Lloyd is a set down to Peliwo and has been broken at the start of the second set.

4-6 0-1*

L32: (8) Bradley Klahn (USA) WR 163 (CH = 63 in March 2016) beat Alex Ward WR 290 (CH = 242 in June 2016) 6-2 6-0 in 43 minutes

If Neal & JPS win the title this week Neal will overtake Dom to be ranked GB #2 and may take out his CH 50.

Dom is due to drop 250 points on 16/04 from his Marrakech ATP 250 title with Mate Pavic last year so good if Neal can take the spot before then based on his own positive results. There was a partner to try and keep hold of. Pavic WR 32 after that week will be WR 3 on Monday with his general exploits with Marach.

I'm sure that is Alex understandably still some way off the pace. I just wish that he can stay fit and really build up some momentum to more explore his true capabilities. I think that he could be top 200 at least

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 29th of March 2018 01:02:51 AM

Always good to see Filip Peliwo still at it and slowly moving forward, I would love to see him make the top 100 as the only US junior winner of recent times not to make it on the main tour who hasn't quit.

Forget our attempts to adopt Aliaz as an honorary Brit, I would adopt Filip although he is probably quite happy being Canadian.

No its just such a good indicator of future success, he has struggled and kept at it, there is only one worse ranked US junior open winner of recent times and he is British, he quit a couple of years back at 21 although he made a brief come back last year and ate up a couple of futures events just turning up but still to play this year. As discussed on here many times Oli Golding was a more talented junior which just increases my admiration for Filips struggle to make the top 100.

QF:  (2) Neal Skupski & John-Patrick Smith (AUS) CR 118 (56+62) defeated Christian Garín & Akira Santillan (CHI/AUS) CR 1251 (660+591) by 7-6(10) 6-3