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Does having more GB events help?
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I've been putting together some stats to try and see if there is actually any evidence that holding more home events actually helps - most of us think it does, but without any proper stats to back it up until now. Have a look at ...
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Week 20 - Futures F11 ($15K) - Parma, Italy
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One Brit in a very sparse qualifying draw - a good chance for Morgan to build on his recent good form: QR1: (q6) Morgan Phillips WR 1271 v Joan Benaiges Blasco (ESP) UNR Winner to play (10) Cristian Rodriguez (COL) WR 1447 or Massimiliano Costa (ITA) UNR in the FQR. -- Edited by Drew on Saturday 16th of May...
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steven
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Week 21 - Futures F2 (10k) - Krakow, Poland
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Tournament Key : M-FU-POL-02A-2009 Dates : 25 May to 31 May 2009 Venue : Krakow, Poland Surface : Clay 1 lone Brit in Qualies... QR1:PLACEK, Jiri (CZE) v OLBRICH, Adam (GBR) Both UNR.
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Drew
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Week 20 - Roland Garros Qualifying
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Marcos Daniel BRA [3] vs. Prakash Amritraj IND Ivan Dodig CRO vs. Caio Zampieri BRA Ryler DeHeart USA vs. Alex Bogdanovic GBR João Souza BRA vs. Somdev Devvarman IND [26] Michael Berrer GER [12] vs. Filippo Volandri ITA Joshua Goodall GBR vs. Amer Delic USA Simon Stadler GER vs. Franco Ferreiro BRA Yu...
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Count Zero
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Week 20 - Futures - Futures F1 ($15K) - Meshref, Kuwait
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(Preview)
FQR: (q2) David Rice WR 897 v Abdullah Bloshi (KUW) UNR or Mansour Bohamad (KUW) UNR Did I say qualifying in Spain and Italy was weak this week? Not as weak as it is here! Our most in-form player (Wardy) and most out of form player (Slabba) could be the top two seeds here and Sean Thornley is also a main draw D...
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Week 20 - Futures F17(10k) - Valldoreix, Spain
(Preview)
Tournament Key : M-FU-ESP-17A-2009 Dates : 18 May to 24 May 2009 Venue : Valldoreix, Spain Surface : Clay Alex Ward is no 1 seed Qualies.... Will play winner of ESPARCIA OMEDAS, Marcos (ESP) v DEEN HESHAAM, Ariez Elyaas (MAS)in QR2
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Drew
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Week 19 - Challenger ($50k) - Sarasota USA
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(Preview)
James Ward enters qualies as top seed. A bye in the first round and 8th seeded Filip Krajinovic #514 the highest ranked player in his section. 3pts for qualifying in a challenger who's main draw cut fell to almost 400. James is still entered for Kuwait the next two weeks. As he'd unlikely to make the F...
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Shhh
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Week 20 - Challenger ($35,000+H) - Fergana, Uzbekistan
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(Preview)
Unless I'm much mistaken, Chris Eaton & quite a few of the other players involved in the tournament in Busan this week will be packing their bags & heading a little nearer home (in Chris's case at least! ) to play in this hard-court tournament.
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Stircrazy
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WHO will be Season ending British Number 2?
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(Preview)
In light of our recent 2 challanger succeses, id like to open the above question.
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Week 20 - Futures F2 (10k) - Merida, Venezuela
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Tournament Key : M-FU-VEN-02A-2009 Dates : 18 May to 24 May 2009 Venue : Merida, Venezuela Surface : Hard 2 lone Brits in the QD... QR1: COOPER, Joe (GBR) v OLIVARES, Sergio (VEN) QR1: BAXENDINE, David (GBR)v ZORNOSA, Steffen (COL) WR1527 (13) The winners play each other in QR2
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Drew
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Centre Court Celebration
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http://www.andymurray.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2631
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steven
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Jamie Baker - The return part 2?
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Does anyone know when Jamie Baker is likely to return to the circuit? I'm hoping he can get a run of 18 - 24 months with no serious injuries/illness...would be good to see him back to his form of 18 months ago!
