Wimbledon bids a sad farewell to Eaton

Retail Answers sponsored young tennis player, Chris Eaton, has taken the British grass court season by storm. His wonderful and highly publicised Wimbeldon run came to an end last night as 25th seed Dimitry Tursunov proved a bridge too far. The final score was 7-6, 6-2, 6-4. Chris has playing the tournament of his life, having got through the Wimbledon qualifying to earn a place in the main draw. Chris is currently ranked 661 in the world and 13 in Britain but set to rise dramatically as his newly earnt points kick in.

In the first round, he made an emphatic win to book a place in the second round. He pulled off a shock straight-sets 6-3, 7-6 (8/6), 6-4 win over Serbian Boris Pashanski. He is playing the tournament of his life, having got through the Wimbledon qualifying to earn a place in the main draw. Chris is currently ranked 659 in the world and 13 in Britain.

Chris came through qualifying in style. Looking comfortable, throughout his first ever 5 set match, Chris beat Frenchman, Olivier Patience, 7-6, 6-3, 7-6 to book himself a place in the main draw.

In the first round of qualifying, Chris came back from a set down to oust the 15th seed from Russia, Mikhail Kukushkin, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, overcoming a ranking discrepancy of 522 places.

In the second round Chris recovered from the disappointment of losing the first set on the tie break to beat Jan Minar from the Czech Republic with a convincing 6-7, 6-3, 6-4.

This follows an impressive win in the Nottingham qualifying second round against world number 91 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. See www.lta.org.uk for a full write up.