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Holland F6
(Preview)
A good choice of tournament for David Brewer, he's done well to get direct entry for a 15K and he's also got a decent draw.
Rd1: D Brewer [GB] v M Vassiliev [Rus]
Vassiliev is ranked 46 places below David at 984. He's lost 7 of his past 8 matches, breaking a 6 match losing streak in Germany last week...
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Bulgaria F3
(Preview)
Qualifying rd1: D Tarpov [Bul][9] bt P Barlow [GB] 6-3, 6-2 
Rd1: J May [GB] v T Cazes [Fr]
Jim faces Frenchman Thomas Cazes-Carrer who was the last direct acceptance with a ranking of 1133, 335 places below Jim. He hasn't played since July, he's been out after sustaining an injury in a fut...
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LTA site
(Preview)
I have exchanged a few e-mails with LTA and Roger Drapier and suggested inprovements for the LTA site. A player blog for example and Q & A's with players explaining fans needs for info behind the players and..........well just complaining about the issue at length! They pro...
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Como 25K Challenger
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(Preview)
Qualifying round 1
Alan Wright bt Ginaluca Ottavi 57 62 62 
Jamie Delgado bt Francesco Zacchia 61 61
Morgan Phillips bt Riccardo Maiga 61 62.
QR2
Alan Wright vs Dusan Vemic (SCG) (354) 1st seed
Delgado vs Federico Torressi (Ita) (453) 6th seed
Phillip...
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david sherwood
(Preview)
Hi, does anybody know what is wrong with david, he hasn't played for ages?
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National U16 championships
(Preview)
This tournament was thought to be all about the expected final showdown between Daniel Evans and Daniel Cox, Britain's two highest profile U16s.
However, Cox was beaten 6-4, 7-5 in the quarters by Northamptonshire's James Richardson and at the same stage Marcus Willis [ranked no 2 in U16s in GB...
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US Open Juniors.
(Preview)
Acceptance List.
My first topic. Hope no one posted this before.
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Salmon
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Lungren
(Preview)
from bbc:
Peter Lundgren is Great Britain's new Davis Cup coach, according to reports.
this is great news, lets hope it can continue beyond the ukraine tie, but you have to wonder how come now? whats happened to suddnely get the good coaches on board, is it all down to murray, possibly, but also the...
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Australia F6
(Preview)
Ed Corrie, Ian Atkinson and Gregory Howe trying their luck in qualifying here.
Howe is the veteran that tried to qualify in Thailand a couple of weeks ago. Maybe he's on a round the world holiday!
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Holland F5
(Preview)
Alan Mackin is seeded 2 and is the only Brit in the main draw singles.
Plays Varga (Wr1571) in Rnd 1 -- Edited by Drew at 21:02, 2006-08-28
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Entires Wk 38
(Preview)
DC team: Andy, Greg?, Jamie B?, Jamie D?, Jamie M?, James A?
Poland, 125K + h clay, boggo
Lubbock, 50k hard, (goodall)
Bosina 25k +h clay (mackin)
funny to see al going to clay the same week he wasnt selected foer DC clay team, maybe he has done it to show he can play on clay, maybe h...
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Brits in Challengers Week 36
(Preview)
We have NOBODY in any main draws this week.........pathetic eh ! Donesk, Ukraine Alts : 16. Mackin, Alan GBR 385 Will he bother to travel here to Qualify ? He is not entred any Futures this week so maybe.
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Brits in Futures Week 36
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France F12 - Hard 8 - Lee Childs Alts : Ross Hutchins Holland F6 - Clay 13 - David Brewer Bulgaria F10 - Clay 10 - Jim May Australia F7 - Hard 14 - Myles Blake 16 - Andy Kennaugh 18 - Chris Eaton Alts : Ian Atkinson Poland F12 - Clay James Ward possibly ?
