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Qualifying starts tomorrow with Jonathan Cornish, Josh Sapwell, Jordan Angus, Julian Cash, Josh Page and Lewis Roskilly given wildcards. That leaves 8 who were in the Roehampton main draw: Evan Hoyt, Peter Ashley, Scott Clayton, Myles Orton, Jonny O'Mara, Jathan Malik, Clay Crawford and Tommy Bennett, who may have main draw wildcards. Liam Broady, Josh Ward-Hibbert, Kyle Edmund and Luke Bambridge make the main draw on ranking



-- Edited by DavidC on Wednesday 27th of June 2012 07:49:07 PM

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Julian was the only one to pull off an upset and make final qualifying

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(5) Hassan Ndayishimiye (BDI) v (WC) Julian Cash

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The main draw is out, and most of the first round clashes offer good chances. Kyle has the short straw, with a tough match against Mitchell Krueger, while Luke Bambridge is yet again in Luke Saville's section (though this time only in round 3, with the talented young American Noah Rubin barring his path to a rematch)

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(5) Hassan Ndayishimiye (BDI) d. (WC) Julian Cash 6-4 7-6(6)

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Luke Bambridge v Vaclav Safranek (CZE)
(12) Josh Ward-Hibbert v (Q) Elias Ymer (SWE)
Christian Garin (CHI) v (WC) Evan Hoyt
(WC) Tommy Bennett v (13) Julien Cagnina (BEL)
(WC) Peter Ashley v (Q) Pol Toledo Bague (ESP)
(5) Liam Broady v Filip Bergevi (SWE)
(WC) Myles Orton v Karin Hossam (EGY)
(WC) Clay Crawford v Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN)
(8) Mitchell Krueger (USA) v Kyle Edmund
Anton Desyatnik (RUS) v (WC) Scott Clayton
Jordan Thompson (AUS) v (WC) Jonny O'Mara




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R1 (L64)

Luke Bambridge v Vaclav Safranek (CZE) Ct 19 match 4
(12) Josh Ward-Hibbert v (Q) Elias Ymer (SWE)
Christian Garin (CHI) v (WC) Evan Hoyt Ct 19 match 5
(WC) Tommy Bennett v (13) Julien Cagnina (BEL)
(WC) Peter Ashley v (Q) Pol Toledo Bague (ESP)
(5) Liam Broady v Filip Bergevi (SWE) ct 9 match 3
(WC) Myles Orton v Karin Hossam (EGY) ct 9 match 6
(WC) Clay Crawford v Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) ct 19 match 1
(8) Mitchell Krueger (USA) v Kyle Edmund ct 9 match 2
Anton Desyatnik (RUS) v (WC) Scott Clayton ct 9 match 5
Jordan Thompson (AUS) v (WC) Jonny O'Mara



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Krueger/Edmund is one of the interesting matches of the first round ... but Luke Saville can't be thrilled to see Laurent Lokoli, who knocked him out of Roehampton and went to the finals, as his first round opponent. Ditto Andrew Harris re: Enzo Couacaud. Indeed, there seem to be quite a number of dangerous, unranked floaters. Good that the UK players have relatively decent draws!

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Well fought (about three hours, no?) -- too bad about the result. Must have been a superb match to watch (if exhausting). 

Just out of interest, does anyone know why Edmund plays so few ITF Juniors tournaments? Presumably there's a good reason ... but it does mean that even with (until now) generally terrific results in the Grade 1/Grade A/Slams he does play, he's still seeded so low that he gets horrendous early matches.



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Yes I noticed Saville's draw with amusement, though I expect Luke will be better prepared for the rematch (his previous tournament was a Futures on clay)

Clay trails 4-6 1*-4

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Clay lost 6-4 6-3

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Hmmm. Bourgue/Halebian is taking the honours for longest match of the day from Edmund/Krueger. And it's a Frenchman v. an American ... could this be Isner/Mahut III?

Had thought this was another extraordinary first-round matchup, but didn't expect it to go this long ....



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Kyle leads *2-1

All three games have gone against the serve.

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Kyle takes the first set 6-4

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After 3 breaks of serve in the opening 3 games of the match the next 19 games went with serve (very few breakpoints). Hence the second set went to a tiebreak which Krueger has just taken 8-6

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Almost two hours in and from the live scoring it appears exceptionally evenly matched. Whichever of the two wins, they've effectively won the semi (or at least the quarter) .... just a few rounds early.

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Kyle had to save breakpoints in game 5 of the third set, but hangs on to lead 4-3* as we go 26 games without a break

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Mitchell held easily then Kyle secured a deuce game to make it 5-4*

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