Harry wins 7-6 retired

Nice to see Harry picking up more points even it if is by default(he was winning at the time). He needs to break into the top 1000, which he should be close to and then more doors should open i.e direct entries, seeded qualifiers.

Alex took the first set 6-2 against Cam and is currently 1-1 in the second set.

L32: Neil Pauffley WR 548 beat (Q) Nikolaos Kokkotas (GRE) WR 2205 (CH 1556 last Jun) by 3 & 3
L32: (Q) Harry Meehan WR 1066 beat Torsten Wietoska (GER) WR 649 (533 in Dec) by 7-6(3) ret.
L32: (5) Alex Ward WR 416 beat Cameron Norrie WR 797 by 2 & 4

L16: Neil Pauffley WR 548 v (1) Adrian Sikora (SVK) WR 293 (CH 275 in Feb) *
L16: (Q) Harry Meehan WR 1066 v (3) Carlos Gómez-Herrera (ESP) WR 367 (CH 328 in Sep)
L16: (5) Alex Ward WR 416 v (Q) Adam Chadaj (POL) WR 1460 (CH 202 in 2005)

* H2H 1-0 - Neil beat Sikora 5-7 6-2 6-0 in the Hambach Futures Final last October

Neil went a break up at the start of the 2nd set but Sikora broke back. However, that is hardly surprising as we have had 8 breaks of serve in 11 games so far. Neil has only held serve once in six attempts.

He currently leads 2-1*

Harry lost the 1st set 6-4

Harry lost 6-4 6-4, but a pretty good effort against the Nº3 seed.

Neil is *4-4

Alex has just opened with a hold to love 1-0*

Alex has the first set 6-1

Good efforts from Harry (in particular) and Neil, but no joy - amazed to see how often the top 300 player got broken, or faced break points, though - his serve is probably the despair of the Slovakian Tennis Forum :)