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Week 19 Futures - Great Britain F7 ($10K) - Newcastle
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(Preview)
Evo isn't in qualifying this week (we may yet find that he got a main draw WC, of course) but I'm sure lots of people here will be glad to see a certain MP in the qualifying draw ... all to be revealed in the next post in a few minutes.
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steven
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James Ward v Andy Murray on clay?
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How do you think our new "King of Clay" James Ward would fare against the British No. 1 on his least favoured service? Would Ward take a set off Andy?
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Guid007
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Where is Dan Evans?
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Is he on holiday or something? After his ankle injury he played two rounds of qualifying in Ostrava before qualifying and reaching the 2nd round of Edinburgh and now he isn't entered into anything for the next few weeks. Where is he?
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Guid007
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Week 19 - Challenger ($50,000) - Zagreb Open: doubles
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Jamie M & Pavel Vizner are the top seeds here & play Peter Luczak & Sandro Motti (AUS/ITA) in the first round. Here's hoping Jamie can get 2-3 more wins under his belt...
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Week 19 - Challenger (Euro 64K) - Izmir, Turkey
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Loads of Brits here - even Auckland is playing qualies! No sign of Skuppers though QR1: (q1) Joshua Goodall WR 231 has a BYE - plays Kirillov or Sitak QR1: (q7) Ivan Sergeyev WR 337 (UKR) vs James Auckland UNR QR1: Colin Fleming WR 508 vs. Laurynas Grigelis (LTU) WR 1357 - seeds are Kedryuk (8) and B...
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The Knight
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Week 19 - Challenger ($75K+H) - Busan KOR
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L32: Chris Eaton WR 374 v Qualifier This looks promising, since qualifying is weak, with the top 4 seeds ranked in the range 417-635. The winner of this match is likely to face (8) Blaz Kavcic (SLO) WR 267, since he is playing Korean WC Yong-Bun Seo WR 1027. Kavcic's only previous match against a Brit was...
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Week 19 - ATP Masters 1000 Series - Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open: doubles
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(Preview)
H & H have made it into the MD! They've avoided a seeded pair in the first round, but they still face a tough test: they've drawn the Spanish WCs, Pablo Andújar & Guillermo García López... P.S. The Bryans are the top seeds, but they demonstrated in Belgrade this week that they're anything bu...
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Week 19 Futures - Romania F2 ($10K) - Bucharest
(Preview)
L32: FEAVER, James v NEDELCU, Florin UNR
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Week 19, Mexico F5 (10k), Puerto Vallarta
(Preview)
Brooks and barlow both made the FQR here
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Week 19 Futures - Spain F16 ($10K) - Lleida, Spain
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Another huge 128 qualifying draw in Spain with 5 wins needed for a rankings point if you start out in QR1. The Wardinator was 6th Alt here, but one advantage of qualifying starting on Friday here is that he should get an SE since he's still in the Balaguer Future. More good news too - the 'dream team' are i...
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Eastbourne Entry List
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Eastbourne 1 Monfils, Gael FRA 10 2 Stepanek, Radek CZE 17 3 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 22 4 Gasquet, Richard FRA 23 5 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 27 6 Andreev, Igor RUS 32 7 Seppi, Andreas ITA 36 8 Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 39 9 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 44 10 Benneteau, Julien FRA 46 11 Bolelli, Simone ITA 50 12 Ljubicic, Iva...
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Week 19 Futures - China F4 ($15K) - Wuhan
(Preview)
QR1: Faris Akhazzan UNR v Hui Zhang (CHN) UNR There are only 4 ranked players in this draw. The top seed is ranked 1159 and Faris is in his section. -- Edited by steven on Friday 8th of May 2009 02:13:19 PM
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Week 18 Futures - Spain F15 ($10K) - Balaguer, Spain
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(Preview)
another huge qualie draw of 128 with the wardinator just missing out on a main draw spot. Q1: Ward (3) v Bye Chamberlain v Bye Sohal v Gimferrer (UNR) Tennant v Lima-Perez (UNR) Armstrong v Bye -- Edited by alex03maccy on Friday 1st of May 2009 11:32:46 AM -- Edited by alex03maccy on Friday 1st of May 2...
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