Alex Slabinsky has been competing in Holland this week, he reached the quarters before losing 4 and 2 to top seed Stefan Wauters who's ranked 251 and has done very well in challengers so that wasn't surprising.

2 more ranking points should move Alex up to about 570.

Alex's mobile hasn't been working properly for the last couple of weeks so he hasn't been able to text me info but this week he got access to an internet cafe and sent me a load of stuff.

Go to:http://www.freewebs.com/alexslabinsky for several match reports going back to the futures in Italy a couple of weeks ago.

In particular, check out the report on Alex's rd1 win over Van der Duim this week, Alex won 4-6, 7-6[7], 6-4 saving several mps !