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Qualies positively stuffed with Brits, some of them unheard of by me:

QR1:  Harry Skinner UNR (CH = 1456 in November 2007 - he's 27 & was born in Cape Town) defeated Samuel Hodor (SVK) UNR by 4 & 2

QR1:  Drew van Orderlain (USA) UNR vs Nicholas Nugent UNR

QR1:  Nicholas Jones UNR vs Dani Andrés Rodrigues (VEN) UNR
QR1:  (q14) Piers Farhang WR 2007 (CH = 1870 last August) defeated Mert Çelik (TUR) UNR

QR1:  (q4) Robbie Ridout WR 1041 (CH = 973 last September) vs BYE

QR1:  (qWC) Omer Berk Gorgun (TUR) UNR vs (q12) Imran Aswat WR 1549 (CH - 1038 in June 2014)

QR1:  (qWC/q8) Joel Cannell WR 1242 (CH = 1226 last November) vs Andelko Blagojevic (SUI) UNR

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QR2:  (qWC/q1) Tomislav Brkic (BIH) WR 295 (CH = 212 in October 2014 furious ) vs Harry Skinner UNR

QR2:  Nicholas Jones UNR or Dani Andrés Rodrigues (VEN) UNR vs (q14) Piers Farhang WR 2007

QR2:  (q4) Robbie Ridout WR 1041 vs Vincentiu Andrei Niculescu (ROU) UNR



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Respect, SC

Starting that thread was a daunting task.....

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I was talking to Harry Skinner amongst others when I was in Portugal recently. Harry Meehan was there too and we were discussing how much easier it was to get on the rankings now than say, 10 years ago. The blame was put very much on the shoulders of places like Sharm and Antalya for putting on their 52 futures per year and if you entered enough of them, you would soon get a lucky draw, a retirement or a couple of local WCs and "hey presto" you have a ranking.

Harry S was saying that when he got his first ranking point, he came "straight into the charts" at around the 1400s mark with just that one solitary point. Now there are nearer 2250 players on the rankings. Harry M was of the opinion that the Men should adopt a similar system to the Women where you need a certain number of points or you have to win a minimum 3 MD matches before you get a ranking. Where we were in Portugal, there were players ranked in the 700s still playing qualies, and the consensus was that "this is the way it should be".

Anyway, good luck to them all this week. I know Beechy is out there with Joel again so I am hoping for some decent results.

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Having said all that, it appears that the top seed in Qualies here, is yet another "ringer" ranked at WR 295 (it shouldn't be allowed furious) and the next two seeds are also inside the top 500.  No idea how the MD looks as the entry list doesn't appear on the ITF site.



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Sunday 20th of March 2016 04:03:53 PM

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Full round-up:QR1:  Harry Skinner UNR defeated Samuel Hodor (SVK) UNR by 4 & 2

QR1:  Drew van Orderlain (USA) UNR defeated Nicholas Nugent UNR by 6-7(5) 6-3 6-3

Close! cry

QR1:  Nicholas Jones UNR defeated Dani Andrés Rodrigues (VEN) UNR by 2 & 4
QR1:  (q14) Piers Farhang WR 2007 defeated Mert Çelik (TUR) UNR

QR1:  (q4) Robbie Ridout WR 1041 vs BYE

QR1:  (q12) Imran Aswat WR 1549 defeated (qWC) Omer Berk Gorgun (TUR) UNR by 0 & 0

QR1:  (qWC/q8) Joel Cannell WR 1242 defeated Andelko Blagojevic (SUI) UNR by 1 & 1

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QR2:  (qWC/q1) Tomislav Brkic (BIH) WR 295 defeated Harry Skinner UNR by 0 & 4

QR2:  (q14) Piers Farhang WR 2007 defeated Nicholas Jones UNR by 7-6(5) 6-4

QR2:  (q4) Robbie Ridout WR 1041 defeated Vincentiu Andrei Niculescu (ROU) UNR by 2 & 1

QR2:  (q12) Imran Aswat WR 1549 defeated Yidit Hüseyin Baltacy (TUR) by 1 & 0

QR2:  (qWC/q8) Joel Cannell WR 1242 defeated Christian Braun (GER) UNR by 1 & 0

*****

FQR:  (q3) Alexander Lazov (BUL) WR 434 (CH = 324 last June) vs (q14) Piers Farhang WR 2007

FQR:  (q4) Robbie Ridout WR 1041 vs (q9) Bogdan Bobrov (RUS) WR 1295 (CH = 986 last August)

FQR:  (qWC/q7) Jordi Muñoz (VEN) WR 1204 (CH = 659 in Octoner 2014) vs (q12) Imran Aswat WR 1549

FQR:  (qWC/q8) Joel Cannell WR 1242 vs Peter Balla (HUN) UNR



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Bob in Spain wrote:
[...] it appears that the top seed in Qualies here, is yet another "ringer" ranked at WR 295 (it shouldn't be allowed furious)

Noted above, Bob - & the bugger beat Harry! furious 



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Only Joel survived! cry

FQR:  (q3) Alexander Lazov (BUL) WR 434 defeated (q14) Piers Farhang WR 2007 by 6-1 7-6(5)

FQR:  (q9) Bogdan Bobrov (RUS) WR 1295 defeated (q4) Robbie Ridout WR 1041 by 6-7(6) 6-1 7-5  bleh

FQR:  (qWC/q7) Jordi Muñoz (VEN) WR 1204 defeated (q12) Imran Aswat WR 1549 by 5 & 4

FQR:  (qWC/q8) Joel Cannell WR 1242 defeated Peter Balla (HUN) UNR by 2 & 4

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L32:  (Q) Joel Cannell WR 1242 vs (Q/6) Kirill Dmitriev (RUS) WR 387 (CH = 363 last October furious )



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R1:  Imran Aswat & Robbie Ridout UNR (0+1254) vs Filip Horansky & Mike Urbanija (SVK/SLO) UNR (765+0)

R1:  (WC) Piers Farhang & Peter Lang (SUI) UNR vs (WC) Tinotenda Chanakira & Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM/ZIM) UNR



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Joel finding it tough going against his seeded and Top 400 opponent. Lost the first set and is now down *0-4 in the 2nd.

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Decent fight in the end from Joel but it wasn't quite enough. He pulled it back from 0-5* to 4-5* but his higher ranked opponent held on to win 6-3 6-4

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R1:  (WC) Tinotenda Chanakira & Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM/ZIM) UNR defeated (WC) Piers Farhang & Peter Lang (SUI) UNR by 2 & 0



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R1:  Filip Horansky & Mike Urbanija (SVK/SLO) UNR (765+0) defeated Imran Aswat & Robbie Ridout UNR (0+1254) by 4 & 1



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I thought this thread was complete. But ...........

L32: (LL) Robbie Ridout WR 1077 v (LL) Anatoliy Petrenko (UKR) WR 1718 (CH 1628 Oct 2015)

Robbie is up a break at *4-3 in the opening set in the battle of the Lucky Losers.

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He's just won the 1st set 6-4

You don't get LL v LL matches very often.

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Level at one set all. Into the decider.

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Bob in Spain wrote:

I thought this thread was complete. But ...........

L32: (LL) Robbie Ridout WR 1077 v (LL) Anatoliy Petrenko (UKR) WR 1718 (CH 1628 Oct 2015)

Robbie is up a break at *4-3 in the opening set in the battle of the Lucky Losers.

 

Well spotted. Bob smile

And worthwhile too - as Robbie ends up the winner, 6-4, in the third set !



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