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Week 23 - Futures F4 (10k) - Koszalin, Poland
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QR1: Oscar Podlewski UNR beat Kacper Rams (POL) UNR by 1 & 1 QR2: Oscar Podlewski UNR v (q2) Marek Mokrzycki (POL) WR 1579 There are only three ranked players in qualifying here!
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Surbiton/Newport
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Newport is a smaller draw this year (because of the Olympics I think) but even so, the initial entry lists are not that different. I know many think the status of Surbiton should be raised but, why offer more prize money when it draws a field this strong anyway.....its unlikely to atract any better pl...
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Week 22 - Futures F15 (15k) - Cesena, Italy
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Tournament Key : M-FU-ITA-15A-2008 Dates : 26 May to 31 May 2008 Venue : Cesena, Italy Surface : Clay Morgan Phillips in qualies not using his PR.
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Week 22 - Futures F1 (10k) - Krsko, Slovenia
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http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=http://www.atptennis.com/1/posting/2008/260/qs.pdf-- Edited by steve...
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Week 22 - Futures F4 (10k) - Prijedor, Bosnia/Herzegovina
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Tournament Key : M-FU-BIH-04A-2008 Dates : 26 May to 01 Jun 2008 Venue : Prijedor, Bosnia/Herzegovina Surface : Clay Jamie Feaver sneaks in the MD. No QD yet. No Brits on the alts list.
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Week 22 - Futures F5 (10k) - Craiova, Romania
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Tournament Key : M-FU-ROU-05A-2008 Dates : 26 May to 01 Jun 2008 Venue : Craiova, Romania Surface : Clay QR1 : PRIDDLE, Chris (GBR) v STEFAN, Vlad (ROU) QR2 : Winner plays : IONESCU, Dragos Alexandru (ROU) Main Draw : Myles Blake should be seeded 6th here. -- Edited by Drew at 22:17, 2008-05-23
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Week 22 - Challenger (€64,000) - Izmir, Turkey
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http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=http://www.atptennis.com/1/posting/2008/3834/qs.pdf
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Week 22 - Futures F21 (10k) - Mas Palomas, Spain
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Tournament Key : M-FU-ESP-21A-2008 Dates : 26 May to 31 May 2008 Venue : Mas Palomas, Spain Surface : Clay Qualy draw : QR1 : WARD, Alexander (GBR) v BIENKOWSKI, Jrek (POL) SOHAL, Balraj (GBR) v GRIMAL-FERRER, Joan-Marc (ESP) Rice was in the Alts list but not in qualies. A-Ward is in qualies as his ranki...
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Week 22 - Futures F2 (15k) - Meshref, Kuwait
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http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/TrackIt.asp?file=http://www.atptennis.com/1/posting/2008/842/qs.pdf Ken top seed in qualies! Ross Henson here as well
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Week 21 - Futures F1 (15k) - Meshref, Kuwait
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Only one Brit in qualifying: QR1: Ross Henson UNR v Asser al Nokaly (EGY) UNR The winner will play an unranked Kuwaiti for a place in the main draw, there only being four ranked players in qualifying - what a chance for Ross!! Dire news - Bloomers, who would have been the no. 2 seed here, is now shown as...
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NCAA Division I Tennis Championships 2008.
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Will be played from 21st May at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is supposed to be the biggest thing in college tennis so I thought that we should have a topic. Last year's men's final saw Somdev Dev Varman beat John Isner and since then Isner has done so much! I think the standard...
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Week 21 - Futures F3 (10k) - Kalamata, Greece
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Tournament Key : M-FU-GRE-03A-2008 Dates : 19 May to 25 May 2008 Venue : Kalamata, Greece Surface : Hard Qualy Draw : THORNLEY, Sean (GBR) 2 v WAITE, Richard (GER) KEYSER, Harrison (AUS) 7 v PATIENT, Timothy (GBR) Bammy and Illingworth have made the MD here !!!
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britishtennis.net radio - discussion thread
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Next month britishtennis.net plan to launch our own radio station, based on the hugely popular radiotennis.com (we could be the new Kens !)..........the idea is to do some commentary on a few days of surbiton, queens qualies and possibly nottingham qualies It should be fairly straightforward to...
