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Predictions for 2008
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How close will we come with our ranking predictions ? Andy Murray: 5 Boggo: 100-150 Baker: 100-150 Bloomfield and Goodall: 200-250 Slabba: 250-300 Kasiri and Marray: 350-400 Ward: 300-350 Skupski: 350-400 Seator, Morgan Phillips and Matt Smith: 500-550 Blake: 550-600 Cox and Evans: 600-700 Rus...
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Happy Holidays to all....little announcement
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Hope everyone has a nice and safe Holiday. We(TBarM) just finished our pre-qualifier wild card doubles tourney this weekend and it was a huge success. 28 very high quality teams with a great tournout of fans. We have upgraded our coverage for this years Challenger and we tested new things out this...
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Anyone for a bit of Boggobash ?
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No this is not some new boardgame from Mattel this christmas to give to the weans...its the continuing saga of Alex Bogdanovic getting his ass-whipped by the media...shame on you OEM !!! Alex is the top of the 'losers' section of Neils piece. He does say its a bit harsh...a bit !!! cmon Neil at least you c...
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Week 51 - Futures F6 ($15,000) - Opava, Czech Republic (carpet)
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Looks like a repeat of last week: Jonny Marray in the MD & the usual three suspects (Colin Fleming, Josh Milton & David Rice) in the qualies.
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British Tour - Waste Of Space?
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The masters of the British Tour are on (good to see Fitzy there). Its not the strongest line up though, only one or two ranked players ever compete in most events during the year. Yet that is how the LTA describe it, "an important stepping stone between juniors and senior ranking events". ...
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Player of the Year Polls - Top Male Doubles Player
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Nominations : 1) Jamie Murray - current GB No 1 made a career high of WR28 this year with a decent start to the season but fell away in the second half. 1 ATP title. 2) Ross Hutchins - Breakthrough year for Ross with both ATP and challenger titles. Ended the year on a career high of WR44. 3) Jamie Delgado - end...
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Player of the Year Polls - Most Improved Male
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Most Improved Male Player...by Johnnylad / Drew James Ward has navigated one of the difficult barriers of men's professional tennis. Moving from 500 to 275 in one year has been a hard slog with tournament appearances nearly every week, but where in the past he may go deep one week and straight out the n...
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Week 51 - Futures F5 (10K) - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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It looks like the Wardninator hasn't turned up here either (Jamie Baker having pulled out a few days ago) because he's not in qualifying and the top seed in qualifying was one place above him on the Alt list. QR1: Joe Cooper UNR v Andrew Ochotta (CAN) UNR - a 15-year-old who lists one of his hobbies as Poke...
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Centre Court Roof Event in May!
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7785732.stm Has to be an exhibition I think -- Edited by seagull at 14:29, 2008-12-16
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Week 50 - Futures F5 ($15,000) - Frydland Nad Ostravici, Czech Rep. (hard)
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Judging by the entry list on the ITF site (no sign of even a qualies draw!), Jonny Marray will be in the main draw & Colin Fleming, Josh Milton & David Rice in the qualies.
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Entries Week 51 - 15/12
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ATP None CHALLENGERS None FUTURES Czech Rep F6 $15K (Indoor Carpet) - Jonny Marray (Fleming, Milton, Rice) Dominican Rep F5 $10K (Hard) - (Ward A, Pauffley, Pritchard) WTA Dubai $75K (Hard) - (Webley-Smith) POINTS DEFENCES THIS WEEK: Singles 8 - Slabinsky Doubles 24 - Slabinsky 6 -...
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Winter training - Ross Hutchins
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Some of you may already be aware, but Ross is taking the off-season very seriously - he's following much the same training schedule as Muzza in Miami, see e.g. http://www.andymurray.com/news/article/466 http://www.andymurray.com/news/article/467 http://www.andymurray.com/news/arti...
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Week 50 - Futures F4 ($10,000) - Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep (hard)
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Jamie Baker would appear to be sticking to his guns here. No main draw on the ATP site yet, but going by the ITF entry list (last modified yesterday), he could be the 7th seed. Qualies draw is on the ATP site & there are currently four Brits in it: Q1: Joe Cooper UNR vs John Valente (USA) UNR Q1: (q4...
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Draper plans to make big changes
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From Sporting Life:
The Lawn Tennis Association's new chief executive Roger Draper is keen to ring the changes in British tennis.
Draper, talking today at the Surbiton Trophy, is determined to improve the fortunes of the game in this country.
He said: "I knew it was going to be a big job a...
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2009 AO qualifying - who might make it in
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The subject of who might get into AO qualifying has been brought up on three different threads so far, so I think it makes sense to create a dedicated thread for it so that posts on the subject can more easily be found. First a recap, with some of the numbers updated ... As far as I can tell, the qualifying c...
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Week 50 - Futures F18 (10k) - Salta, Argentina
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QR1: Luis Moreno UNR v Diego Aguirre (PER) UNR
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Jamie Murray 's Next Partner
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It is now open knowledge that Jamie & Max have split, I am just wondering who Jamie will play with next!!!??? I have a few ideas below - Paes Dlouhy Ullyett (Favourite) Other than those 3 I have no other ideas except British players, which for Davis Cup would be a massive benefit but I think Jamie woul...
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Week 49 - BlackRock Masters
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Greg Rusedski is playing singles here and Jamie Murray will be playing doubles.
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LTA Bonus'
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Apologies if this was already posted but I couldn't see it and have only just spotted this disconcerting news from The Times online last month. Now we see why GBR Challenger events were reduced and some futures were cut from £15k to £10k - "It is believed that the bonuses paid to Maes and others am...
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Entries Week 52 - 22/12
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ATP None CHALLENGERS None FUTURES None WTA Delhi $50K (Hard) - Emily Webley-Smith POINTS DEFENCES THIS WEEK: Singles 24 - Slabinsky Doubles None -- Edited by seagull at 11:12, 2008-12-18
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Week 49 - Futures F3 ($10,000) - Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. (hard)
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It was a great shame that Jamie B was unable to reach the final to give himself a chance of taking his first title for a good few months in Santo Domingo earlier today, but it looks as though he's staying in the Dominican Republic for another week: he's on the entry list for next week's tournament, though...
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Futures Week 49 - Australia F12 ($10k) - Sorrento, Western Australia
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Fear we are rather hoping against hope here but in qualifying QR1: Matthew Short UNR v Joseph Squillacioti (AUS) UNR QR1: Alexander Hutchings UNR v Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) UNR Huang will be joining the rankings next week.
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Week 48 - Cancun Challenger ($35K+ H) - 2008 (Clay)
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Boggo is in the main draw and seeded 8th. R1 vs Eric Nunez (USA) (429)
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Week 48 - Futures F2 (15K) - Fujairah, UAE
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Wardy & Eaton are likely to be seeded in the main draw here and I think Jonny Kinsella has probably scraped a DA too - he was 1st Alt at the freeze deadline, which would usually end up meaning a main draw place and the 4th Alt is the top seed in qualifying of those who were on the Alt list in the first place....
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Week 40 - Challenger (€106.5k+H) - Mons, Belgium
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Well look which unranked Brit has popped up in qualifying here ... QR1: Jamie Delgado UNR v (8) Stefan Wauters (BEL) WR 590 QR1: (q7) Jonny Marray WR 550 v Mario Dierckx (BEL) WR 1803 The other seed in Jonny's section is (q4) Vladimir Obradovic (SRB) WR 403. Boggo has a DA here, but Josh was 8th Alt and two...
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