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QR2: (q2) Dan Smethurst WR 406 v (17yo) Mariano Esposito (ITA) UNR or (39yo) Enrico Becuzzi (ITA) UNR (CH 1400 in 2003)

Dan making the best of having gone out of Padova today and the fact that clay court Challenger qualifying draws are weaker than hard court Challenger qualifying draws, especially at this time of year.



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smethurst takes the first set 6-2

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and the second 6-4

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R1: Alexander Bury & Daniel Smethurst (BLR/GBR) v (3) Alessandro Giannessi & Stefano Ianni (ITA/ITA)

No Jonny this week (Dustin not playing doubles because he wants to play Munich qualies if he loses early in singles).

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QR2: (q2) Dan Smethurst WR 406 beat Mariano Esposito (ITA) UNR 6-2 6-4 smile

FQR: (q2) Dan Smethurst WR 406 v (q5) Riccardo Bellotti (ITA) WR 433



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Not sure if Dan's injured or just saving himself for the main draw knowing there's a LL spot available but he's losing 6-1 1-0

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FQR: (q5) Riccardo Bellotti (ITA) WR 433 beat (q2) Dan Smethurst WR 406 6-1 6-1 cry



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The top seed in qualifying won so Dan will be first on the LL list. That does seem an odd scoreline, yet even if he knew a LL place had opened up (it's not clear yet whether one has), it has never made sense to me to forego possible points for qualifying when you might get a tough opponent in the main draw and end up with no points (though perhaps more money, I guess), so I doubt that's often the cause of odd-looking FQR results like this.

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R1: Alexander Bury & Daniel Smethurst (BLR/GBR) defeated (3) Alessandro Giannessi & Stefano Ianni (ITA/ITA) by 4-6 6-1 [10-6]! biggrin



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No LL place yet

However, Bellotti drew 2nd seed Bolelli in the main draw, so if Dan does get in, it might work out better for him after all.

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Yep, reckon the most likely scenario is Dan simply got thrashed on the day, which would be rather disappointing given his reasonable form and it being on clay. Makes no sense not to go for the qualifying points, whether there was a likely LL position or not.



-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 24th of April 2012 08:55:09 AM

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i wonder also if the LTA pay the £500 bonus for qualifying for a challenger if you get in via a LL spot.

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R1 now complete and no LL places became available.

To add insult to injury, 2nd seed Bolelli retired during his match, which means Dan's conqueror Bellotti is through to R2.

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QF:  Maxime Authom & Romain Jouan (BEL/FRA) vs Alexander Bury (BLR) & Dan Smethurst



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Dan/Alex 4-3*

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