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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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Week 20 - Futures F19 (10k) - Balaguer, Spain - unranked Alex Ward's wonder run!
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QR1 Balray Sohail UNR v Carlos Calderon-Rodriguez ESP WR1333 Alexander Ward UNR v Abel Hernandez-Aguila ESP WR1473 No Ricey this week? -- Edited by steven at 20:48, 2008-05-16
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Entries Week 23 - 2/6
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ATP French Open Week 2 (Clay) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERS Surbiton $50K (Grass) - (Bogdanovic) FUTURES Slovenia F2 $10K (Clay) - (Feaver, Rice, Milton) WTA Surbiton $50K (Grass) - Katie O'Brien, Anne Keothavong, Elena Baltacha, Mel South (Cavaday, Borwell, Fitzpatrick, Elliott, Stoop,...
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Week 21 - Futures F14 (10k) - Parma, Italy
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QR1: Thomas Deighton UNR v Artem Strunnikov (RUS) WR 1719 Theee are just two qualifying rounds here, but the player seeded to qualify in this section only having one ranking point. I wonder where Morgan Phillips has got to - he hasn't used a PR the last two weeks or turned up in qualifying.
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Entries Week 21 - 19/5
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ATP French Open Qualifiers (Clay) - Josh Goodall, Alex Bogdanovic CHALLENGERS Fergana $35K+H (Hard) - Alex Slabinsky FUTURES Kuwait F1 $15K (Hard) - Richard Bloomfield, Miles Kasiri, Ken Skupski (Miotto) Mexico F8 $10K (Hard) - (Brassington, Kinsella) Greece F3 $10K (Hard) - Neil Bamford...
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Edward Seator cracks the top 500!
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He may not have added any points to his total since the end of March (when we had a bit of a false alarm that he might have made it), but thanks to Pierrick Ysern, Christian Magg, Andrei Mlendea, Pedro Clar, Vladimir Obradovic, Hun-Woo Nam and Dusan Lojda (down 361 to 734!) all failing to defend points an...
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Wimbledon WC's
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Haven't seen a thread for this in the mens bit. What do people think is going to happen? Aparantly the guys know they have to be top 250 and with Jamie out no one else currently qualifies. What will the LTA/AELTC do? Surely there has to be more than just Andy in the singles MD? Or do they teach the guys a lesso...
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Week 20 - Futures F2 (10K) - Heraklion, Crete - Ken Skupski's first title!
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Number 1 seed in qualies is Ken Skupski, who I imagine forgot to enter/ chose to enter late, and is ranked 500 places above anyone else in the draw. Also in Qualies is Jonny Marray currently playing without a ranking but you would think pretty certain to reach the main draw of thise fairly weak event. So g...
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Week 21 - ATP ( €370,000 ) - Casablanca, Morocco
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Hutch and Huss are contesting the doubles here. They are unseeded and as luck would have it they will play the second seeds, Calleri and Cuevas (ARG/URU) in round 1. -- Edited by helki at 20:43, 2008-05-17
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Week 20 - Futures F2 (15K) - Namangan, Uzbekistan
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L32: Chris Eaton WR 647 v Sarvar Ikramov (UZB) WR 710 L32: (4) Alex Slabinsky WR 371 v Weerapat Doakmaiklee (THA) WR 783 Both Brits are in the same quarter of the draw. Slabba myay live to regret not taking full advantage of the much weaker draw last week, but he has a reasonably good draw as far as the semis...
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Week 20 - Challenger $50K - New Delhi, India
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L32: Alex Bogdanovic WR 255 v Qualifier Not a bad draw, the winner will probably face no. 5 seed Alun Jones (AUS) WR 139. However, the other seed in that quarter is no. 3 seed Kristian Pless (DEN) WR 129. -- Edited by steven at 12:59, 2008-05-11
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Week 20 - Futures (10k) - Caldas Novas, Brazil
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Mozart in qualifying, seeded 11th and has a bye into QR2 where he will face the winner of two unranked Brazilians. Other seed in his section, which incidently all players come from Brazil, is the 8th seed Raphael Shiikuma Pfister.
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Wimbledon Entry List
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Main Draw 1 Federer,Roger SUI 1 2 Nadal,Rafael ESP 2 3 Djokovic,Novak SRB 3 4 Davydenko,Nikolay RUS 4 5 Ferrer,David ESP 5 6 Roddick,Andy USA 6 7 Nalbandian,David ARG 7 8 Blake,James USA 8 9 Gasquet,Richard FRA 9 10 Wawrinka,Stanislas SUI 10 11 Berdych,Tomas CZE 11 12 Moya,Carlos ESP 12 13 Youzhny,Mi...
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Week 20 - Challenger (€85,000+H) - Marrakech, Morocco
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Aucks in singles qualifying here, he plays 7th seed Bruno Soares WR708 in QR1, if he wins he will face top seed Jean-Christophe Faurel for a place in the main draw, WR323. -- Edited by wolf at 23:25, 2008-05-09
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Week 20 - Futures F1 (15k) - Katowice, Poland
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QR1: Orion Modebe UNR v Jakub Jastrzebski (POL) UNR We will have James, Edward and Miles in the main draw here, but I was half expecting to see the likes of Bammy in qualifying here. Since only Orion is there, that means that only one player in the GB 14-24 range is playing in a tournament in a week when the...
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