Rahul Dhokia took the final qualifying spot.

In R1, only JWH received a bye. Notable results so far (three matches to come in) include Clemson University Senior Luke Johnson taking out (6) Harry Skinner, Florida University Junior Jack Findel-Hawkins taking David Parry apart by a bagel and a breadstick, while all the other seeds are through. Jonathan Gray is also already in the QF after his opponent Louis Newman gave him a w/o.

In R2, the tastiest tie looks to be Findel-Hawkins vs Marcus Walters.

-- Edited by BradMarx90 on Tuesday 29th of December 2015 09:10:13 PM

Premier event in Loughborough gets a great entry list, as always at Loughborough.

Taking part are Marcus Willis, Marzi, JWH, Bambo, the Mr. Binding who beat Evo, Billy harris, Keelan, Recci, Strachan, Stoute, my mate Tiran (), and tons more good players .......

Matt Short, Joel Cannell and Jonny O'Mara (and Clay Crawford) have also turned up as wildcards.....

QF line up looking more like a futures event.

Bambridge v Crawford/Oakley
O'Mara v Harris
JWH v Cannell
Broom v Pauffley

Congrats to Charlie Broom for getting into such exalted company. Mind you, he has won by retirement in both rounds so far against Recci (4-1 ret) and Jhun (3-0 ret). But after a final qualifying humdinger at 7-6(8) 5-7 7-6(8), he has earned a bit of luck.

In the quarters, Bambo only just managed to squeeze past Clay, 6-4 in the third.

Jonny O got a w/o against Billy

JWH beat Joel 4&4

and Neil beat Charlie easily


In the semis, Luke def. Jonny 7-5 6-3

and JWH def. Neil 6-4 7-6(4)

Coup Droit wrote:

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Well, you can't get a tighter score than that ..... but this week it's Josh who gets the big cheque and trophy:


Joshua Ward-Hibbert [8/1072] def. Luke Bambridge [1/507] 7-6(4) 6-7(4) 6-4

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Just wish Josh could carry this form into the Futures events.  He has a real talent and in terms of all of our "younger" players, for me, he is the most naturally gifted athlete we have.  Mind you, it is easy to forget sometimes, that he is still only 21.  Time is still on his side.

My little friend Tiran is through to the quarters.

As are JWH, Chris Anguelov, Rob Carter and Marcus Walters.

Also, beating seeded players, through are Harry Skinner (beating Samuel Ferguson), Robert Leck (beating second seed, George Davies), and Jamie Prad (beating Mason Recci).