Good effort from Thornley...unlucky.....so a few Brits through...heres fingers crossed...ta for the results Sally !!

Sally wrote:

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No prob

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[1] Steve Darcis BEL v [11] Andrew Kennaugh GBR
[8] Neil Bamford GBR v [16] Alex Miotto GBR

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nice draw for Kennaugh...i dont think

At least one Brit will make the MD (3 rounds right ?)

Horrible final round draw for Kennaugh I can't really see him taking a set off Darcis who is seriously underanked, if it wasn't for injuries he would be a lot higher than 483. Last week he made the quarters and in 2006 he took a set off Vince Spadea !

I know that Flanagan won the British tour event last week but I still think that Kennaugh should have got a wildcard ahead of him, after beating Childs last week.

Good that we've got an all-British match-up, I reckon Bamford in two. Miotto is based at Bath university, he's on a special scheme which allows him to study for his degree and train and compete as a pro tennis player at the same time. Seems to travel a lot with the Sutton gang.

Josh Miller did well to beat Bolleli in the first round, as with most of the Brits he was heavily outranked in rd2 I thought that Brewer and Podlewski might have chances of causing an upset but don't really know much about their opponents.

Sally wrote:

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[11] Andrew Kennaugh GBR d. Adam Barratclough GBR 63 75
[3] Enrico Burzi ITA d. Joshua Miller GBR 63 60
[10] Rasmus Norby DEN d. Edward Allinson GBR 64 76 (3)
[4] Fabio Colangelo ITA d. Burnham Arlidge GBR 67 (7) 63 64
[5] Josselin Ouanna FRA d. Simon Childs GBR 64 62
[14] Martin Bay-Pedersen DEN d. David Brewer GBR 63 75
[7] Maxime Authom BEL d. Richard Irwin GBR 61 62
[12] Juho Paukku FIN d. Oscar Podlewski GBR 60 62
[8] Neil Bamford GBR d. Christopher Llewellyn GBR 64 62
[16] Alex Miotto GBR d. Daniel Jewitt GBR 75 62

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What a horrible set of results...every brit playing a non-brit managed to lose.

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Arka, so we reckon Slabba, Rushby, Flanagan on the first 3 wcs. Who do you think has got the final one ?

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By my reckoning, the only promising juniors left in the country are Pauffley, Marcus Willis, Smethurst and Lewis Barnes.

Pauffley could get the nod because he had a grand time in Sweden. Willis was given a WC after player well in Scandinavia a few months ago.

The LTA could call up one of less heralded players like Tim Hewitt.

Eaton 778 (WC) vs Stefano Ianni ITA 417

Bamford 703 (Q) vs Marco Crugnola ITA (7) 322

Smith 656 (WC) vs Steve Darcis (BEL) 483

Rushby (WC) 669 vs Adrian Mannarino (FRA) 445

Flanagan (WC) 659 vs Sergei Bubka UKR 372

No Childs either????

So all 5 have very little chance of reaching R2

Gosh, so Matt Smith is back at last. Good to see him back, but it is definitely a bit odd that they've given him a WC when he couldn't be bothered to qualify last week (unless he was injured at that stage) and not Slabba, who qualified and reached the QFs. Very mysterious.

Otherwise, the WCs don't seem too silly this week. 

Lee Childs withdrew injured btw.