Well spotted - with qualifying not finished and no main draw on the ATP site yet, I hadn't even guessed that the main draw might be up elsewhere.

I've amended the thread title to the usual format people use for Futures, I hope that's ok. It just makes it mildly easier to pick out Futures when skimming through the list of threads.

This is the event where Jamie Baker beat Kevin Anderson in the Final five years ago, before their careers went in different directions, with Anderson going deep in an ATP event a week or two later on his way to the top 100 and, sadly, Jamie getting ill soon afterwards.

With ranking details:

L32: Dan Cox WR 567 v Nicolas Gustavo Kauer (CHI) WR 586
L32: (7) Josh Milton WR 387 v (WC) Jean-Yves Aubone (USA) WR 1937 (CH 475 in 2009)

R1:  Bjorn Fratangelo & Mitch Krueger (USA/USA) WR 1573 vs Dan Cox & Josh Milton UNR

L32: Dan Cox WR 567 beat Nicolas Gustavo Kauer (CHI) WR 586 by 7-6(3) 7-5
L32: (7) Josh Milton WR 387 lost to (WC) Jean-Yves Aubone (USA) WR 1937 (CH 475 in 2009) by 3 & 3

L16: Dan Cox WR 567 v Nam Ji Sung (KOR) WR 484 (= CH)

Nam is a 19-year-old who upset the 6th seed in R1 - a bad day for seeds in the top half.

The context seems to be that Aubone won two Futures singles titles in 2008 and was the highest-ranked player still at college when he was in the top 500 in 2009, then he played just once on the Pro Circuit between mid-July 2009 and the end of October 2012. It looks like he worked in finance for a couple of years after leaving college and was tempted back into tennis late last year rather in the way that Colin Fleming was after did university then worked in industry for a while.

So, it's pretty clear that Aubone is very under-ranked. Still a bit of a shocker then, but perhaps not a complete one ...

L16: Dan Cox WR 567 beat Nam Ji Sung (KOR) WR 484 (= CH) by 4 & 3

QF: Dan Cox WR 567 v (1) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) WR 218 (= CH)

H2H 0-1, but it was on clay (Olsztyn 2010) and a close 3-setter.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 21st of February 2013 11:28:49 PM

Yes, we finally got a winner today. Well done, Dan, good to see him back and winning.

Good start for Dan with an early break - i suspect the double faults under PHH's name may be related.

PHH is a good player and must be favourite to win this match though.