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L32: Ed Corrie WR 329 v (6) Andreas Beck (GER) WR 188 (CH 33 in 2009)
L32: Dan Cox WR 250 v (PR) Izak van der Merwe (RSA) UNR (CH 113 in 2011)
L32: Dan Smethurst WR 305 v (WC) Richard Gabb WR 430 - H2H 2-0, including last week's SF

The last two matches are both in the bottom quarter of the draw. Izak has only recently come back from an injury sustained in R1 here last year - at least, I'm assuming that based on the fact that he retired from his R1 match last year and was out for 11 months afterwards.



-- Edited by steven on Saturday 15th of March 2014 06:17:59 PM

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Any theories as to why Ricardo Gabb has been given a WC?

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Presumably they've invoked Wimbledon's "all our other players are rubbish so we'll give the remaining wild card to the next direct acceptance" policy ...

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To be fair as the sole two Canadians in qualifying won three games between them, that doesn't seem an unreasonable conclusion to come to.



-- Edited by wolf on Saturday 15th of March 2014 10:36:43 PM

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If smethy and Coxy meet, smethy has to be the favourite! Also looks like Corrie needed the futures final more than smethy based on this draw! Points being shared round nicely by the Brits!

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Last week's Futures doubles champs are now having a crack at Challenger doubles & must be in with a chance of making at least the quarters, where they'd almost certainly face the Aussie top seeds, Sam Groth & the Gooch ( bleh ).  Doubt the same can be said about Dan Cox's chances alongside his Slovak playing partner...

R1:  Hiroki Moriya & Yuichi Sugita (JPN/JPN) CR 995 (340+655) vs Ed Corrie & Dan Smethurst CR 547 (297+250)
R1:  Dan Cox & Adrian Sikora (SVK) CR 1999 (1500+499) vs Rajeev Ram & Bobby Reynolds (USA/USA) CR 419 (89+330) bleh



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Dan gets the break in the first game :)

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Stream here: new.livestream.com/ATP/Rimouski2014CentreCourt

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Jaffa wrote:

Stream here: new.livestream.com/ATP/Rimouski2014CentreCourt

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Dan gets a second break :)

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Man, CD! Haha. First time I've watched Cox play, got to say I am a bit sceptical about his serve but his return game is very good.



-- Edited by Jaffa on Monday 17th of March 2014 02:45:05 PM

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Dan takes the first 63.

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Dan couldn't serve the set out but breaks again instead. 6-3 to Cox.

Yep, Jaffa, know what you mean - there's not much on the serve (the guy's only about 5 ft 7 at best, not easy). He doesn't really have major weapons. But very terrier-like, fit, scraps well, uses his top spin quite nicely . . .

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IVDM looks injured - he's not really pushing off when he serves. Of course, the twinge may also be becasue he's losing . .. .

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Nice start - a set and a break up.

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