Stircrazy wrote:

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steven wrote:

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

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And he can't quite escape his compatriots, at least not in the first round:  he's drawn ERV, the seventh seed!   At least he's in the opposite side of the draw to Bloomers, too.

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And ERV duly "did the biz":  saw him off in straight sets, 6-3 7-6(3).

 

i found it
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the sb is changing to bogdanovic literally, you can wtach the guy do it.

cleverly he appears to be leaving uop the letters that cna be used ins alex's name.

hold on he stoped with -og-a-----n---i

and has now staretd on the other guy.
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resisted the urge to fix the spelling

VB - you seem to delight in the prospect of players retiring.

The thing is when most of these guys do call it a day they will take up a full time coaching job, so a lot comes down to do they swap the daily grind of the tour for the mundane daily routine of club coaching.

I realise I shouldn't really be looking so far ahead, but a little snippet of news concerning Bloomers' half of the draw (though the other quarter):  the page for Cherbourg on the French Tennis Federation site doesn't give a reason, but the sixth seed, Boggo's conqueror in Wroclaw last week, Josselin Ouanna, withdrew (presumably overnight) & was replaced by the Russo-Yankee LL, Alex Kuznetsov, who promptly lost to the Austrian, Martin Fischer, by 1 & 3.

In addition, one of the French qualifiers, Romain Jouan, has beaten a main-draw opponent.  He saw off Martín Alund (ARG) by 2 & 1!

seagull wrote:

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Delgado/Meffert won 6-3, 6-1

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Good on 'em!   Since one half of the partnership on the other side of the net was Travis Rettenmaier, I wonder what that says about Skups's contribution to their lifting of the Wolfsburg title at the weekend!

 

We now have a representative in the top half of the doubles:  Thierry Ascione & Josselin Ouanna have withdrawn, presumably because of the latter's injury, whatever that may be, & they have been replaced by Bloomers & the American, Scott Oudsema.   Should they overcome Olivier Charroin & our old Polish friend, Dawid Olejniczak, in the first round, they will face the French pair, Mathieu Montcourt & Alexandre Sidorenko, in the QF.  M&S saw off the top seeds, Brian Battistone & Harsh Mankad, by 6-4 3-6 [10-7] earlier this afternoon.