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Week 20 - ATP Masters - Hamburg, Germany - €2,270,000 - doubles
(Preview)
M and M featuring here, as expected. First-round match is against Benneteau and Llodra who they beat in Indian Wells on their way to the SF stages. More of the same this time round guys. Having said that B and L beat them in Las Vegas. Matches therefore stand at 1-1. -- Edited by helki at 20:30, 2008-0...
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Rome AMS Inter-Board Pick 'em Competition
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(Preview)
Entries for the Rome AMS Inter-Board Pick 'em Comp are now open at http://www.britishtennis.net/Competitions.html. Assuming that qualifying finishes tomorrow (which it should barring lots of rain), the draw with qualifiers placed should be available late afternoon or early evening on Sunda...
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Week 20 - Futures F11 (10k) - Tampa, FL, USA
(Preview)
With 7 Challengers (even more than last week) and 15 Futures on next week, you'd think it would be possible to find something moire inviting than a 12layer qualifying draw ... QR1: Zander Woodford-Smith UNR v Erik Thunberg (USA) UNR QR1: Amar Vora UNR v Maksim Tikhomirov (USA) UNR QR1: Michael Davis...
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Week 19 - Futures F8 (15k) - Edinburgh, GB
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(Preview)
Tournament Key : M-FU-GBR-08A-2008 Dates : 05 May to 11 May 2008 Venue : Edinburgh, Great Britain Surface : Clay A bit early but wanted to give enough time to see how many folk can go along at some stage ? It will feature Ward, Seator, Skupski, Kasiri and Bammy in the MD along with Rice, Cox, Evans, Hewitt,...
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Week 20 - Futures F2 (10k) - Most, Czech Republic
(Preview)
QR1: Ben Pritchard UNR v Jarryd Maher (AUS) UNR - winner to play (q4) Sami Huurinainen (FIN) WR 1404
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Morgan Phillips Article
(Preview)
Phillips knows all about the unglamorous side of life on the tennis circuitLast updated at 20:12pm on 7th May 2008 Comments Avoiding a crazed knifeman in Algeria .. being attacked with sleeping gas on a night train through Romania .. getting strip-searched at the Hungarian border after trekking th...
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Week 19 - Futures F1 (10k) - Kos, Greece
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(Preview)
Tournament Key : M-FU-GRE-01A-2008 Dates : 05 May to 11 May 2008 Venue : Kos, Greece Surface : Hard QD out : BRADSHAW, Timothy (GBR) 6 v ANIBIE, Sylvain (CIV) MARRAY, Jonathan (GBR) v FRUMKIN, Dmitry (RUS) 10 EVANS, Oliver (GBR) v MASHIACH, Almog (ISR) 11 I think this is Olivers first Futures outing. Ju...
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Entries Week 20 - 12/5
(Preview)
ATP Hamburg Masters (Clay) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERS New Delhi $50K (Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic FUTURES Uzbekhistan F2 $15K (Hard) - Alex Slabinsky, Chris Eaton Poland F1 $15K (Clay) - James Ward, Edward Seator, Miles Kasiri (Feaver, Illingworth) Italy F13 $15K (Clay) - (Phillips) Mexico F7 $10...
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Times article about Steve Darcis's time in UK Futures
(Preview)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article3876237.ece
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Week 19 - Futures F1 (15k) - Andijan, Uzbekistan
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(Preview)
Tournament Key : M-FU-UZB-01A-2008 Dates : 05 May to 11 May 2008 Venue : Andijan, Uzbekistan Surface : Hard Alex Slabinsky seeded 2 and Chris Eaton in the MD. No other Brits in the QD
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Week 19 - ATP Masters, Rome, Italy - €2,270,000 - doubles.
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(Preview)
An opportunity fo M & M to show some consistency. First-round tie against Tursunov and Warwrinka, followed by, if they are consistent enough, another match with the Bryans. -- Edited by helki at 20:02, 2008-05-03
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Week 19 - Challenger - €42,500 Dresden, Germany
(Preview)
Hutch is on the books here, in dare I say, the doubles. He's partnered by Stephen Huss and they are seeded 4. The first match is against Greul and Kamke (GER). Unfortunately, they are in the same half of the draw as the Rati-Thais.
