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Next player to break the top 500 barrier?
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After going two years without anyone breaking into the top 500 in the world Slabba finally broke the curse in the last tournament of 2007. In 2008 Ward, Eaton, Evans and briefly Seator as well as Marray re-entering all broke through the barrier and we had players such as Kasiri, Skupski, Blake and B...
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Week 11 Futures - Portugal F3 ($10k) - Albufeira
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QR1: Joe Cooper UNR v Phillip Mohr (GER) UNR QR1: Richard Brooks UNR v (WC) Roberto Ortega-Olmedo (ESP) UNR QR1: Robert Dee UNR v Lorenzo Frigerio (ITA) UNR QR1: George Finch UNR v Alex Witmeur (BEL) QR2: Cooper or Mohr v Axel Tabarot Devert (FRA) UNR QR2: Philip Barlow UNR v Finch or Witmeur
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Week 11 Futures - Spain F10 ($10k) - Castelldefels - Barcelona,
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In Qualifying this week QR1: (q5) Alexander Ward WR 892 v Angel Alonso-Campos (ESP) WR 1561 QR1: Pierre Clad UNR v Lofo Ramiaramanan (MAD) WR 1796 They are both in the same section with other seed being WR 1172
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Jamie M's doubles partnership
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Don't know if I missed this somewhere else but I hadn't realised that Jamie and Dusan had decided not to carry on their partnership. From Jamie's website blog today - 'After Delray I decided to split with Dusan and explore other avenues. I didn't think it was working particularly well, and although...
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Very sad news about DJ
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I am sure most of you will remember DJ, a keen and unfailingly positive forum member (and fellow stathead) who joined the board in late 2007 and was instrumental in setting up the GB successes threads last year. DJ contacted me a few months ago to say that he was ill and unable to keep up those lists of...
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Week 10 - Challenger ($35K+H) - Kyoto, Japan
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Chris Eaton would have just missed the main draw cut here, Josh would have got in and Slabba is in. L32: Alex Slabinsky WR 339 v Qualifier
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Ed Corrie Article
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http://www.dailytexanonline.com/1.1601903-1.1601903
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Week 10 Futures - Canada F2 ($10k) - Montreal
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British interest in qualification - and sadly mainly in the top section. QR1: (q1) Sean Thornley WR 799 v BYE QR1: Max Jones WR 1550 v Kamil Pajkowski (CAN) UNR QR1: (q13) Timothy Bradshaw WR 1169 v BYE QR1: David Baxendine (UNR) v Alexandre-Michel Rioux (CAN) UNR QR1: Benjamin George Levi (UN...
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Entries Week 11 - 16/3
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ATP Indian Wells 1000 Week 2 (Hard) - Andy Murray Doubles - Jamie Murray CHALLENGERS Bangkok $50K (Hard) - Josh Goodall (Slabinsky) FUTURES GB F4 Bath $15K (Hard) - Richard Bloomfield, Jonny Marray, Dan Evans (Fleming, Illingworth, Milton, Cox, Arlidge, Flanagan, Willis, Smethurst, Bains, Ca...
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LTA Press Briefing. Sunday 8th March 11.15am
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I sat through this 48 minute long briefing along with the main press and took 7 pages of notes. suffice to say I dont have time today to transcibe them but I will leave you with a couple of questions ? Which 36 GB men and women would you give central 'Team Aegon' contracts to ? That includes some juniors as we...
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David Felgate
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Someone on MTF said he was working again with Xavier Malisse - is this true? P.S. I didn't know which thread to put this in so i just started a new one -- Edited by The Knight at 16:33, 2009-03-10
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Where the Brits get their points
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In response to the Steve Martens quote about ""There will be no more running around the world chasing points like before" ... Count Zero wrote: it could be interesting to see what % of world rankings points are made up from home nation events for the lower rankled players, say those ou...
