QR1: Curtis Clarke def. FIGUEIREDO, Bruno (MOZ) UNR age 36 6-0 6-2
QR1: Jay Clarke v TROLLIP, Reinhardt (RSA) UNR 7-6(4) 6-0
Worth noting that the guy that Curtis came within a whisker of beating last week, has gone on and beaten the top seed and made the final. So I'm hoping fro a good run from Curtis.
FQR: Jay Clarke v Luis Crocco (ARG) UNR age 17
FQR: Curtis Clarke v Carlos Capel (ESP) UNR (CH 1894 Jan 14)
Bushamuka intrigued me, too, SC, so I Googled a bit. I think, trying to put together the disparate bits of information, that he is from the DRC ... trained for a while at the ITF centre in Senegal (did others know that the ITF had a centre in Senegal? I certainly didn't) ... and then came to the US, where he appears to have found sponsors who helped him market himself to US universities. He's now playing for the University of Kentucky, I think. Bios put together in this fashion are distinctly dodgy, so I don't know how accurate any of that is, but one can see where confusion amongst the various bodies could arise.
Does look as if there's a strategy of trying to get promising young players from sub-Saharan Africa to the US for university - interesting.
-- Edited by Spectator on Monday 8th of June 2015 11:56:26 AM