Qualifying starts tomorrow in Surbiton for the traditional Wimbledon warm-up tournament. Qualifying is tough with the seeds ranked inside the top 100. Barnaby Smith, Max Stewart, Finn Bass, Aidan McHugh, Anton Matusevich, Jack Molloy, Jack Draper and George Loffhagen are likely recipients of main draw wildcards
Hamish's reward is to draw the very strong top seed. Indeed overall the 9 Brits face more than their fair share of seeds.
R1 (L64)
(1) Corentin Moutet (FRA) v (Q) Hamish Stewart
(WC) Max Stewart v Tomas Machac (CZE)
(WC) George Loffhagen v (5) Yuta Shimizu (JPN)
(WC) Anton Matusevich v (15) Sebastian Baez (ARG)
(WC) Jack Molloy v Dan Added (FRA)
(WC) Jack Draper v (Q) Sangeet Sridhar (USA)
(14) Juan Pablo Grassi Mazzuchi (ARG) v (WC) Aidan McHugh
(WC) Finn Bass v (9) Jurij Rodionov (AUT)
Alexey Zakharov (RUS) v (WC) Barnaby Smith
George had a matchpoint but Shimizu broke back and came from behind in the tiebreak to win 6-3 3-6 7-6(5). Meanwhile Jack Molloy has lost the opening set on a tiebreak
Coming off his duties as one of Andy Murray's hitting partners Aidan McHugh has taken the first set against the Argentinian seed, who has a name suggesting he should be at home on the surface. However Aidan has just broken and will serve for the match at 6-2 5-4. Finn served for the first set, but was broken back by the ninth seed Barnaby trails 5-3