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Cam, Liam, Jay and Brydan should be in the main draw here. Alex would have got in with his PR too but tennisteen are showing him as a withdrawal. There are also 3 Brits in qualifying:

QR1: Curtis Clarke UNR v (wc) Trevor Allen Johnson (USA) WR 1150 (CH 1149 last week)

QR1: Alastair Gray WR 1023 v Martin Redlicki (USA) WR 732 (CH 720 in Sep)

QR1: (q6) Marcus Willis WR 515 v (wc) Eric Samuelsson (SWE) UNR

The winners of the last two matches above will meet in QR2.



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Tough draw for Ali G, Redlicki is a big boy and leads the UCLA team in his senior year, partnered McKenzie McDonald as a freshman the double NCAA champion in single and doubles back in 2014/15.

Redlicki lost in the final of last weeks ITA tournament to the guy at North Carolina likely to succeed Cam as the best college player this year sophmore William Blumberg of UNC.

UCLAs programme is a well oiled college to the pros machine under the tutelage of Billy Martin. McDonald, Girons and Novikov.... nothing new because a certain Jimmy Connors and Arthur Ashe are also alumni.

Michael was part of a fascinating soap opera before he even joined ULCA, he was going to Duke to play with his older brother Martin but the later fell out with the coaches, Michael who was a ?18 year old straight to pro possibility ranked 2 in the US and supported by the USTA to play all 4 slams decomitted just at the right time for UCLA who had just lost Girons going pro early and therefore had a stack of scholarship money to recruit Michael at the last minute.

Sorry for the waffle but a win here for Ali G will do him no halm in terms of the TCU and general college pecking order!

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For completion, Trevor Johnson is a senior at TCU with Ali G, solid but not necessarily someone you would tip to go pro, local though from Las Vegas.

Samuelson is a Swedish freshman at LSU and has that classic junior track record that gets you a scholarship at a top division one college ie. junior ITF tank about 400 through winning Grade 4 and 5 tournaments.

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Would love to see Marcus do well here but I have doubts over his commitment to professional tennis.



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Alex looked cumbersome in the 3rd set against Fratelangelo in Fairfield so I'm not surprised he is out. He would have got the win otherwise I reckon so I'm not surprised he's withdrew. Real pity as he deserves a good points yield from this trip.

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Marcus is 1-4 down.

Add: and now there's an injury break

 

Meanwhile, Ali G is into a third set...



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 14th of October 2017 08:34:13 PM

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Nott that surprising re Marcus. Hasn't won a point on his 2nd serve yet!

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Hmm, suspect much less to do with ability than neglecting to competitively play that tennis thingee.

C'mon, Marcus, get your eye in !

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Retired at 5-1 down.

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QR1:  (qWC) Eric Samuelsson (SWE) UNR defeated (q6) Marcus Willis WR 515 by 5-1 retired  bleh



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QR1: Martin Redlicki (USA) WR 732 defeated Alastair Gray WR 1023 by 3-6 6-2 7-5  cry

 



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For the sake of completeness, not entirely unexpectedly:

QR1:  (qWC) Trevor Allen Johnson (USA) WR 1150 defeated Curtis Clarke UNR by 0 & 1



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L32:  Brydan Klein WR 244 (CH = 169 in September 2015) vs (3) Bjorn Fratangelo (USA) WR 118 (CH = 99 in June last year)

L32:  (8) Reilly Opelka (USA) WR 173 (CH = 125 in June) vs Jay Clarke WR 286 (CH = 280 last month)

L32:  Liam Broady WR 201 (CH = 158 in August 2015) vs Qualifier/Lucky loser
L32:  Roberto Ortega (ESP) WR 273 (CH = 257 in October 2015) vs (2) Cam Norrie WR 111 (= CH)

All in the bottom half of the draw...



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Will a win or final here put Cam into the top 100?

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thejester wrote:

Will a win or final here put Cam into the top 100?

Does look as if the title at least probably will. It will become a bit clearer once live rankings update into next week.



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