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Eaton: Be more patient with British tennis
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Hey guys, Got interview with Chris Eaton up. He says some controversial stuff about most players not making the top 100 til they are past 20 years old. Not sure about that. Anyway, interivew is at alexkayblog.dailymail.co.uk if you fancy a read... and well done mr evans!
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Predictions for 2009
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Who do you see as making a big jump or a big drop in 2009 James Ward - Improvement (Top 200) Has the weapons to push through Alex Bogdanovic - Drop (Top 300) Don't see how he can get back towards the top 100 sadly Josh Goodall - Improvement (Top 120) This is his chance, he has to build on a solid 2008 sooner rath...
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Week 13 Futures - Turkey F3 ($10k) - Antalya 3 - Belek
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QR1: Morgan Phillips WR 1344 v Willian Franco (BRA) UNR QR1: James Allemby UNR v Guillaume Brochard (BEL) UNR QR2: (q5) David Rice v Ruslan Nurmatov (RUS) UNR
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Week 13 Futures - Croatia F4 ($10k) - Rovinj
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QR1: Tom Farquharson UNR v Gil Sala-Bordallo (ESP) UNR QR1: (q16) Nick Cavaday WR 1182 v Bart Brons (NED) UNR The winners will play each other in QR2, with four wins needed to make the main draw - the top seed in the section is outside the top 1000 though.
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Davis Cup - Euro Africa Zone I - GBR v Ukraine 6-8 March 2009
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New thread needed now for the next tie. Venue T.B.C BBC reports that Lloyd is looking to see what surface would best suit our guys. Also becuse it is during the hard court season Glasgow or Birmingham would be best suited. To my despair Crufts is at the Birmingham NEC 5-9th March 2009. They have several '...
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Week 12 - Challenger (€30,000+H) - Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
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I said I thought Aucks might have retired a little too early I think because he has turned up here with Rogier Wassen (NED) and they are the top seeds and the favourites to take the title. In the first round they face Marius Copil & Ivo Klec (ROU/SVK).
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Entries Week 13 - 30/3
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ATP Miami 1000 Week 2 (Hard) - Andy Murray Doubles - Jamie Murray, Ross Hutchins CHALLENGERS No British Entrants This Week FUTURES Turkey F3 $10K (Clay) - (Rice, Phillips, Egerton, Allemby) USA F7 $15K (Hard) - (Bradshaw, Jones, Coupland, Baxendine) Croatia F4 $10K (Clay) - (Cavaday, Farquarson)...
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Week 12 Futures - Spain F11 ($10k) - Zaragoza
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QR1: (q6) Alexander Ward WR 892 v Francois-Arthur Vibert (FRA) WR 1900 Qualifying is only a 64 draw here, so no sign of the dream team
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Week 12 - Futures F2 (15k) - Kolkata, India
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After falling in the first round of the main draw last week Niall Angus continues his search for his first ranking point: QR1: Niall Angus UNR beat Saurav Sakul (IND) UNR 6-3, 7-5 FQR: Niall Angus UNR v (q2) Yannick Nelord (IND) WR 1444
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Week 12 Futures - Turkey F2 ($10k) - Antalya
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QR1: James Allemby UNR v Radim Urbanek (CZE) UNR QR1: Rogan Egerton UNR v Roman Kislyanskiy (RUS) WR 1878 QR2: (q5) David Rice WR 876 v Vladislav Khudziy (RUS) UNR or Ouassel Hared (ALG) UNR Morgan Phillips is using his PR (protected ranking) to get a place in the main draw here.
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Week 12 - Challenger ($50K) - Khorat, Thailand
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Slabba seems to have stayed in Thailand instead of coming back for Jersey: QR1: (WC) Faris Akhazzan UNR v (WC) Pongsatorn Benjamas (THA) UNR QR2: Akhazzan or Banjamas v (q1) Izak van der Merwe (RSA) WR 282 QR2: (q3) Alex Slabinsky WR 338 v Dmitri Sitak (RUS) WR 624 or (WC) Prach Mahathvorn (THA) WR 1562 L...
