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Henman's Wimbledon Rantings....
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Over the years we have heard Henman complain about the grass, the balls etc at Wimbledon. Last night here in the States the Tennis Channel showed extended highlights from the 1999 Queens Final between Henman & Sampras. The net rushing tennis was amazing, breathtakingly good. It was an amazing m...
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Whither Timothy??
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So, Tim Henman keeps saying he is not ready to retire. Go to his website, and Wimbledon is the last event on his schedule. . . Check the entry lists for the next six weeks and he is not on any of them. . . So what exactly are his plans, apart from Davis Cup? Anybody got any ideas?
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Week 28 - Futures F11 (M), Bucharest, Romania
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5 Brits out here for qualifying, and some good news to report (14) Matt Illingworth def. Patrick Turus (SWE) - 6-3, 6-2 James Langford def. (12) Thomas-Christian Hodel (ROM) - 7-5, 6-4 Jamie Feavor def. Vlad Stefan (ROM) - 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 Oscar Podlewski def. Maksim Bakunin (UKR) - 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 (7) Rai...
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Week 28 - ATP - Newport
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Newport 1 Ancic, Mario CRO 17 OUT 2 Fish, Mardy USA 31 3 Santoro, Fabrice FRA 55 4 Spadea, Vincent USA 66 5 Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 76 6 Pless, Kristian DEN 81 OUT 7 Llodra, Michael FRA 87 OUT 8 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 90 9 Peya, Alexander AUT 98 10 Guccione, Chris AUS 99 11 Udomchoke, Danai THA 103 12 Berrer, Mic...
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Week 28 - Futures F26 (M), Elche, Spain
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4 Brits appear in futures qualifying, including Robert Dee who is looking to get one step closer to recording his first win Robert Dee vs. (14) Agustin Picco (ARG) Jonathon Solanas-Laufente (SPA) vs. (13) Phillip Barlow Robert Van Swelm (NED) vs. Benjamin George Levi Oliver White vs. Inigo Cervant...
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Week 28 - Futures F9 (M) - Germany
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Just the 1 Brit here... Gregory Howe vs. Perica Josic (SRB) In the section with the 3rd seed, so he will do amazingly well to qualify -- Edited by ForeverDelayed at 21:23, 2007-07-07
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Wimbledon doubles: Days 10-13
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- Mel & Boggo play Rogier Wassen & Yung-Jan Chen, the 13th seeds, in the third match on Court 2; - Jelly (blame Bud Collins of the Boston Globe for that, not me!) & Jamie play Mark Knowles & Zi Yen, the 3rd seeds, in the first match on Court 3; - Lukas Dlouhy & Pavel Vizner, the 9th...
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Week 30 - Nottingham Challenger (I) 2007.
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Entry List: Bloomfield 194 Jones 198 Stadler 205 Wessels 221 Dupuis 224 Goodall 226 Juska 250 Levy 258 Marray 263 Qureshi 279 Ryderstedt 281 Burgsmuller 285 Bopanna 289 Oger 290 Feeney 335 Meffert 339 Huta Galung 350 Olejniczak 370 Uebel 383 Niland 385 Coelho 387 Childs 408 2 SEs, 4 WCs, 4 Qs. Nicked th...
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Entries Week 29 - 16/7
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Los Angeles $500K (Hard) - Andy Murray (Alex Bogdanovic) Manchester $25K+H (Grass) - Richard Bloomfield, Josh Goodall, Jonny Marray Aptos $75K (Hard) - Jamie Baker Frinton F12 $15K (Grass) - Tom Rushby, Matt Smith, Miles Kasiri, Chris Eaton, Rob Searle (Irwin, Bamford, Miotto, Slabinsky, B...
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Wimbledon Doubles: Day 9
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Blooray are 2-6 1-0 down against a little known team called Bryan and Bryan
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YEC at the 02 Dome!!
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bbc sport news ticker has the the masters will play at the dome from 09 for 4 years.
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Week 27, Futures F10 (M), Bals, Romania
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6 Brits in qualies. Oscar Podlewski (unr) vs Vlad Cirla (Rou) (unr) Joshua Miller (unr) vs Matthew Illingworth (1290) (10) James Feaver (unr) vs Adrian-Ionut Balota (Rou) (unr) Konstantinos Kalaitzis (1387) (13) vs Octavian Avram (Rou) (unr) James Langford (unr) vs Ionut-Mihai Beleleu (Rou) (1...
