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steven


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Oh dear, it looks like the Brits may have to bash each other again cry

QR1: (q2) Richard Bloomfield WR 306 v (WC) Kenny de Schepper (FRA) WR 1190
QR1: Jonny Marray WR 435 v Mathieu Rodrigues (FRA) WR 378

Winners to play each other in QR2. The other seed in this section is (q5) Tim Smyczek (USA) WR 334.



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I just don't believe how often this 'friendly fire' situation arises, well potentially anyway!



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Both Brits are 4th on Court not before 13.00 GMT

Live scores - http://www.protennislive.com/frameset.asp?year=2009&wkno=9C&lang=en&tabno=2&eventid=0398

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anyone managed to get the livescores up for this event? everytime i bring up the page it shows no matches.





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That's not good. Maybe teething problems, or maybe they aren't doing live scores until the main draw cry

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Final scores are here http://www.ti.fft.fr/EvMenu.asp?CodeEvent=0811183043 which is better than nothing, but neither the ATP live scores nor the "Score en Direct" on the Cherbourg site seem to be working at the moment.

Stéphane Robert has a main draw WC for this one, of course. They just can't escape him ... doh



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Jonny Marray is through to round 2 beating Rodrigues 6-3 6-4.
Theres been some long matches on Richards court so no result yet



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Bloomers wins 7-5, 7-6(7).

Good win for the two Brits today - just a shame that they have to meet in the next round and both would have had a great shot of qualifying here.

Have to hope that whoever wins the match does go on to qualify and can get a decent first round draw.

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They've got what they call a blog for Cherbourg. It's not really a blog, more a comments board, but someone from the tournament had answered someone else's question so I thought I'd ask about live scores during qualifying: http://challengerdcns2009.skyrock.com/2327522511_comment_1.html

The answer means they're still breaking it in (i.e. trying to get it to work) ... whether they'll manage to do that before qualifying ends is anybody's guess of course!



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Still no result yet but the main draw has been released and the good news is that all the qualifiers are in opposite half of draw to Robert

Possible opponents
Bastl
Mannarino (4)
Alund
Jenkins



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They're now saying that live scoring isn't working during qualifying because they're playing on three courts but it will be working for the main draw. We need to get someone there before that's any use of course!

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Bloomers came back from a set down to win the battle of the Brits:

QR2: (q2) Richard Bloomfield WR 306 beat Jonny Marray WR 435 by 4-6 6-3 6-4 smilecry
FQR: (q2) Richard Bloomfield WR 306 v Philippe-Albin de Bonnevie (FRA) WR 453

Edit: the FQR will be played "after suitable rest".

De Bonnevie has been winning a fair number of matches at Futures level in the past year, looking to have carefully picked the weaker ones, and is at a career high but has only attempted to qualify for a Challenger once before. That was in Andrézieux in 2006, where he just happened to come up against a Norfolk boy in QR1 - Aucks beat him 5 & 2. Winning two matches in this qualifying competition is quite a breakthrough and it looks like no. 5 seed Tim Smyczek, whom he beat today, could well be his first top 350 scalp. Bloomers should fancy his chances, let's just hope de Bonnevie isn't on too much of a confidence high!

-- Edited by steven at 14:41, 2009-03-01

-- Edited by steven at 14:51, 2009-03-01

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Have you misread the schedule Steven?
Bloomfield OR Marray
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De Bonnevie OR Smyczek

Note the 'OR'

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Dohhhh! ashamed That's bad even by my recent low standards, which seem to be dropping almost as fast as Boggo's ranking did under Brad Gilbert. cry

Well, come on Bloomers then! smile

-- Edited by steven at 14:53, 2009-03-01

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In fact Jonny and Rich are not in the doubles but would you believe as I referred to earlier as 'friendly fire' - that Skupsli/Konning play 3rd seeds Aucks/Torres - the winners to play Delgado/Meffert or Rettenmaier/Yani
It just a french plot to get rid of the Brits as quickly as possible! wink



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