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Week 4 Futures - GB F3 ($15,000) - Wirral - Hard
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DAs for Goodall, Evans, Ward, Eaton, Cox, Bloomfield, Rice, Thornley and Burton. Probably also for Fitzy who was 2nd alt with 2 SEs to clear. Looks like wilds cards for Morgan, Gabb and Hudson. Qualifying draw again fails to attract a full field, this week just 42 entries. 2 Brits are certain to come th...
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Week 4 Futures - USA F3 ($10,000) - Weston, FL - Clay
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Phllips is a DA here. Once again the qualifying draw is a monster 128 man event. QR1: (q4) Ed Corrie WR 720 v Finn Meinecke (GER) WR 1731 QR1: (q5) Matt Short WR 801 v Gordon Garrett (USA) UNR Looks like Ed is playing his match here at 8:30 AM (local time) before heading back to sunrise to play the doubles f...
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Week 4 - Challenger ($50,000) - Honolulu, HI, USA - Hard
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Boggo should be getting his 2012 season under way in the main draw here, but before that: QR1: (wc) Jonathan Brooklyn UNR v Thomas Shubert (USA) WR 1513 Jonathan has had a ranking point before, after qualifying then beating Massimo Capone (now ranked around 600) in R1 of a Futures event in Nottingha...
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Weeks 3 & 4 - Australian Open: mixed doubles
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Tough draws for both our representatives - & there's just no escaping one or other of "the bloody Poles" : R1: Liezel Huber (USA) & Colin Fleming vs (3) Maria Kirilenko & Daniel Nestor (RUS/CAN) R1: Abigail Spears & Mariusz Fyrstenberg (USA/POL) vs Shuai Peng (CHN...
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Week 4 Futures - Israel F3 ($10,000) - Eilat - Hard
(Preview)
Smethurst is a DA QR1: (q9) Jack Carpenter WR 1118 v BYE QR1: James Allemby UNR v Matan Shay Ganzi (ISR) UNR Carpenter plays the winner of Allemby's match in round. Filip Horansky is the other seed in this section.
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Week 3 Futures - GB F2 ($15,000) - Sheffield - Hard
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Evans, Ward, Eaton, Bloomfield and Rice are DAs. Thornley, Burton, Fitzpatrick, Morgan, Martin and Gabb were on the alternative list but are not part of the qualifying draw. Presumably 4 of them got wild cards and hopefully the other two sneaked in. The last ITF list had Thornley and Burton as 3rd and...
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Weeks 3 & 4 - Australian Open: men's doubles
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The draw hasn't appeared on the site yet, but the Beeb must have got hold of the entry, as these paragraphs appear at the end of its report on James Ward's & Laura Robson's respective QR1 wins: There are two all-British pairings in the men's doubles draw, Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins and Ja...
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Week 3 Futures - Israel F2 ($10,000) - Eilat - Hard
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(Preview)
Smethurst and Marsalek are DAs QR1: (q16) Jack Carpenter WR 1116 v (WC) Mor Bulis (ISR) UNR QR1: James Allemby UNR v (q8) Jeson Patrombon (PHI) WR 941
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Week 3 Futures - USA F2 ($10,000) - Sunrise, FL - Clay
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Morgan Phillips looks to have made it in as the last DA. QR1: Matthew Short WR 801 v Martin Redlicki (USA) UNR QR1: (q12) Ed Corrie WR 718 v Jeffrey Mira Svensson (SWE) UNR Edit: spelling of Ed Corrie's surname corrected. -- Edited by Stircrazy on Saturday 14th of January 2012 02:15:09 PM
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Week 3 Futures - Turkey F2 ($10,000) - Antalya Kaya-Belek - Hard
(Preview)
L32: (6) Josh Milton WR 381 v (Q) Andrei Gorban (MDA) WR 767 L32: (7) Dan Cox WR 399 v (SE) Sanam Singh (IND) WR 887
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Week 3 Futures - Germany F2 ($10,000) - Stuttgart-Stammheim (Hard)
(Preview)
Goodall is a DA QR1: Miles Bugby WR 1328 v Franck Pepe (FRA) WR 1028
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Weeks 3-4 - Australian Open (hard) - men
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Muzz is on a separate thread in the AM section. L128: (Q) James Ward WR 161 v Blaz Kavcic (SLO) WR 104 (CH 72 last June) Kavcic is predominantly a clay courter, but his one main draw win in a slam outside RG came here last year when he qualified, beat Kevin Anderson in R1 and then took Youzhny to 5 sets. One of t...
