DAs for Pauffley, Willis, Fitzpatrick, Gabb, Carpenter, Hewitt, Short, Bambridge, Martin and probably also Hudson.
Qualifying draw is nearly full with 47 players for a 48 man draw.
After his lengthy commute from Bournemouth Borna Coric looks likely to have tough match tomorrow as he is likely to play Cameron Norrie
No obvious wild cards spring to mind as all ranked GB players on the qualifing list are in the qualifying draw. Maybe Clay Crawford (won British Tour Leeds this week), David Porter (RUP British Tour Leeds), Sam Hutt (Qualified for Bournemouth last week). Maybe Goodall or Evo if fit.
-- Edited by RJA on Saturday 27th of April 2013 08:23:57 PM
Loads of Scots in the qualifying draw including a certain graeme dyce, Anyone going to the tournament I might be going Tues/Weds. Want a wee look at Ashley and the Scottish girls Maia and Anna
Loads of Scots in the qualifying draw including a certain graeme dyce, Anyone going to the tournament I might be going Tues/Weds. Want a wee look at Ashley and the Scottish girls Maia and Anna
Qualifying results so far are available from the link in the original post. I will copy and paste result once the ITF site is updated but there are too many to type out from the draw sheet (unless someone else wants to do so). However, final qualifying round involving Brits are as follows
FQR: Evan Hoyt UNR v (q1) Thomas Grinberg (FRA) WR 1163 FQR: (q3) James Ireland WR 1371 v Lewis Thompson UNR FQR: (q4) Robert Carter WR 1377 v Jonny O'Mara UNR FQR: Aaron Banasik UNR v (q5) Borna Coric (CRO) WR 1423 FQR: (q6) Imran Aswat WR 1471 v Euan McIntosh UNR FQR: (q7) Jarryd Bant WR 1571 v (q10) Jathan Malik WR 1924 FQR: (q8) Scott Clayton WR 1896 v (q9) Morten Ritslaid WR 1764
So that is at least 4 Brits to come through qualifying, with a possibility of 7.
I see Springbok-Kiwi-Brit Cameron Norrie took a set off Borna Coric in QR2 today. No rankings upsets though.
It wouldn't have surprised me to see Norrie beat Coric. The former had a pretty good week at Bournemouth while the latter, while obvious having a very good week, was coming off a the high of winning his first pro tournament and having to get a late night flight to Edinburgh. A let down would have been perfectly natural.
Apparently a good chunk of yesterday was played indoors. Play this morning put back to an 11am start for no apparent reason. Think the TD is still in bed or something. Now where can I find a coffee around here?
Ok, I take it back. I can see why there's a delay. The courts are playing ridiculously low. The ball just is not bouncing. Had a word with the groundkeeper. He reckons they're like putty. Just a symptom of a bad winter and wet spring