In an event of this level, all those opening matches are winnable. It then depends how the draw opens up.

All of them are potential losses as well, of course! 18 of top 20 here. Entry cut off is Jack at 49. Take away the 4 wildcards and that is 45 of top 49 all playing in main draw. 47 of top 50 if we include qualies . High quality field

JonH comes home wrote:

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Not British, but I see Arthur Fils has qualified for main draw. Well done to him and someone I believe CD follows?

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 Only as one of the several 'great young French hopes' 

No particular connection to him

And certainly can't make any claim to having 'talent-spotted' him 

He's a nice-looking lad though, with a good game, the sort of game that will move well to adult tennis  

And with him and the likes of Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (with whom Arthur won the dubs at the Junior French Open), it's rather nice to see some new young black players, especially amongst the boys (on a global scale, there seems to be an excellent pipeline of young black female players but a real shortage amongst the boys) 

Courts look quite quick..

L56:  (12) Cameron Norrie WR 13 defeated Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB) WR 29 by 2 & 4

The crowd are a bit partisan at the moment. Simon's last match?

Last match or not , its a war of attrition - not that one would expect anything different from these two. First sets are two hours in ( and its not quite two sets yet in fact)