L32: Josh Goodall WR 193 v Vincent Millot (FRA) WR 232
Very strong field here with 4 top 100 players. Qualifying draw however had just 12 playes, only 2 of whom were ranked, for what should have been a 32 man draw.
Very weak qualie draw - chance of a certain Mr Laurent Bram to qualify if he can get past another Luxembourger(?) Gilles Kremer (brother of Anne Kremer, I presume)
One of these challengers I wish some of our guys entered, especially for a good chance of 5 qual points at an accessible and presumably cheap Euro challenger to get to....
Very weak qualie draw - chance of a certain Mr Laurent Bram to qualify if he can get past another Luxembourger(?) Gilles Kremer (brother of Anne Kremer, I presume)
One of these challengers I wish some of our guys entered, especially for a good chance of 5 qual points at an accessible and presumably cheap Euro challenger to get to....
L Bram beat the wild card 7-6(3) , 6-1 Mr P Grandjean a wild card, there were 4 2nd round matches played today.
There are quite a number in Challenger qualies, but have avoided here
Well I doubt they realised in advance how weak the draw would be. Also I believe that Luxembourg is pretty expensive so Spain and Turkey were probably cheaper options.
L16: (1) Jamie Murray / Andre Sa (BRA) WR 102 v Jordi Marse-Vidre / Carlos Poch-Gradin (ESP/ESP) WR 783 L16: Josh Goodall / Alex Bucewicz (AUS) WR 1459 v (4) Andre Begemann / Martin Emmrich (GER/GER) WR 194 L16: Darren Walsh / Adham El-Effendi (USA) WR 921 v (2) Christopher Kas / Dick Norman (GER/BEL) WR 104
I think a big factor in that match would have been that Millot is only 5'8 so Goodall probably had a much nicer time returning than usual. Next round will really show us where Josh is at the moment in terms of if he can make another push to being back to a regular challenger player.