Unsurprisingly his current ranking would easily have got him in, but I guess it'll take while to kick in.
Looking at the MD field he's got a decent chance of going deep in this, if not winning if he's not suffering from burn out with having to go through qualies.
I noticed Dan is playing in doubles with Jonny O'Mara in Cassis, interesting to see how that goes.
If Dan gets to MD, the qualifiers could draw one of two wild cards or the top see Richard Berankis or a Spaniard in the lower half. Other than berankis, not bad, although the Spaniard would be followed by Stakhovsky in round 2. But those two WC's might be nice if he was lucky enough (and gets through of course)