Josh took the 1st set on a breaker 7-2, while Mark W is fighting back in his match as. He lost the 1st set but is 4-1* up in the 2nd.

L32:  Tobias Dankl (GER) WR 1213 defeated (Q) Imran Aswat WR 1533 by 2 & 3

L32:  Issam Haitham Taweel (EGY) WR 774 defeated (Q) Oliver Hudson WR 1331 by 6=3 3-6 6-0

L32:  (5) Baris Ergüden (TUR) WR 654 defeated (WC) Mehdi Naqvi UNR by 1 & 1

L32:  (Q) Nino Portales (FRA) WR 1472  defeated Mark Whitehouse WR 1052 by 6-3 3-6 7-5

L32:  (Q)  Joel Cannell WR 1870 defeated Alex Jhun WR 1116 by 7-6(2) 6-1

L32:  (2) Josh Milton WR 324 defeated Tomas Papik (CZE) WR 1115 by 7-6(2) 6-3

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L16:  (Q)  Joel Cannell WR 1870 vs (2) Josh Milton WR 324

I like the look of Joel Cannell - a decent few weeks in Egypt has given him his first couple of ranking points, and although I don't expect him to beat Josh, at 17 years old he seems to be performing with good consistency - with a record of 13-5 in Men's tennis this year, even though it's predominantly Futures Qs, it's still not to be sniffed at.

That time at the Justine Henin Academy seems to be paying off...

Milts underway

Slightly strange that Josh has gone out to Egypt just for one week?

He needs to make the semis in order to get any positive points.

Maybe a bit of sun? Appearance money ? or just why not ?

Jaggy1876 wrote:

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Just why not I say fairly good chance of 18 points easy to get to well run tournament and cheap as well. A warm up for the challengers he has in September after next weeks 15k at home

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yeah, you may well be right. why not?

He's got 16 points coming off in September (although has some 2 point counters in hand to limit the damage).

I think it's also the first year that he's actually made a little bit of money (not net profit, almost certainly, but maybe just about breaking even, given what most players reckon on. Presumably that's given him a little (stress 'little') bit more cushion than normal to pursue his tournament path.