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Week 19 - Challenger ($50,000) - Karshi, Uzbekistan (hard)
(Preview)
Darren & Adham make the trek all the way to Uzbekistan only to draw arguably the most dangerous pair of "floaters" in the draw in the first round: R1: Mikhail Elgin & Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS/RUS) WR 677 vs Adham El-Effendi (USA) & Darren Walsh WR 646 Edited to reflect toda...
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Week 18 - USA F11 ($10,000) - Vero Beach (Clay)
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(Preview)
L32: (7) Kyle Edmund WR 510 v (LL) Janis Podzus (LAT) UNR A decent draw for Kyle. If the seedings run their course. Kyle will face his old buddy (and Nº1 seed) Chase Buchanan in the QF. But let's not count our chickens just yet. It would be good just to see Kyle hit some form.
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Week 19 - Guatemala F1 ($15,000) - Guatemala City (Hard)
(Preview)
QR1: Samuel Beddow UNR v Felipe Tamayo (CHI) UNR
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Week 18 - Challenger ($50,000) - Tallahassee, FL, USA (Clay)
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Boggo did get in, as the last but one DA I think. Not a great draw ... L32: Alex Bogdanovic WR 281 v (WC) Austin Krajicek (USA) WR 352 (CH 330 in Jan) Krajicek comes in on a 5-match winning streak, having won Little Rock Futures, where Alex lost in R2. He also won another 15K in Canada last month. The really ba...
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Week 18 - Challenger ($50,000) - An-Ning, China (Clay)
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(Preview)
As expected James Ward has made an on site entrance into qualifying. QR1: (q2) James Ward WR 213 v Bye QR2: (q2) James Ward WR 213 v Xiao Gong (CHN) WR 1572 or Woong-Sun Jun (KOR) WR 953 Other seed in Ward's section is (q6) Sami Reinwein (GER) WR 685 -- Edited by RJA on Friday 26th of April 2013 03:07:59 PM
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Week 18 - Challenger ($125,000 +H) - Tunis Open, Tunis (red clay)
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(Preview)
Jamie D teams up with (I seem to recall - I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong) a previous partner: R1: Farrukh Dustov & Adrian Ungur (UZB/ROU) WR 1266 vs (2) Jamie Delgado & Andreas Siljeström (SWE) WR 201 -- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 28th of April 2013 12:26:08 PM
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Week 18 - Greece F5 ($10,000) - Iraklion (hard)
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(Preview)
Unless I've missed it, I'm a bit surprised this one hasn't had a thread devoted to it yet! R1: (1) Lewis Burton & Ed Corrie WR 703 vs Andrew Carter & Charalampos Kapogiannis (USA/GRE) UNR R1: (4) Josh Milton & Andrew Whittington (AUS) WR 1993 vs Christopher Stoikoudis & Ethan Tul...
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Week 18 - Spain F12 ($10,000) - Balaguer (Clay)
(Preview)
Slabba is a DA here and could be top seed QR1: (q15) Max Andrews WR 1671 v Jesper Korsbaek Jensen (DEN) UNR Edit: sorry, had to correct the spelling of the venue before it drove me to distraction! -- Edited by Stircrazy on Friday 26th of April 2013 09:12:24 PM
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Week 18 - Italy F6 ($15,000) - Pozzuoli (Clay)
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(Preview)
L32: (5) Oliver Golding WR 456 v Qualifier
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Week 18 - ATP 250 - Oeiras (Estoril), Portugal (red clay) - doubles
(Preview)
Dom trying to 'do a Kuala Lumpur' - and he has certainly not picked quite as tough an option as Alex in Munich qualies! QR1: Dom Inglot WR 891 v (q7) Henri Laaksonen (SUI) WR 258 Edit: changing the subject line to reflect the focus of Brit interest next week. -- Edited by Stircrazy on Saturday 27th of Ap...
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Week 18 - Challenger (€85,000 +H) - Prosperita Open, Ostrava, Czech Republic (red clay)
(Preview)
 Darren & Adham have snuck into the draw here as alternates, replacing Gaba & Rosol: R1: (ALT) Adham El-Effendi (USA) & Darren Walsh WR 679 vs (WC) Adam Pavlasek & Jiri Vesely (CZE/CZE) WR 839 Good chance to bag a few points - if they can get past the Czech tyros! Unfortunat...
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Week 18 - Turkey F17 ($10,000) - Antalya - Belconti (Hard)
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(Preview)
Coupland is a DA here QR1: Steven Jarmen UNR v BYE QR1: Stefan Sterland-Markovic UNR v Dimitar Petrov (BUL) UNR QR1: (q6) Alexander Jhun WR 1764 v Bye QR1: Sam Holt UNR v Pavel Shchaya-Zubrov (RUS) UNR QR1: Robert Morris UNR v Aleksandr Ivanovich Spirin (RUS) UNR
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Week 18 - Challenger (€30,000+H) - Napoli, Italy (Clay)
(Preview)
L32: Jamie Baker WR 237 v (8) Bastian Knittel (GER) WR 184 (CH 157 in 2011) These two have met once before, at Nottingham 7 years ago, when Jamie won in 3 sets 7-5 2-6 6-1.
