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Week 30 - Belgium F6 ($10,000) - Heist (Clay)
(Preview)
QR1: (q9) Evan Hoyt WR 1740 v Bye QR2: (q9) Evan Hoyt WR 1740 v Florian Dambes (FRA) UNR or Damian Farinola (AUS) UNR
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Week 30 - Spain F23 ($10,000) - Denia (Clay)
(Preview)
Shortest thread of the week? QR1: Taylor Bate UNR lost to Antonio Batlle (ESP) UNR by &  I was going to say it was a Futures baptism of fire for 18yo Taylor, but in fact he played qualies in Portugal in March, where he won 4 games in his first match.
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Week 30 - Egypt F17 ($10,000) - Sharm el Sheikh (Clay)
(Preview)
QR1: Joe Cooper UNR v Patrick Grams (GER) UNR
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Week 29 - Challenger (€30,000+H) - Recanati, Italy (hard)
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Yet another new partner - & a lousy draw - for Delgo, while the Skupskis play their first Challenger together & are seeded ( ): R1: (1) Stefano Ianni & Dane Propoggia (ITA/AUS) CR 248 vs Marius Copil (ROU) & Jamie Delgado CR 420 R1: Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Albano Olivetti (FRA/...
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Week 29 - Serbia F5 ($10,000) - Belgrade (Clay)
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(Preview)
Matt Short is a DA QR1: (q2) Toby Martin WR 1017 v Ivan Sabanov (CRO) UNR
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Week 29 - Challenger (€42,500) - Eskisehir, Turkey (Hard)
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(Preview)
Evo, Brydan & Ed should be in the main draw here. QR2: (q7) Sean Thornley WR 1217 v Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) UNR (CH 655 in 2004) FQR: (q2) Dave Rice WR 445 v (q8) Gilad ben Zvi (ISR) WR 1217 or Ilya Ivashka (BLR) WR 1388 FQR: Thornley or Ratiwatana v (q4) Filip Veger (CRO) WR 682 -- Edited by steven on Fri...
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Week 29 - Great Britain F14 ($10,000) - Felixstowe (Grass)
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(Preview)
Pauffley, Willis, Fitzpatrick, Gabb, Farquharson, Burton, Bloomfield, Ward-Hibbert, Broady, Coupland, Orton, Ireland, Malik and Hudson should all be in the main draw here. Looks like a wild card for O'Mara, although he might have sneaked in as the last DA. Qualifying Draw NB: If anyone is planni...
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Week 29 - Challenger ($50,000 + H) - Granby, Canada (Hard)
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(Preview)
L32: James Ward WR 264 v Erik Chvojka (CAN) WR 328
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Week 29 - Belgium F5 ($15,000+H) - Middelkerke-Westende (Clay)
(Preview)
QR2: Frankie Joe Hoar UNR v Nikita Tsirkun (RUS) UNR
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Week 29 - Estonia F1 ($15,000) - Tallinn (Clay)
(Preview)
QR1: Tom Miller UNR v (q5) Oskars Vaskis (LAT) WR 1613 Tom is a 21-year-old making his Futures debut. His only previous matches on ITF are a & 1 loss to Keelan Oakley and a 2 & loss to Conor Bunting in qualifying for the two Nottingham junior G4s in 2009, so good luck to him in Tallinn - he might nee...
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Week 29 - Challenger ($50,000) - Binghamton, NY, USA (Hard)
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(Preview)
L32: Alex Bogdanovic WR 267 v Stephane Bohli (SUI) WR 380 Nice draw for Boggo and the next round is pretty good as well, either sixth seed Alex Kuznetsov or Christian Harrison. Boggo has 18 points to come off on Monday, 25 the following week and 27 the week after. He really needs to find some form.
