Generally a good day, including a win for Paul over the second seed (who had a similar beatdown from James Davis last week), though we did lose one of last week's finalists Aidan McHugh
Boys R1 (L32)
(6) Damian Rodriguez d. Armin Rostami (IRI) 6-0 6-3
Matthew Johnson (RSA) d. (4) Aidan McHugh 7-6(4) 7-6(5)
(8) Ewen Lumsden d. (WC) Rayyan Aljufairi (QAT) 6-0 6-0
Aaron Schmid (GER) d. Karim Najia 6-4 7-5
(3) Joe Tyler d. Youssef Hamido Nour Eldeen (EGY) 6-3 6-0
(5) Will Davies v Kaloyan Dimitrov (BUL) 6-1 6-2
Paul Jubb d. (2) Nikshep Ballekere Ravikumar (IND) 6-3 6-0
Boys R2
(Q) Martim Leote Prata (POR) v (6) Damian Rodriguez
(Q) Louis Herman (BEL) v (8) Ewen Lumsden
TBD v (3) Joe Tyler
(5) Will Davies v (LL) Alessio De Bernardis (ITA)
James Roelofse (RSA) v Paul Jubb
(6) Damian Rodriguez d. (Q) Martim Leote Prata (POR) 6-3 6-4
(8) Ewen Lumsden d. (Q) Louis Herman (BEL) 6-4 6-2
(3) Joe Tyler d. (Q) Riccardo Di Nocera (ITA) 6-3 6-2
(LL) Alessio De Bernardis (ITA) d. (5) Will Davies 6-4 7-5
Paul Jubb d. James Roelofse (RSA) 7-5 7-5
QF
(1) Cagatay Sami Soke (TUR) v (6) Damian Rodriguez
Matthew Johnson (RSA) v (8) Ewen Lumsden
Aaron Schmid (SUI) v (3) Joe Tyler
(LL) Alessio De Bernardis (ITA) v Paul Jubb
If the ITF has the correct results today we have a guaranteed finalist in the boys event but Joe suffers his first singles defeat of 2016
Boys QF
(6) Damian Rodriguez d. (1) Cagatay Sami Soke (TUR) 6-4 6-3 (8) Ewen Lumsden d. Matthew Johnson (RSA) 6-2 6-2 Aaron Schmid (SUI) d. (3) Joe Tyler 6-4 4-6 6-4 Paul Jubb d. (5) Will Davies 6-2 5-7 6-1
SF
(6) Damian Rodriguez v (8) Ewen Lumsden Aaron Schmid (SUI) v Paul Jubb
Assuming the ITF is right for once, I'm really thrilled for Damian.
As said, I saw him a month ago at Sutton and he's definitely a tennis player to watch - it's interesting, it's often the players who lose who impress you more than those who win, there were three players in particular that day that I thought really stood out from the crowd - and all three of them lost. Which, as the French detection teams always say, is utterly irrelevant: a match is just a match but a player is whole story in the making.