You don't often see Spanish Futures with no players inside the top 500, but the entry for this one is limited by the fact that it is held in a Spanish exclave on the Moroccan coast rather than on the mainland. Having said that, Matt has picked up probably the trickiest R1 draw a seed could have got, though it gets a lot better if he survives R1.
L32: (6) Matt Short WR 775 v Ricardo Ojeda Lara (ESP) WR 799 (= CH)
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!
He has just tweeted "in Málaga" which is not far from being directly opposite Melilla, which suggests he probably was in Melilla ... unless a ferry strike stopped him getting there!
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!
He has just tweeted "in Málaga" which is not far from being directly opposite Melilla, which suggests he probably was in Melilla ... unless a ferry strike stopped him getting there!
Curiouser & curiouser: he & his Portuguese doubles patner, Gonçalo Oliveira, gave their first-round opponents, the Spanish fourth seeds, a walkover into the QF...