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Tim's ranking week 34.
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Please would someone post the table as I'm away for most of the week so can't update it. If no one has done it or said they will by tomorrow mid-morning I'll post the table but someone else will have to update. Thanks.
Looking at the new haven draw, Tim is in serious danger.
15 people can overtake him th...
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ATP New Haven - Rusedski v Nieminen
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Match is scheduled for court 1, starting at around 8.30pm GMT tonight.
They've played once before, Greg won 6-4, 6-4 in rd1 of ATP Nottingham on grass in 2003, on his way to the title.
However, now Nieminen has to be the favourite, given that he's 15 in the world and has enjoyed a good hard court s...
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Possible comeback for Kournikova
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Anna Kournikova has hinted about making a return to the tennis circuit and linking up again with Martina Hingis to renew their grand slam winning doubles partnership.
However, Hingis had a warning for the Russian, "She'd really have to commit herself to this and grind it out" said the Swiss.
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ATP New Haven rd1: Rusedski v Karlovic
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Bizarrely the main draw has been released but there's no sign of the qualifying draw which should have started yesterday !!
Karlovic is quite a nasty draw for Greg considering that he couldn't have faced a seed in rd1 [all seeds got byes through to rd2]. The winner of this match will play Jarkko Nie...
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Penn Pick'em contest league
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If you haven't heard, Penn are running a competition for this week's TMS event in Cincinatti in conjunction with the ATP.
It's a predictions competition, if you haven't done so already go to the ATP site and click on the massive logo and register for free.
Then click on "my picks," what you hav...
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Should grunting be banned ?
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This is currently one of the big debating points in the tennis world.
What do you think ?
Views:
Navratilova: "They should outlaw it. It's really unfair to the opponent and it's terrible for the public. At the net you need to hear the ball hit the racket so you know how fast it's travellin...
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Greg and Boggo's rankings week 33
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Here's the Greg & Alex rankings for this week.
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Courtside coaching
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What are your views on courtside coaching, do you think it should be made legal ?
The views of top players on this:
Nadal: "What kind of rule is this that coaches can't say anything during a match ? In what other sport does this happen ?"
Rusedski: "It's a free-for-all, so you might as well ha...
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TMS Cincinnati R1: Rusedski vs Ljubicic
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Tough one for Greg here.. Tbh he'll have to be on his game really to stand any chance of winning this match against Ljubicic and if he does it will be in 3 sets. Certainly a match of big servers and if Greg can put in a good serve who knows what could happen during this match. But I just feel Ljubicic will win, s...
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TMS Cincinatti
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This thread is for following the Cinci main draw.
Just seen that Querrey has won the 1st set against Nadal, 7-5 in the 1st set tiebreak !
Wow !!!!!! 
Querrey's only ranked 178 and a couple of years ago he was nowhere even in juniors !!!!
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Tim's ranking week 33
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Same as Andy's table, I'm posting this ahead of both the rankings and tennisfacts so it's subject to change depending on how many mistakes I've made!! Any you spot, let me know.
STRONG> Running So ;
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US Open predictions competition
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The 121SPORTS 2006 US Open Tennis Tipping Competition runs from the 28th August - 10th September, 2006.
Each entrant in the competition is given a “virtual” bank of 1000 units. Entrants must bet on at...
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Satellites being scrapped
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I've heard that the ITF plan to scrap satellites completely from 2007 onwards so the lowest level will be futures.
What do you think about this ?
I think it's a good idea points-wise, I've always thought it was a bit tough on players having to defend all their points from 4 weeks of a satellite in...
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Greg and Boggo's rankings week 32
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Here's the table for our second tier of players. All 18th/ 19th/ and defending points are straight from tennisfacts.
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Tim's ranking week 32: Toronto
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STRONG>Running |----------Start of week---------| Running So 18th Def 19th Rank Rank Name ...
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Björkman vs Henman
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This match will follow the Rusedski match on grandstand and probably start at around 7pm BST
Björkman leads the head to head 5-4 but henman has had the two most recent victories.
2003, Vienna (Hard) - Henman won 6-1 6-4 2002, Davis Cup (Carpet) - Henman won 6-4 7-5 4-6 7-5 2002, Australian Op...
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Youzhny vs Rusedski
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They play second on Grandstand, after a singles match which will start at 4pm (BST) so probably at about 5.45 BST. The head2head is tied at 1 all.
2006, Miami (Hard) - Rusedski won 6-3 6-1 2004, St. Petersburg (Carpet) - Youzhny won 3-6 6-3 6-4 -- Edited by mkkreuk at 10:03, 2006-08-07
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ATP Washington
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Major stories so far from this event:
Andy Roddick was forced to withdraw, still being troubled by the side strain he suffered in Los Angeles.
5-time Washington champion, Andre Agassi hoped to make a major impact in his 17th and final appearance at the tournament but instead he crashed out i...
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Henman v Tursunov
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Match is to be played at 7 on Grand Stand (another late on for all you in Britian) Another real interesting match Henman has only lost a set this tourny Tursunov has gone 3 sets every match. He finished his match last night at around 1:45 winning 6(10)-7 7-5 6-3 Tursunov is going to be very sl...
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Who are you most like: Tim, Greg or Andy
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This was in the June issue of Ace, thought it'd be funny to see what people here said:
The big tennis test, who are you most like: Tim, Greg or Andy ?
[1] Your boss gives you a grilling in your annual appraisal, how do you respond ?
It's a bad day at the office [ii] Obviously this is a learning cu...
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Henman v Gambill
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This match is last on centre court today at approx 2 am. Anyone planning to stay up ? Doug and Andymonium, what time will it be for you ? 29 year old Gambill is currently ranked 503, a long way from his career best of 14 which he reached in 2001. Off the tennis court he enjoys modelling and adding to his collec...
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Henman top 32 seeds by AO 2007
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5205-2292632,00.html
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Gimlestob/Henman vs Kunitsyn/Tursunov
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Gimlestob seems to be quite friendly with a few brits and is now teaming up with henman for the doubles. Given the american's recent form i think he and henman have a decent shot at this, though they do face tough opponents in the russians.
I think it will be played tomorrow....
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New site header banner
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I think the site header banner needs to be updated:
Anyone have any ideas and photos to use ?
I think that maybe we should replace the image on the right with a photo of Andy from Aptos/Indianapolis/Binghampton/Cincinatti last year and maybe replace the middle image with a US Open series logo...
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ATP Los Angeles
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Has anyone been following Andre Agassi's progress here ?
He had a stunning 7-6[10], 6-0 win over Xavier Malisse in rd1 in 110 degree heat, serving 18 aces [!] in the process. In rd2 he beat Bastl 6-7, 6-2, 6-1 after a scrappy start. Agassi said "As the match went on, I picked up my level and I'm feeling...
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