last Nov)

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Miron won in 3:

QR2: (q5) Alex Ward WR 341 v (wc) Marcel-Ioan Miron (ROU) UNR (CH 697 in 2006, H2H 0-1, 3&2 BEL F2 2009)



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Evo off to a good start

3-0*

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Ah good, someone else has noticed he's already playing

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Evo has to save 3 breaks points in the 9th game but eventually serves it out to take the set 6-3

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That was 4 break points saved before taking the set 6-3.

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Went down an early break in the second but broke straight back

*1-2

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Evo breaks to take control of the second set

*4-3

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GSM 6-3, 6-4

On paper a solid albeit unspectacular win.

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Well at least one of them will get the 5 points for qualifying. After that things look pretty tricky as the qualifier spots don't look very friendly. Possibilities are

Lu (WR 59)
Mahut (WR 92)
Ito (WR 94)
Clement (WR 153)



-- Edited by RJA on Monday 26th of March 2012 09:18:21 AM

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Alex won 6-4 6-4

FQR Dan Evans v Alex Ward

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Was just looking at the same thing RJA. Let's hope a few LL spots become available.



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