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The main draw starts on Sunday, so qualifying begins tomorrow. Viktor Frydrych, Charlie Robertson and Ben Gusic Wan are in the main draw by ranking (Oli Bonding is a late withdrawal, presumably with the foot injury that kept him out of qualifying for the Wimbledon mens draw, but he is still on the Wimbledon boys acceptance list) while Luke Hooper, Max Carrier, Henry Jefferson, Conor Brady,  Mark Ceban, Charlie Swaine, Zach Stephens and Jamie Diack are all candidates for wildcards

Unlike the girls there are no British seeds in qualifying, with the draw available here

 



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Excellent win by Alfie King in qualis over the 3rd q seed
Rhys Lawlor has also made a lot of progress, given his age; if he could A1 believe in himself, he's got a good future

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Alfie was joined in final qualifying by Jay Johnson-Hauldren, who sneaked past the Brazilian fifth seed 11-9 in the match tiebreak. He takes on Flynn Thomas, a Swiss boy who was Tennis Europe number 1 2 years ago for a place in the main draw.  Kai-Luca Ampaw was the only other Brit to win, beating the 16th seed



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From yesterday:

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Alfie King played well and deserved the win - the TB was tight

Louis Hull played the 2009-born young French star who made the QFs at Roland Garros - nothing Louis could do - he made the first set competitive at least - but watch out for Moise Kouame - it was electric, some of his tennis

Jay Johnson-Hauldren could also do with less theatricals and arguments, IMO. But he won, so well done (the walking official intervened, against the Brazilian, over a wrong line-call by Jay - seemed well out of order to me, but maybe I'd missed something)

Felix Brockleman-Evans played OK, against a rather posh looking French lad with a single handed backhand and some lovely net play, and also called Felix

Rhys Lawlor was 4-1 up before getting pegged back and ended up losing, mainly down to experience and match management. Martin Weston was in charge of him, and gave him a bit of a talking to afterwards. Rhys is making very good progress though - far better movement, and some excellent level tennis for his age. I hope he's really focussing on his tennis, he has potential.

I didn't see Kai-Luca's match at all. And some of our players were OK but correctly beaten (like Zech) and some others were miles off the level



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Congrats to Alfie King, who won his FQR match and makes the main draw

The only one of our boys to do so ....

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R1 (L64)

(WC) Conor Brady v (SE) Duje Markovina (CRO)
(10) Amir Omarkhanov (KAZ) v Viktor Frydrych
(Q) Hugh Winter (AUS) v (WC) Mark Ceban
(3) Luca Preda (ROU) v (WC) Maximilian Carrier
(Q) Alfie King v Alexander Razeghi (USA)
(Q) Flynn Thomas (SUI) v Benjamin Gusic Wan
(8) Miguel Tolson (COL) v (WC) Jamie Diack
Charlie Robertson v Andreas Timini (CYP)
(WC) Zach Stephens v Izan Almazan Valiente (ESP)
Oskari Paldanius (FIN) v (WC) Charlie Swaine
(WC) Henry Jefferson v (12) Theo Papamalamis (FRA)
(WC) Luke Hooper v Trevor Svajda (USA)



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Viktor made the semis here last year so he had big points to defend

But no one else of note even made R3 (Luca is adult now, and Henry no longer doing juniors)

Our boys have done well to avoid all the top seeds - only Max Carrier has got unlucky

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Good to see mark ceban in the draw!

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Some interesting match ups indeed!

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The LTA promises live scoring both for this, and the British Open Wheelchair event at the same venue (starts Tuesday, and will be covered in the thread in General Tennis discussion). The LTA live score page is here



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Live scores are showing on the LTA site,

Now Hollie has the first set 6-3 but is a break down in the second 2-4,Hep is 6-4 2-2/Isabelle 3-6 3-4. Gabia 6-3 4-4

Victor 6-4 4-2, Mark 6-3 2-4. Allegra 7-5 1-2 and Max 3-6 3-1



-- Edited by DF on Sunday 30th of June 2024 12:57:21 PM

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Alfie is the first Brit to finish, losing 6-3 6-3

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.....closely followed by Viktor, who is the first Brit winner (6-4 7-5)



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Mark edged a third set tiebreak to join Charlie and Viktor in round 2, but Ben was on the wrong end of a similar scenario. Mark earns a crack at the prestigious J500 Milan runner-up

R1 (L64)

(SE) Duje Markovina (CRO) d. (WC) Conor Brady 6-1 6-3
Viktor Frydrych d. (10) Amir Omarkhanov (KAZ) 6-4 7-5
(WC) Mark Ceban d. (Q) Hugh Winter (AUS) 6-3 3-6 7-6(3)
(3) Luca Preda (ROU) d. (WC) Maximilian Carrier 6-3 7-6(1)
Alexander Razeghi (USA) d. (Q) Alfie King 6-3 6-3
(Q) Flynn Thomas (SUI) d. Benjamin Gusic Wan 6-3 3-6 7-6(4)
(8) Miguel Tolson (COL) d. (WC) Jamie Diack 6-4 6-3
Charlie Robertson d. Andreas Timini (CYP) 6-1 6-3
Izan Almazan Valiente (ESP) d. (WC) Zach Stephens 6-3 6-3
Oskari Paldanius (FIN) d. (WC) Charlie Swaine 6-4 6-4
(12) Theo Papamalamis (FRA) d. (WC) Henry Jefferson 7-6(2) 6-2
Trevor Svajda (USA) d. (WC) Luke Hooper 7-5 6-4

R2

Viktor Frydrych v Jagger Leach (USA)
(WC) Mark Ceban v (6) Jangjun Kim (KOR)
Charlie Robertson v (Q) Anas Mazdrashki (BUL)




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Quick review of the Boys

Wins

Mark Ceban - loved his match - he's very watchable Went a bit AWOL in the middle, and the other boy was playing very well too - good, aggressive tennis from both

Viktor - good intensity all the way through, although a less showy match

Charlie Robertson - that boys has wheels ! he gets balls he's got no right to get But love the way he comes forward, to finish points, especially when not expected (given his size, it's important, he's not going to win in a ball-bashing contest)


Losses:

Conor & Henry & Charlie Swaine - didn't see it

Max C - saw a few balls - I don't think the result was in doubt, even though he made a good stab of the second set

Alfie King - I'd seen him at Surbiton so didn't watch this time

Ben G Wan - a typical gutsy Ben match - good tussle

Diack - played well against a pretty volatile opponent who, tbh, was well rude to the umpire and I'd have forfaited him

Luke Hooper - very good level match





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