Evo picks his moment to strike, breaking at 4-4 and now serving for the match *5-4
Smethurst also turned the set around and now leads with a break *4-3
Broom couldn't quite make it through in the end, losing out 7-6(3) in a 3rd set tie-break
Looks like a fairly epic match, Broom only won 4 points fewer out of 249 (!) but only managed to take 2 of 16 break point opportunities
Gutted for Charlie, whom I met in La Manga earlier this year when he was over in Spain training with Leon and Mark Hilts. Would have been great to see him pick up his first ranking point today, but seems like a terrific performance anyway. Hope he can take plenty of positives from today and move forward. That ranking point will come.
Gutted for Charlie, whom I met in La Manga earlier this year when he was over in Spain training with Leon and Mark Hilts. Would have been great to see him pick up his first ranking point today, but seems like a terrific performance anyway. Hope he can take plenty of positives from today and move forward. That ranking point will come.
I honestly have so much respect for the young pros who travel week after week hunting for scraps of points. It must take quite a toll mentally as well as physically, so a lot of strength required to keep turning up and giving your all for such measly rewards
L32: Lloyd Glasspool UNR defeated (3) Peter Kobelt (USA) WR 524 by 6-7(5) 6-4 6-4 L32: Aaron Cortés (ESP) WR 1023 defeated (WC) Charles Broom UNR by 5-7 6-2 7-6(3) - Charles was leading by a break in the early stages of the decider
L32: Peter Bothwell (IRL) WR 1158 defeated Bruce Strachan WR 1230 by 2 & 4 L32: (5) Mick Lescure (FRA) WR 652 (CH = 544 last month) defeated Adam Skalsky WR 1318 (CH = 1297 in November last year) by 3 & 4
L32: (7) Tom Farquharson WR 630 defeated (WC) Sam Bothwell (IRL) UNR by 3 & 1
L32: (Q) Sizya Ernest Kivanda UNR defeated (Q) Michael-Ray Pallares (DOM) UNR by 6-3 7-6(2) L32: (4) Dan Smethurst WR 473 defeated (WC) Simon Carr (IRL) UNR by 2 & 3
L32: (6) Dan Evans WR 491 defeated (WC) Osgar O'Hoisin (IRL) UNR by 1 & 4 L32: Alex Jhun WR 1156 defeated (Q) Mark Oljaca (USA) UNR by 2 & 4
L32: Julian Cash UNR defeated Cristian Carli (ITA) WR 972 by 4-6 7-6(5) 6-1 L32: (2) Sam Barry (IRL) WR 419 (CH = 286 in September last year) defeated (Q) Howard Scott UNR by 2 & 1
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L16: Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA) WR 987 (CH = 687 in September 2012) vs Jamie Whiteford WR 1876
L16: Lloyd Glasspool UNR vs Aaron Cortés (ESP) WR 1023
L16: (7) Tom Farquharson WR 630 vs (Q) Marco di Maro (ITA) UNR L16: (Q) Sizya Ernest Kivanda UNR vs (4) Dan Smethurst WR 473
L16: (6) Dan Evans WR 491 vs Alex Jhun WR 1156 L16: Julian Cash UNR vs (2) Sam Barry (IRL) WR 419
R1: Charles Broom & Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA) UNR defeated Miguel Romanello & André Romanello (ITA/BRA) UNR by 0 & 1 R1: Peter Bothwell (IRL) & Lloyd Glasspool UNR defeated (4) Joe Cooper & Michael-Ray Pallares (DOM) CR 2915 (1241+1674) by 4-6 6-3 [11-9]