Looking at the draw sadly our strongest hopes are all in two sections together. I suppose the flip side being we should have at least one and possibly 2 qualifiers.
Top section of the draw has just opened up dramaticaly as the Nº1 seed hands a W/O to his opponent. Wonder if that means there has been a withdrawal from the MD and he has been bumped up. Sadly though, there are no Brits left in that section.
Top section of the draw has just opened up dramaticaly as the Nº1 seed hands a W/O to his opponent. Wonder if that means there has been a withdrawal from the MD and he has been bumped up. Sadly though, there are no Brits left in that section.
Was just about to post "Bradley "Jammy" Mousley: gets a walkover against the q1, Adrián Menéndez !" & comment on the opening-up of the draw, but I see you beat me to it, Bob.
QR1: Purav Raja (IND) WR 1403 defeated (qWC) Matthew Chadwick UNR by 4 & 2
QR1: Luke Bambridge WR 515 defeated Joe Salisbury WR 667 by 7-6(2) 6-1
QR1: Dan Smethurst WR 496 defeated (qWC) Ross Watson UNR by 6-0 7-6(1)
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QR2: Ed Corrie WR 402 vs (q7) Josh Milton WR 376
QR2: (qWC) Josh Sapwell UNR vs (q3) Hiroki Moriya (JPN) WR 218 (CH = 143 in January last year)
QR2: (q4) Matthew Barton (AUS) WR 263 (CH = 201 in April 2013) vs Luke Bambridge WR 515 QR2: Dan Smethurst WR 496 vs (q8) Adrien Bossel (SUI) WR 383 (CH = 262 last August)
Top section of the draw has just opened up dramaticaly as the Nº1 seed hands a W/O to his opponent. Wonder if that means there has been a withdrawal from the MD and he has been bumped up. Sadly though, there are no Brits left in that section.
Was just about to post "Bradley "Jammy" Mousley: gets a walkover against the q1, Adrián Menéndez !" & comment on the opening-up of the draw, but I see you beat me to it, Bob.
I am willing to grant Mousley a bit of luck given that he lost 12 months of his career at the age of 18 when he tested positive for ecstasy. Yes it was a stupid thing for a would be tennis professional to do but kids do stupid stuff and the punishment was needlessly excessive.