L32: (1/Q) Alex Slabinsky WR 353 beat Peter Lucassen (NED) WR 694 by 4 & 1 L32: (WC) Dan Smethurst WR 1056 lost to (Q) Alessandro Piccari (ITA) WR 930 by 0 & 4 L32: (Q) Ben Pritchard WR 1418 v Mattia Livraghi (ITA) WR 772 - Wed Other seed in Q1: (8) Andoni Vivanco-Guzman (ESP) WR 611 - Wed L32: (Q) Nick Cavaday WR 1170 v (4) Claudio Grassi (ITA) WR 449 - Wed L32: David Rice WR 904 beat (WC) Jack Carpenter UNR by 2 & 0 Other seed in Q2: (5) Nacho Coll-Riudavets (ESP) WR 517 (in 1/8th with no Brits) L32: James Feaver WR 820 lost to (6) Tim Goransson (SWE) WR 539 by 2 & 2 L32: (Q) Maniel Bains WR 1070 v Agustin Boje-Ordonez (ESP) WR 626 - Wed L32: Matthew Illingworth WR 705 v (Q) Gilles de Sousa (FRA) WR 1898 - Wed Other seed in Q3: (3) Pierre Metenier (FRA) WR 405 (into R2) First seed in Q4: (7) Marcel Zimmermann (GER) WR 553 (into R2) L32: (WC) Tom Farquharson UNR lost to James Lemke (AUS) WR 744 by 6-1 4-6 6-3 L32: (WC) James Marsalek WR 1545 v (Q) G Closa-Puncernau (ESP) WR 1475 - Wed Other seed in Q4: (2) Francesco Piccari (ITA) WR 377
L16: (1/Q) Alex Slabinsky WR 353 v (Q) Alessandro Piccari (ITA) WR 930
All of the remaining R1 matches are shown on the OoP as "to finish" except Marsalek's, but there are no latest scores on the Wednesday OoP on the ATP site (as there usually are when matches in other countries are unfinished) and the OoP on the LTA site is still for Tuesday.
-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 28th of April 2009 10:21:11 PM
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Illingworth's dire season continues and Pritchard and Marsalek got thrashed, the latter by a player ranked only just above him:
L32: (Q) Ben Pritchard WR 1418 lost to Mattia Livraghi (ITA) WR 772 by 0 & 3 L32: Matthew Illingworth WR 705 lost to (Q) Gilles de Sousa (FRA) WR 1898 by 6-4 7-6(3) L32: (WC) James Marsalek WR 1545 lost to (Q) G Closa-Puncernau (ESP) WR 1475 by 1 & 2
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cant say i'm overly surprised when its only clay you may as well thorw the rankings guildines out the winder and knock the brits down a few hundred places.
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L32: (Q) Nick Cavaday WR 1170 lost to (4) Claudio Grassi (ITA) WR 449 by 7-6(3) 6-7(5) 6-0 L32: (Q) Maniel Bains WR 1070 lost to Agustin Boje-Ordonez (ESP) WR 626 by 4 & 3
Amazingly good effort from Cavaday for two sets, but in the end we only have two through R1, and one of those was playing another Brit.
As wastes of LTA money go ...
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yes, in a way its strange having a clay event isnt it. the lta dont seem to want to abuse the system and have out of season events to assist out players. as we have seen some countires are pretty happy to have clay events nearly every week of the year, so why cant we have indoor futures about now?
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Here's the full rundown of how a very costly 2 points were gained - look for the elusive s
L32: (1/Q) Alex Slabinsky WR 353 beat Peter Lucassen (NED) WR 694 by 4 & 1 L32: (WC) Dan Smethurst WR 1056 lost to (Q) Alessandro Piccari (ITA) WR 930 by 0 & 4 L32: (Q) Ben Pritchard WR 1418 lost to Mattia Livraghi (ITA) WR 772 by 0 & 3 L32: (Q) Nick Cavaday WR 1170 lost to (4) Claudio Grassi (ITA) WR 449 by by 7-6(3) 6-7(5) 6-0 L32: David Rice WR 904 beat (WC) Jack Carpenter UNR by 2 & 0 L32: James Feaver WR 820 lost to (6) Tim Goransson (SWE) WR 539 by 2 & 2 L32: (Q) Maniel Bains WR 1070 lost to Agustin Boje-Ordonez (ESP) WR 626 by 4 & 3 L32: Matthew Illingworth WR 705 lost to (Q) Gilles de Sousa (FRA) WR 1898 by 6-4 7-6(3) L32: (WC) Tom Farquharson UNR lost to James Lemke (AUS) WR 744 by 6-1 4-6 6-3 L32: (WC) James Marsalek WR 1545 lost to (Q) Guillem Closa-Puncernau (ESP) WR 1475 by 1 & 3
L16: (1/Q) Alex Slabinsky WR 353 lost to (Q) Alessandro Piccari (ITA) WR 930 by 1 & 3 L16: David Rice WR 904 lost to (4) Claudio Grassi (ITA) WR 449 by 4-6 6-1 6-0
Admittedly there were only two losses to lower-ranked players, but too many of them were on the wrong end of complete thrashings. Looking on the bright side, Dan Smethurst's R1 loss doesn't look quite so bad now that Slabba has only taken 4 games off Piccari as well ...
What's worse is that there are two more weeks of this clay nonsense to come!
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GB on a shirt, Davis Cup still gleaming, 79 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming ... 29/11/2015 that dream came true!