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Week 19 - Futures F6 (10k) - Celaya, Mexico
(Preview)
Tournament Key : M-FU-MEX-06A-2008 Dates : 05 May to 11 May 2008 Venue : Celaya, Mexico Surface : Hard Kyle and Jonathan try again here......Kyle is not far away from a DA
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Week 19 - Challenger (42.5E+H) - Rabat, Morocco
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(Preview)
MD1 : GOODALL, Joshua GBR v GUEZ, David FRA (7) Not the best draw he could have got.
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Hard grafter - exclusive interview with James Ward
(Preview)
James Ward tells britishtennis.net why he hopes the years on Spanish clay will pay off in his bid to reach the top Ward, the 20 year old son of a London taxi driver has taken an unusual route to the pro tennis circuit, well at least by British standards. As a teenager, frustrated by the lack of opportuniti...
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Quick note from Jamie B.
(Preview)
Hi craig, thanks for your email. just laying low trying to recover as quickly as possible. things going as well as they can right now. hope you are well and be in touch, Jamie
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Week 19 - Futures F1 (10k) - Teplice, Czech Republic
(Preview)
QR1: Ben Pritchard UNR beat Stanislav Shveksov (RUS) UNR by 3 & 3 FQR: Ben Pritchard UNR v Jakub Cymorek (CZE) UNR -- Edited by steven at 15:41, 2008-05-04
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Week 19 - Futures F10 (10k) - Orange Park, FL, USA
(Preview)
Matthew Short, David O'Leary and Paul Bishop all in qualifying. 4 rounds to qualify.
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Week 19 - Futures F3 (10k) - Sao Roque - SP, Brazil
(Preview)
Tournament Key : M-FU-BRA-03A-2008 Dates : 05 May to 11 May 2008 Venue : Sao Roque - SP, Brazil Surface : Clay Amadeus Fulford-Jones in Qualies again...hopefully he can win a few mores rounds and secure another point !
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Week 19 - Futures F18 (10k) - Vic, Spain
(Preview)
Alex Ward and David Rice are in qualifying, 3 rounds to qualify. Wardy plays unranked M Sala-Martin De Rueda in QR1, the seeds in his section are Dimitrov WR1043 and Morente-Gemas WR1487. Ricey is seeded to qualify, plays Aussie Allen Perel in QR1, other seed in his section is Romero-Torres WR1345.
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Week 19 - Futures F12 (15k) - Vicenza, Italy
(Preview)
Tournament Key : M-FU-ITA-12A-2008 Dates : 05 May to 11 May 2008 Venue : Vicenza, Italy Surface : Clay Morgan Phillips makes his way back to the Italian clay using his PR and making the MD. No other Brits.
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Michael Boulding
(Preview)
I was watching Sky Sports League Review and they were talking about Chester drawing on Tues to knock out of the league Mansfield Town (was there and was cheering!). They mentioned about Mansfield's top scorer Michael Boulding about the pundits mentioned that he left football for a while to try and ma...
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Entries Week 19 - 5/5
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(Preview)
ATP Rome Masters (Clay) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERS Rabat $35K+H (Clay) - Josh Goodall FUTURES Edinburgh GBF8 $15K (Clay) - James Ward, Miles Kasiri, Edward Seator, Ken Skupski (Bamford, Cox, Hewitt, Feaver, Bains, Illingworth, Smethurst, Milton, Evans, Bradshaw) Uzbekhistan F1 $15K (Har...
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Week 18 - Challenger - $50k+H equiv. - Lanzarote, Spain
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(Preview)
It looks like Josh might have got into the main draw here after all if he had wanted to, because qualifying is half-empty and the no. 1 Q seed is ranked 382, with the top 4 Q seeds going down to 582 and the 8th seed ranked just 1572. A golden opportunity missed for a a few of 300-500 range Brits here, I feel QR2:...
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Week 18 - Futures F4 (15K) - Bournemouth, UK
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1 2 3 4 5 … 7
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(Preview)
All players are GBR and/or unranked unless stated: QR1: Alistair Felton v (WC) Marc Beckles (BAR) QR1: David O'Leary v Jonathan Brooklyn QR1: Edward Jones v Thomas Gill QR1: (WC) Dominic Ross-Hurst v Oliver Evans QR1: Chris Priddle v Ben Dunbar QR1: Burnham Arlidge v Harri Heliovaara (FIN) QR1: Ale...
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