Stircrazy wrote:

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Felix Gill should be in the main draw here, but there are no Brits in qualies, which was disappointing, as I'd have loved one of them to come up against a 19-year-old Swiss who rejoices in the name of Sam Kydd Baumgartner.  I doubt many, if any, on here will be old enough to remember it, but the sight of the first two parts of the name took me back to the 60s & an ITV series set in Casablanca & starring Patrick Allen, Crane.  The character actor, Sam Kydd, who seemed to pop up all over the place in those days, played a character called Orlando O'Connor, an ex-Legionnaire & smuggler, who became Crane's confidant.

Off topic, but more to do with tennis & something I've been meaning to query for the last two weeks or so, does anyone know why certain Futures events are now dubbed "coaching trials"?

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 Haha cant comment on Sam Kydd , means nothing to me! Re coaching trials , are they events where on Court coaching is being trialled in the mens game? 

Think Louis Wessels ranking should be 371

Bob in Spain wrote:

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This is where I start to get excited again until somebody reminds me that he has a chunk of points coming off.

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 He's got 17 to come off until the end of the year and 16 of those next week. But he's also got four non-counters so there's definitely scope to beat his points total if he has a really good run. 

SF:  Jorge Martínez (ESP) WR 737 (CH = 552 in July) vs Felix Gill WR 516

The Spaniard has just beaten the French top seed, Mathys Erhard, in three sets...