If any wants to meet up for a chat will be there on weds -fri when hope to see Marcus & Lewis lift their 11 futures doubles  title on Friday . 

I wonder why the women are not playing Bournemouth this year. Bournemouth is one of the few tournaments within 60 miles of where I live, I got some good photographs there last year.

A very good question, Peter, without particularly wanting to again rake over the lack of opportunities given at 10K level in this country for our girls.

I have been at the Edinburgh event over several years and the standard in the women's tournament was dropping each year. To play 2 clay court tournaments in the calendar
Bournemouth and Edinburgh is a waste I think. Either they increase the number of tournaments on clay or scrap them as many players opt out of clay

Anyway, hardly seems to be the way to make our girls any better on clay, an important ( and good development ) surface in the game, to reduce / do away with such events for our women.

Don't worry, they can have a good swish on grass soon !

And more generally, after Gloucester gave many some decent competitive 10K opportunities ( if less successfuly than we would have hoped for ), some follow ups would have been welcome.

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You sum up one of the problems around our failure to develop world-class players. Far easier to bash a ball around on hard courts spraying errors everywhere than develop consistency and resilience on clay. We need more tournaments on clay, not fewer.

Full QR2 round-up and the FQR line-up, including a couple of early results - Mark Whitehouse has done well to qualify, beating a player ranked over 750 places above him

QR2: (q1) Lewis Burton WR 804 beat Samuel Edwards by 1 & 2
QR2: Jake Horton beat James Ryan by 3 & 1
QR2: (q2) Myles Orton WR 1160 beat Philip Sikman by 3 & 3
QR2: Paul Midgley lost to (q3) Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA) WR 1162 by 6-1 7-6(4)
QR2: (q11) Nicholas Jones WR 1828 beat Piers Farhang by 6-4 2-6 7-5
QR2: David Addawoo lost to (q4) Jannis Liniger (SUI) WR 1265 by 0 & 0
QR2: (q12) Mark Whitehouse WR 2027 beat Christopher Morrow by 1 & 3
QR2: Curtis Clarke lost to (q5) Jake Eames (AUS) WR 1288 by 1 & 2
QR2: (q14) Ryan Peniston WR 2083 lost to Patrick Eichenberger (SUI) by 6-0 3-0 ret.
QR2: (q6) Adam Thornton-Brown WR 1366 beat Sam Bayda by 5 & 2
QR2: George Davies beat (q13) Aaron Banasik WR 2083 by 3-6 6-1 6-1
QR2: (q7) Keelan Oakley WR 1546 beat Raphaël Stucker (SUI) by 1 & 4
QR2: (q9) Tom Allen WR 1678 beat Karl Grossey by 2-6 7-5 6-0
QR2: (q8) Bruce Strachan WR 1655 beat Edward Taylor by 1 & 1
QR2: (q10) Peter Ashley WR 1706 lost to Peter Bothwell (IRL) by 2 & 1

FQR: (q1) Lewis Burton WR 804 v Jake Horton UNR
FQR: (q2) Myles Orton WR 1160 v (q15) Pavel Nejedly (CZE) WR 2163
FQR: (q11) Nicholas Jones WR 1828 lost to (q3) Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA) WR 1162 by 2 & 2
FQR: (q12) Mark Whitehouse WR 2027 beat (q4) Jannis Liniger (SUI) WR 1265 by 1 & 2
FQR: (q6) Adam Thornton-Brown WR 1366 v George Davies UNR
FQR: (q7) Keelan Oakley WR 1546 v (q9) Tom Allen WR 1678
FQR: (q8) Bruce Strachan WR 1655 v Peter Bothwell (IRL) UNR