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Hard grafter - exclusive interview with James Ward
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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(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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Week 18 - Futures F5 (10k) - Guadalajara, Mexico
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A drop from 15K to 10K in Mexico this week and Bammy gets a DA to the main draw. QR1: (q3) Kyle Brassington WR 1233 has a bye - will play an unranked Mexican in QR2 QR1: Christopher Harfield UNR v Juan Manuel Marucco (ARG) UNR QR1: (q9) Jonathan Kinsella WR 1477 v B Rodriguez Rosales (MEX) UNR
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Wimbledon rings the changes
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article3842548.ece
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Murray & Max Seek Consistency
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From the Herald : Simon Cambers Jamie Murray believes he and his doubles partner Max Mirnyi must start adding consistency to their game in order to compete for major titles on a regular basis. The pair, who teamed up at the beginning of the year, it ninth in the race to reach the season-ending Masters Cu...
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Week 18 - Challenger - Tunis Open - $125,000 + H.
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Jamie D has turned up here and is seeded 4th with Gil (POR). Their 1st round opponents are a wildcard pair from Tunisia. Jamie and Fred should be able to win that, I hope! -- Edited by helki at 15:30, 2008-04-27
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Week 18 - Sabadell Atlántico Open (Barcelona) - €888,000 - doubles
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(Preview)
Stretch & the Beast are seeded eighth & so have a bye in the first round. Andy is paired with Hutch. They are unseeded (opposite half of the draw) & play ToJo & Lindstedt in Round 1! -- Edited by Stircrazy at 13:08, 2008-04-28
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Week 17 - Futures F4 (15k) - Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico
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Tournament Key : M-FU-MEX-04A-2008 Dates : 21 Apr to 27 Apr 2008 Venue : Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico Surface : Hard Onto Cordoba... Josh could well be the no 2 seed here....Neil Bamford may just make the MD. QD : Kinsella, Brassington, Barlow....
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Djokovic attacks 'spoiled' Brits.
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Link to the BBC article that reports on Djokovic's comments on the BBC's 'Inside Sport' programme: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7369812.stm A stinging attack. He does have a point though, we have all of the right cogs to produce Top 100 players in this country however the chemistr...
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Week 18 - Futures F17 (10k) - Lleida, Spain
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Another 10K in Spain with a 12layer qualifying draw starting on a Friday. Sadly, despite there being free spaces in the draw, it seems that Robert's media commitments have stopped him from being there. At least, I hope it's that and not because he feels like he needs to lie low for a bit after things go...
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Week 18 - Futures F2 (10k) - Itu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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QR1: Amadeus Fulford-Jones WR 1835 v Andre Cunha (BRA) UNR
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Monte Carlo Pickem Competition
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Hi guys, it's that time again. The entry form is up and running at: http://www.britishtennis.net/competitions.html The entry deadline...well it's a bit complicated. It's explained on the entry form and I'll explain again here. Entry deadline is 09:00 GMT. That's 10am UK time. 11am CET on Sunday...
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Week 18 - Futures F9 (10k) - Vero Beach FL, USA
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QR2: Amar Vora UNR v Bjorn Munroe (BAH) WR 1764 or Joey B Burkhardt (USA) UNR QR2: Matthew Short UNR v (q11) M Rioux (CAN) WR 1145 19-year-old Vora played in QR1 in Bath and Jersey, losing 1 & 3 and & 2 respectively. 18-year-old Short played in Futures qualifying in the US five times last year and...
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British Tour - Bournemouth
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ftp://downloads.lta.org.uk/webservices/TempResults/_TropicanaBritishTour/080421Bournemouth/msd.pdf
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baker almost died!!
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(Preview)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7364248.stm i knew he was ill but didnt relaise was so serious. i wish him a speedy recovery
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Predictions for 2007
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(Preview)
See if I can do better predicting 2007 than my disappointing efforts for 2006:
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Richard Bloomfield 200, Josh Goodall 205, Jamie Baker 225, Martin Lee 225, Alan Mackin 245, Jonny Marray 265 - the challenger circuit is tough going for our players and I don't expect that to change in 2007; slo...
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