Bob in Spain wrote:

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Tough draw for Jack. And he needs to make the most of his chances as he has tweeted to say he "forgot" to send in his application for Week 2 and is only playing in weeks 1 and 3 (unless he can wangle a WC).

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I see the qualifying draw was full last week but I would have thought they might be able to see their way to giving him a WC for qualifying when he has come all that way for all 3 weeks and apparently made a genuine mistake.

I know they didn't used to use qualifying lists for the men but I thought they did now. Surely the whole point of knowing you are on the qualifying list is that you know it's worth making the trip, otherwise why have them at all? I think page 8 of the ITF rulebook http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1vjyz/2012ITFProCircuitrul/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=  confirms this though it's not crystal clear elsewhere in those rules.

It may be that if any of the players on the original main draw or qualifying acceptance lists don't sign in for qualifying then it is opened up to those who do sign in, in ranking order, whether they were on the original alternates list for qualifying or not (again, it's not completely clear), in which case it's virtually certain he would get in.

R1:  (3) Rohan Gajjar (IND) WR 534 lost to Jack Carpenter WR 1072 by 4 & 4

R1: (Q) Ji Sung Nam (KOR) WR 1940 lost to (4) Lewis Burton WR 634 by 3 & 3

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R2:  Jack Carpenter WR 1072 vs (WC) Minh-Quan Do (VIE) WR 1002 (in March 2006 - apparently "inactive" since!)

R2:  Robin Kern (GER) WR 888 vs (4) Lewis Burton WR 634

Stircrazy wrote:

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R2:  Jack Carpenter WR 1072 vs (WC) Minh-Quan Do (VIE) WR 1002 (in March 2006 - apparently "inactive" since!)

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Do has played the odd Vietnamese Futures event since, but hardly plays on the circuit at all. However, he is Vietnam's most successful Davis Cup player ever http://www.daviscup.com/en/teams/team/profile.aspx?id=VIE, though it could be argued that's not saying a great deal ...