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Goodall v Mathieu
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1 2 3 4
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(Preview)
Its worth noting that Mathieu's form on hard court has been dreadful. He has won some matches on clay, including a couple of rounds at the French, but the last time he won on a surface other than clay was in Indian Wells at the start of March. He was knocked out in the first round of Quee...
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This weeks futures
(Preview)
Bulgaria F2
Philip Barlow - won his 1st rnd Q1....awaits 5th seed Zekic in final QR
Jim May - In main Draw Edit : Catalin Gard (ROM) d. Jim May (GBR) 6-3 6-3  Netherlands F5
Alan Mackin - seeded 2
Peter Francis - not in main draw
Italy F29
Chris Harfield - not in main draw
Switzerlan...
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Switzerland F4
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David Brewer has entered this event.
He has drawn Alessandro Motti of Italy (wr-980) in the first round.
Tournament Website
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Goodall v. Llodra
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1 2 3 4 5 … 14
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(Preview)
It would be great to see Josh win, but it wont be easy. Llodra is having a poor year by his standards, his biggest result of the year being an SF in a challenger, but reached the 4th round at the US Open in 2004, so he obviously feels comfortable here.
Anyway, lets hope that Jos...
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Doubles Draw
(Preview)
[1]Bryan/Bryan vs. Kohlschreiber/Seppi
Djokovic/Wang vs. Johansson/Lindstedt
Bhupathi/Malisse vs. Friedl/Youzhny
Kuznetsov/Oudsema vs. [13]Cernak/Levinsky
[11]Knowle/Melzer vs. Hrbaty/Mertinak
Mathieu/Monfils vs. Nieminen/Oliver
Peya/Phau vs. Simmonds/Witt...
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Putting Josh's achievement into context
(Preview)
I can only find stats back to 1980, but since then:
Only eleven Brits have qualified for two Grand Slams (John Feaver, John Lloyd, Nick Fulwood, Chris Bailey, Jeremy Bates, Neil Broad, Andrew Castle, Danny Sapsford, Arvind Parmar, Jamie Delgado and now Josh Goodall)
Btw, Delgado, who has done i...
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Bulgaria F1
(Preview)
Jim May is entered for this futures, he's 7th on the entry list so should be seeded. Draws haven't been released yet
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National U18 championships
(Preview)
This title was won in 2005 by Richard Wire and lining up in an attempt to become the new national champion last week were the best British juniors: Iain Atkinson, Ed Corrie, Daniel Cox, Daniel Evans, Sean Thornley, Josh Milton, David Rice etc. The only notable absentees were Graeme Dyce, Chris Llewel...
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Finland F2
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1 2
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(Preview)
4 Brits in qualifying.
Qualifying Round 1
Michael Crooks lost 46 64 64 to Fredi Voorman of Estonia in R1.
Ed Allinson seeeded 5 got a bye to R2.
Chris Harfield beat Mika Purho 64 60
James southwood beat Tommy Luhtala 60 61.
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Netherlands F4
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1 2
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(Preview)
Alan Mackin appears to have entered and decided to go through qualifying as well for the extra point.
Heres a link to the draw. Funny because he's got an indian flag next to his name
http://www.holy-international.nl/draw32qms.htm
Got a bye through round one and now faces Dominik Pfeiffer of...
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Goodall v Pequery - US Open qualies rd2
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1 2
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(Preview)
This match will be on Thursday
Pequery is ranked 268, a few places below Goodall, in rd1 he knocked out his out of form compatriot, 20th seed Cyril Saulnier 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. This ended a 5 match losing streak stretching back to the beginning of June. He's got a high of 180, reached in 2004.
Earlier...
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Lee v Ulihrach
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1 2 3
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(Preview)
This will be Martin's 3rd match against the 31 year old Czech clay-court specialist Bohdan Ulihrach who's ranked 750 but is playing with a protected ranking of 139. His career high was 22, reached back in 1997.
Ulihrach won 6-4, 7-6 on indoor carpet in rd1 of ATP Battersea, London in 1998 and he als...
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