There has been an absence of Brits in the Mexican events during the season ending North American swing, but we have 4 boys accepted for the main draw of the prestigious Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl to follow: Anton Matusevich, Jacob Fearnley, Harry Wendelken and James Story. Qualifying has started with Zvenko Bencedic and Mathis Ross losing early, but George Davis has ousted the sixth qualifying seed Blaise Bicknell (ranked 148), unusually by default (6-4 2-0)
It's interesting to see Anton continue to play juniors, I presume it's insurance ie to insure he will get into the MD's of the junior slams, Kack and George should qualify with their ATP rankings should they want to enter?
It's interesting to see Anton continue to play juniors, I presume it's insurance ie to insure he will get into the MD's of the junior slams, Kack and George should qualify with their ATP rankings should they want to enter?
Anton should get into the Australian and French Opens with the points he has accumulated in the last 6 months - more points will help towards entry into the later slams, seeding and the 2019 Junior Masters. George should be fine for the same 2 events on his ATP ranking (he needs to remain inside 750 for main draw acceptance), though I doubt he will be interested. Jack will make all 4 slams on his ATP ranking if he wants to
George Davis lost his second qualifier. Harry draws the JWR24, who won his last (G2) event. All round 1 matches involving our boys take place today.
R1 (L64)
Jacob Fearnley v (WC) Spencer Whitaker (USA)
James Story v (14) Sergey Fomin (UZB)
(5) Gauthier Onclin (BEL) v Harry Wendelken
(8) Anton Matusevich v Toby Alex Kodat (USA)
Very impressive from Harry (little or not), resilient after losing an extended tiebreak to a strong opponent. Harry and James resume their Wimbledon partnership against second seeds Anton and Adrian Alexeev (US Open champions) today, but round 2 singles take place on Wednesday
R2
Mathys Erhard (FRA) v Jacob Fearnley
Harry Wendelken v (WC) Jacob Bullard (USA)
(6) Anton Matusevich v Taha Baadi (CAN)
Anton's slam winning partner is Adrian Andreev not Alexeev as I misremembered. There are also under12/14/16 competitions. There were a handful of British boys in the under12/under14 events, but all lost in the first two rounds of singles.
A tough one for Anton in the quarters against the Colombian who pushed Jack to an epic third set in the Wimbledon semis. Nicolas Mejia has dropped just 6 games in his first three matches