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Wimbledon - Day 8
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Boggo might finally get to play his mixed doubles, scheduled 2nd on court 3 (is there a live stream of that one?) Aucks opens his md on court 13 at 11am. with murray j v blooms 3rd up
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Anyone else getting sick of this?
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Henman, Draper, Becker now Andy Murray, everyone is jumping on the bandwagon and they making me so mad. Every single one of the British Men that got WC's are ranked higher than they were last year, so they are making progress. In the last 3-4 weeks: Boggo beat a seed at Queens and went close to beating Rod...
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Wimbledon - Day 7
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Bloomfield/Marray take the 3rd set against 16th seeds Fyrstenberg/Kubot, breaking in the 10th game, after losing a previous break and almost going a break down themselves. They lead 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 1-0. Hutchins and Goodall lose in 4 sets to Tursunov and Kunitsyn.
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Week 27 - Futures F25A (M) - Alicante, Spain THE RETURN OF THE DEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Rob Dee vs GARCIA-PARRA, Xavier (ESP) Antoni Gomez vs CHALA, Eddy [4] (1078) (FRA)Gary Chamberlain vs PALACIOS-SIEGENTHALE, Marcelo (ESP)Benjamin-George Levi vs GOOSSENS, Yannick (NED)all players unranked unless stated. British players first...
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Week 27 - Futures F4 (M), Rabat, Morroco
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3 Brits in qualifying here, but they all lost in the first round Marco Bella (ITA) def. John Rambotas (GBR) - 6-1, 6-2 Valerio Caresse (ITA) def. Paul Bishop (GBR) - 6-3, 6-0 Adriano-Bonilha Garcia (BRA) def. Dominic Ross-Hurst - 6-3, 6-2
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Jamie Murray
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I've been delighted by the increased attention paid to Jamie by the British media this year in Andy's absence from Wimbledon, not to mention his & Eric's win over the 7th seeds, Erlich & Ram, yesterday evening. Below is an interview (well, more a Q&A) with him which appeared in yes...
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Henman lets rip at mediocrity culture in British tennis
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No British players were left in the singles by day 5 this year, the first time that's happened for 17 years. Speaking to reporters after his defeat to Feliciano Lopez in rd2 yesterday, Henman said "Yeah, it's depressing. I think for years we've been far too accepting of mediocrity. I think you lo...
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Murray blames British attitudes
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Murray blames British attitudes (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/6260352.stm) British number one Andy Murray has launched a wide-ranging attack on underachieving British tennis players and the authorities that run the sport. "The problem with British tennis is that there'...
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Week 27 - Futures F8 (M) - Kassel, Germany
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Just the 1 Brit has made the trip for qualifying here, as Gregory Howe is here Gregory Howe (GBR) unr vs. Andrew Howe (AUS) unr At least 1 Howe will make the second round! Very tough for Greg to qualify here, as in the final round he would have to overcome Phillip Marx, ranked at 595 (the top seed here is rank...
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Wimbledon - Day 6
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Rain delayed the start of play until 3.15 and then returnrd at 4.15 During which time Auckland/Curran beat Childs/O'Brien 6-2 6-1 Bloomers/Marray took the first game against 16th seeds Fyrstenberg/Kubot and held on to take first set 6-3 - Second set missed 2 break points but still on serve at 3-3 whe...
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Week 27 - Futures F4 (M) - Vandans, Austria
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Just the 1 Brit here in the qualifying draw... Unfortunately, Martin Baker lost in round 1 6-2, 6-2 to David Simon of Austria
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Wimbledon doubles, Day 5
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Lots of action tomorrow in addition to the unfinished men's matches. Apologies if I shouldn't be including the mixed... Goody & Hutch vs Kunitsyn & Tursunov in the 4th match on Court 4 Boggo & Mel South vs Benjamin Becker & Anna-Lena Groeneveld in the 5th match on Court 7 Delgo &...
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Boggo v Gucci
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dont know if they will get round to this today, currently becker v chela is 8-8 in the 5th. mahut/clement was also a huge match, and there is a ladies match still to play (sugi v south) before alex gets in action.
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