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Week 2 Futures - Germany F1 ($10,000) - Schwieberdingen - Carpet
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(Preview)
Goodall and Bloomfield are DAs QR1: (q14) Miles Bugby WR 1327 v Bye -- Edited by RJA on Saturday 7th of January 2012 07:33:49 PM Edit: Sorry. As a German-speaker, I just had to correct the spelling of the venue! -- Edited by Stircrazy on Saturday 7th of January 2012 08:14:36 PM
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Week 2 Futures - Turkey F1 ($10,000) - Antalya Kaya-Belek - Hard
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(Preview)
L32: (6) Josh Milton WR 381 v Gero Kretschmer (GER) WR 622 (CH 316 in 2010) L32: (7) Dan Cox WR 399 v Marco Cecchinato (ITA) WR 611 (= CH)
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Week 2 - Australian Open men's qualifying
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(Preview)
QR1: (q31) James Ward WR 161 v Inigo Cervantes Huegun (ESP) WR 221 (CH 209 in 2009) H2H 2-0 to James, both in Spanish Futures in 2008, both went to 3 sets. Former world no. 62 Ivo Minar (CZE) WR 180 or junior Wimbledon Champ Luke Saville (AUS) WR 1176 await the winner in R2 and the other seed in this section is...
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Does Anyone fancy putting heads together to find me a sponsor?
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(Preview)
Hi guys situation is that if i dont find a sponsor for this year then it might be game over.So rather than post on some random websites i thought i would come here where you know me. If anyone knows a rich tennis fan, or someone who owns a business that is a fan of tennis and you think may be at all interested in...
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Week 2 Futures - GB F1 ($15,000) - Glasgow - Hard
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(Preview)
Evans, Ward, Eaton and Rice are DAs. Burton, Morgan, Martin and Gabb have wild cards. Qualifying draw is fairly strong at the top end of things and only two Brits (Thornley and Hudson) would qualify based on seedings. Qualifying Draw A little surprisingly there are only 44 players in the draw. It is a b...
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Week 2 - ATP 250 - Apia International, Sydney (hard)
(Preview)
R1: Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins vs Marcel Granollers & Lukasz Kubot (ESP/POL) The boys are in the top half of the draw with the Bryans... In the other half, the third seeds, "the bloody Poles", Fyrstenberg & Matkowski, are out already, beaten 6-7(4) 6-7(3) by the local WC...
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Week 2 Futures - USA F1 ($10,000) - Plantation, FL - Clay
(Preview)
Morgan Phillips is a DA here. Qualifying draw has four rounds QR1: (q12) Matthew Short WR 801 beat Austin Robles (USA) UNR 6-2, 6-2 QR1: (q5) Ed Corrie WR 718 beat Alex Rybakov (USA) INR 6-2, 6-1 QR1: Samuel Beddow UNR lost to (q6) Blaz Rolo (SLO) WR 725 6-0, 6-2 QR2: (q12) Matthew Short WR 801 v Va...
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Week 2 Futures - Israel F1 ($10,000) - Eilat - Hard
(Preview)
Smethurst and Marsalek are DAs here. QR1: James Allemby UNR v Mor Bulis (ISR) UNR QR1: (q2) Jack Carpenter WR 1115 v Bye QR2: (q2) Jack Carpenter WR 1115 v Juraj Masar (SVK) UNR Carpenter only has unranked Israelis in his section. Allemby would play another unranked opponent in the second round but...
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Week 2 - ATP 250 - Heineken Open, Auckland (hard)
(Preview)
A tougher draw for Jamie Murray & Paul Hanley in Kiwi-land than for Colin & Ross in Oz: R1: (4) Santiago González & Christopher Kas (MEX/GER) vs Paul Hanley (AUS) & Jamie Murray I seem to recall that González is one of Jamie's many previous, not very long-term, partners...
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2012 Ranking Predictions - The Boys
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OK, as discussed in another thread, I thought it worth having a little competitioin, predicting the rankings of our currently top ranked teenagers. The competition will be based on the following, which may sound familiar. I hope you don't mind me stealing your rules, RBBOT 1. Predict the senior wo...
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Week 1 British Tour - Billesley (Men)
(Preview)
http://lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=664220F7-D4D7-4DAC-B4A2-FECD8EBD6722&draw=3-- Edited by seagull on Thursday 5th of January 2012 11:28:30 AM
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Week 1 - ATP 250 - Chennai, India (Hard)
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(Preview)
http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2012/891/qs.pdf(edit was just for the thread title) -- Edited by steven on Friday 30th of December 2011 07:07:12 PM
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Week 1 - ATP 250 - Brisbane, Australia (hard)
(Preview)
http://britishtennis.activeboard.com/t47018008/week-1-atp-250-brisbane-australia-hard/
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