4 out of 5 today (all the seeded Brits went through) but 3 of them face an ex-top 200 player, an ex-top 40 junior and an ex-top 100 junior in QR3 of 4.

QR2: (q3) Alex Sendegeya WR 1399 beat Lance Cohen (RSA) UNR (CH 1784 in Jan) by 6-1 1-6 6-3
QR2: (q9) Christopher Helliar WR 1705 beat Joel Vincent Link (GER) UNR by 2 & 4
QR2: Calum McKinlay UNR lost to Ognjen Samardzic (USA) UNR by 2 & 3
QR2: (q6) Sebastian Rey WR 1550 beat Philipp Ziersch (SUI) UNR by 0 & 0
QR2: (q8) James Chaudry WR 1705 beat Robert Shulman (CAN) UNR by 3 & 3

QR3: (q3) Alex Sendegeya WR 1399 v Hayes Brewer (USA) UNR
QR3: (q9) Christopher Helliar WR 1705 v Julian Zlobinsky (USA) UNR (18yo former top 100 junior)
QR3: (q6) Sebastian Rey WR 1550 v Sora Fukuda (JPN) UNR (17yo junior WR 60 / JCH 40 last month)
QR3: (q8) James Chaudry WR 1705 v Ryler Deheart (USA) UNR (30yo CH 174 in 2010)

FQR: (q9) Christopher Helliar WR 1705 beat (q3) Alex Sendegeya WR 1399 by 6-2 1-6 6-3
FQR: (q8) James Chaudry WR 1705 beat Brian Battistone (USA) UNR (35yo CH 853 in 2009) by 6-2 5-7 6-1

Switching to new rankings for the main draw - a lot of WR 1706s but there are 128 players ranked 1706=! (= 1 point, 1 main draw appearance)

L32: (Q) James Chaudry WR 1706 v (Q) Stjepan Sisko (CRO) WR 1706 (CH 1702 last month)
L32: (Q) Christopher Helliar WR 1706 v Mico Santiago (USA) WR 846 (CH 795 in 2013)

OK R1 draws but the winners will get the 1st and 2nd seeds or their conquerors in R2 respectively.

The top seed has withdrawn and Santiago has moved into his place. No replacement is shown in the draw yet but the lucky loser priority list at assets.usta.com/assets/1/15/alternates_lucky_losers395.PDF (which also shows Alex 3rd in line) suggests this will be his R1 match unless someone else withdraws before the LL sign-in deadline today or Blanco has already gone home:

L32: (Q) Christopher Helliar WR 1706 v (LL) Randy Blanco (CUB) WR 1834 (CH 1740 in Sep)

steven wrote:

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The top seed has withdrawn and Santiago has moved into his place. No replacement is shown in the draw yet but the lucky loser priority list at assets.usta.com/assets/1/15/alternates_lucky_losers395.PDF (which also shows Alex 3rd in line) suggests this will be his R1 match unless someone else withdraws before the LL sign-in deadline today or Blanco has already gone home:

L32: (Q) Christopher Helliar WR 1706 v (LL) Randy Blanco (CUB) WR 1834 (CH 1740 in Sep)

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Apparently Blanco didn't sign in for a lucky loser place after all, so:

L32: (Q) Christopher Helliar WR 1706 v (LL) Gary Kushnirovich (USA) WR 1706 (CH 1702 last month)

So now all four players in the two GB R1 matches are ranked 1706

 

Well, we won the 'battle of the 1706s' very convincingly :)

L16: (Q) James Chaudry WR 1706 v Tommy Paul (USA) WR 1122 (= CH; 17yo junior WR 116)
L16: (Q) Christopher Helliar WR 1706 v (WC) Wil Spencer (USA) UNR

Spencer has never had an ATP ranking but had a junior career high of 64 back in 2006 and he upset the 2nd seed in R1 here.