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QR1:  Jamie Malik UNR vs Ryan Ybarra (USA) UNR

Luke Bambridge should be in the main draw.



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QR1: Jamie Malik UNR defeated Ryan Ybarra (USA) UNR by 6-3 5-7 6-4

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QR2:  Evgeny Korolev (KAZ) WR 1499 (CH = 46 in February 2010 - he's 28!  furious ) vs Jamie Malik UNR



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QR2: Evgeny Korolev (KAZ) WR 1499 defeated Jamie Malik UNR by 4 & 2



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What on earth is Evgeny Korolev doing in the qualies of a Houston Futures?!!! That's crazy. Really pity for Jamie Malik - and not a bad showing at all.

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Spectator wrote:

What on earth is Evgeny Korolev doing in the qualies of a Houston Futures?!!! That's crazy. Really pity for Jamie Malik - and not a bad showing at all.

Good question, Spectator, & precisely why I added the furious when I posted the "match-up"! disbelief



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That's his current level, tennis is a tough bussiness. His elbow injury in 2010 has meant he hasn't really got anywhere near his CH indeed since last September he hasn't really progressed out of the first round of futures. He has spent most weekends since trying to qualify I don't think you can be too critical.

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Oakland2002 wrote:

That's his current level, tennis is a tough bussiness. His elbow injury in 2010 has meant he hasn't really got anywhere near his CH indeed since last September he hasn't really progressed out of the first round of futures. He has spent most weekends since trying to qualify I don't think you can be too critical.

 

Yes. If someone's actual ranking is WR 1500 then that's their ranking, their level, and they don't have much choice but to play qualis.

It's nothing like the WR 250 guy who suddenly turns up at a 10k ITF event and gets a wildcard into qualis when he's already better ranked that the top guy in the main draw....



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R1: (wc) Tommy Bennett (GBR) UNR (CH 1722 in '13) v Juan Manuel BENITEZ CHAVARRIAGA (COL) WR 801

R1: (6) Luke Bambridge (GBR) WR 540 v Wil Spencer (USA) WR 723 (CH 478 a year ago)

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R1:  Andrew Carter & Winston Lin (USA/USA) CR 2621 (1283+1338) vs (WC) Tommy Bennett & Eric Rutledge (USA) UNR
R1:  Hunter ( rolleyes.gif ) Johnson & Yates ( rolleyes.gif ) Johnson (USA/USA) CR 1459 (730+729) vs (2) Luke Bambridge & Nick Chappell (unbelievable!  A Yank, albeit one born in Canada, with a normal name!) (USA) CR 776 (267+509)



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Sorry - didn't mean that as critical of Korolev - clearly, if that's where you are, that's where you are, and you have to play to it. But if I were playing qualies of a 25K and saw that he was my opposition, I'd be quite unhappy, not in the sense that it's wrong of him, but because class like that is likely to start expressing itself at some point and is not quite what a just-starting-out player would quite expect under the circumstances!

From Korolev's point of view, I hadn't realised how rough a time he has had. And I admire his tenacity: it must not be easy to be grinding out futures qualies when you're someone who used to be competing with (and beating) people like Berdych, Santoro and Safin.

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It's a brutal business without exception all these guys in the top 500 have enormous talent, It is a great shame that tennis isn't a more popular spectator sport and more people get to see it, a significant injury can undo years of dedication and snuff that talent out in an instant.

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Korolev actually went on to qualify!



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Luke has just lost the first set in a tie-break

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The second went the same way.

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For the record:

L32: Wil Spencer (USA) WR 723 defeated (6) Luke Bambridge WR 540 by 7-6(6) 7-6(3)  bleh



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