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Week 4 - Challenger (€64,000+H) - Open de Rennes, France (indoor hard)
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QR1:  Laurent Lokoli (FRA) WR 496 (CH = 287 in April 2015) vs Tom Farquharson WR 457 (CH = 429 in March 2014)
QR1:  Jay Clarke WR 263 (CH = 219 last month) vs (q6) Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) WR 237 (CH 162 last July)

The winners of those two matches play one another in QR2.

QR1:  Wu Yibing (CHN) WR 309 (CH = 301 last November) vs Ed Corrie WR 357 (CH = 214 in October 2014)   



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It's a tough life when a ranking of 263 doesn't even get you seeded in the qualies of a challenger. Glad to see Jay hit the road though to get his season under way. Good luck to all the Brits in France. I assume Liam has made it directly into the MD.

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Top seed in qualifying is Vincent Millot (191), so Liam should be fine. Missed out on winning a few quid at Bath just to travel

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Happy to see Jay back. Hope its a good tourny for our GB players.

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Tom is finding out all the perils of stepping up to Challenger qualifying though. Win matches against players ranked around you or higher, but still get no points and no money until you've done that 3 times... with at least one of those requiring you to win against someone with a ranking a couple hundred ahead of you... It's an unforgiving and quite cruel step up I find. I much prefer the way the women do it where at least a Q win gains some points. 



-- Edited by Michael D on Saturday 20th of January 2018 09:30:58 AM

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Its hard not to agree with that Michael.  I think we've all said similar on here over the years yet nothing ever changes cry



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It is the gate keeper to professional tennis, a brutal step but a product rightly or wrongly of a game that only generates a living professionally for the best 150 players of either sex, a step that only players who dominate at futures consistently will make. Tom has to give it a go, ideally for a couple of years, he is physically at his peak the time for him is now.

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Ed is a set up, but a break down in the second.

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Ed wins 4&5

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QR1:  Ed Corrie WR 357 defeated Wu Yibing (CHN) WR 309 by 4 & 5  smile

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QR2:  Ed Corrie WR 357 vs (q8) Pedro Martínez (ESP) WR 253 (CH = 249 last September)



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It may be pointless and cashless but thats still a nice tidy win for Ed to start his season off with

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The main draw is out:

L32:  Liam Broady WR 172 (CH = 158 in August 2015) vs (5) Dustin Brown (GER) WR 129 (CH = 64 in October 2016)  bleh

The top seed is Mikhail Youzhny (WR 90/CH = 8 in January 2008 - he's now 35)!



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Shhh wrote:

It may be pointless and cashless but thats still a nice tidy win for Ed to start his season off with

Agreed. Very solid looking result there.



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Tom takes the firtst set tie-break by 7-2. 



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QR1:  Tom Farquharson WR 457 defeated Laurent Lokoli (FRA) WR 496 by 7-6(2) 6-7(4) 6-3  smile



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