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Week 18 - Challenger ($100,000) - Israel Open, Ramat Hasharon - hard
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1 2 3 4 5 … 12
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(Preview)
Boggo's the eighth seed & guess what? He's drawn Ricardas Berankis in the first round...! Sod's law as it applies to Brits strikes again!
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Stircrazy
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176
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10478
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Week 18 Challenger (E30k) - San Remo (Italy)
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1 2
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(Preview)
QR1: Dan Smethurst v BYE QR2: Dan Smethurst v (WC) Gianluca Mager (ITA) UNR OR (WC) Emin Agaev (ITA) UNR Likely to have to play the John Millman (QR1/AUS) WR 246 in FQR
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Smidster
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2010 Top GB points scorers so far this year
(Preview)
N.B. if you have come here via the 22 April twitter link, this post contains week 10 figures, the week 16 figures are a couple of posts further down. 10 weeks gone and this is how the points are stacking up for all of the GB top 25 and anyone else who has scored more than 2 points: Points - Name - (current GB ran...
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steven
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10
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1211
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Week 18 - ATP 250 - Estoril, Portugal - red clay
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1 2 3
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(Preview)
Morgan and Flembo are both in qualifying here but will have their work cut out to score any points with high seeded clay court specialists probably awaiting in the second round. QR1: Morgan Phillips WR 409 v Frederico Ferreira Silva (POR) UNR QR1: Colin Fleming WR 735 v Rohan Bopanna (IND) WR 410
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wolf
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39
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2833
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Week 18 Futures - Spain F15 ($10k) - Balaguer - Clay
(Preview)
QR1; James Allemby UNR v I Huertes Barrantes (ESP) UNRQR1: Paul Brown UNR v Marcus Vincius Da Silva Dias (ESP) UNR Feaver and Phillips should be in MD -- Edited by Stircrazy on Saturday 1st of May 2010 10:29:50 AM
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Smidster
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5
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984
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Week 18 Futures - USA F11 ($10k) - Orange Park, Florida
(Preview)
QR1: Darryl Hale UNR v Gregory Corwin (USA) UNR
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Smidster
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10
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1077
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Week 17 Futures - Italy F6 ($15k) - Vicenza - clay
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1 2
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(Preview)
Evo & Smethurst should be in the main draw here. QR2: (q6) Alex Ward WR 604 v Thomas Kromann (DEN) WR 1129 or (wc) Nicola Remedi (ITA) UNR Kromann was ranked 855 in June 2009 but has since fallen back, possibly because he has succumbed to a rare shrinking disease. ITF says his height is 0.00 m - that's e...
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steven
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21
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2897
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Week 17 Futures - USA F10 ($10k) - Vero Beach, FL - clay
(Preview)
Perhaps Darryl couldn't face going all the way to Florida just to play another Brit! QR1: Alex Hackett UNR beat Darryl Hale UNR by w/o QR2: Alex Hackett UNR v (q13) Rodrigo Sanchez (PER) WR 1796
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steven
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10
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Week 17- Challenger- Manta, Ecuador-$35K+H
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1 2 3 4 5 … 13
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(Preview)
Jamie must've made the Main Draw here. The No.1 seed in qualifying is Roman Valent who was 31st Alt. I'm guessing this event has been affected by the travelling problems, as the qualifying draw includes only 6 world ranked players, and 2 of these are ranked 1200+. Also 12 players have been given QWCs!...
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SMC1809
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Week 17 Futures - Great Britain F5 ($10k) - Bournemouth, Great Britain - Clay
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1 2 3
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(Preview)
Qualifying Draw (1) James Feaver [GBR] 701 vs. Bye Matthew Short [GBR] vs. George Morgan [GBR] 1576 Nikki Roenn [GBR] vs. wc Aaron Banasik [GBR] (11) Nick Cavaday [GBR] 1296 vs. Bye (2) Clément Reix [FRA] 750 vs. Bye Dan Cottier [GBR] vs. Tom Farquharson [GBR] Nicolas Grammare [FRA] 1481 vs. David O...
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SMC1809
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Week 17 Futures - Korea F4 ($15k) - Gimcheon, Korea - Hard
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1 2
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(Preview)
R1: EATON, Chris (GBR) 4 402 v wc KIM, Hyun-Joon (KOR) 1000 R1: INGLOT, Dominic (GBR) 594 v Qualifer
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SMC1809
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15
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Davis Cup - Euro Africa Zone Group II relegation play-off - GBR v Turkey, 9-11 July 2010
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1 2 3 4 5 … 7
)
(Preview)
See some of you, hopefully, the weekend after Wimbledon as we try to avoid a drop to the very bottom division of DC ... I'm sure there will be more detailed previews to follow, but in short, Turkey have just one decent player, Marsel Ilhan (born in Uzbekistan) ranked 121, whose record against Brits is: 0...
