Matt Smith 348

Alex Miotto 992

Rob Searle 1037

are the Brits inmain draw singles.

Allinson lost 64 62 to Zopp. Very disapointing.

Southwood dispatched Harfield 62 61 (again!)

So SOuthwood qualifies for main draw.

Main draw doubles

Allinson/Miotto vs Harfield/Southwood - winners face top seeds in round 2.

Searle/KC Corkery(USA) vs Heliovaara/Ojala (FIN)

Ed Allinson's game seems to be very, very dependant on his big 1st serve, he doesn't do anything like aswell on the slower courts where it's not as effective

It's a decent chance for James Southwood to gain his first ever singles points, he's come close on a number of occasions in the past. His opponent reached the quarters of a futures in Italy a couple of weeks ago but that was on clay so hopefully James will have the edge on hard courts.

Rob Searle's got a great draw, if he wins he'll move into the top 1000.

Matt Smith hasn't had much success all year apart from making a couple of futures semis in April and June. He's got lots to defend in the autumn so he could do with a good run here to push up further towards the top 300. He's got a very kind draw as if he beats Miotto he'll face either a qualifier or a wildcard in rd2 and then would be seeded to face Finland's Tino Nieminen [brother of Jarkko] in the quarters who's ranked about 150 places lower. Matt and Alex have played once before, in nrd1 of Ireland F1 earlier this year on artificial grass. Matt won 6-4, 6-2 and went on to reach the semis. Alex was born in Italy and was one of our top juniors in 2001 and 2002, he has trained a lot in Belgium.

Mondays news.

Matt SMith withdrew, reason being a no show.

Ed Allinson got his spot (Ed did well as he was third in line. THe other two must have gone home!)

 

Miotto beat Allinson 63 62 Next up Jurgen Zopp who beat Allinson in q.

Searle beat Ojala 64 62. Next up 6th seed Riccardo Ghedin. (501) Tough one.

-- Edited by johnnylad at 16:53, 2006-08-21

That's a real shame about Matt Smith, do you know if he was injured or did he just miss his flight ? He would have had a great chance of making the latter stages of this one and gaining valuable points. He's got a few more free weeks before he'll have to start defending quite a few points.

Great win for Rob Searle Ghedin's been on a good run recently, making the quarters of GB F11 and then the final of GB F12, beating Mackin and Cox along the way. He'll take some stopping but then again Rob Searle's caused quite a few upsets with his big-hitting baseline game in the last month so hopefully another one is on the cards.

That's Miotto's 1st main draw win since June when he beat Allinson again in rd1 of Ireland F1, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. This is a great opportunity for him to make the quarters, an unranked qualifier is probably the best possible rd2 opponent he could hope for.

No news yet on James Southwood's result. Shame this isn't a 15K as then he would have got a ranking point for qualifying