I don't know what poor Dan Clancy has done wrong.

He's 21st on the entry list (with 20 getting into the main draw by right, normally). And Irish.

But even as top seed in the qualis, he still hasn't been given a wildcard.

Must have rubbed someone up the wrong way somewhere......or the Irish federation are just being plain awkward.

QR1:  (q2) Niklas Johansson (SWE) WR 1594 "defeated" (qWC) Darryl Hale UNR by a walkover 
QR1:  Sizya Kivanda UNR defeated (qWC) Daniel Vlas (IRL) UNR by 3 & 2

QR1:  (q8) Sean Hodkin WR 1958 defeated Sean Collins (IRL) UNR by 6-3 4-6 6-1
QR1:  Isaac Stoute UNR defeated Dorian Kos (IRL) by 1 & 3

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FQR:  (q2) Niklas Johansson (SWE) WR 1594 vs Sizya Kivanda UNR

FQR:  (q8) Sean Hodkin WR 1958 vs Isaac Stoute UNR

Stircrazy wrote:

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QR1:  (q2) Niklas Johansson (SWE) WR 1594 "defeated" (qWC) Darryl Hale UNR by a walkover 
QR1:  Sizya Kivanda UNR defeated (qWC) Daniel Vlas (IRL) UNR by 3 & 2

QR1:  (q8) Sean Hodkin WR 1958 defeated Sean Collins (IRL) UNR by 6-3 4-6 6-1
QR1:  Isaac Stoute UNR defeated Dorian Kos (IRL) by 1 & 3

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FQR:  (q2) Niklas Johansson (SWE) WR 1594 vs Sizya Kivanda UNR

FQR:  (q8) Sean Hodkin WR 1958 vs Isaac Stoute UNR

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QR1:  Josef Dodridge UNR defeated George Davies UNR by 4-6 6-2 6-1

QR1:  (q3) Joshua Rose WR 1675 defeated Morgan Lohan IRL UNR by 4 & 2

QR1:  Troy Dixon UNR defeated David Parry UNR by 6-3 2-6 6-2

QR1:  (q4) Scott Duncan WR 1675 defeated (qWC) Brendan Mulligan (IRL) UNR by 2 & 3
QR1:  Bruce Strachan UNR defeated Andrew Kirwan (IRL) UNR by 2 &1

QR1:  (q5) Edward Bourchier  (AUS) WR 1784 vs Alex Jhun UNR
QR1:  Andrew Ponder UNR defeated Daniel O'Neill (IRL) UNR by 5 & 4

QR1:  Josh Hagar (USA) UNR defeated Elliott Farmer UNR by 2 & 1

QR1:  Ben Jones UNR defeated Padraic Kilcoyne (IRL) UNR by 2 & 0

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FQR:  (q1) Daniel Glancy (IRL) WR 1559 (CH = 718 in October 2013) vs Josef Dodridge UNR

FQR:  (q3) Joshua Rose WR 1675 vs Troy Dixon UNR

FQR:  (q4) Scott Duncan WR 1675 vs Bruce Strachan UNR

FQR:  (q5) Edward Bourchier (AUS) WR 1784 or Alex Jhun UNR vs Andrew Ponder UNR

FQR:  Alan Gleeson (IRL) UNR vs Ben Jones UNR

Gleeson took out the Yank q7, Aron ( ) Pierce, in three sets in the first round.

That's four guaranteed British qualifiers to the MD, and three others in with a shout.

It's better than the majority of our homegrown events......

L16:  (1) Scott Clayton & Jonny O'Mara CR 429 (196+233) vs Simon Carr (IRL) & Ryan Storrie UNR (0 [but a CH of 1116 in June last year]+1373)
L16:  Edward Bourchier (AUS) & Scott Duncan UNR (0+1360) vs Tom Farquharson & Alastair Gray UNR (0 [but a CH of 1145 in May]+1419)

L16:  (3) Harry Bourchier & Daniel Nolan (AUS/AUS) CR 1194 (446+748) vs Sam Bothwell (IRL) & George Davies CR 2819 (1250+1569)

L16:  Niklas Johansson (SWE) & Joshua Rose UNR vs Alex Jhun & Josh Paris UNR (0 [but a CH 0f 1320 in September 2015]+933)
L16:  (WC) Josef & Osgar O'Hoisin (IRL) UNR vs (4) Yannick Jankovits & Matthieu Roy (FRA/FRA) CR 1675 (289+1386)  

L16:  Julian Bradley & Josh Hagar (IRL/USA) CR 2513 vs Peter Bothwell (IRL) & Lloyd Glasspool CR 1708 (964+744)
L16:  Alan Gleeson (IRL) & Isaac Stoute UNR vs (2) Rémi Boutillier & Albano Olivetti (FRA/FRA) CR 724 (580+144) 

 

What with being top seed in the qualis, Irish and STILL not getting a WC to the MD, Dan Glancy's week seems to be going to h*ll in a handbasket as he's taken to a third set in his FQR match, by Dodridge, and now has an MTO (presumably for him) at 0-1 down in the third....

Ireland has had a couple of Futures events at this time for a while now; the event next week is the Irish Open, which I believe is the second oldest event around after Wimbledon and obviously used to be played on grass. I think this weeks event has previously been held in Limerick, both where on grass at one time but moved to artificial grass a few years back. I dont know what the modern artificial grass plays like but the old sand based courts a few years ago used to play low like grass but often slower and could be quite slippy as well. But in general play closest to grass; I guess a lot of GB clubs have these courts (our local Harrogate Racquets Club has these types of courts) which provide for longer play around the year and less upkeep than grass or red shale and a lot of the players are probably used to playing on them.

Based on the main draw acceptance list we should expect 6 or 7 Brits in the main draw plus anyone getting through from qualies.