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Week 3 - Futures F1 (10k) - Santa Tecla, El Salvador
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3 rounds to qualify (with the first round mostly byes). QR1: Joe Cooper UNR bye QR2: Joe Cooper UNR v Guillermo Nicol (CHI) UNR -- Edited by wolf at 17:20, 2009-01-17
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Aus Open Qualifying list
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ENTRY LIST - QUALIFYING - AUSTRALIAN OPEN Ranking as of December 22, 2008 Cut-off: 273 (Lugassy) - includes 5 players with protected ranking at the bottom of thelist 101 Andujar, Pablo ESP - MOVED TO MAIN DRAW (Davydenko w/d) 104 Anderson, Kevin RSA - MOVED TO MAIN DRAW (Chela w/d) 105 Istomin, Denis U...
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Entries Week 3 - 19/1
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ATP Australian Open Week 1 (Outdoor Hard) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERS No Brits Entered FUTURES Sheffield GBF2 $15K (Indoor Hard) - Richard Bloomfield, Chris Eaton, Jamie Baker, Daniel Evans, Ken Skupski, Colin Fleming (Illingworth, Milton, Thornley, Cox, Arlidge, Willis, Smethurst, Bradsha...
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Annabel Croft's tennis gambling advice line......
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Global tennis authorities have been trying to stamp out betting and the leaking of information from in and around tennis circles but Annabel Croft seems oblivious to this in her article in the Guardian today discussing Andy being favourite for the Australian Open. She opened her piece with..........
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Week 2 - ATP World Tour 250 - Auckland, New Zealand
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Ross Hutchins & Stephen Huss will attempt to continue the form which saw them reach 3 succesive ATP finals at the end of 2008. In the first round they tackle the German pair of Michael Kohlmann & Phillip Petzschner.
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What ever happened to James Richardson?
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Hi all, I am a keen British Tennis fan/follower, i saw a match at the Nottingham grass court event about two summers ago and watched James Richardson vs Ross Hutchins. I was very impressed with James Richardson's potential and his positive attitude on court, can anyone tell me what he is up to nowadays...
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British Male Players' Websites & Press Coverage
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http://www.athletics.armstrong.edu/news/mt22007.html
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Week 2 - Futures F1 ($10K) - Spain (Clay)
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http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=/1/posting/2009/237/qs.pdf
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Week 2 - ATP World Tour 250 - Sydney, Australia
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Very tough meeting in Brisbane for Jamie Murray & Dusan Vemic as they face the Polish 4th seeds Mariusz Fyrstenberg & Marcin Matkowski; who have been a real pain in the backside for Jamie in the last.
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Week 1 - Challenger (75K) - Nouméa, New Caledonia, FRA
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Boggo and Josh will be in the main draw here and it looks like the plane arrived this year and we actually have a qualifying competition - either that or players turned up for the sign in hoping they'd get straight through to the main draw again! QR1: Alex Slabinsky WR 351 v (WC) Matthieu Meyzen (FRA) UN...
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Week 2 - Futures F1 (10K) - USA (Clay)
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http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=/1/posting/2009/614/qs.pdf
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Week 1 - British Tour (Billesley)
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A stronger British Tour tournament than usual, because some players are using it to limber up for Glasgow. The top 5 seeds had world rankings: (1) Ken Skupski has made it to the Final (2) Ian Flanagan went out in the QFs to Max Jones, who has also made it to the Final and is having an excellent week (3) Tim Br...
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Players of the Year Awards 2008 - Results
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Apologies for the delay in getting this done...not had much net work over the holidays ! Best Male : 32 votes cast Andy Murray 84.4% James Ward 6.3% Most Improved Male : 30 votes cast Daniel Evans 40% James Ward 30% Andy Murray 23.3% Top Female : 29 votes cast Anne K 96.6% Mel south 3.4% Most Improved Femal...
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Forum Awards - THE WINNERS
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Thank you to everyone who voted in the 2008 Forum Awards. I've just landed back on UK soil and counted all the votes and here are the winners: 1. Funniest Poster of the Year - (2007 winner - Count Zero) COUNT ZERO 2. Most Optomistic Poster of the Year - (2007 winner - John) JOHNNYLAD 3. Forum Reporter of the...
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Entries Week 2 - 12/1
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ATP Australian Open Qualifying (Outdoor Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic, Josh Goodall, James Ward, Alex Slabinsky Auckland Doubles (Outdoor Hard) - Ross Hutchins Sydney Doubles (Outdoor Hard) - Jamie Murray CHALLENGERS No Brits Entered FUTURES Glasgow GBF1 $15K (Indoor Hard) - Richard Bloomfield, C...
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Week 1 - ATP 250 Series - Brisbane, Australia
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Jamie Murray begins his new partnership with Dusan Vemic, in the first round they have drawn the reunited team of Julian Knowle & Jurgen Melzer. Jamie is still probably having nightmares about the DC tie last year...
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Week 1 - ATP 250 Series - Doha, Qatar
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Andy Murray will be in the doubles draw with Ross Hutchins as well as in the singles, and in qualifying... QR1: Gregory Howe WR 1315 v Sergei Bubka (UKR) WR 272 Good chance for Greg to stake a claim for a DC spot in Glasgow then.
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Player(s) of the Year Polls 2008....
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Sheddie our wonderful but fairly absent administrator usually sets these up at this time of year but no sign of him...well not yet. I have asked various members to issue short lists of up to 5 players per category for evaluation prior to starting the relevant threads. Proposed Categories : Top Male Ju...
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Quick note from Bakerboy
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hi craig, dont think i will be in dallas this year. ranking has dropped as i have missed most of last year. would love to be there. hope you are well and all the preparations are going smoothly, Jamie Doesn't look like we'll have a big field from players across the pond this year. Unfortunately. As y...
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Target for this year
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We know that the LTA like to set targets that they don't ever seem to achieve, so last year I said an achieveable target was 12 Britsh male players in the top 500. We got 10, but it was close up to the last couple of months. Next year, this is my target that I think the LTA should strive for ... 8 British male pla...
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Effects of points changes
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Unlike the main tour, in challenger and futures level events from 2009, the main increase in points will come in the tournament winners, more so than the other rounds. eg: in a 10k future, the semis finalists pts increase from 4 to 5, the runner-ups pts from just 8 to 9 where as the winners go from 12 to...
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New ATP site
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Wow! That took me by suprise http://www.atpworldtour.com/1/en/home/default.asp
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Happy New Year
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Happy New Year to all users. Let's hope 2009 is even better than 2008. Up the Brits.
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Entries Week 1 - 5/1
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ATP Doha $1,110,250 (Outdoor Hard) - Andy Murray - Doubles - Murray A/Hutchins Brisbane $484,750 (Outdoor Hard) - Doubles - Murray J CHALLENGERS Noumea, New Caledonia $75K+H (Outdoor Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic, Josh Goodall (Slabinsky...
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BRITISH SUCCESSES 2008
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(Preview)
TOURNAMENT VICTORIES Week 01: Andy Murray DOHA OPEN 01: Jamie Delgado BRAZIL CHALLENGER doubles 03: Richard Bloomfield SUNDERLAND 10K F1 03: Richard Bloomfield and Ken Skupski SUNDERLAND 10K F1 doubles ...
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