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The good news - all 3 Brits play unranked qualifying wild cards (2 of whom have never played on the ITF pro or junior circuits before) in their first matches ...

QR1: Lewis Burton WR 795 v (wc) Manuel Guinard (FRA) UNR

QR2: (q2) Dave Rice WR 287 v (wc) Loeiz Briand (FRA) UNR 
QR2: (q5) Marcus Willis WR 385 v (wc) Louis Fouilleux (FRA) UNR
QR2: Burton or Guinard v (q7) Dominic Meffert (GER) WR 391 (CH 161 in 2012)

The bad news - the winners of Marcus and Dave's matches will meet in the FQR doh



-- Edited by steven on Saturday 29th of March 2014 10:20:47 AM

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As these players have no ITF track record, just to give a bit of perspective . . .

In their domestic 2014 results sheet (which starts Nov 2013), they are as follows, in order:


Guinard - born 1995 - ranking -2/6 (pretty reasonable, about 3QR 10k level) - 36 matches, 17 wins, 3 'good' wins (to someone ranked higher). This could well be tricky for Lewis.

Loeiz - born 1996 - ranking 4/6 - (nowhere near 10k quali level, more like British Tour quali level) 22 defeats - 5 wins - (Dave, if you give him more than 2 games, there will be questions)

Fouilleux - born 1995 - ranking 5/6 - (even lower than Loeiz) - 7 mediocre victories, 9 pretty poor losses (Marcus, sweets and baby are the two words that come to mind).



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So if Marcus or Dave don't qualify there is something wrong. And would be good for Lewis to qualify prob 50/50 for him overall.

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Lewis lost the first set 6-1

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Certainly Dave or Marcus should be qualifying. I am afraid though I doubt it's anything like 50/50 with Lewis with the above and a potential FQR against possibly a top 4 qualifying seed or at least probably another player ranked higher than him. Be great if he overcame the odds though.

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Bloomin heck Lewis, I hadn't factored that first set ( or even really first match ) in.

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Lewis took the second set 7-5

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Lewis 3-0 up final set.

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can't see a completed score - did Lewis win? Assume he must have or the match would still be going on.

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Lewis won 6-1 in the third.

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QR1: Lewis Burton WR 795 beat (wc) Manuel Guinard (FRA) UNR by 1-6 7-5 6-1

QR2: Lewis Burton WR 795 v (q7) Dominic Meffert (GER) WR 391 (CH 161 in 2012)


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The main draw is now out and it isn't kind to the qualifiers, who are set to play top seed Mannarino, 3rd seed Berrer, 5th seed Gicquel or Kudryavtsev

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Looks like Burton really scraped through that match, saved 8/8 BP's in the second set

Marcus currently *4-3 up

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Off topic a bit but has anyone seen the Le Gosier qualifying draw?! Absolutely dreadful for a $100,000 challenger

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Result for burts did the dynamic Duo get in the doubles main draw 

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