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1. 99(+5) Anne Keothavong 16/9/83
2. 116(+6) Katie OBrien 2/5/86
3. 145(-3) Elena Baltacha 14/8/83
4. 153(+2) Melanie South 3/5/86
5. 192(+3) Naomi Cavaday 24/4/89
6. 276(+14) Sarah Borwell 20/8/79
7. 324(-1) Anna Fitzpatrick 6/4/89
8. 403(-5) Amanda Elliott 1/11/89
9. 410(+4) Georgi...
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Week 20 - Womens ITF (10K) - Badalona, Spain
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Q1: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) 1 785 v ZANDER, Nina (GER) UNR
Q1: GOUYETTE, Katie (GBR) WC UNR v EL ALLAMI, Fatima (MAR) 4 899
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Week 19 - Mostar 10K - 2008.
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I can't believe none of us have noticed this yet!!! Johanna Konta... Qualies - 64 B BYE 32 W Ema POLIC (SRB) 6-3 6-0 16 W Nives PAVLOVIC (SRB) 6-1 6-0 Main draw - 32 W Tamara STOJKOVIC (CRO) 7-5 6-1 16 W Zorica PETROV (SRB) 6-1 6-3 QF W Anja PRISLAN (SLO) 6-4 6-1 SF W Tereza MRDEZA (CRO) ...
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Week 19 - Womens ITF (50K + H) - Jounieh, Lebanon
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Anne Keothavong is in the main draw here and needs to reach the final to have any realistic chance of direct entry to the Wimbledon main draw. In qualifying: (2)Mailyne Andrieux (FRA) v BYE Ines Janbakhsh (GBR) v Yuliya Lyndina (UKR) Fatma Al Nabhani (OMA) v BYE (8/wc)Rebeca Neves (BRA) v BYE
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Week 20 - Womens ITF (50K) - Kurume, Japan
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$50K Kurume, Japan Carpet
R1: SOUTH, Melanie (GBR) 1 155 v MALHOTRA, Anastasia (JPN) Q 874
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Week 20 - Womens ITF (25K) - Raleigh, USA
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$25K Raleigh, USA Clay
R1: FITZPATRICK, Anna (GBR) 335 v ALBANESE, Lauren (USA) 4 269
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photos of women players
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http://www.wta96.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Newimages&until=20080506103234
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Week 19 - Womens ITF (25K) - Irapuato, Mexico
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Another chance for Sarah Borwell and Anna Fitzpatrick, who should be seeded here in a weak 25K. In qualifying: (3) Paula-Catalina Robles-Garcia (Col) v Bye Anna Hawkins (Gbr) v Hilary Toole (USA) (5) Lena Litvak (USA) v Bye (9) Tara Moore (Gbr) v Bye (7) Natalia Ryzhonkova (Rus) v Bye Nicola Slater...
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Week 19 - Womens ITF (50K) - Fukuoka, Japan
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Melanie South is our sole entrant in the second of the 3 50Ks in Japan. Mel is in a good quarter of the draw, with dangerous floater Kimiko Date-Krumm in the top half. Mel is seeded to meet Tamarine Tanasugarn in the semi-finals (who she lost to at the Australian Open). Third quarter: Akiko YONEMURA (JPN...
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Week 19 - Womens ITF (50K) - Indian Harbour Beach, Florida, USA
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Naomi Cavaday meets a familiar opponent in the first round here. Naomi won in 3 sets against the promising young American at the same stage last year. If successful a former top 100 player awaits in the second round. (4)Monique Adamczak (AUS) v Audra Cohen (USA) Neha Uberoi (USA) v (wc)Stacia Fonseca...
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Week 20 - Womens ITF (25K) - Caserta, Italy
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Q1: CARTER, Margot (GBR) UNR v GIOVINE, Claudia (ITA) 11 893
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Week 20 - Womens WTA (1.34M Tier I) - Rome, Italy
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Q1: O'BRIEN, Katie (GBR) 123 v BENESOVA, Iveta (CZE) 19 85
Matches start at 10am local time tomorrow and Katie is 4th on court 4.
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Week 18 - Womens ITF (50K) - Gifu, Japan
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3-Melanie South (GBR) vs Yi-Jing Zhou (CHN) Wan-Ting Liu (CHN) vs WC-Yuka Kuroda (JPN) Kanae Hisami (JPN) vs Ellen Barry (NZL) Anne Yelsey (USA) vs 6-Kumiko Iijima (JPN) -- Edited by seagull at 15:58, 2008-04-28
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Week 19 - Womens ITF (10K) - Edinburgh
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Main Draw wild cards so far for Amy Sargeant, Jennifer Ren and Amy Askew who join Jade Curtis, Liz Thomas, Katrina Brown, Naomi Broady and Yasmin Clarke. Qualifying wild cards for Laura Collins, Lottie Fox and Emily Askew
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Week 19 - Womens ITF (25K) - Changwon, Korea
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Georgie Stoop and Natasha Khan are here for the third Korean 25K. It is the last chance for Tash to salvage some points from a disappointing Tour, and her qualifying section is: Natasha KHAN (GBR) (8) Vs Soo-Min KIM (KOR) Yoo-Mi JUNG (KOR) Vs Mu-Ying CHEN (TPE) Joohyoung KIM (KOR) Vs Jin YOO (KOR) Jeong...
