Dan serves up a 1st set breadstick.

Smethy certainly made light work of that matchup :)

Impressive wins for the two top-ranked Brits here, while Richard was unlucky (as a seed) to get last week's runner-up so early:

L16: (8) Richard Gabb WR 430 lost to Dimitar Kutrovsky (BUL) WR 451 (CH 312 in 2012) by 4 & 1
L16: (6) Dan Smethurst WR 305 beat Pavel Krainik (CAN) WR 641 (CH 624 in Dec) by 1 & 1
L16: (7) Ed Corrie WR 329 beat Torsten Wietoska (GER) WR 637 (CH 533 in Dec) by 3 & 1

QF: (6) Dan Smethurst WR 305 v (WC) Hugo di Feo (CAN) WR 951 (CH 950 in Feb)
QF: (7) Ed Corrie WR 329 v Eric Quigley (USA) WR 580 (CH 479 in Aug)

H2H for the 2nd match: 2-2, including a 7-4 final set tiebreak win for Ed in R1 last week, but Quigley is 2-0 in QFs ...

indiana wrote:

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Good stuff again from Dan and Ed !

Dan started off the week with 93 points for the year so far, so one more win required to crack the ton. This start on top of his 32 points from November's Challenger semi final.

He's even putting Ed's start to last year in the shade, though as said earlier Ed has been doing pretty well to defend the majority of his points from last year.

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I think it's a 'Dan' thing . ..

Dan Cox last year was faffing around at WR500 or so and then, in the space of two months, won everything under the sun, 10s, 15s, and suddenly zoomed up to WR250 or so. Then sat there quite happily for the next 6 months . . .

Dan Evans had a similar path - not much dash really poor. And then over a couple of months, bang, a ton of mega results - up 150 places. And now happily consolidating (hope the knee's OK).

And now Dan S is doing the same -  a pretty disappointing year, then a couple of glory months, nothing can go wrong, and the whole profile changes almost overnight.

COuld all other Dans note that they are welcome to join in - please don't hold back  

Dan and Ed are both first on court in their respective singles matches starting at 3pm UK time.

Ed wraps up that set VERY quickly 6-1

Dan got the break back. 3-3

Dan manages to get the first set, 33 points to 31 :)

Ed 3*-1 up and (touch wood) looking comfortable.