QR1: (q1) Gijs Brouwer (NED) WR 464 (CH = 342 in August last year) vs Toby Martin WR 873 (CH = 641 in June 2015)
QR1: Adam Jones UNR vs Federico Arnaboldi (ITA) WR 890 (CH = 870 in January)
QR1: Jordan Hasson (ISR) WR 1239 (CH = 912 in November 2018) vs Henry Patten WR 1333 (CH = 1302 in February)
QR1: Sebastian Gima (ROU) WR 1396 (CH = 1333 in February) vs Sean Hodkin WR 1217 (CH = 1182 in June 2018) QR1: Neil Oberleitner (AUT) WR 1291 (CH = 1265 in January) vs (q12) Billy Harris WR 800 (CH = 609 in October 2018)
QR1: Jack Hodges UNR vs (q11) Stuart Parker WR 715 (CH = 712 last month)
Jan Choinski & Ryan Peniston should again be in the main draw.
It is eye opening how, when we look back at the summer closed Brits events of various types, it was great to see lots of Brits challenging and making what appeared to be a lot of progress, but it was all in the context of Brits only events - a lot of them seem to have not made any real progress since getting back into the Tour, which is a a little disappointing, but probably makes us realise how good the global level is outside the UK
It is eye opening how, when we look back at the summer closed Brits events of various types, it was great to see lots of Brits challenging and making what appeared to be a lot of progress, but it was all in the context of Brits only events - a lot of them seem to have not made any real progress since getting back into the Tour, which is a a little disappointing, but probably makes us realise how good the global level is outside the UK
It is a shame. However these are stacked tournaments for the level they are. Anyone who manages to string several results together each week for a few weeks is probably a much better player than ITFs. How often would you get a WR 578 in qualifying in an M15 let alone as low as the 5th seed.
I'd probably say the strength of the fields in Greece are probably similar to what you'd expect at the Challenger 35 level so two levels above this.
However the positive is that some players are playing competitive tennis and that will surely hold them in good stead for when the entry lists are closer to normal at some point next season. Then hopefully players can string some results together which might give them the momentum to get up the rankings and play the higher levels.