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Week 19 - Womens ITF (25K) - Florence, Italy
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It is another week with British involvement spread around various Challengers. Here in qualifying: (3)Irina Buryachok (UKR) v Margot Carter (GBR) (10)Constance Sibille (FRA) v (wc)Gaia Tanganelli (ITA) (7)Anna Smith (GBR) v Valentina Franchini (ITA) (15)Nancy Rustignoli (ITA) v Serena Fraz...
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Week 19 - Womens ITF (75K) - Zagreb, Croatia
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Q1: ELLIOTT, Amanda (GBR) 449 beat CUTURA, Matea (CRO) WC UNR 6-2 6-2
Q2: ELLIOTT, Amanda (GBR) 449 v GEROVAC, Roberta (CRO) UNR
R1: OBRIEN, Katie (GBR) 5 115 v SCHAUL, Claudine (LUX) SR 419
R1: BALTACHA, Elena (GBR) 146 v FEDOSSOVA, Yulia (FRA) 177
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Week 19 - Womens ITF (10K) - Vic, Spain
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Q1: BAMBURAC, Sabrina (GBR) WC UNR v TORRO-FLOR, Maria-Teresa (ESP) UNR
Q1: GOUYETTE, Katie (GBR) UNR v SAINZ-PELEGRI, Lucia (ESP) UNR
R1: CARRERAS, Amanda (GBR) WC
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Week 18 - Womens ITF (25K) - Coatzacoalcos, Mexico
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Some weeks have a glut of Challengers presenting opportunities in some relatively weak events. This Challenger is one of them, with Sarah Borwell and Anna Fitzpatrick both likely to be seeded in the main draw. Anna Hawkins and Nicola Slater are in Qualifying: (2)Vanesa Furlanetto (ARG) v BYE Anna H...
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Week 18 - Womens ITF (10K) - Bournemouth
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Wild Cards into Main Draw for Jennifer Ren, Amanda Cunningham, Michelle Farley, & Lisa Whybourn joining, Liz Thomas, Naomi Broady, Yasmin Clarke & Jocelyn Rae. Wild Cards in qualifying to Amy Askew, Margot Carter and Nicole Peterson. May go down for a day if the predicted heatwave ever hap...
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Week 18 - Womens ITF (100K + H) - Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France
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In 1999 Lucie Ahl won a 25K title here on the French Riviera. Since then it has been upgraded to a 100K + H event so Anna Smith will be hard pressed to qualify for the main draw let alone emulate Lucie. Her section is: (2)Teliana Pereira (BRA) v (wc)Joanna Bougon (FRA) Julia Landauer (GER) v (wc)Fanny Frac...
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Week 18 - Womens ITF (25K) - Gimcheon, Korea
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The second leg of the trio of Korean 25Ks for Natasha Khan and Georgie Stoop is in Gimcheon. Tash is again in qualifying with her section being:
(7) Natasha Khan (GBR) v Se Won Lee (KOR)
Wen-Hsin Hsu (TPE) v Na-Lae Han (KOR)
Bit-Na Lee(KOR) v Seo-Kyung Kang (KOR)
Joohyoung Kim (KOR) v (12) Da-Jung H...
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Week 18 - Womens ITF (50K) - Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Naomi Cavaday has opted for the American Green Clay circuit, and will be in the main draw here. Tara Moore just scraped in to qualifying. Her section is: (4)Leanne Baker (NZL) v Mashona Washington (USA) Angelina Gabueva (RUS) v (wc)Lauren Herring (USA) Tara Moore (GBR) v Christina McHale (USA) (6)A...
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Week 18 - Womens ITF (50K + H) - Makarska, Croatia
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Anne Keothavong has a potentially tricky opener here against a former World junior number 1, whose career has been blighted by injury - and is using her Special Ranking. Anne needs to go deep this week and/or next to have any chance of making the Wimbledon main draw on ranking. The bottom quarter of the...
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Week 18 - WTA Tier 4 - Fes, Morocco
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For the first time since the demise of the Cardiff tournament in 1997 two British players appear on the Main Draw list for a WTA clay court event. The Grand Prix de SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem (their headed paper must be a metre wide!) includes both Katie O'Brien, who scraped in on ranking, and Elena Ba...
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