Robxon wrote:

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 From the BBC

Caversham Men’s $15,000 event, Jersey:

1st rd:

Andrey Golubev (Rus) bt Navdeep Singh (Ind) 6-2 6-0

Tom Burn (Gbr) bt Boris Obama (Fra) 7-5 6-3

Nick Van Der Meer (Ned) bt Neil Bamford (Gbr) 6-4 6-3

Ian Flanagan (Gbr) bt Tom Rushby (Gbr) 7-6 (7-5) 6-2

David Klier (Ger) bt Michel Koning (Ned) 7-6 (7-1) 7-6 (8-6)

Philipp Marx (Ger) bt Edward Seator (Gbr) 6-2 7-5

Jim May (Gbr) bt Ralph Grambow (Ger) 4-6 7-6 (7-1) 6-4

David Brewer (Gbr) bt Ross Hutchins (Gbr) 7-6 (7-3) 6-2

Ladislav Chramosta (Cze) bt Luca Vanni (Ita) 6-2 6-4

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Most of those were pretty much expected apart from the Flanagan and May results. Good to see Jim returning to form, that was a great win against a player ranked around 200 places higher

Flanagan proves as mercurial as ever, Rushby's been in great form lately but on his day, Ian has the ability to beat most players in the GB futures fields. Does anyone think he will find the consistency to break top 500 one day ?

Matt Illingworth was drawn against Australian Clinton Thompson in rd1 but Thompson withdrew and was replaced by British lucky loser Konstantinos Kalaitzis in rd1. Kalaitzis took full advantage of his good fortune and secured his 2nd ranking point with a 6-4, 6-7[5], 6-3 win.

R2:

Jean-Claude Scherrer (Sui) bt Henrik Norfeldt (Swe) 6-3 6-3

Nick Van Der Meer (Ned) bt Egor Puntus (Blr) 6-3 6-3

Ian Flanagan (Gbr) bt David Klier (Ger) 6-4 7-6 (7-3)

Ladislav Chramosta (Cze) bt Konstantinos Kalaitzis (Gbr) 6-0 6-4

Rest of the results from Jersey...

Andrey Golubev (Rus) bt Tom Burn (Gbr) 7-6 (9-7) 4-6 6-4
Philipp Marx (Ger) bt Ralph Grambow (Ger) 6-4 6-3
Stefano Ianni (Ita) bt David Brewer (Gbr) 6-1 6-7 (2-7) 6-3
Daniel King-Turner (Nzl) bt Xavier Audouy (Fra) 7-5 7-6 (8-6)

...so Flan The Man is the last Brit standing.

He's played very few broad.

Oddly, back in 2000, Flan The Man's 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th professional tournaments were satellites in Bulgaria, though he didn't qualify for any.

In 2002, he played 1 lost 1 in India.

In 2003, he went to Romania, and lost in 1st round qualifying.

In April 2004, he travelled to Qatar to play in two futures. He qualified for the second, but lost to Jamie Delgado in 1st rnd main draw.

Since then he's never played abroad, chosing to only play in GB, including in June 2004, his famous run at Queens.

Shock horror in doubles.

Bamford and May lost their first match in what seems like ages. They've made so many finals recently.

They lost to Tom Burn and Ross Hutchins 64 64 in doubles first round. Nice to see Ross win a match again though.

Only other British doubles winners were Dave Brewer and Matt Lowe beating Luke Campbell and Daniel King Turner (NZL) 36 63 64.