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Week 8 - 10k - Benin City, Nigeria
(Preview)
R1 Olivia Scarfi (1) v Valentine Confalonieri (Ita)
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Week 8 - 10k - Portimao, Portugal
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QR1 Naomi BROADY (GBR) (1) BYE Mara ZOVKO (CRO) defeated Elizabeth ULLATHORNE (GBR) 6-3 6-0 Nicola SLATER (GBR) defeated Sheryl GERSHON (USA) 6-3 7-6(3) Olivia SMITH (GBR) defeated Demi BARAO-RODRIGUES (POR) 6-4 6-3 Tara WIGAN (GBR) (13) BYE Jade WINDLEY (GBR) defeated Paula JAIME-AGRAMON (ESP...
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Week 8 - Womens ITF (25K) - Clearwater, Florida, USA
(Preview)
Anna F continues her American venture. The other seed in qualifying, Nicole Thyssen, is a tough prospect, being a 19 year old Dutch Fed Cup player who is rapidly improving. (7)Nicole Thyssen (NED) v (wc)Alexandra Cercone (USA) (15)Anna Fitzpatrick (GBR) v Kimberly Couts (USA)
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Week 8 - Womens ITF (25k) - Capriolo, Italy
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Anne is in the main draw here along with Mel, providing she gets the all-clear from her doctor. Sarah is in qualifying: (4)Sarah Borwell (GBR) v (wc)Annalisa Bona (ITA) (10)Claire Feuerstein (FRA) v Irina Buryachok (UKR) The surface is indoor carpet
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Week 9 - WTA Dubai - tier 1
(Preview)
Qualies: Katie Bally and Mel on the alts list -- Edited by Madeline at 18:22, 2008-02-11
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Week 8 - 10k - Melila, Spain
(Preview)
R1 Romina Sceats v Aude Vermoezen (Bel) Amanda Carreras v Bijana Pavlova (Bul) (5) Katharina Brown v Melisa Carbera-Handt (Esp) (8) -- Edited by wolf at 21:48, 2008-02-17
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Week 7 - Albufeira 10K
(Preview)
Evidently an LTA squad trip out here....huge number of Brits attempting to come through an epic 4 round qualies Wouldn't read too much into results from these tourneys....surface is incredibly lifeless...slower even than clay and not as high bouncing so almost impossible to hit an opponent off th...
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Week 8 - WTA Doha - Tier 1
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Qualies (starting Feb 18th) Katie Bally (should get in - 4th alt atm)
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Week 7 - Stockholm 25K
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(1) Tereza HLADIKOVA CZE vs Romana JANSHEN NED (14) Hanna NOONI SWE vs Mailyne ANDRIEUX FRA (2) Anna FLORIS ITA vs Claudine SCHAUL LUX (13) Joanna SAKOWICZ POL vs Maya GAVEROVA RUS (3) Silvia SOLER ESPINOSA ESP vs wc Caroline MAGNUSSON SWE (10) Paula FONDEVILA CASTRO ESP vs wc Mikaela KRISTOFERSSON S...
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Week 7 - Australia $25K
(Preview)
Webley-Smith hoping for better than last week. She plays the 5th seed Hwang from Taipai
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Week 6 - Womens ITF (75k) - Midland, MI, USA
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(Preview)
main draw katie obrien anne keothavong mel south qualifying anna fitzpatrick alternate sarah coles -- Edited by Drew at 13:26, 2008-01-28
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Week 6 - Womens ITF (25k) - Sutton, Great Britain
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(Preview)
main draw naomi cavaday qualifying sarah borwell anna smith natasha khan liz thomas amanda elliott katarina brown alternate olivia scarfi naomi broady yasmin clarke jade windley lucy warburton rossana hatch over the years alot of people have ended up getting in so i would imagine the alternates a...
