L32:  (WC) James Ward WR 660 defeated (6) Kaichi Uchida (JPN) WR 294 by 6-4 7-6(4) 

That's more like it - at last! 

*****

L16:  (WC) James Ward WR 660 vs (Q) Harri Heliövaara (FIN) WR 457

Hope he doesn't go & fall flat on his arse now! 

Starting to win regularly at challenger level now.
I'd normally suggest that James has had his fair share of wildcards, but the fact that he doesn't have a full ranking and his form suggests he could be playing a lot higher may allow wildcards this season for the grass.
There is hardly a lot of competition..

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Sadly, no fairytale comeback:

L32:  (8) Lucas Miedler (AUT) WR 331 defeated (Q) Dan Evans UNR by 2-6 6-2 6-4

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And Miedler has now crashed out to a fellow qualifier, Daniel Brands (1 & 3), which means there are currently only four seeds left in the draw - the top four!

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 from what i saw on monday, i am not remotely surprised brands beat miedler, think brands will go deep here

-- Edited by huntley93 on Wednesday 2nd of May 2018 12:35:22 PM

-- Edited by huntley93 on Wednesday 2nd of May 2018 12:39:17 PM

Lloyd Glasspool is on next for his 2nd round match. A win will take him above Ed and Brydan in live rankings.

I noticed they are playing a few second round matches before Aiden McHugh plays his first round match. I guess they wanted to give him that evening slot but will it make much difference to spectators numbers, i doubt it...seems strange scheduling to me.

 

Well done to Wardy, another win and he is into top 600 again. 

-- Edited by JonH on Wednesday 2nd of May 2018 01:55:29 PM

Well done to James 

That is just his second win against a top 300 player since he beat Liam in the Granby Challenger in August 2016. The other one was a fine looking if outlier win against Ricardas Berankis in a China Challenger in August 2017.

That gives some indictation of how long and far he has been away from his best form with his injury issues and is playing catch up. But fit and gaining some confidence there should hopefully be much more to come here and in the coming weeks.

Please also note James Ward has used 2 x MDWC this year. If he gets another at Loughborough, he will not be able to use anymore this year other than in a GS.

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Lloyd Glasspool is on next for his 2nd round match. A win will take him above Ed and Brydan in live rankings.

I noticed they are playing a few second round matches before Aiden McHugh plays his first round match. I guess they wanted to give him that evening slot but will it make much difference to spectators numbers, i doubt it...seems strange scheduling to me.

 

Well done to Wardy, another win and he is into top 600 again. 

-- Edited by JonH on Wednesday 2nd of May 2018 01:55:29 PM

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 Probably requested a late start as James was travelling from Mexico and Aidan went deep last week.

 

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To some extent maybe. But there's late and late. We're into late Wednesday for Aidan, as said after some R2 matches. I had actually been thinking similar to Jon. Evo was put on at a similar time earlier.