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Barker Bros - a wee bit hasty?
(Preview)
i was just thinking about this, remembering when the 2 of them stormed off in a huff saying the atp have runied their careers, but i think they should have actually tried to stick it out, look at where jamie m and james a are now, hitting the top 50 in the world! i dont really follow doubles too much, but i...
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Count Zero
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738
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Israel F1 - Ramat Hasharon 10K (Hard)
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(Preview)
QR1: Kyle Brassington UNR v Jens Heyndrickx (BEL) UNR QR2: (q2) Ross Connolly WR 1051 v Michal Tyml (CZE) UNR QR1 and QR2 are due to be played on Saturday.
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steven
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2224
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Dave Sherwood
(Preview)
Any official news on Sherwood? He is down to 4 ranking points which were won this week and next week (but last year) Will he bother to start again with no ranking?
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johnnylad
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Boggo's Ranking and competitors week 9
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(Preview)
The table is posted here (On BritishTennis.net) Alex regains the top 150, going up 2 at 149, as Vik and Gil defend points from last year. Kiefer, Andreev and Luzzi also drop places. As he's in qualies for an ATP, Alex could climb all the way into the top 9...
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RobC
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Richard, Josh, Jonny, Greg and Jamie's live rankings week 9 (Wolfsburg CH etc)
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(Preview)
The new table is posted here (On BritishTennis.net) Greg drops 3 places to 243, defending points from Dubai. Jamie drops 12 to 248, defending points from Australia F2.  ......As a result, Jonny Marray rises 5 places to WR236, overtakes them both and becomes the new British number 6! Da...
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RobC
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1945
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USA F6 - McAllan TX 15K (Hard)
(Preview)
QR1: David Sutton UNR v Vlademyros Mavropoulos-Stoliarenko (USA) UNR
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steven
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635
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Wolfsburg 25k+H Challenger 2007 (Carpet)
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1 2 3 4 5
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(Preview)
Lee Childs is in qualifying here- QR1: (6) Jesse Huta Galung (Ned) WR 345 vs Lee Childs (Gbr) WR 429 The other seed in Childs' quarter is (2) Tobias Summerer (Ger) WR 270.
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Portugal F1 - Faro 10K (Hard)
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(Preview)
A huge British contingent here as expected: Flanagan and Rushby should have made the main draw. Qualifying has 4 rounds. QR1: Benjamin George-Levi (Gbr) UNR vs (WC) Tiago Godinho (Por) UNR Ed Allinson (Gbr) WR1534 vs Piotr Polkosnik (Pol) UNR Ben Pritchard (Gbr) UNR vs Joao Ferreira (Por) WR1534 (5...
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GC77
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3049
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New Zealand F2 - Hamilton 10K (Hard)
(Preview)
QR1: Joshua Oxley UNR v Tsubasa Morizane (JPN) WR 1528 (winner to play (q3) Matthew Ebden (AUS) WR 812) QR1: Simon Childs WR 1528 v Jackson Bodle (NZL) UNR (winner to play (q8) Dane Fernandez (AUS) WR 923) Saturday's play in QR1 started at 20.00 GMT on Friday, with QR2 being played from midnight GMT...
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steven
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ATP Las Vegas 2007 - Doubles
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1 2 3 4 5
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(Preview)
Auckland teams up with Ashley Fisher WR 29 here. In round 1 they play the Austrian 3rd seeds Knowle and Melzer (combined rank 42) who Jamie and Butorac beat in the final of Memphis last week.
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GC77
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Slabba on Portugal
(Preview)
I spoke to Slabba yesterday about last week's 10K in Portugal. Alex said "In the last tournament I lost in the 3rd qualies round to a Nadal lookalike. It was weird, he was an absolute copy. The same technique, an identical face and the same vamos screams. He was pretty good too and the courts re...
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Sheddie
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Spain F9 - Sabadell 10K (Clay)
(Preview)
Just two Brits in qualifying here and a Friday start means they are both out already. QR1: Philip Barlow UNR lost to Francesco Zacchia (ITA) UNR by 6-4 5-7 6-3 QR1: Alexander Ward UNR lost to (WC) Mark Vervoort (NED) UNR by 6-1 4-6 6-2
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steven
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538
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Bootie and Chicken wings and Aucks and Huss's rankings week 9
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(Preview)
The new table is posted here (On Britishtennis.net) - thanks Guy! It's now Jamie & Bootie's turn to try some masterful inactivity (c) Tim Henman. As the week begins, Jamie's career- high, top 50 ranking of 44 goes straight up to 42, as Coetzee and Skoch drop below him. Aucks also ris...