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Week 29 - Challenger (€30,000+H) - Poznań, Poland (Clay)
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QR1: (q3) Dan Smethurst WR 394 v Piotr Baranski (POL) UNR Intriguingly, no sign of Alex here ... Edit: Not sure why Activeboard allows accented n in the title but not in the main text ... -- Edited by steven on Friday 12th of July 2013 08:01:49 PM
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Week 29 - USA F19 ($10,000) - Joplin, MO (Hard)
(Preview)
QR1: Lloyd Bruce-Burgess UNR v Julian Allen Childers (USA) UNR QR2: Bruce-Burgess or Childers v (q3) Oleg Dmitriev (RUS) WR 1528
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Week 29 - Egypt F16 ($10,000) - Sharm el Sheikh (Clay)
(Preview)
QR1: Joe Cooper UNR or Filippo Giorgetti (ITA) UNR QR2: Cooper or Giorgetti v (q1) Matias Castro (ARG) WR 1182
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Week 29 - Spain F22 ($10,000) - Gandia (Clay)
(Preview)
QR1: George Davies UNR v (wc) Roberto Affonso Neto (ITA) UNR
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Week 28 - Great Britain F13 ($10,000) - Ilkley (Grass)
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(Preview)
Goodall, Pauffley, Cox, Willis, Gabb, Farquharson, Ward-Hibbert, Broady, Coupland, Orton, Ireland, Hudson, O'Mara and Aswat should all be in the main draw. Probable wild cards for Malik, Goodman and Salisbury, possibly also Carter who wasn't on the acceptance list Qualifying draw has just 7 ra...
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Week 28 - Serbia F4 ($10,000) - Belgrade (Clay)
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Matt Short is a DA here QR1: (q2) Toby Martin WR 1014 v Vukasin Sibinovic (SRB) UNR
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Week 28 - ATP 250 - Stuttgart (Clay)
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I was quite surprised when I checked the qualifying draws of the the two clay court challengers in Europe and didn't see Smetty and Wardy on them. I was pleased to find out that there was a very good reason for that. QR1: Daniel Smethurst WR 395 v (q8) Damir Dzumhur (BIH) WR 264 QR1: Alex Ward WR 396 v Sandro...
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Week 28 - Challenger (€42,500) - Istanbul, Turkey (Hard)
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(Preview)
QR1: (q1) Ed Corrie WR 340 v Mikhail Ledovskikh (RUS) WR 860 (CH 151 in 2008) QR1: (q5) Dave Rice WR 469 v (wc) Vaja Uzakov (UZB) WR 887 (CH 698 in 2010) - H2H 1-0, 4 & 4, Kuala Lumpur 2009 -- Edited by steven on Friday 5th of July 2013 11:33:21 PM
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Week 28 - Turkey F27 ($10,000) - Istanbul (Hard)
(Preview)
QR1: David Porter UNR v Hao Zhang (CHN) UNR
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Week 28 - France F7 ($15,000+H) - Bourg-en-Bresse (Clay)
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(Preview)
L32: (8) Oli Golding WR 529 v (Q) Franck Pepe (FRA) WR 876 (CH 612 in 2012) Pepe won a Futures title in Germany on indoor hard last year and reached a Futures SF in Germany on clay as a qualifier as recently as last month.
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Week 28 - Germany F9 ($10,000) - Hannover (clay - the Gottfried von Cramm Cup! ;))
(Preview)
The doubles partners go head to head in the first round of the singles! L32: Daniel Glancy (IRL) WR 858 vs (2) Josh Milton WR 431 Josh dropped 51 places in the rankings this week! ****** R1: (3) Daniel Glancy (IRL) & Josh Milton CR 1412 vs BYE QF: (3) Daniel Glancy (IRL) & Josh Milton CR 1412 v...
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Week 28 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Scheveningen, Netherlands (red clay)
(Preview)
Yet another new partner for Darren, but at least he has a decent doubles ranking (134). Wonder what's happened to Adham... R1: Colin Ebelthite (AUS) & Darren Walsh WR 433 vs Ruben Gonzales & Chris Letcher (PHI/AUS) WR 433
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Week 28 - Romania F7 ($10,000) - Pitești (Clay)
(Preview)
L32: (4) James Marsalek WR 547 v Qualifier
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Weeks 26 & 27: Wimbledon (grass) - mixed doubles
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(Preview)
Ratty's favourite competition! Lots of Brit interest & good to see Kyle getting involved in this one as well. R1: Colin Fleming & Laura Robson vs Filip Polasek & Janette Husarova (SVK/SVK) R1: Kyle Edmund & Eugénie Bouchard (CAN) vs Frederik Nielsen & Sofia Arvidsson (DEN/...
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