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steven
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Interview with Roger Draper in the Evening Standard
(Preview)
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/interviews/article-23828463-roger-draper-theres-no-way-ill-quit-even-if-british-tennis-hits-new-low.do
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steven
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5
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1653
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Week 17 Futures - Mexico F2 ($15k) - Cordoba, Mexico - Hard
(Preview)
QR1: 1271 (GBR) BARLOW, Philip [5] v BYE
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SMC1809
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Week 17 Futures - Australia F3 ($15k) - Ipswich, Australia - Clay
(Preview)
R1: Blake, Myles (GBR) 1111 v (q) Kubler, Jason (AUS) UNR Maybe he can pick up a point here.
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SMC1809
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Week 17- Challenger ($125K+H) - Tunis, Tunisia - clay
(Preview)
QR1: Morgan Phillips WR 411 v Mohammed Affes (TUN) UNR Winner to play (q5) Boris Pashanski (SRB) WR 323, who has fallen a long way since getting beaten by Eaton at Wimby but is on his favoured surface here. The other seed in this section is another one who has been beaten by a Brit well outside the top 250, B...
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steven
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Rough or smooth? Something very unusual.....
(Preview)
I was playing last night and something bizarre happened: my partner span his racket "rough or smooth?" only for it to land edge on! Has anyone else had that happen or heard of it it happening? I just wish it was on video, we'd make a fortune on Utube.... Steve
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Week 16 - Challenger ($50K) - Tallahassee, FL, USA - Hard
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1 2 3 4 5
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(Preview)
QR1: (q2) James Ward WR 257 v Sadik Kadir (AUS) WR 355 QR1: Josh Milton WR 535 v Mait Kunnap (EST) WR 995 Winners to play each other in QR2. The other seed in this section is (q8) Luka Gregorc (SLO) WR 324. QR1: (q7) Josh Goodall WR 312 v Ti Chen (TPE) WR 458 The other seed in this section is (q3) John Millman (AU...
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Week 16 Futures - Turkey F8 ($10k) - Tarsus - clay
(Preview)
Slabba should be in the main draw here. The QD is half-empty. QR1: Monti Smythers UNR v Alexandru Grigorita (ROU) UNR - the winner will play (q3) Andraz Bedene (SLO) WR 981 in the FQR
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Week 16- Challenger- Athens, Greece-€85K+H
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1 2 3 4 5
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(Preview)
Boggo is up this week for playing in Athens and has been rewarded with a nightmare of a draw. He plays 2nd seed and World Number 49 Phillip Petzschner in the 1st round. Petzschner has been in good form reaching the last 16 of Monte Carlo knocking out Melzer and Garcia Lopez before falling to Andy's conque...
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The Magician Santoro
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71
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Week 16 Futures - Korea F3 ($15k) - Changwon - Hard
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1 2
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(Preview)
QR1: 588 Dominic INGLOT (GBR) [1] vs UNR Seungri CHOI (KOR)
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Week 16 Futures - Italy F5 ($15k) - Padova (Padua) - clay
(Preview)
Dan Smethurst should be seeded here. QR2: (q9) Neil Pauffley WR 688 v Lorenz Ilg (GER) WR 1336 or Raphael Lustenberger (SUI) WR 1654 - the other seed in this section is (q3) Diego Alvarez (ARG) WR 481 QR2: (q8) Alex Ward WR 599 v Claudio Scatissi (ITA) UNR or Martin Rmus (SLO) WR 1057 - the other seed in this...
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1748
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Week 15 Futures - China F4 ($15k) - Guiyang
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1 2
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(Preview)
QR1: (q2) Myles Blake WR 1104 v He Feng (CHN) UNR Sean Thornley should be in the main draw here.
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steven
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3658
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Week 16 Futures - Spain F13 ($10k) - Reus - clay
(Preview)
Dr No is likely to be seeded in the main draw here but oddly the two Brits who are doing well in Madrid this week are not down to play here - Meatball withdrew on 3 April and Morgan Phillips didn't enter in the first place. I wonder if one or both of them are intending to try to qualify for the Rome Challenger....
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Week 15 - Challenger ($50K) - Baton Rouge, LA, USA - Hard
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1 2 3 4 5
)
(Preview)
QR1: Josh Milton WR 539 v (q6) Sebastian Rieschick (GER) WR 423 Wardy, Evo, Baker and Josh were all on the alts list here (1, 3, 6 & 10 respectively) and the top seed in qualifying was the 13th alt for the MD, so I guess it's just about possible that they all scraped in -- Edited by steven on Saturday 10t...
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