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Week 12 - Futures F3 (10k) - Porec, Croatia
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A 128 qualifying draw and Tom Farquharson is our sole Brit: QR1: Tom Farquharson UNR beat Maximillian Mayer (AUT) UNR 6-0, 6-1 QR2: Tom Farquharson UNR v Marko Mijacevic (CRO) WR 1444
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Week 11 Futures - Great Britain F4 ($15k) - Bath
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Q draw now out, with at least one unexpected WC ... -- Edited by steven on Saturday 14th of March 2009 07:14:34 PM
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Jersey Challenger Entry List
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Don't know alts yet: Main Draw Bachinger, Matthias GER 220 Niland, Conor IRL 278 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 198 Pavlovs, Deniss LAT 287 Bubka, Sergei UKR 269 Poch-Gradin, Carlos ESP 261 De Chaunac, Sebastien FRA 203 # Robert, Stephane FRA 281 Fischer, Martin AUT 205 Smeets, Robert AUS 216 Galvani, Stefan...
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Week 11 Futures - New Zealand F2 ($15k) - Hamilton
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QR1: (WC) Matthew Short UNR beat Michael Pigou (NZL) UNR by 4-6 6-4 6-3 QR2: (WC) Matthew Short UNR lost to (q6) Joshua Crowe (AUS) WR 893 by 7-5 7-6(5) Another short outing for Matthew, but at least he won a match this week and pushed Crowe to two close sets.
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Entries Week 12 - 23/3
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ATP Miami 1000 Week 1 (Hard) - Andy Murray Doubles - Jamie Murray CHALLENGERS Jersey EUR 42,500 (Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic, James Ward, Richard Bloomfield (Eaton, Marray, Fleming, Skupski, Thornley) Khorat $50K (Hard) - Josh Goodall (Slabinsky) FUTURES Spain F11 $10K (Clay) - (Ward A) Turkey F2 $10...
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Week 11 - Challenger ($50K) - Bangkok, Thailand
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QR1: (WC) Faris Akhazzan UNR v (q8) Rohan Bopanna (IND) WR 317 QR1: Alex Slabinsky WR 338 v Raven Klaasen (RSA) WR 320 Surprise WC for Akhazzan here. The Brits are in the best two qualifying sections.
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Week 12 - Futures F3 (15k) - Wellington, New Zealand
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I wish Shorty would pick some weaker tournaments because he is more than capable of getting a point on the board: QR1: Matthew Short UNR bye QR2: (q6) Dayne Kelly (AUS) WR 922 beat Matthew Short UNR 6-4, 7-6(2)
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Week 11 Futures - Turkey F1 ($10k) - Antalya
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QR1: James Allemby UNR v BYE QR1: (q11) Morgan Phillips WR 1351 v BYE QR2: James Allemby v Gozdur/Dorman (UNR/UNR) QR2: (q11) Morgan Phillips WR 1351 v Esat Tanik (TUR) UNR Allemby is in top section headed by WR 969 Other seed in Morgans section WR 1032
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Weeks 10/11 - ATP Masters 1000 Series - Indian Wells: doubles
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The draw is out & both the Murray boys are down to play, Andy in theory (i.e. if he's fit!) with Ross Hutchins (he obviously has the Murray seal of approval! ) & Jamie, as already reported elsewhere, with Simon Aspelin of Sweden. Neither pair is seeded & the top seeds, surprise, surpris...
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Week 10 - Futures F3 (15k) - Tipton, Great Britain
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Tournament Key : M-FU-GBR-03A-2009 Dates : 09 Mar to 15 Mar 2009 Venue : Tipton, Great Britain Surface : Hard Jonny Marray, Dan Evans, Colin Fleming, Ken Skupski will all be DAs into the MD. Illingworth, Milton and Cox could make it also depending on SE spots being cleared. 1 spot in the MD has been taken...
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Week 11 Futures - Canada F3 ($10k) - Sherbrooke
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I thought I was looking at last week's Q draw for a moment but no, Sean & Tim have been drawn in the same qualifying section together with aother Brit again - let's just hope they don't make as much of a pig's ear of it as last week! Fortunately they've all avoided Edlefsen (who went on to lose to an unsee...
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Week 11 - Futures F1 (15k) - Chandigarh, India
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Niall Angus is the sole Brit out here. QR1: Niall Angus UNR bye QR2: Niall Angus UNR beat Vidhan Vyas (IND) UNR 6-3, 6-3 FQR: Niall Angus UNR v (q1) Mario Eckardt (GER) WR 1337 or (WC) Shaolin Chandam (IND) UNR
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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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