He's an interesting quite from Jonathan Overand's column on the BBC website.
Evans sat down with Smith after the tie to coherently plot his schedule through to the end of Wimbledon. He has a plan and wants to play. The meeting left Smith hopeful that this could be a turning point
Let's just hope and see whether he enters a few more draws.
I seem to recall that I expressed hopes that Leon would sit down with Dan after the tie and have a serious conversation about his future. Glad to see that it happened.
1 Melo, Marcelo (BRA)/Marrero, David (ESP) 44 2 Bracciali, Daniele (ITA)/Fognini, Fabio (ITA) 57 3 Gonzalez, Santiago (MEX)/Lipsky, Scott (USA) 63 4 Lorenzi, Paolo (ITA)/Seppi, Andreas (ITA) 76 5 Paire, Benoit (FRA)/Roger-Vasselin, Edouard (FRA) 81 6 Erlich, Jonathan (ISR)/Inglot, Dominic (GBR) 91 7 Elgin, Mikhail (RUS)/Istomin, Denis (UZB) 111 8 Murray, Jamie (GBR)/Peers, John (AUS) 124 9 Hanescu, Victor (ROU)/Muller, Gilles (LUX) 125 10 Marx, Philipp (GER)/Mergea, Florin (ROU) 140 11 (OS) 12 (OS) 13 (OS) 14 (OS) 15 (WC) 16 (WC)
Alternates 1 Monroe, Nicholas (USA)/Stadler, Simon (GER) 161 2 Goffin, David (BEL)/Norman, Dick (BEL) 165 3 Bednarek, Tomasz (POL)/Zelenay, Igor (SVK) 167 4 Delgado, Jamie (GBR)/Siljestrom, Andreas (SWE) 191
Munich
1 Peya, Alexander (AUT)/Soares, Bruno (BRA) 36 2 Butorac, Eric (USA)/Hanley, Paul (AUS) 78 3 Cermak, Frantisek (CZE)/Mertinak, Michal (SVK) 86 4 Dlouhy, Lukas (CZE)/Troicki, Viktor (SRB) 92 5 Cabal, Juan Sebastian (COL)/Farah, Robert (COL) 98 6 Malisse, Xavier (BEL)/Skupski, Ken (GBR) 104 7 Kas, Christopher (GER)/Marach, Oliver (AUT) 108 8 Nieminen, Jarkko (FIN)/Tursunov, Dmitry (RUS) 115 9 Begemann, Andre (GER)/Emmrich, Martin (GER) 128 10 Brunstrom, Johan (SWE)/Moser, Frank (GER) 137 11 (OS) 12 (OS) 13 (OS) 14 (OS) 15 (WC) 16 (WC)
Alternates 1 Monroe, Nicholas (USA)/Stadler, Simon (GER) 161 2 Bednarek, Tomasz (POL)/Zelenay, Igor (SVK) 167 3 Delgado, Jamie (GBR)/Siljestrom, Andreas (SWE) 191
It seems that Evo has finally got round to entering a tournament and will play the Newcastle futures in week 19. This probably increases the chances of him making an appearance at Bournemouth and/or Edinburgh either in qualies or as a wild card.
James Ward tweeted earlier to say he is off to China tomorrow. I am guessing he will make a late entry into qualifying of the An-Ning challenger which currently only has 15 players on the qualifying entry list.
-- Edited by RJA on Wednesday 24th of April 2013 10:09:39 AM
James Marsalek seems to be playing Israel, Greece, Israel?
Yep. I noticed that. Very strange indeed.
Possible that he intended to withdraw from Greece in week 18 (Israel was his second priority for that week) but forgot to do so. Afterall, Israel wasn't his initial forst priority in week 17.
Hev officially withdrew from Estroril today. Judy said she doesn't know whether it will be 3 weeks or 3 months before she makes her return, maybe not as positive as you would have hoped.
I know in a recent interview Hev said she was hoping to return for the French. But I am also thinking now that she might not and will return for the Grass court season.