Josh Ward-Hibbert and James Marsalek should be in the main draw here.
QR1: Christopher Reynolds UNR v (wc) Levar Harper-Griffith (USA) UNR (33yo CH 224 (!) in 2001) QR1: George Davies UNR v (q3) Francesco Vilardo (ITA) WR 1174 (CH 798 in 2012) QR1: (q10) Evan Hoyt WR 1581 v Antoine Leduc (CAN) UNR QR1: (q12) Andrew Bettles WR 1698 v Krystof Janosik (CZE) UNR
The winners of the 2nd and 3rd matches above will meet in the FQR
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!
Andy's the only Brit to qualify, apparently with ease:
FQR: (q12) Andrew Bettles WR 1698 defeated (q8) Vasko Mladenov (BUL) WR 1475 by 1 & 3
A good win but perhaps not a big surprise - in fact, with today's (er, yesterday's) 588 place rise as his SF points from two weeks ago were added, he is now ranked ahead of Mladenov and is the second Brit in 2 weeks (after James Chaudry last week) to finally take out a singles career high that was set way back in 2010 (pre-college in both cases, presumably)
L32: Josh Ward Hibbert WR 755 v Pavel Staubert (CZE) WR 1044 (CH 945 last month; 18yo ex-top 40 junior) L32: James Marsalek WR 945 v Pablo Vivero González (ESP) WR 742 (CH 735 last month) L32: (Q) Andrew Bettles WR 1110 v (WC) Mohamed Hassan (ALG) WR 2081 (CH 2050 in Jun)
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!
As for Andy B, if he can get passed the WC in round 1, his likely R2 opponent will be a certain Yannick Jankovits, who he hasn't played against since .... um .... last week, and .... um .... the week before. He will be sick of the sight of him. Third time lucky ?