QR1: (q5) Darren Walsh WR 1533 vs bye
QR2: (q5) Darren Walsh WR 1533 vs Rares Florin Mercean (ROU) UNR or Vlad ( ) Corneliu Pop (ROU) UNR
It's a 64-man qualy draw!
So far, so good for Darren:
QR2: (q5) Darren Walsh WR 1533 defeated Vlad ( ) Corneliu Pop (ROU) UNR by 7-6(5) 6-2
QR3: (q5) Darren Walsh WR 1533 vs Adrian-Vasile Gavrila (ROU) UNR
R1: (WC) Patrick Gigoriu & (another Impaler!) Vlad Stefan (ROU/ROU) UNR vs (4) Adham El-Effendi (USA) & Darren Walsh WR 1316
Darren manages to qualify this week:
FQR: (q5) Darren Walsh WR 1533 defeated Adrian-Vasile Gavrila (ROU) UNR by 4 & 3
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L32: (Q) Darren Walsh WR 1533 vs (Q) Andras Szekely (ROU/17 years old!) UNR
But bombs out in the doubles!
R1: (WC) Patrick Grigoriu & Vlad Stefan (ROU/ROU) UNR defeated (4) Adham El-Effendi (USA) & Darren Walsh WR 1316 by 3-6 6-4 [10-2]
Maybe Galovic is from the Trieste area? Anyway, more to the point, that makes Darren the last surviving Brit in an ATP-ranked singles event this week ...
GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!GB top 25s (ranks, whereabouts) & stats - http://www.britishtennis.net/stats.html
L32: (Q) Darren Walsh WR 1533 defeated (Q) Andras Szekely (ROU) UNR by 0 & 4
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L16: (Q) Darren Walsh WR 1533 vs Viktor Galovic (ITA) WR 795
The Italian (??? ) put out the Russian fourth seed, Victor Baluda (WR 795), in straight sets today.
Today's play must've been washed out: Darren's down on tomorrow's OoP to play both his second-round &, it is to be hoped, his quarter-final matches then.
L16: (Q) Darren Walsh WR 1533 lost to Viktor Galovic (ITA) WR 795 by 2 & 4
Galovic went on to beat Brunken, the seventh seed (WR 519) in the quarter-final, so he's obviously a useful player!