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RobC
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Entries Week 10 - 5/3
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(Preview)
Indian Wells Masters Week 1 (Hard) - Murray, Henman (Bogdanovic) Kyoto $25K+H (Indoor Synthetic) - Mackin Jersey $15K (Indoor Hard) - Goodall, Baker (Flanagan, Bamford, Hutchins, Searle, Brewer, Seator) Portugal $10K (Hard) - (Rushby, Kennaugh, Slabinsky, Ward, Irwin, Kalitzis, Corrie, Tho...
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seagull
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QUIZ: How well do you remember last year?
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1 2
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(Preview)
I've extracted the top Brits from most of steveg's 2006 stats lists and I'll post them in the next couple of days, but first let's have a bit of fun. (some of you might find it fun, anyway!  ) Without looking at the stats (obviously!), PM me as many of the answers to the questions b...
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steven
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Entries Week 12 - 19/3
(Preview)
Miami Masters Week 1 (Hard) - Murray, Henman (Bogdanovic) -- Edited by seagull at 13:43, 2007-03-01
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seagull
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582
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Spain F8 - Terrasa 10K (clay)
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1 2
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(Preview)
Unusually there wasn't a single late withdrawal here so Morgan Phillips again has to play qualies. The draw was made on Thursday evening and round 1 was played today: Q1: (1)Morgan Phillips WR 578 bt Asim Jalilov (Azb) UNR 6-0 6-1 Nicolas Pinones-Haltenhoff (Chi) UNR bt Zander Woodford-Smith (...
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Switzerland F1 - Leuggern 10K (Carpet)
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1 2
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(Preview)
Ross Connolly turns up in qualifying here (3 round): QR1: bye QR2: (10)Ross Connolly(Gbr) WR 1053 vs Andreas Eichenberger(Sui) UNR/ Patrick Linke(Aus) UNR
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GC77
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15
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1752
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NZ F1 -Wellington 10K (clay)
(Preview)
3 Brits in qualifying here: QR1: (6)Myles Blake (Gbr) WR849 bye Joshua Oxley (Gbr) UNR vs Erkki Viitisaari (Fin) UNR Simon Childs (Gbr) UNR vs David Currer (Aus) UNR QR2: (6)Myles Blake (Gbr) WR849 vs Mark McCook (Aus) UNR/ Todd Breeze (NZ) UNR (13)Mao-Xin Gong (Chi) WR992 vs Joshua Oxley (Gbr...
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GC77
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11
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Bogdanovic at Las Vegas
(Preview)
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Ghosting
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GBF4 - Exmouth - 2007.
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(Preview)
http://www.itftennis.com/mens/tournaments/tournamentacceptanceList.asp?tournament=1100014847&event=&order=Position
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Salmon
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ATP Team of the Month
(Preview)
Jamie and Eric are ATP Doubles Team of the Month for February.  Oddly, Player of the Month is Duckboy - "The ATP World No. 3 had a 9-2 ATP record in February including runs to the San Jose semifinals (l. to Murray) and the Memphis final (l. to Haas)." This seems a bit rough on Andy, who h...
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steven
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749
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Bogdanovic v Querrey
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1 2 3
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(Preview)
Sam Querrey will be a very tough opponent. The 19 year old has shot up the rankings in the past two years to 92. In 2006, he won 3 challengers and enjoyed a fine spell on the ATP tour in the summer, beating players like Vince Spadea, Alberto Martin, Janko Tipsarevic and Philipp Kolschreiber and he also too...
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Sheddie
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Nigeria F1 - Benin City 10K (hard)
(Preview)
QR1: Ned Boone UNR lost to Thomas-Cristian Hodel (ROM) WR 1241 by 1 & 1 QR1: Rogan Egerton UNR lost to (q9) Augustine Nwokedi (NGR) WR 1413 by 6-1 3-0 ret. Less than a game per set on average.  Amadeus Fulford-Jones was 2nd Alt for the main draw here, but amazingly there seem to ha...
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steven
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0
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512
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USA F5 - Harlingen 15K (hard)
(Preview)
QR1: Luke Campbell UNR beat (Alt) Michael Date (BAR) by 6-7(5) 7-5 7-6(6) QR2: Luke Campbell UNR v Dane Chuntraruk (USA) UNR Chuntraruk had a tight win against the no. 8 seed in QR1. QR2 is being played on Sunday.
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steven
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