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Week 9 - WTA Memphis - Tier 3
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2008 Women's Entry Lists - Week 7 & 8
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Week 7 : 9th February - 17th February 2008 10k Albufeira - Montechoro, Portugal Hard Main Draw: Natasha Khan Qualifying: Liz Thomas, Naomi Broady, Danielle Brown, Nicola Slater, Olivia Smith, Jocelyn Rae, Liz Ullathorne, Margot Carter, Holly Fleming 10k Arezzo, Italy Clay Qualifying: Romina...
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Week 6 - Womans ITF ($10K) - Portugal
(Preview)
Danielle Brown and Tara Wigan are through to the 3rd Round of qualifying here while Michaela Ince is waiting to play her 2nd Round match. A few other Brit losers in Round 2
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Week 6 - Womans ITF ($10K) - Spain
(Preview)
Natasha Marks through to the final qualifying Round here and plays Klotz of Austria.
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Fed Cup 2008
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(Preview)
Great news ! It's a lot earlier this year, 30th Jan - 2nd Feb on indoor hard courts in Budapest which means a surface which is a lot more favourable to the Brit girls and surely a lot of the top players (Jankovic, Ivanovic etc) wont play as its so soon after the Aussie Open Surely our squad has to be Anne, Na...
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Player of the month - January
(Preview)
(1) Anne Keothavong: Made final qualies round on the Gold Coast and then won 3/3 matches in the Fed Cup (2) Katie O'Brien: Made final round qualies in Aussie Open, pushed world no 14 Schynder all the way in Fed Cup (3) Elena Baltacha: Qualified for WTA Auckland (4) Naomi Broady: Got off to a great start...
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Week 5 - 25k - La Quinta, USA
(Preview)
QR1 Pamela MONTEZ (MEX) defeated Anna FITZPATRICK (GBR) (8) 6-3 3-6 6-2 R1 SAVRANSKA (UKR) / SERRA ZANETTI (ITA) Vs FITZPATRICK (GBR) / VESELINOVIC (SRB) DE BEER (RSA) / GRANT (RSA) Vs HAWKINS (GBR) / WOERLE (GER)
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Predictions For 2008
(Preview)
Some to start: Katie - 107 Will enter top 100 and get DA for Wimbledon, but will fall out again after Grass. Anne - 118 Another mix of good runs, injuries and disappointing losses. Elena - 132 Some big results, but still inconsistent. Naomi C - 78 If she can recover quickly and stay healthy. Melanie - 166 B...
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Week 5 - Belfort 25K
(Preview)
Qualies: 279 GER OZGA, Justine [3] 699 FRA RADOVANOVIC, Gracia 489 SRB ZORIC, Natasa 450 GBR SMITH, Anna [14]
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Week 4 - Wrexham (10K)
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(Preview)
Wild cards here for Jade Windley, Steph Cornish and Jennifer Ren - I assume Broady will get the last if she loses today (otherwise she will get the SE spot). They join Anna Smith, Natasha Khan, Liz Thomas, Emily Webley-Smith and Amanda Elliott in the Main Draw. In qualifying wild cards go to Aimee Gibso...
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Week 3 - Sunderland 10K
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(Preview)
Wild Cards have been announced for this event next week and suprisingly after last years rebuke Naomi Broady has one. Other WC's go to Olivia Scarfi, Danielle Brown & Natasha Marks. They join Anna Smith, Emily Webley-Smith, Liz Thomas & Amanda Elliott in the main draw. Qualifying WC's for S...
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Could it happen here?
(Preview)
One of the tennis writes (quite possibly Neil Harman in the Times) voiced the opinion that what GB needed more than Andy going deep into a slam was a British woman joining him in the second week of a slam. Well, Tennis Australia how have a story that the LTA would die for - Casey Dellacqua, WR 78, who they w...
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Week 3: Surprise 25K - Arizona
(Preview)
According to GBTG, the rumours that the tournament is sponsored by Cilla Black are entirely unfounded Surprise surpriiiiiiiiiiiiise............... ....the unexpected hits you between the eyyyyyyyyyyyyes...........
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