Well I'd played football in the morning so didn't get there until about 1, right when it started raining. It took a good hour for the rain to stop so I saw a couple of hours of play before it started raining again. They decided to move some of the matches indoors but it took a while to kick the other players off the courts and set up the scoreboards and everything. It looked like it was going to be stop and start the rest of the day so I headed home, which isn't too far away.

Just from watching the warm-up I could tell Sam Price was going to win easy, the other guy could barley keep it in court for more than 3 shots and going up high for smashes was just a disaster. Whole match couldn't have lasted much more than half an hour. Also Keelan's opponent, Jan Daniel, completely cramped up and could barely walk back to the chair at 6-0 5-0 so his retirement was completely justified. Was very surprised when I saw on the ITF site that he was 20 years old, he only looked about 14. No crazy antics by the Bulgarian guy that I saw, although his match with Sterland-Markovic was a battle, probably pushing 3 hours, so I'm not that surprised Stefan lost his 2nd match, he must have been knackered.

Hope you have a good day if you do go, I'm working all week so can't get over there again, although I might go for the final at the weekend if it's an interesting match-up.

no liam broady then?

Well Liam was there practicing with JWH, Luke B and Jonny O'Mara yesterday so I would be very surprised if he wasn't playing.

steven wrote:

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Edit: aargh, sorry RJA, I thought I had caught the draw early enough to get away with typing out the draw without having to post that I was going to do it first. In fact, looking at the times, if I hadn't got a phone call in the middle, I'd have managed to get this up before you said it and thus saved you the work. 

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 Don't worry. I had only just started

The two foreigners are up against Lewis Burton and Alex Jhun. I'd expect Lewis to win his match, Alex would be a big underdog.

Tough quarter for Liam Broady - rematch of last week's final followed by Willis again.

JWH has another difficult draw, but the winner has a reasonable quarter with Josh G the only other threat

Tennisnow wrote:

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I would say that JWH has a decent draw, Richard B is tough for a R1 but unseeded that is always the risk.

I would still fancy JWH to make the semi-final as he has avoided the in-form players (Broady, Cox and Willis specifically). He may have a decent shot at a final (you heard it here first), given Ed C's recent struggle to regain the form he had earlier in the year.

Possibility for 56/56 points for the first time? Have we ever had all L16 players British since futures began?

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Futures began in 1991, I think, so I'm not certain but I doubt it. Last week (when Hochwalt reaching R2 was the only thing that prevented a clean sweep) was the closest we have got since the new points system began a few years ago and the previous week was the 2nd closest. , I don't remember any Futures draws being anywhere near all-Brit pre-2009 but I didn't start following Futures until the early 2000s.