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Breaking News
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from bbc sport:
Evander Holyfield launched his comeback bid with a second-round stoppage of journeyman Jeremy Bates in Dallas.
The 43-year-old former undisputed heavyweight champion had Bates in trouble at the end of the first round before the bell sounded.
Holyfield continued his onsla...
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Egypt satellite
(Preview)
Week 1 got underway last week and Britain's David Brewer [world ranking: 1070] got off to a good start on his favoured clay.
Results:
Rd1: D Brewer [GB] bt E Zurabian [Ukr][wr:1204] 6-3, 7-6 
Rd2: D Brewer [GB] bt T Ouahabi [Morocco][7] [wr: 924] 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 
QF: D Brew...
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Spain F26
(Preview)
Qualifying:
Rd1: N Sego [GB] v bye
P Barlow [GB] v P Belloso [Esp]
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Germany F12
(Preview)
This clay-court futures event starts tomorrow, Alex Slabinsky is the only Brit taking part, he's 9th on the entry list.
The main draw isn't available yet due to tenniseurope not having been updated all weekend.
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Romania F16
(Preview)
Qualifying rd1: E Carboo [GB] bt C Stohor [Rom] 6-2, 7-5
Qualifying rd2: E Carboo [GB] bt I Giurgiu [Rom][2] 7-6[7], 6-4
Ekow is unranked while Giurgiu is ranked 1277.
Qualifying rd3: E Carboo [GB] v N Nejdi [Mor]
A great chance for Ekow to qualify, facing an unranked Moroccan...
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Thailand F5
(Preview)
Myles Blake is in the main draw here this week.
34 year old Briton Gregory Howe (with no world ranking) attempted to qualify and won two rounds but lost in round of 16. I wonder why he bothered.
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Binghampton 50k challenger
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1 2 3 4 5
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(Preview)
There will plenty of British players in action in this tournament next week. Richard Bloomfield, Martin Lee and Arvind Parmar are direct entries into the main draw and Jamie Baker, Josh Goodall, Colin Fleming and Jamie Murray will be playing qualifying which starts tomorrow.
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GB F12 - Wrexham
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(Preview)
The Qualifying Draw has been released.
A lot of our young guns are involved including Ian Atkinson, Chris Llewellyn, David Rice, and for once Daniel Cox doesn't get a wild card into the main dra...
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Player of the month - July
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1 2
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(Preview)
Nominees:
Alex Bogdanovic: Achieved a career best result in Newport earlier this month, making his 1st ATP quarter-final.
Richard Bloomfield: Made the semis of the Dublin 50K Challenger, helping him rise to a career high ranking of 200.
Martin Lee: Made the quarters of the Mancheste...
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Cordenons 50k+H Challenger
(Preview)
For some reason Alan Wright has again moved up to Challenger qualies here. In round 1 he plays Adriano Biasella (Ita). A win in round 1 would see Alan play the 5th seed who received a bye.
Full Qualifying Draw
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Senegal F2
(Preview)
Chris Hartfield in QD :
QD1 - bt Arthur Albert (Gha) 7-6(4) 5-4 retired. (The name is no joke!) QD2 - lost to Pelach Torres (Esp) 3rd seed 6-4 6-3 -------------
MD : Myles Blake, Fulford-Jones & Ross Connolly.
Robert Dee was on the alts list but did not appear in the QD.
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Senegal F1
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(Preview)
That eagerly awaited tournament-the day has arrived.
Q1:
Chris Harfield (GBR) d. (WC)Yannick Languina (SEN) 6-1 6-2
Omar Laalej (MAR) d. Alexander Johnston (GBR) 6-4 7-5
Final Q:
Chris Harfield (GBR) d. Sylvain Ruest (CAN) 6-1 6-0 This appears to be Chris's first main draw appearance t...
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Josh Milton
(Preview)
The 16 year old from Cardiff is now the British no 2 in the juniors with a career high ranking of 137 which he's just reached with back to back tournament wins in Winchester and Ireland.
He's beaten top British U18 Simon Childs in Winchester and the no 2 U16 in Britain Marcus Willis, in Ireland.
T...
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GB F11 - Ilkley
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(Preview)
Qualifying draw is finally available - not too many British seeds here. They have already played the first two rounds and there are 3 guaranteed British qualifiers:
Qual Round 3:
Charroin vs Aniola
Ken Skupski vs Matt Illingworth
Groth vs McGahon
La Porte vs Simon Fergus...
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TMS Toronto
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(Preview)
Qualifying rd1:
A Parmar [GB] v A Falla [Col][11]
The 1st meeting for Arvind will the 23 year old Columbian leftie ranked 122. Falla's best ranking is 110 reached this year. He's spent the past few years on the cusp of the top 100, never quite been able to break in. He has qualified for several sl...
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Brits in Futures Week 32
(Preview)
Brits in Futures Week 32 : 7-11th August Senegal F2...cannot wait !!!! MD : 4-Myles Blake 7-Fulford-Jones 18 Ross Connolly Alts : Robert Dee & Dan Cottier....these two may pop-up anywhere though next week....? GB F12 MD : 1 - Matt Smith 3 - Alan Mackin 5 - Lee Childs 9 - J M...
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Spain F25
(Preview)
Qualifying:
The usual suspects are in action here. James Ward is seeded 8th and he and Oscar Podlewski are our best hopes. Robert Dee, perhaps mistakenly decided against sampling the delights of Senegal this week and he's also in action here.
Rd1:
R Dee [GB] v I Vicente-Fibla [Esp][14]...
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Vancouver Challenger
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(Preview)
Looks like only 22 in qualifying at this $100k event.
Jamie Baker gets 1st round bye and then winner of Jeremy Salvo( CAN vs Justin Kates (CAN)
Colin Fleming gets 1st round bye and G Hernandez (CAN)
Richard Bloomfield & Martin Lee are in Main Draw
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Tim Henman vs Phillip King
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1 2 3 4 5 … 11
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(Preview)
Henmans match is 2nd on center court. The 1st match starts at 4 and Henmans starts "not before 5:30" -- Edited by Andymonium at 02:19, 2006-08-01
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Teenagers have chance to be nurtured as never before
(Preview)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5205-2290224,00.html
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ATP Los Angeles
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(Preview)
For those of you wondering where Jamie Murray had got to this week, well he's in Los Angeles for the ATP event.
Unfortunately Jamie's singles ranking was too low for him to make the cut for the qualifying draw but he's in the doubles main draw partnering American Eric Butorac. Butorac is a 24 year ol...
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Mexico F10
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(Preview)
Anthony Law attempted to qualify here and was 2nd seed despite his ranking of 1537.
He received a bye in round 1 but lost 6-1, 7-5 in round 2.
He also appears in the main draw doubles, where he and his partner Jack Lynch of Australia beat local wild cards (one of which was his conquerer in qualies)...
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Granby Challenger
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(Preview)
Richard Bloomfield is on the entry list here and should be 3rd seed or so.
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Nottingham Challenger
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(Preview)
Boggo will be top seed here as Saulnier has pulled out
Martin Lee will also be seeded while Arvs, Matt Smith, Mackin and Goodall all in main draw (and should be joined by Delgado and Childs)
Come on the Brits! 
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Boggo out of segvoia
(Preview)
Alex has pulled out of segoiva next week (wk31), i guess his injury is worse than we realised, looking at his schedule he is not playing anywhere in wk32 and is down for graz in austria wk33, with usoq wk34. He isnt down to qualify for the masters in torronto so looks a like a barren spell for alex and will me...
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