Brilliant victory for jack Molloy over the third seed, 6-4 7-6(1)
*I've never seen Jack but I'm pretty sure someone mentioned him on this forum and rated him highly). Well done to him, the guy he beat is JWR 67, and CH 50 !!!
James Davies also won in three. But Louis Newman lost to the second seed.
James's opponent beat Ben in the final of a G4, but none of the R2 opponents has a particularly forbidding record
R2
(4) Alastair Gray v (LL) Sergey Ksenzov (RUS)
Ben Draper v (8) Sharobiddin Abzalov (UZB)
(6) Finn Bass v Ilgiz Valiev (RUS)
Amal Sultanbekov (UZB) v Jack Molloy
(7) Rudolfs Mednis (LAT) v James Davis
A profitable tournament with 4 British quarter-finalists and 2 semi-finalists to follow
R2
(4) Alastair Gray d. (LL) Sergey Ksenzov (RUS) 6-4 6-2 Ben Draper d. (8) Sharobiddin Abzalov (UZB) 6-4 6-2 (6) Finn Bass d. Ilgiz Valiev (RUS) 7-6(4) 6-2 Jack Molloy d. Amal Sultanbekov (UZB) 6-1 6-2 (7) Rudolfs Mednis (LAT) d. James Davis 6-4 6-2
QF
(4) Alastair Gray v Ben Draper (6) Finn Bass v Jack Molloy
Looks like Alastair and Ben had one royal battle....
QF
(4) Alastair Gray def. Ben Draper 6-7(8) 6-4 7-6(4)
(6) Finn Bass def. Jack Molloy 7-6(5) 6-1
In the doubles:
Quarterfinal
Ben DRAPER (GBR) / Jack MOLLOY (GBR) 7-5 6-3 Yeongseok JEONG (KOR) / Dhruv SUNISH (IND) [4]
James DAVIS (GBR) / Matthew SUMMERS (GBR) 6-1 7-5 Gustavs LUKSTINS (LAT) / Mikhail SOKOLOVSKIY (RUS)
Louis NEWMAN (GBR) / Kristjan TAMM (EST) 2-6 6-3 [15-13] Egor NOSKIN (RUS) / Alexey ZAKHAROV (RUS)
Semifinal
Sharobiddin ABZALOV (UZB) / Khumoun SULTANOV (UZB) [1] 6-4 7-5 Ben DRAPER (GBR) / Jack MOLLOY (GBR)
James DAVIS (GBR) / Matthew SUMMERS (GBR) 6-4 6-4 Louis NEWMAN (GBR) / Kristjan TAMM (EST)
Congrats to James and Matt, making the doubles final. Ben and Jack both played three matches today, which is not perfect.
Two tough semis in prospect against home players. Karimov is the Australian Open finalist who edged out Ryan en route to the Russian G1 title recently, whilst Sultanov beat Alastair en route to the G1 final in Thailand
SF
(1) Jurabek Karimov (UZB) v (4) Alastair Gray
(6) Finn Bass v (2) Khumoun Sultanov (UZB)
