The board's panel of experts reckons that a DE into the AO is definitely not on, but he'll definitely be seeded in qualifying, and stands a good chance of getting one of the top 16 seedings - 5 points from a DE into one of the week 1 events should make that a certainty.
As for the week 1 tournaments: last year Marc Gicquel was at WR 123 (where Boggo sat when the entry lists were published, and he missed a DE by one place, eventually qualifying for Doha and winning a round.
So a DE is a possibility, but he'll be scraping it, and needs five or so people to drop out of each of the tournaments.
he will be in the states untill then, maybe just coming back for a day or so depending on which of the atps he gets into. He is planning on going to one of them, but like us will have ti wait and see, tho chenni is looking most likley (knowing al he scrap in as last DE and draw rafa rd1)
alex + alan will be going to saddlebrook, but and + brad will be at bolli's, dont know how much time Al will get. Andy will, naturally, want to spend a lot with brad. But there are some top players at saddlebrook, inc the bryans, blake. fish.
last year alex finshed the season later, he went to the orlando challenger then spent som time in the states taking a break. He alos went on a really inteinsve physical traung cousre in germany last xmas which is prealty why he missed the start of the year.
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