ET13 round one

Been a brutal week for withdrawals from the World Series Finals, making one of the most irrelevant events on the calendar even more useless, but that's a next week problem (and not for me, no ranking no care) so let's pile into the round one games, the quali has started nice and early and Dimitri's already fucked up his home nation qualifier wildcard (yeah running into Baetens isn't nice but it's still a cheap trick to try to pull, at least de Decker looks like he'll get there). Bye bye tour card probably. Here we go:

Zonneveld/Tous - no data on Tous

Mansell/Brooks - 40/46/46/44

Gilding/Landman - 64/68/71/68

Doets/Hurrell - 76/67/63/69

Sedlacek/Hansen - no data on Hansen

de Graaf/HNQ3 - 

Joyce/Burton - 51/47/48/49

Springer/HNQ1 - 

Cross/Reyes - 65/63/57/62

Cullen/HNQ4 - 

Menzies/Clemens - 73/67/67/69

O'Connor/HNQ2 - 

van Barneveld/Long - 67/66/58/64

Heta/Greaves - 52/54/54/53

Bialecki/Huybrechts - 36/33/36/35

van Duijvenbode/Dolan - 71/78/75/75

It has been stated already, but that is an absolutely brutal draw for Reyes. not only does he get one of the hardest seeds available, but Huybrechts getting into the event as a result of four players crying off and drawing Bialecki removes all the permutations of him losing and still making the Grand Prix. One of Bialecki/Huybrechts will overtake him for the last spot so he must beat Cross and then pray. Schindler in round two is at least nice if he still has work to do after that. That said, Sedlacek, although he's going to need a pretty deep run, can't really ask for a nicer draw.

I'll update when the qualifier is done. It shouldn't be too long (they've done 5/8 of the last sixteen already as I type) but I'm AFK for a little bit this afternoon. Looking at the names it's probably de Decker against Springer and Baetens against Cullen (that should be fun) with the rest not having the data to be able to give a projection. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Edit - de Decker hilariously lost so the only HNQ game we have data on is Cullen/Baetens, and that's only long data which leans 51/49 in favour of Andy. Of the other qualifiers, Lankhuizen does show up in my database for one CT quarter about 18 months ago where he was murdered by Ted Evetts, last couple of quali rounds were OK I guess. Caron I only have a 6-0 loss to Clemens in a Euro Tour 2+ years ago but that's it, was a bit better in the quali at least. Jacobs I have nothing. Did scrape over 80 in one quali game but nothing else before being helped by de Decker going at a 93 clip. For the other regional qualifiers I have nothing on either, in the quali Tous got past 85 once, mainly due to a 3-4 leg spell of sunrunning, while Hansen had an alright semi but that was it in a qualifier which only had 16 runners. Yikes.