Good effort from Anton 30/5/2001 #1421 only a couple of still 16 year olds and 3 2001s in the top 20 ATP senior ranking not yet 18 at the beginning of the year.
Sergy Formin (UZB) 1/2/2001 at #7 Ranked 1000 so now 17
Nicolas Alvarez Varoma (ESP) 18/5/2001 at #11 Ranked 1128
Govind Nanda (USA) 17/2/2001 at #18 Ranked 1240
Great to see him being so competitive with a guy Ranked well inside the top 1000
Anton's match was the pick of the matches. Almost three hours of excellent tennis and Anton had chances to win the match. Anton is excellent defensively has a big serve, when he gets it in, and has a nice touch around the net. Had lots of break points,but didn't convert many. Needs to work on his mental strength, increase his first serve percentage and be more aggressive in attack.
Never seen Alexis before - looked very solid, decent all round game, but nothing outstanding.
Evan had an easy win against a very average Mr. Binding and looks too good to play qualifying regularly.
Jack FH has a good touch at the net and was a close match with Josh until Josh twisted badly and seemed to strain a hamstring
Very impressed with George Houghton who won very easily - nice flashing backhand
Samm Butler walked into a good player and matched him in the second set. Again first time I've seen him. Whippy forehand and likes to serve and volley
L32: (1) Joris de Loore (BEL) WR 318 (CH = 174 in October 2016) vs (Q) Jack Findel-Hawkins UNR L32: Adrien Bossel (SUI) WR 537 (CH = 262 in August 2015) vs Marcus Willis WR 599 (CH = 322 in June 2014) [non-GB - L32: (Q) Daniil Zarichanskyy (UKR) WR 841 vs (Q) Kenneth Raisma (EST) WR 898] [non-GB - L32: Igor Sijsling (NED) WR 450 (CH = 52 in February 2014) vs (6) Boy Westerhof (NED) WR 388 (= CH)]
[non-GB - L32: (3) Filip Horansky (SVK) WR 342 (CH = 300 in July 2016) vs Fabien Reboul (FRA) WR 449 (CH = 377 last October)] L32: Riccardo Balzerani (ITA) WR 689 (CH = 678 last October) vs (Q) Alexis Canter WR 1416 L32: (WC) Billy Harris WR 645 (CH = 644 at the start of this month) vs (Q) Maxence Broville (FRA) WR 1213 L32: (Q) Evan Hoyt WR 1103 vs (8) David Pichler (AUT) WR 424 (CH = 390 last October)
L32: (5) Ed Corrie WR 425 (CH = 215 in October 2014) vs George Houghton UNR L32: Lloyd Glasspool WR 436 (CH = 282 in October 2016) vs Jonny Gray WR 557 (CH = 547 last month) L32: Ronnie Schneider (USA) WR 534 (= CH) vs (WC) Sean Hodkin WR 1377 (CH = 1293 last July) [non-GB - L32: Frederik Nielsen (DEN) WR 558 (CH = 190 in August 2011) vs (4) Yannick Jankovits (FRA) WR 348 (CH = 238 in April 2016)
L32: (7) Maximilian Neuchrist (AUT) WR 411 (CH = 380 last November) vs (WC) Luke Johnson WR 899 (CH = 881 last month) [non-GB - L32: (Q) Bogdan Ionut Apostol (ROU) WR 883 (CH = 882 last month) vs (LL) Søren Hess-Olesen (DEN) WR 943 (CH = 937 last December)] L32: Andrés Artunedo (ESP) WR 472 (CH = 293 in March 2014) vs (WC) James Ward WR 845 (CH = 89 in July 2015) [non-GB - L32: Evan Furness (FRA) WR 616 (CH = 549 last September) vs (2) Yannick Mertens (BEL) WR 306 (CH = 179 in August 2015)]
Bloody Sijsling again! I bet his compatriot's cursing his presence in the draw!
Yes, though I would have hoped to see our 3 highest ranked players spread about more ie hope for Ed to take care of his own business or at least the other Brits in his section not to include both Lloyd and Jonny.
Hope it is a good first match for James before a potential R2 match with (2) Yannick Mertens.
Not a good draw for helping towards much more than one quarter finalist in a home 25K.
Interesting that Marcus is teaming up with Scott here. After Luke Bambridges comments regarding maybe teaming up with Jonny I wonder if Marcus could be tempted to go full time doubles with Scott on the Challenger Tour. Hasn't done much in singles recently so Might be tempted.