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Week 17 - Great Britain F9 ($10,000) - Bournemouth (Clay)
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(Preview)
DAs for Slabinsky, Fitzpatrick, Cox, Gabb, Carpenter, Hewitt and Martin. O'Mara has a main draw wild card and other possibilities include Orton, Hudson, Carter and Malik all of whom were on the qualifying entry list but who are not in the draw. Orton and Hudson might have sneaked into the main draw if...
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Week 17 - Greece F4 ($10,000) - Heraklion (Hard)
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(Preview)
Not quite as many Brits in Greece for this one but we have DAs for Corrie, Willis, Burton and Morgan. QR1: Harry Meehan WR 1959 v Stefan Steinbrugger (GER) UNR
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Week 18 - Israel F8 ($10,000) - Ashkelon (Hard)
(Preview)
This could be a very short thread. QR1: James Allemby UNR v Bye QR2: James Allemby UNR v (q1) Scott Griekspoor (NED) WR 1033
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Week 17 - Turkey F16 ($10,000) - Antalya - Belconti (Hard)
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DAs for Baker, Pauffley and Farquharson. Also looks like Coupland has sneaked in. QR1: Steven Jarman UNR v Pavle Daljev (SRB) UNR QR1: Robert Morris UNR v Flurin Vital Leuch (LIE) UNR
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Week 18 - ATP 250 - Munich (Clay)
(Preview)
QR1: Alex Ward WR 452 v Michael Berrer (GER) WR 142
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Week 17 - Challenger ($50,000) - Savannah, GA, USA (clay)
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(Preview)
It looks like James Ward made it into the main draw in the end without having to go through qualifying. QR1: (wc) Dan Regan UNR v (wc) Sven Lalic (BIH) UNR QR1: Kyle Edmund WR 515 v Pablo Gor Costales (ESP) WR 1569 Dan played Futures qualifying four times in 2008, losing in straight sets in QR1 each time to f...
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Week 17 - France F9 ($15,000) - Grasse (Clay)
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(Preview)
L32: Alexander Ward WR 451 v (Q) Maxime Chazal (FRA) WR 744 L32: (7) Dan Smethurst WR 371 v Miljan Zekic (SRB) WR 436 -- Edited by RJA on Sunday 21st of April 2013 05:22:21 PM
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Week 17 - Israel F7 ($10,000) - Ashkelon (Hard)
(Preview)
James Marsalek is a DA here and should be seeded in what looks like a pretty weak field. Strangely enough quite a few players are less than eager to play tennis in a city that is just 8 miles from the Gaza strip and which is often targetted by rockets. QR1: James Allemby UNR v (q8) Saar Steele (ISR) WR 1895
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Week 17 - ATP 250 series - BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy, Bucharest - doubles (red clay)
(Preview)
Decent new partner for Ken this week &, on the face of it, a winnable first-round match: R1: Xavier Malisse (BEL) & Ken Skupski WR 104 vs (WC) Victor Hanescu & Gilles Müller (ROU/LUX) WR 477 And good to see Dom continung to compete at this level. Trouble is, it's a cr@p draw: R1: Dominic I...
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Week 17 - ATP 500 series - Banc Sabadell Open, Barcelona - doubles (red clay)
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(Preview)
Sod's law, but an early opportunity to avenge this week's second-round defeat, I suppose : R1: Colin Fleming & Jonny Marray WR 46 (*) vs (4) Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi & Jean-Julien Rojer (PAK/NED) WR 15 (**) (*) 35th in the race as of yesterday (**) third in the race -- Edited by Stircrazy...
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Week 16 - Egypt F3 ($10,000) - Sharm El Sheikh (Clay)
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(Preview)
Oli really needs to get things going this week. He soon his some pretty big points to defend L32: (5) Oliver Golding WR 459 v Kristijan Mesaros (CRO) WR 655
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Week 16 - Greece F3 ($10,000) - Heraklion (Hard)
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(Preview)
Big British participation again this week. Goodall, Bloomfiled, Willis and Burton are DAs. QR1: Harry Meehan WR 1953 v (wc) Athanasios Verbis (GRE) UNR QR1: Adam Skalsky UNR v (q15) Vaclav Safraneck (CZE) WR 1184 QR1: (q13) Oliver Hudson WR 1134 v Ivan Polyakov (RUS) WR 1764 QR1: (q9) George Morgan...
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