Non GB but worth a mention. Ukrainian world number 529(=CH) Vitaliy Sachko managed to get into qualifying as an alt. Then managed a shock victory against Pierre-Hughes Herbert. Anyway I notice he has managed to now get in the main draw as a Lucky Loser. Although now has 2nd seed Dominic Thiem. Making the main draw will be a good pay day though as least!
Non GB but worth a mention. Ukrainian world number 529(=CH) Vitaliy Sachko managed to get into qualifying as an alt. Then managed a shock victory against Pierre-Hughes Herbert. Anyway I notice he has managed to now get in the main draw as a Lucky Loser. Although now has 2nd seed Dominic Thiem. Making the main draw will be a good pay day though as least!
Both Bruno Spares and Rajeev Ram also got into quals as Alts.
Non GB but worth a mention. Ukrainian world number 529(=CH) Vitaliy Sachko managed to get into qualifying as an alt. Then managed a shock victory against Pierre-Hughes Herbert. Anyway I notice he has managed to now get in the main draw as a Lucky Loser. Although now has 2nd seed Dominic Thiem. Making the main draw will be a good pay day though as least!
Both Bruno Spares and Rajeev Ram also got into quals as Alts.
Dan wins the first set 6-4, then Aljas retires at 4-5 on serve. He hurt his hamstring, he had an MTO at the start of the set. It was clearly troubling him. The standard was not quite the level of last week.
L32: (SE) Daniel Evans WR 33 defeated (Q) Aljaz Bedene (SLO) WR 53 by 6-3 4-5 retired
*****
L16: (SE) Daniel Evans WR 33 vs (WC) Jurij Rodionov (AUT) WR 153 (CH = 148 earlier this month)
Rodionov beat Shapo (8) in straight sets yesterday...
Take that win over Bedene however it comes, although a scoreline like that sounds about right - any idea what Aljaz injury was?
All I saw was that the physio was assessing the problem. I imagine that Dan will have taken a certain satisfaction from that win, given his declared opposition when Aljaz first announced that he was switching his allegiance to GBR.
P.S. Just noticed that stevemcqueen referred to a hamstring problem.
Non GB but worth a mention. Ukrainian world number 529(=CH) Vitaliy Sachko managed to get into qualifying as an alt. Then managed a shock victory against Pierre-Hughes Herbert. Anyway I notice he has managed to now get in the main draw as a Lucky Loser. Although now has 2nd seed Dominic Thiem. Making the main draw will be a good pay day though as least!
Both Bruno Spares and Rajeev Ram also got into quals as Alts.
Bruno Spares - don't you just love auto correct.
Ha. Annoying though because I checked before submitting
L32: (SE) Daniel Evans WR 33 defeated (Q) Aljaz Bedene (SLO) WR 53 by 6-3 4-5 retired
*****
L16: (SE) Daniel Evans WR 33 vs (WC) Jurij Rodionov (AUT) WR 153 (CH = 148 earlier this month)
Rodionov beat Shapo (8) in straight sets yesterday...
Take that win over Bedene however it comes, although a scoreline like that sounds about right - any idea what Aljaz injury was?
Nice to see Evans beat Traitordene.
In general I like your dry sense of humour Vandenburg and tend not to take offense when you are being intentional controversial to stir up conversation..
But in this case, I am sorry, but I don't like the use of the word "traitor" for anyone.