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Lot of current and former University of Virginia players here: in a sense all of ours are lucky to have avoided both Singh and Shabaz, even if it is largely because they all play each other. Only one potential point may be better than unlikely to get any. Smethurst likely to play at least one current Virginia team member, so should be a Davis Cup-type match. But yes, having most of your compatriots in your bracket is unfortunate, when no points on offer before qualification. And having almost all the rest be locals just adds to the fun!



-- Edited by Spectator on Saturday 26th of October 2013 10:06:02 AM

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Wouldn't you just know it?!! disbelief

QR1:  (q1) Ed Corrie WR 336 vs George Coupland WR 930
QR1:  Josh Milton WR 606 vs Carsten Ball (AUS) WR 915
QR1:  (WC) Ronald Powell (USA) WR 1677 vs (q7) Dan Smethurst WR 482
QR1:  (q3) David Rice WR 374 vs Dennis Nevolo (USA) WR 644
QR1:  Greg Ouellette (USA) WR 666 (the number of the beast! wink ) vs Sean Thornley WR 1405

Home from home for our lads. smile  I guess we know who will make up one of the doubles teams... wink



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Somdev to win his home tournament!

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Horrible draws. Rice will have his work cut out and Ed, George and Josh in the same bracket.

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paulisi wrote:

Horrible draws. Rice will have his work cut out and Ed, George and Josh in the same bracket.

 And Dan S !!  All in the top quarter so only 1 to qualify or get any points.



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I know SC has already put up the draw but here it is again with opponents' CHs and H2H details - I need some of the extra info for Twitter and with so many Brits in the draw, it was easier to do it like this here before trying to work out how to get it into as few tweets as possible, so you might as well have the extra info, especially since a couple of the career highs are very different to current rankings!

QR1: (q1) Ed Corrie WR 336 v George Coupland WR 930 - H2H 1-0, 3 sets, Felixstowe Fut. 2012 QF
QR1: Josh Milton WR 606 v Carsten Ball (AUS) WR 915 (CH 108 in 2010) - H2H 1-0, 1 & 3, Austin Fut. 2012 SF
QR1: (q7) Dan Smethurst WR 482 v (WC) Ronald Powell (USA) WR 1677 (CH 1595 in Jun)
QR1: (q3) David Rice WR 374 vs Dennis Nevolo (USA) WR 644 (CH 586 in Apr)
QR1: Sean Thornley WR 1405 v Greg Ouellette (USA) WR 666 (CH 269 in 2011)

Ball has only managed one singles win since losing to Kyle in the Vero Beach Futures final in May and seems to play mainly doubles these days.

Sean is due to play Dave in QR2 if they both win their first matches but Nevolo beat Ed on his way to the final in Mansfield last week and Ouellette has won his first match in his last 8 Challenger qualifying draws, so it looks like being so close to each other in the draw yet again may be the least of their worries.

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Coup Droit wrote:
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None of them are in any sort of form so it's a very tricky one to guess. I would even fancy George at this stage, who has done ok lately.

 well, Dave made the final last week so that's not too shabby (even if it was just a 10k).

 

But agree about George - seems to have found his stride and Ed is certainly not on great form.

Agree about Dave, but although it wasn't very clear, we were asking (or at least I was) as to who would get through in the top section, which contains Ed, George, Josh and Dan. With the results so far, there are going to be 3 out of 4 Brits in QR2 in this section and the other "interloper" is an American WC with WR 1677.

Hopefully Dave will get through as well.



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Saturday 26th of October 2013 11:23:30 PM

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Sorry, didn't read all the posts properly !



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 26th of October 2013 11:10:07 PM

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First set Shornley 6-4. Two breaks to one.

Dave's match starting soon



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DWH wrote:

First set Shornley 6-4. Two breaks to one.

Dave's match starting soon

Shornley?  Who he?  confuse



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Loving the name 'Shornley', actually.

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Stircrazy wrote:
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First set Shornley 6-4. Two breaks to one.

Dave's match starting soon

Shornley?  Who he?  confuse

 Hah! I meant Thornley. I guess I went to type Sean and then wrote his surname? I don't know... tired. haha. I kind of like it though. 



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Salmon wrote:

Loving the name 'Shornley', actually.

 smile Haha thanks. Unintentional nickname...



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Dave had a break, but was broken back:  4-4* in the first set... hmm



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First set goes to a tie-break, which Dave takes by 7-4.  smile  Keep up the good work, lad!



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