Jean-Kome LOGLO holds the national record for Togo for greatest number of Davis Cup wins and ties played.  Though he rarely plays in Futures/Challengers.

Komlavi LOGLO, who of course is the holder of much-coveted Senegal F1 title, is the Togoan number 1.

The last year Togo played in the Davis Cup was 2003, and they (Loglo, Loglo & Gakpo) won 4 out of 4 matches all 3-0.

Never underestimate a Togoan. 

Just read that jamie delgado has been picked for the davis cup, so i wouldnn't of thought he would be playing anywhere this week.

A total of 5 brits in this main draw, that is good going!  For full results of qualies and the main draw, go to the ATP site, http://www.atptennis.com/3/en/tournaments/challenger/

 

live scores dont seem to be working.

Vonce wrote:

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Lee could get Olivier Rochus in the 2nd round if he gets past his 1st round opponent. Not sure why someone such as Rochus being in the top 30 and all would be doing a challenger when he could have been in Bucharest or Beijing this week at an ATP Tour level tourney.

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This is really weird. I thought top 50 players could not play in Challengers except in very special circumstances, such as it being their home country - and Orleans is not in Belgium!

Also, he must be getting a lot of appearance money, he cannot be doing it for the ranking points. He has no points to defend this week, his 18th result is 75, and he would only get 70 points for winning the entire thing as far as I can see. . .

Looking ahead to the main draw:

Martin Lee has a tricky rd1 tie against 17 year old Latvian Ernests Gulbis who's already ranked 201 !!!! Gulbis reached two challenger finals on clay in July and he's reached 4 futures finals aswell this year, winning two. He has a win over Richard Bloomfield indoors earlier this year. If it was on a slower surface I'd favour Gulbis but as it's indoors I reckon that Martin may just edge this in 3 sets. He's very, very unlucky that if he wins Olivier Rochus is likely to be awaiting in rd2. I read that Rochus has been injured recently so he's using this challenger as match practise for the indoor season.

Jonny faces fellow big server Gilles Elseneer. Elseneer has played only 1 tournament since losing to Colin Fleming in the Nottingham Challenger, he lost in rd2 of US Ope qualies. Elseneer won the Andrezieux challenger earlier this year indoors but since then his form has been poor. However he's at his best indoors. Hopefully the fact that Jonny has already won 3 matches here will give him an advantage as Elseneer may be a little rusty having not competed indoors since March.

Boggo is the 6th seed, in rd1 he faces the big serving, 28 year old Dutchman Peter Wessels who’s ranked 223. It’ll be a tough match for Alex as Wessels has been in the top 100, reaching a high of no 72 in February 2005. In his last tournament, Wessels reached the final round of US Open qualifying before losing to Lukasz Kubot who went on to reach rd3. However, before then he’d lost 10 of his past 11 matches, a sequence stretching back to April. It’ll be an interesting clash of styles with Bogdanovic, the hard-hitting baseliner up against Wessels who will look to get into the net as much as possible. Alex will be relishing the chance to compete again on his favoured indoor hard courts, the faster pace and lower, skidding bounce suits his game down to the ground.

Bloomers has Moroccan wildcard Hicham Arazi. Arazi is of course a former top 50 player, in 2001 he reached a high of 22. However, a succesion of injuries have meant that his ranking has dropped to 868 and at 32, he's nothing like the player he once was, full of trickery with angles and slices. This year he's played 4 tournaments. In March he reached 1 final and 2 quarter-finals of three tournaments on Moroccan clay. However, another injury then kept him out until August. He made his comeback on Italian clay in the qualifying for the San Marino challenger, however he lost in rd1 against a player ranked 651, being forced to retire at 0-2 down in the 3rd set and that injury has kept him out until now. I predict Bloomers to win in straights. More good news for Richard is that the 8th seed George Bastl lost in rd1 today and Richard was due to face him in rd2.

Mackin has a very tough match against the 7th seeded Frenchman Jerome Haehnel. Haehnel is ranked 144 and has been as high as no 78. He's in very good form having won the Como challenger on clay a couple of weeks ago. They've played once before, Haehnel won 6-4, 6-2 in 2001 on indoor hard in rd2 of a futures in France. Mackin has achieved some of his best results indoors though, it's probably his best surface along with grass. Hopefully he can achieve a good upset here.