What's odd is that this Thompson boy has an Australian domestic ranking.
He used to represent South Africa earlier, is British now, trains in the US by the look of his events, but why Australia?


Also, his JT profile mentions that he is coached by one Neil Broad. So this is what Broad is up to these days....
http://www.juniortennis.com/ajt/playerinfo.php?player_id=7024

Broad was born in South Africa. So it may well be that he advised him to represent Britain.

Greenleaf, you may be interested in this thread on MTF...

http://www.menstennisforums.com/showthread.php?t=68425&page=3

Thompson now needs 16 more withdrawals.

John, if you go to the following link, and choose "Foreign" in the 'Type' field, you'll get many non-British players who have LTA rankings:

http://www.lta.org.uk/Search/LTARankings/default.htm?BSMGuid=4a7a994a-1ef3-4fa4-a045-ac31fab5209e

Thompson now needs 12 withdrawals for a main draw place. Qualies draw will be out on the 3rd, so there isn't much time.

Thomas Deighton has sneaked into the qualies field with all these withdrawals, but I'm not sure that he will turn up.

Draws are out:

Thompson didn't turn up. ]


MDS:

http://www.tennisaustralia.com.au/pages/image.aspx?assetId=RDM39086.8770833333

Dan plays Valentin Dimov of Bulgaria; he is ranked 67 in Juniors and doesn't have a men's point.
Hopefully Dan won't be rusty after being out of action for almost two and a half months due to injury. He can take it if he plays well.


Dyce gets an easier draw in the form of Bence-Gyula Toth of Hungary; ranked 110 in the world and without a men's point.
Dyce is due to play Eysseric in round two.

Dan will need three wins to improve his total.

It will take a lot of effort as he will have to beat a seed and then there will be Berankis. I don't know if things that happened in 2004 count for much, but Berankis has a superb record against Dan.

Dyce will need two wins and it'll be extremely difficult for him to beat Eysseric, who will become the world number one next Monday.


It'll be interesting to see who they play with in doubles. They might decide to team up like they did at Wimbly.


Best of luck to them in any case.

Dan won 64 62.

Awesome result against a higher ranked opponent.


In doubles, Dan has decided to team up with my favourite non-British Junior player, Lazare Kukhalashvili of Georgia.

Kukhalashvili is the highest ranked 1991 born player (37) even though he has been out of action since July!! He did the Eddie Herr-Orange Bowl double as a 12 year old and reached the finals of Les Petit As the year after Daniel did.

I don't really know if two world class players make a world class team, but let us hope so.

(On a side note, I wonder if Dan asked Lazare to play with him or if it was the other way round. )

Dyce plays with Andrew Thomas of Australia. Thomas isn't the player he was two years back when he absolutely dominated the European circuit but he is good even now.


MDD:

http://www.tennisaustralia.com.au/pages/image.aspx?assetId=RDM39087.844097037

Dan and Lazare play a wild card team with a combined ranking of over 1000.
Dyce and Thomas play the third seeds.