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Week 29 - Spain F22 ($10,000) - Gandia (Clay)
(Preview)
QR1: George Davies UNR v (wc) Roberto Affonso Neto (ITA) UNR
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Week 28 - Great Britain F13 ($10,000) - Ilkley (Grass)
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(Preview)
Goodall, Pauffley, Cox, Willis, Gabb, Farquharson, Ward-Hibbert, Broady, Coupland, Orton, Ireland, Hudson, O'Mara and Aswat should all be in the main draw. Probable wild cards for Malik, Goodman and Salisbury, possibly also Carter who wasn't on the acceptance list Qualifying draw has just 7 ra...
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Week 28 - Serbia F4 ($10,000) - Belgrade (Clay)
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(Preview)
Matt Short is a DA here QR1: (q2) Toby Martin WR 1014 v Vukasin Sibinovic (SRB) UNR
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Week 28 - ATP 250 - Stuttgart (Clay)
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(Preview)
I was quite surprised when I checked the qualifying draws of the the two clay court challengers in Europe and didn't see Smetty and Wardy on them. I was pleased to find out that there was a very good reason for that. QR1: Daniel Smethurst WR 395 v (q8) Damir Dzumhur (BIH) WR 264 QR1: Alex Ward WR 396 v Sandro...
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Week 28 - Challenger (€42,500) - Istanbul, Turkey (Hard)
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(Preview)
QR1: (q1) Ed Corrie WR 340 v Mikhail Ledovskikh (RUS) WR 860 (CH 151 in 2008) QR1: (q5) Dave Rice WR 469 v (wc) Vaja Uzakov (UZB) WR 887 (CH 698 in 2010) - H2H 1-0, 4 & 4, Kuala Lumpur 2009 -- Edited by steven on Friday 5th of July 2013 11:33:21 PM
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Week 28 - Turkey F27 ($10,000) - Istanbul (Hard)
(Preview)
QR1: David Porter UNR v Hao Zhang (CHN) UNR
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Week 28 - France F7 ($15,000+H) - Bourg-en-Bresse (Clay)
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1 2
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(Preview)
L32: (8) Oli Golding WR 529 v (Q) Franck Pepe (FRA) WR 876 (CH 612 in 2012) Pepe won a Futures title in Germany on indoor hard last year and reached a Futures SF in Germany on clay as a qualifier as recently as last month.
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Week 28 - Germany F9 ($10,000) - Hannover (clay - the Gottfried von Cramm Cup! ;))
(Preview)
The doubles partners go head to head in the first round of the singles! L32: Daniel Glancy (IRL) WR 858 vs (2) Josh Milton WR 431 Josh dropped 51 places in the rankings this week! ****** R1: (3) Daniel Glancy (IRL) & Josh Milton CR 1412 vs BYE QF: (3) Daniel Glancy (IRL) & Josh Milton CR 1412 v...
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Week 28 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Scheveningen, Netherlands (red clay)
(Preview)
Yet another new partner for Darren, but at least he has a decent doubles ranking (134). Wonder what's happened to Adham... R1: Colin Ebelthite (AUS) & Darren Walsh WR 433 vs Ruben Gonzales & Chris Letcher (PHI/AUS) WR 433
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Week 28 - Romania F7 ($10,000) - Pitești (Clay)
(Preview)
L32: (4) James Marsalek WR 547 v Qualifier
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Weeks 26 & 27: Wimbledon (grass) - mixed doubles
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1 2 3 4 5
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(Preview)
Ratty's favourite competition! Lots of Brit interest & good to see Kyle getting involved in this one as well. R1: Colin Fleming & Laura Robson vs Filip Polasek & Janette Husarova (SVK/SVK) R1: Kyle Edmund & Eugénie Bouchard (CAN) vs Frederik Nielsen & Sofia Arvidsson (DEN/...
