Actually he is at least 4th seed as Fleishman is out

UltimateMackinFan wrote:

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Britain's Chris Harfield is in qualifying. In rd1 he plays unranked 16 year old Canadian Jean-Olivier Hebert so a good chance for him to win a round.

Drew, do you know if there's a website for this tournament ?

-- Edited by UltimateMackinFan at 11:28, 2006-10-28

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Web site : http://www.tennisrimouski.com/tournoi/2006/index.htm

Web site is in French with no english version. Cannot find any "points de phase" link....live score...

The site below appears to offer livescores....

Livescores : http://www.livescorehunter.com/Livescores/Livescore-Tennis.html


-- Edited by Drew at 11:50, 2006-10-28

Superb news !!!!

Thanks Drew, where do you click on to get the video feed ?

Main draw:

R1: (4) Richard Bloomfield WR 232 v Matthias Bachinger (GER) WR 363

Richard's draw looks pretty good overall, but Bachinger did win the Cordoba Future last week (on outdoor hard) without losing a set.

 

decent chance for richard to make the semis i reckon

Three out of the four seeds playing yesterday were knocked out: either a bad omen for Richard, or a great opportunity!

I'm guessing that the match will probably start at around 5pm GMT.

Unfortunately it looks as though the live score site Drew suggested isn't working for this challenger. However there's a guy on MTF who's going to provide score updates throughout the day by phoning the tournament office. I'm also going to email the tournament office, the guy in Louisville didn't reply to my request for Jamie Baker scores last night so hopefully I'll be lucky this time round.

I hear that this tournament is on indoor carpet. If that's true that should suit Richard down the the ground and greatly increase his chances of a good run this week. As goldenboy said, it's a superb opportunity for him to reach the semis. It's a shame Jonny Marray didn't take your advice Bladetiger, he could have done some real damage here.

As steven said, Bachinger had a great run a couple of weeks ago on outdoor hard in Spain, winning without dropping a set. However, none of his opponents were ranked inside the top 400. His best performance of the year came on German clay when he made the semis of the Freudenstadt challenger in August, though the field was quite weak. He's also made a further two futures finals and 3 semis, all on clay.