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Week 22 - Futures F3 (10k) - Krakow, Poland
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Tournament Key : M-FU-POL-03A-2008 Dates : 26 May to 01 Jun 2008 Venue : Krakow, Poland Surface : Clay No Brit DAs Qualy Draw : QR1 : MODEBE, Orion (GBR) v ROMANOWSKI, Artur (POL) BIENIEK, Marcin (POL) v OLBRICH, Adam (GBR) Hopefully we might get a few wins this week....not likely !
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Week 21 - Futures F8 (10k) - Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
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QR1: (q5) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1481 v Shane Lamely (USA) UNR Should the American slide lamely to defeat Jonny will play the winner of Juan Manuel Marucco (ARG) UNR and Diego Beltranena (GUA) UNR ... i.e. Marucco. Extending the comeback he has made (after being out for three years) after the scare of R...
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Entries Week 22 - 26/5
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ATP French Open Week 1 (Clay) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERS Izmir, Turkey E64K (Outdoor Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic (Richard Bloomfield) FUTURES Kuwait F2 $15K (Hard) - Miles Kasiri (Miotto) Italy F15 $15K (Clay) - (Phillips) Romania F5 $10K (Clay) - Myles Blake Bosnia F4 $10K (Clay) - James Feaver Sloveni...
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Week 21 - Roland Garros Qualifying - Paris
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Full sections Brian Dabul ARG (8) v Miguel Angel Lopez Jaen ESP Alex Bogdanovic GBR v Mathieu Rodrigues FRA Daniel Munoz-De La Nava ESP v Thiago Alves BRA Adrian Menendez ESP v Dusan Vemic SRB (31) Sergiy Stakhovsky UKR (15) v Andreas Haider-Maurer AUT ...
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Week 21 - Futures F20 (10k) - Valldoreix, Spain
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Ricey is on his own this week, it seems: QR1: (q7) David Rice WR 1126 v Jonathan Solanas-Lafuente (ESP) UNR
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Alexander Ward - Nickname.
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Obviously in order to differentiate between Alex/James Ward/Alex Bogdanovic and for the sake of quickness when typing messages a decided upon nickname for Alex would be quite useful. Evidently there are many suggestions and many people have their own opinions so they only democratic way to decid...
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Week 21 - Futures F2 (10k) - Bucharest, Romania
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QR1: (q3) James Feaver WR 1017 v (WC) Patrick Grigoriu (ROU) UNR QR1: Chris Priddle UNR v Vlad-Cristian Smighelschi (ROU) UNR -- Edited by steven at 22:14, 2008-05-16
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Baker Aims for Wimby Return
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by Bert Mitchell Glasgow Evening Times JAMIE BAKER has been given the green light to target a Wimbledon comeback. The 21-year-old Glaswegian, the Great Britain No.2, was struck down in March by a potentially life-threatening virus which reduced the platelet level within his blood. Recovered, he...
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Week 21 - Futures F2 (10k) - Zabrze, Poland
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This is in an old mining town (best known for its football team Gornik (=miner) Zabrze, but not even very well known for that), so I'm imagining, possibly unfairly, that it's a little grim! QR1: Orion Modebe UNR v Michal Wlodarczyk (POL) UNR - winner to play (q11) Marek Pokrywka (POL) WR 1764 QR1: Adam O...
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Week 21 - Challenger (€35,000+H) - Fergana, Uzbekistan
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QR1: (q4) Chris Eaton WR 648 v Filipp Grishutkin (UZB) UNR The other seed in Chris's section is (q6) Alexander Yarmola (UKR) WR 680 Slabba is a DA here.
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2008 Most played / Best win % thread
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(extracted from data on the stevegtennis.com site) Most played David Diaz-Ventura played far more matches than anyone else in the first 20 weeks of the year with 64, then come a few more Spaniards with around 50 matches played. The most active Brits in the first 20 weeks of the year were as follows, in...
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Entries Week 24 - 9/6
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ATP Queens (Grass) - Andy Murray + Wild Cards CHALLENGERS None entered this week FUTURES Netherlands F1 $15K (Clay) - TBA Norway F1 $10K (Hard) - TBA Spain F23 $10K (Hard) - TBA WTA Birmingham (Grass) - (O'Brien, Keothavong) El Paso $25K (Hard) - (Thomas) Turkey $10K (Hard) - (Brown K) Norwa...
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