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READ THIS PRIOR TO POSTING ENTRY LIST THREAD
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To keep things orderly I propose that the new threads for 'Entry Lists' should be formatted the same : Thread title format [week nn] - [Event Level & gender] - [Host City] where 'nn' is the Week number Ie Week 20 where the 'Event Level' can be : Futures F** / Challengers / ATP / WTA / Exhibition name wh...
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Week 39 - ITF M15 - Monastir, Tunisia (hard)
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QR1: (q1) Stuart Parker WR 810 (CH = 788 in February) vs BYE QR1: (q3) Daniil Glinka (EST) WR 946 (CH = 941) vs Oscar Weightman UNR (CH = 1617 in September 2018) QR1: Louis Allen WR 2747 (CH = 2587 in January) vs George Davies UNR (CH = 1600 in May 2016) QR1: Anthony Genov (BUL) UNR vs David Quayle UNR QR1:...
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Week 39 - ITF M25 - Porto, Portugal (hard)
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QR1: (q2) Lucas Gerch (GER) WR 445 (CH = 432 in February) vs George Loffhagen WR 943 (CH = 687 in December 2018) QR1: Daniel Cukierman (ISR) WR 846 (CH = 525 in February 2017) vs (q7) Aidan McHugh WR 540 (CH = 461 in August last year) QR1: Paulo Fernandes (POR) WR 1518 (CH = 1504 in March) vs Patrick Foley W...
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Week 39 - Challenger 80 (€44,820) - Biella, Italy (clay) - doubles
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L16: Lloyd Glasspool & Alex Lawson (USA) CR 331 (184+147) vs Teymuraz Gabashvili & Denis Istomin (RUS/UZB) CR 491 (152+339) (*) (*) combined age 69 (35+34)
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British Tour 2020
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Friday sees the start of the 2020 BT at Loughborough University. Unusually this year there are two tournaments before the end of the year as opposed to the usual one, giving someone the chance to be top of the leaderboard before the year has even started! It's a Tier 2 event with Marcus Walters as top se...
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Week 38 - Challenger 80 (€88,520) - Internazionali di Tennis Cittŕ di Forlě, Italy (clay)
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Again, doubles draw out first. L16: (3) Marcelo Arévalo (ESA) & Jonny O'Mara CR 119 (61+58) vs Andrey Golubev & Andrea Vavassori (KAZ/ITA) CR 211 (90+121) L16: Guillermo Durán & David Vega (ARG/ESP) CR 193 (83+110) vs Lloyd Glasspool & Cameron Norrie CR 396 (184+212)
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Weeks 39 & 40 - French Open, Roland-Garros, Paris (clay)
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L128: Qualifier vs Cameron Norrie WR 71 (CH = 41 in May last year) L128: (16) Stan Wawrinka (SUI) WR 17 (CH = 3 in January 2014) vs (WC) Andy Murray WR 111 (CH = 1 in November 2016) L128: (32) Daniel Evans WR 34 (CH = 28 in March) vs Kei Nishikori (JPN) WR 35 (CH = 4 in March 2015) L128: (Q) Liam Broady WR 205 vs...
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Week 38 - ITF M15 - Monastir, Tunisia (hard)
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The ITF site is playing silly buggers - again! - so in no particular order & possibly not all Brits included: QR2: Luca Potenza (ITA) WR 1166 (CH = 1130 last September) vs Oscar Weightman UNR (CH = 1617 in September 2018) QR2: Yaraslav Shyla (BLR) WR 1025 (CH = 306 in June 2015) vs Sacha Modica UNR QR...
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Week 38 - ITF M15 - Castelo Branco, Portugal (hard)
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Working blind again, thanks to the fact that the sodding ITF site is once again MIA! QR1: George Davies UNR (CH = 1600 in May 2016) defeated Rodrigo Perdigăo (BRA) UNR by 1 & QR1: Hugo Maia (POR) WR 1895 (CH = 1780 last September) defeated Patrick Foley WR 1581 (CH = 1271 last September) by 7-5 6-7(...
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Week 38 - French Open, Roland-Garros, Paris (clay) - men's qualifying
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QR1: Jay Clarke WR 179 (CH = 153 in July last year) vs (q24) Facundo Bagnis (ARG) WR 135 (CH = 55 in November 2016) QR1: Liam Broady WR 205 (CH = 154 in April 2018) vs Nicola Kuhn (ESP) WR 240 (CH =174 last October) The Innsbruck-born Spaniard is just 20.
