I think it would be round2, though may be second half of round one as there's a women's tournament as well

Main draw will be made between 5 and 6. Should be available by 6.30 or 7 at the latest

Can u post the draw in txt as wel as the link to the pdf

Edit: I initially posted the draw without seeing that mkkreuk had already done it.

So ignore this post.

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 21:06, 2006-09-18

 
Evans partners...... Mark Hilton.

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Shame Hilton didn't play singles too....just to see where he is and if there is a pull from the heart...

WOW

Great result for David Brewer, shocker for Bloomfield!!

Most of the other results, although disappointing, go with the form book.

Brewer is ranked 563 spots lower than Niland who has been winning quite abit and in good form.

Rushby is ranked 490 spots lower than Bloomers, who needs to get his head together. He shouldn't even be playing these futures any more, let alone losing in the first round.

-- Edited by johnnylad at 14:05, 2006-09-19

johnnylad wrote:

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Final Qualifying round

Kyle Brassington unr GB bt Richard Irwin (1) 798 GB 76(4) 63.

(952) Brewer bt Milton 60 61

Burn bt Dewhurst 63 63

Matthew Taylor bt Patrick Briuard (USA) 1072 and 4th seed - 62 62

Ross Connolly bt Thomas Kostro (Aut) 62 61

Illingworth bt Miller 61 64

Greenland bt Allinson 75 26 61 (good call UFF!)

Mt Lowe beat Scott Dickson 62 67(3) 64

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Great results for 19 year olds Kyle Brassington and Matthew Taylor Brassington had never beaten anyone with more than 1 world ranking point until yesterday, so that's quite a shock result.
Unfortunately both of them have drawn short straws in rd1. Brassington has top seed Martin Lee and Taylor has 4th seed Rameez Junaid

However there are good opportunities for several of the other qualifiers to gain another ranking point. Ross Connolly plays Thomas Greenland and Matt Lowe plays Matt Illingworth. Connolly has a bigger game than Greenland so I reckon he'll win and I've never seen either Lowe or Illingworth before, but Illingworth's qualifying results look slightly more impressive on paper, so I'll predict him to get his first world ranking points.

It looks very much like there's going to be a Lee-Marray quarter-final showdown. Marray plays an Austrian leftie clay-court specialist in rd1 - Armin Sanbichler. Sanbichler has had some great results on clay this year, winning two futures but on faster surfaces his results haven't been that good.

The winner of Irwin and Bamford could play Marray in rd2. Richard got in as a lucky loser. They've played twice before, Bamford won 6-3, 6-3 on clay in 2005 and he won 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 in Greece earlier this year. Given Richard's result in qualifying, I reckon that Bamford is likely to make it 3-0 on head-to-heads.

Slabba has a decent draw against Jonathan Chu, an American ranked 547 who claims to have 3 coaches, a rarity among lower ranked players. He seems to have his best results on hard courts in the far east having won a futures title in China earlier this year, and in August he reached two semis in Thailand. However, he hasn't played since mid-August so hopefully he's very rusty.

Daniel Cox has had a huge amount of bad luck in the players he draws in rd1 of futures. Harsh Mankad, Dave Sherwood, Stephane Robert and several guys ranked in the 300s in Spain. His run continues with Lee Childs in rd1. Dan Evans gave Childs a very close match a year ago - it was 7-5, 6-4 so hopefully Cox can emulate that.

Dan Evans has had much more luck, drawing qualifier Tom Burn in rd1. Burn retired last year but appears to be making something of a comeback. On his return in March he beat Irwin and Mackin before losing to Bloomfield. He played in July, losing to Rob Searle and he's returned again after a 2 month break. He was described by someone who watched him in 2005, as a very talented shot-maker, but he has the tendency to get a bit down on himself and lose his temper when things start to go wrong which holds him back.

Rob Searle plays Martin Fischer. Fischer has reached two futures finals this year in Austria but he is a clay courter so Searle has a chance.