And Ryan Storrie should be in the main draw too.

QR1: George Davies (GBR) UNR (CH 1600 May '16) def. Pablo Llamas (ESP) UNR 7-6(4) 4-6 6-4

QR1: George Houghton (GBR) UNR def. Miles Seemann (USA) UNR 6-3 6-3

QR1: (q15) Finn Bass (GBR) WR 1945 def. Jarryd Bant (GBR) UNR (CH 1553 Nov 2012) 6-2 6-1

QR1: Álvaro Blanco (ESP) UNR def. Cameron Price (GBR) UNR 7-6(3) 6-3

QR2:  (q1) Yanais Laurent (FRA) WR 809 defeated George Davies UNR by 2 & 0

QR2:  (q3) Francisco Cabral (POR) WR 986 defeated George Houghton UNR by 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 

QR2:  (q15) Finn Bass WR 1945 defeated Sam Bothwell (IRE) UNR by 1 & 2

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FQR:  (q5) Wilfredo González (GUA) WR 1006 (CH = 966 last month) vs (q15) Finn Bass WR 1945

L32:  Shane Vinsant (USA) WR 701 (CH = 665 last month) vs (6) Marcus Willis WR 519 (CH = 322 in June 2104)

L32:  Evan Furness (FRA) WR 609 (CH = 608 two weeks ago) vs Ryan Storrie WR 752 (= CH)

L32:  Tom Farquharson WR 666 (CH = 429 in March 2014) vs (PR) Jaime Pulgar (ESP) WR 1041 (CH = 296 in April 2015)

L32:  (8) Neil Pauffley WR 572 (CH = 406 in August 2013) vs (Q) Tiago Cação (POR) WR 1109 (CH = 1057 in May)

Will be interested to see how Ryan Storrie does up against Evan Furness.

Evan (French but with English dad, Mark, from Sheffield, made WR 3 in over 35s) is exactly the same age as Ryan (also not the tallest) and has been 'nearly a star' in juniors (i.e. he's done very well - has just turned 19, is ranked about 600, got to 36 as a junior, was runner-up in the nationals U18s, but has never been right up there with Moutet and the others, and was not one of the federation's picks for elite training. (He now is funded by them but only quite recently). He also got a very good grade in his Bac (the proper academic Bac, Economics/Soc.), by correspondence lessons. His younger sister, Lucy, is a top player too.

Dad, Mark, was trying out the pro-tour at age 20 or so when he stopped in France for a tournament, liked the club, got asked to stay, met a girl (not sure quite the order , she's now a maths teacher) and the rest - as they say - is history. He's coached Evan from the age of 3 to 16 (Evan's now coached by Augustin Gensse, ex-139 in the world).

His favourite player is Andy Murray - not because of GB connections, I don't think, but because he loves the war of attrition style of play, the terrier, but also the well-rounded and intelligent nature of Andy's game (supposedly Evan has a rather mad, all over the place, very atypical game). And Wimbly is his favourite tournament.

In an interview this year, Evan says that culturally he feels truly half French, half British. If you'd like to try feeling even MORE British, Evan, you'd be very welcome ! (And Lucy, too )

Neil comes from an early break down to take the 1st set 6-4

the addict wrote:

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L32: (8) Neil Pauffley WR 572 def (Q) Tiago Cação (POR) WR 1109 6-4 6-3

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L16:  (8) Neil Pauffley WR 559 vs Mor Bulis (ISR) WR 572 (CH = 563 two weeks ago)