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Stircrazy
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Wimbledon 'Battle of the Boards' replacement competition
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1 2 3 4 5 … 6
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(Preview)
I didn't notice a BOTB for the French Open. Are we doing one for Wimby? -- Edited by steven on Saturday 22nd of June 2013 07:59:40 PM
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Helen40
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Week 27 - Turkey F26 ($10,000) - Kayseri (hard)
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1 2
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(Preview)
L32: David Porter UNR vs (Q) Damian Farinola (AUS) UNR **** R1: Chris Cooprider (fascinating surname!) (USA) & David Porter UNR vs Aoran Wang & Hao Zhang (CHN/CHN) UNR
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Week 28 - Egypt F15 ($10,000) - Sharm El Sheikh (Clay)
(Preview)
QR1: Joe Cooper UNR v (q3) Issam Haitham Taweel (SYR) WR 896 QR1: Gregory Howe UNR v Tarek El Asawy (EGY) UNR -- Edited by RJA on Saturday 6th of July 2013 09:22:14 PM
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Week 27 - Great Britain F12 ($10,000) - Manchester (Grass)
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1 2 3 4 5 … 8
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(Preview)
Klein, Pauffley, Cox, Willis, Fitzpatrick, Gabb, Burton, Ward-Hibbert, Broady, Coupland, Orton and Ireland are all main draw DAs. Qualifying Draw
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RJA
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Week 27 - Challenger ($50,000) - Winnetka IL, USA (Hard)
(Preview)
L32: Alex Bogdanovic WR 275 v Austin Krajicek (USA) WR 290 Krajicek has reached lots of Futures finals this year but Alex beat him 5 & 1 in Tallahassee in April. Winner plays (3/WC) Sock or Wolmarans.
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Week 27 - Spain F20 ($10,000) - Bakio (Hard)
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1 2
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(Preview)
L32: (3) Josh Milton WR 380 v (Q) Gonçalo Falcão (POR) WR 1217 (CH 961 in 2012) Josh's quarter also contains the 5th seed, another qualifier, 2 lucky losers and 2 players ranked 800+.
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steven
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Week 27 - France F6 ($15,000+H) - Montauban (Clay)
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1 2 3
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(Preview)
L32: (7) Oli Golding WR 529 v (Q) Robin Almeida (FRA) UNR This is the first time Almeida has made it through Futures qualifying in 5 attempts this year.
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Week 27 - Challenger (€30,000+H) - Portoroz, Slovenia (Hard)
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1 2 3 4
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(Preview)
QR1: (q2) Daniel Evans WR 255 v Valentin Horvat (SLO) UNR
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Week 27 - Egypt F14 ($10,000) - Sharm El Sheikh (Clay)
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1 2
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(Preview)
QR1: Gregory Howe UNR v Bye QR2: Gregory Howe UNR v Ilya Chkoniya (RUS) UNR
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Week 27 - Challenger (€106,500+H) - Braunschweig, Germany (Clay)
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1 2
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(Preview)
QR1: (q4) Daniel Smethurst WR 395 v Bye QR1: (q5) Alex Ward WR 396 v Bye QR2: (q4) Daniel Smethurst WR 395 v Marek Pesicka (CZE) UNR or (wc) Daniel Hoeppner (GER) UNR QR2: (q5) Alex Ward WR 396 v Andreas Siljestrom (SWE) UNR or (wc) Andre Wiesler (GER) UNR And would you believe it. They are in the same sect...
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Week 27 - Romania F6 ($10,000) - Focșani (Clay)
(Preview)
James is the top seed here and the only player ranked inside the top 600: L32: (1) James Marsalek WR 547 v (WC) Luca George Tatomir (ROU) UNR (junior WR 71)
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Weeks 26 & 27: Wimbledon (grass) - doubles
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1 2 3 4 5 … 9
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(Preview)
Starting this now because Colin & Jonny have been seeded ninth & TCH & Dom 16th. Interestingly (I've been away for a few days & only just noticed), while Jamie Baker & Kyle Edmund & the Doc & Sean T ( ) have been awarded WCs, as we knew last week, with a third going to the &quo...
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Josh Goodall
(Preview)
Horrendous how Josh doesn't have a thread in his honour after today's news (or apparent news). Josh is often overly-derided, not least on here but I personally salute his career and his achievements. The questionable scheduling of the last few years aside he's been beyond criticism. The consumate...
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Weeks 26 & 27: Wimbledon men's main draw (grass)
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1 2 3 4 5 … 17
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(Preview)
Kyle Edmund v Jerzy Janowicz James Ward v Yen-Hsun Lu Andy Murray v Benjamin Becker Winner of Andy's and James's matches play each other in round 2. Despite Nadal being 5th seed Andy still has the prospect of only facing 2 of the 'top 4' to win the title. -- Edited by steven on Friday 21st of June 2013 10:...
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