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Nice article on Anne from the Guardian website
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British No1 Keothavong delighted to earn a crack at the champion
Anne Keothavong is the only British woman in the main draw ranked high enough to get into the tournament as of right and, though that seemed to be as much a burden as a source of confidence yesterday, she still managed to join her...
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Week 27 - Womens ITF (10K) - Oviedo, Spain Hard
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Q1: STEWART, Catriona (GBR) UNR v Bye
Q2: STEWART, Catriona (GBR) UNR lost to VILAS-IBANEZ, Patricia (ESP) WC UNR 3-6 6-2 3-6
R1: WARBURTON, Lucy (GBR) UNR v CASTIBLANCO-DUARTE, Karen-Emelia (COL) 5 632
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Weeks 26-27 - Wimbledon Championships (Doubles)
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I thought we should have a seperate thread for doubles. Yesterday Marta Domachowski & Agnieszka Radwanska d. Sarah Borwell & Joeclyn Rae 6-3, 6-4 Nathalie Dechy & Casey Dellacqua d. Anna Fitzpatrick & Anna Hawkins 6-1, 6-0 Today Anne Keothavong & Melani South v Chunmei Ji &am...
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Week 26 - Wimbledon Womens Singles Round 2
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Elena Baltacha 158 v Zheng Jie (China) 133 Wednesday noon court 2
Anne Keothavong 92 v Venus Williams (US) 7 Thursday
Don't be misled by Zheng Jie's low ranking. She missed much of 2007 through injury, but was top 30 in 2006, reaching the third round at Wimbledon and winning the Doubles Championshi...
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Week 26 - Womens ITF (25K) - Getxo, Spain
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QR1: Sabrina BAMBURAC (GBR) UNR vs BYE QR1: Yasmin CLARKE (GBR) 628 (9) vs BYE QR1: Catriona Stewart (GBR) UNR vs BYE QR2: Sabrina BAMBURAC (GBR) UNR lost to Ana TIMOTIC (SRB) 470 (1) 6-1 6-0 QR2: Yasmin CLARKE (GBR) 628 (9) defeated Judit DOMINGO-CASAS (ESP) UNR 6-1 6-2 QR2: Catriona Stewart (GBR) UNR...
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Week 25 - 10k - Alcobaca, Portugal
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Nicola MOONEY (GBR) (3) BYE
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Nicola MOONEY (GBR) (3) defeated Amaia ORMAZABAL-OREGUI (ESP) 6-2 4-6 6-4
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Nicola MOONEY (GBR) (3) Vs Kristina SHISHKINA (RUS)
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Week 25 - Wimbledon Qualifying 2nd Round
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Thought it be best to start a new thread for today ala what was done for the guys. Amanda Elliott is on already and got broken in the first game! However, she has won the next 3 games so is serving at 3-1
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Official Jade Curtis Website!
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Jade's getting a site. It's not done yet, but you can have a look - http://www.jadecurtis.com/ El Nino!
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Week 25 - Womens ITF (10K) - Gausdal, Norway
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Lucy and Ines are still in Norway, Ines is already out, whilst Lucy has drawn an unranked 15 year old German.
R1: Lucy WARBURTON (GBR) 1049 vs Carina LIFTIN (GER) UNR
R1: Ines JANBAKHSH (GBR) 1037 lost to Davinia LOBBINGER (BEL) 718 (5) 3-0 ret.
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Week 25 - 's-Hertogenbosch (Tier III) 2008.
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Keothavong has a Feed Up into this, thanks to the tourney she won in Lebanon. It's nice of her to accept it as this frees up a wild card at Eastbourne. Initial Entry list - 1 CHAKVETADZE Anna RUS 7 2 DEMENTIEVA Elena RUS 9 3 HANTUCHOVA Daniela SVK 10 4 SAFINA Dinara RUS 17 5 SCHIAVONE Francesca ITA 20 6 BONDAR...
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Week 25 - WTA Tier 2 - Eastbourne (Main Draw)
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I thought I would set up a separate thread for the main draw, like for the men in Nottingham, as this will get lost amongst the scoring for the qualies. The draws for Katie and Mel could certainly have been worse. Main Draw (1) Kuznetsova vs BYE Wozniacki vs Qualifier Stosur vs (WC) O'Brien Mauresmo vs...
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Week 25 - Wimbledon Qualifying
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Anna Smith vs Julie Coin Georgie Stoop vs Jarmila Gajdosova Sarah Borwell vs Yaroslava Shvedova Anna Fitzpatrick vs Yuliana Fedak Elizabeth Thomas vs Sesil Karatantcheva Naomi Broady vs Rika Fujiwara Tara Moore vs Olga Puchkova Amanda Elliot vs Natsumi Hamamura http://www.wimbledon.org/en_...