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Week 38 - ITF M15 - Melilla, Spain (clay)
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L32: (3) Aidan McHugh WR 540 (CH = 461 in August last year) vs Federico Arnaboldi (ITA) WR 894 (CH =870 in January)
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Week 38 - ATP 500 - Hamburg European Open, Hamburg, Germany (clay)
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The doubles draws, main & qualies, are out. L16: Jamie Murray & Neal Skupski CR 52 (25+27) vs Qualifier L16: Wesley Koolhof & Nikola Mektic (NED/CRO) CR 34 (15+19) vs (2) Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 11 (6+5)
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Week 37 - ATP Masters 1000 - Internazionali BNL d'Italia - Rome, Italy (clay)
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QR1: Giulio Zeppieri (ITA) WR 357 (CH = 354 24/08/2020) vs (14) Cameron Norrie WR 76 (CH = 41 20/05/2019) No h2h - Zeppieri is 18, turned pro last year and is a fellow left hander. Dan and Kyle are in the main draw. Joe, Jamie/Neal and Dan all entered in the doubles. Main draw is announced Saturday at 6p...
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Week 37 - ITF M15 - Sintra, Portugal (hard)
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QR1: Max Basing WR 1461 (CH = 1437 in February) vs (q10) Igor Marcondes (BRA) WR 803 (CH = 704 in June 2017) Ryan Peniston should be the top seed in the main draw.
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Week 37 - ITF M25+H - Plaisir, France (indoor hard)
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QR1: Patrick Foley WR 1578 (CH = 1271 last September) vs Liova Ajavon (FRA) UNR QR1: Bradley (???) Paliska (FRA) UNR vs (q10) George Loffhagen WR 961 (CH = 687 in December 2018) QR1: David Quayle UNR vs (qWC) Espen Lagarde (FRA) UNR QR1: Alexandre de Villepin (FRA) UNR vs (q11) Alexis Canter WR 1013...
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Week 37 - ITF M15 - Monastir, Tunisia (hard)
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QR1: BYE vs (q12) Oscar Weightman UNR (CH = 1617 in September 2018) QR1: (q3) Max Andrews WR 1477 (CH = 1464 in March) vs BYE QR1: (q4) Jack Gibbens WR 1954 (CH = 1886 last December) vs BYE QR1: BYE vs (q7) Sacha Modica UNR ***** QR2: Skander ben Fraj (TUN) UNR vs (q12) Oscar Weightman UNR QR2: (q3) Max...
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Week 37 - Challenger 100 (€88,520) - Concord Open, Iasi, Romania (clay) - doubles
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L16: (1) Luke Bambridge & Ben McLachlan (JPN) CR 114 (53+61) vs (PR) Arthur de Greef & Quentin Halys (BEL/FRA) UNR (0 [but a CH of 597 in March 2013]+158) Could've been worse!
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No player born in the 90s will ever win a grand slam
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For definition purposes, based on birth year. No player born in the 90s has won a slam, and it is 2019 now!. I feel a whole generation, the 'lost gen' and maybe 'current gen' could possibly never win a slam. Next gen seems very strong. The lost gen will rank amongst the worst generation of tennis player...
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Weeks 35/36 - US Open, Flushing Meadows, New York City (hard)
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Now the draw is out, time for a thread. If anyone has the draw and can post it here, that would be great! -- Edited by JonH comes home on Saturday 29th of August 2020 07:22:35 AM
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We've had a specific rankings thread in the women's section for ages. But not one in the men's. So, in the good-old period, it all got put in the STEVEN thread. Which seemed a little weird after a while. And during the horrid-old period, there was the transition tour section for ITF rankings, and we har...
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Week 37 - ITF M15 - Curtea de Arges, Romania (clay)
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QR1: Mihai Ciungu (ROU) UNR vs Kyle Stocker UNR Kyle will face the Dutch q2, Max Houkes, should he win that one.
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Weeks 35 & 36 - US Open, Flushing Meadows, New York City (hard) - doubles
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A cut-down draw: L32: Marcelo Arévalo (ESA) & Jonny O'Mara CR 111 (57+54) vs Jean-Julien Rojer & Horia Tecau (NED/ROU) CR 41 (21+20) And it'll be the top seeds, Cabal & Farah, (probably) if they win that one L32: (4) Ivan Dodig & Filip Polasek (CRO/SVK) CR 18 (10+8) vs Jamie Murray...
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Week 36 - ATP 250 Generali Open - Kitzbühel, Austria (clay) - doubles only
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L16: Luke Bambridge & Ben McLachlan (JPN) CR 114 (53+61) vs Fabio Fognini & Robert Lindstedt (ITA/SWE) CR 210 (126+84) Fognini has a CH 7 from 2015 and 43 yo Lindstedt a CH 3 from 2013. Edit: corrected a typo & added an accent, Indy. -- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 7th of September 2020 0...
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