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Week 10 - Futures F2 (10k) - Lagos 1, Portugal
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Tournament Key : M-FU-POR-02A-2009 Dates : 09 Mar to 15 Mar 2009 Venue : Lagos 1, Portugal Surface : Hard QR1: COOPER, Joe (GBR) UNR v MENDES, Tomas (POR) UNR QR1: WC COSTA, Henrique (POR) UNR v WC FINCH, George (GBR) UNR QR1: BARLOW, Philip (GBR) WR1655 v MOHR, Phillip (GER) UNR Lets see if they can muste...
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John Lloyd: In or Out
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In the wake of our defeat to the Ukraine i thought i just run a quick poll to see how we here feel about JL's tenure as the man in charge of DC team. He started impressivly with a few wins, but we have now lost 3 ties in a row. Ok we cant say much about the Argentina tie really, but the other 2 were home ties, so we h...
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BT at the DC : Dead Sunday
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I hate 'Dead Sunday'. At least last year at wimbledon it went down to the last match. Colin hurt his back during set 2 yesterday and is due to play at Tipton this week coming so wont be playing today. Lloyd confirmed that Josh & Chris will be playing today. Cannot see Stak playing so the two will be from...
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Davis Cup Day Two - Drews Blog
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Just read J Overends blog on the BBC. Agree with some of it but came to the line "There is more stability in a weeble" (Referring to the GB mens game) Now he has just become a father for the second time and perhaps been watching too much cbeebies or something but thats an awful line !
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Davis Cup Day 2 - Hutchins / Fleming v Stakhovsky / Bubka
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The GB pair are confirmed but the Ukraine coach would not commit to his pairing until the morning. A must win match for GB.
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Week 10 - Futures F1 (15k) - North Shore City, New Zealand
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QR1: Matthew Short UNR lost to David Bidmeade (AUS) UNR (CH=1485) by 2 & 3
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steven
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Week 10 Futures - Spain F9 ($10k) - Badalona
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Another huge qualifying draw in Spain, but apart from the Wardinator (who may have an SE or be having a well-earned rest next week), where have all the Brits gone? (*) QR1: James Allemby UNR v Jon Polanec (SLO) UNR (*) No Brits on the main draw acceptance list either, and the dream team both missed the qua...
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Davis Cup Day One - Drews Blog
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Davis Cup Day one - Press Blog - Drew Brown 10am on Day One Fairly quiet press centre so far.....the hum of key strokes is only broken by the 'crack' of the press marquee floor as the even the lightest of jurnos enters. However the loudest sound comes from Mr Flatmans booming laugh ! Still there is genuine...
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Davis Cup - Chris Eaton vs. Sergiy Stakhovksy
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So the second tie.... and with us being 1-0 down, it becomes a must win match. Eaton blew three match points against him the last time they met, so have a chance against him, but Stakhovsky is still the big favourite to win the match.
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Week 9 Futures - Spain F8 ($10k) - Sabadell
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One of those horrendous Friday start, four rounds of qualifying on clay affairs, and to make it worse the main draw is so strong that even Matt Illingworth has to play in qualifying this week. All the Brits have avoided section 1, where the top Q seed in a ringer WC ranked 254, but look who Matt's drawn in...
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Gregory Howe
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As I mentioned on the DC thread, GB's oldest currently world-ranked player has started posting on AM.com. I asked him if he'd mind writing a bit about his experiences and how he gets into qualifying for some of the big tournaments and his reply is fascinating - well I think so anyway. Picking up someone...
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Week 9 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Cherbourg, France
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Oh dear, it looks like the Brits may have to bash each other again QR1: (q2) Richard Bloomfield WR 306 v (WC) Kenny de Schepper (FRA) WR 1190 QR1: Jonny Marray WR 435 v Mathieu Rodrigues (FRA) WR 378 Winners to play each other in QR2. The other seed in this section is (q5) Tim Smyczek (USA) WR 334.
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BT at the DC : Day one - Press Conferences, Match Comment and Gossip
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(Preview)
Will concentrate this time on press conferences and some inside information. Will also give some match comment but not full match by match reports. We must keep the DC page on the bt.net site up to date. Can we have some volunteers to write some match reports ? PM me. BTW had a pleasant welcome from the jo...
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