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Get out your Wheaties for the proper breakfast to watch first week action in the Section of Champions, Section 7. Seven of the 16 players in the section have won titles on grass. Anchoring the top part of the section are two competitors with multiple titles and Wimby SFs. A third and unseeded player has won a title in London and has also made a Wimby SF.
1R action there will eliminate at least two of the champions when #6 seed fedr (8x SW19 champion) plays unseeded 2019 Rosmalen champion Mannarino.The winner then advances for a potential 2R encounter with 2018 Rosmalen and 2005/6 Nottingham champion Gasquet. The Frenchman has also made two SW19 SFs, each time losing to the eventual champion. Gasquet must defeat 2017 Antalya champion Sugita to advance.
Other champions 1R:
Pouille (Stuttgart’17 champion) vs #29 seed Norrie (recent Queen’s Club finalist)
#23 seed Sonego (Antalya’19 champion) vs Pedro Sousa
Dangerous Sam Querrey (Queen’s’10 champion, Wimby’17 SF and today’s Mallorca finalist) is unseeded and faces #11 seed PCB at the bottom of the draw.
Quite the section of land mines for any of these players to make it through. Seven champions and a recent Queen’s finalist make this just like a Group of Death international football tournament.
1R action there will eliminate at least two of the champions when #6 seed fedr (8x SW19 champion) plays unseeded 2019 Rosmalen champion Mannarino.The winner then advances for a potential 2R encounter with 2018 Rosmalen and 2005/6 Nottingham champion Gasquet. The Frenchman has also made two SW19 SFs, each time losing to the eventual champion. Gasquet must defeat 2017 Antalya champion Sugita to advance.
Other champions 1R:
Pouille (Stuttgart’17 champion) vs #29 seed Norrie (recent Queen’s Club finalist)
#23 seed Sonego (Antalya’19 champion) vs Pedro Sousa
Dangerous Sam Querrey (Queen’s’10 champion, Wimby’17 SF and today’s Mallorca finalist) is unseeded and faces #11 seed PCB at the bottom of the draw.
Quite the section of land mines for any of these players to make it through. Seven champions and a recent Queen’s finalist make this just like a Group of Death international football tournament.