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Week 25 - 10k - Houston, TX, USA
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QR1
Marlene RYAN (USA) defeated Nadia LEE (GBR) 6-3 3-6 7-6(5)
Nicola SLATER (GBR) defeated Subbadharmi SUNDARAM (USA) 6-2 6-2
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Nicola SLATER (GBR) defeated Ashlee BROWN (AUS) 7-6(1) 6-3
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Catrina THOMPSON (USA) (8) Vs Nicola SLATER (GBR)
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Week 25 - Futures (10K, clay) - France
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Karolina PLISKOVA (CZE) (6) Vs Yasmin CLARKE (GBR)
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Week 25 - Eastbourne (Tier II) Qualifying 2008.
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Qualies draw (courtesy Tennisforum) - K. Kanepi (1) - G. Stoop (WC) J. Ditty - V. Ruano Pascual B. Mattek - G. Voskoboeva A. Fitzpatrick (WC) - E. Makarova (5) T. Pironkova (2) - C. Castano E. Baltacha - N. Cavaday (WC) M. Yuan - A. Klepak T. Obziler - J. Craybas (7) A. Kleybanova (3) - E. Rodina I.R. Olar...
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grass season wcs
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its the regular debate but who should get them this year ? bit more competitive on the womens side especially for the birmingham and eastbourne ones - are there only 3 for both those tournaments ? My choices would be: Birmingham: Keothavong, O'Brien, South Eastbourne: Keothavong, O'Brien, Ba...
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WC Play Off 2008.
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http://www.lta.org.uk/Watch/Individual-Tournaments/The-Championships-Wimbledon/
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Week 24 - WTA Tier 3 - Birmingham
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The DFS Classic provides Katie O'Brien with her last opportunity to reach the top 100 before she has to defend the 110 points accumulated at Eastbourne and Wimbledon last year. Late withdrawals mean that she has made the main draw here on ranking, the first Brit to do so since Sam Smith in 1999. A couple...
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Week 24 - Womens ITF (10k) - Montemor-O-Novo, Portugal
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Q1: MOONEY, Nicola (GBR) (5) 1037= v BYE
Q2: MOONEY, Nicola (GBR) (5) 1037= lost to ALEKSANDROVA, Alla (RUS) UNR 6-0 6-1
Bad loss for Nicola against a player Tara Wigan beat in straight sets recently. Tara is listed as having a WC entry to the Main Draw, though whether she plays depends upon if she has...
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Week 24 - Womens ITF (10K) - Gausdal, Norway
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Very weak draw, sadly the two British entrants (Lucy Warburton and Ines Janbaksh) have received some of the toughest opponents available:
R1: Lucy WARBURTON (GBR) 1037 v Sophie CORNEROTTE (BEL) (6) 766
R1: Ines JANBAKHSH (GBR) 1059 v Natalia RYZHONKOVA (RUS) (7) 793
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Liverpool International Tennis 2008.
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From 10th June. Ksenia Milevskaya Caroline Wozniacki Ashley Harkleroad Tamaryn Hendler Olga Savchuck Karoline Steiro (Norwegian quota) Chloe Murphy (Liverpool quota) Qualifier http://www.liverpooltennis.co.uk/ -- Edited by Greenlea...
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Week 24 - Womens ITF (10K) - Lenzerheide, Switzerland Clay
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Q1: PROBERT, Abbie (GBR) UNR v Bye
Q1: FARLEY, Michelle (GBR) UNR beat ANTIC, Dragana (SUI) UNR 6-0 6-2
Q2: PROBERT, Abbie (GBR) UNR v MATOVICOVA, Nikola (SVK) UNR
Q2: FARLEY, Michelle (GBR) UNR v SAVKINA, Anastasia (RUS) UNR
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Week 23 - Surbiton $50K
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Here is the womans list 1DELLACQUA, CaseyAUS5212TANASUGARN, TamarineTHA6813NAKAMURA, AikoJPN7314CETKOVSKA, PetraCZE7725ERAKOVIC, MarinaNZL8016$CIRSTEA, Sorana-MihaelaROU8127CHAN, Yung-JanTPE8628CHO, Yoon-JeongKOR89P 19ANI, MaretEST96210WICKMAYER, YaninaBEL99211HSIEH...
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Week 23 - Womens ITF (10K) - Hilton Head Island, USA
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$10K Hilton Head Island, USA Hard
Q1: DRAKE, Kendal (GBR) UNR v ROBINSON, Shadisha (USA) UNR
Q1: SLATER, Nicola (GBR) UNR v Bye
Kendal Drake seems a bit of a mystery, she has been training in USA.
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Week 23 women ITF (10K) Amarante, Portugal
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Qualies: Tara W (but two off MD, and may get a SE anyhow) Lucy Warburtib Nicola Mooney Jodie McKinnon
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