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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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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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steven
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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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British tour billesley
(Preview)
http://downloads.lta.org.uk/webservices/TempResults/_TropicanaBritishTour/080107BillesleyBritishTour/women.pdf
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Surbiton trophy 2008
(Preview)
The official grass court season opener have been given its long overdue upgrade from 25K to 50K this year....don't know as of yet whether the men's event has received a similar boost In particular Anne Keothavong has a great record at Surbiton, having twice made the semis and the doubles is regularly...
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Week 2 - Australian Open Qualifying
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(Preview)
O'Brien, Keothavong, Baltacha and South will be there. -- Edited by wolf at 14:39, 2008-01-05
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Week 2 - $25,000 - Tampa Bay, USA
(Preview)
QR1 Anna Fitzpatrick (2) v Megan Alexander (USA)
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Week 2 - WTA Sydney - Tier 2
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Anne is the only Brit to make the cut in a strong event with 6 qualifiers coming from a field of 48. Anne's section is: [3] Knapp vs. Keothavong Benesova vs. Ditty Petkovic vs. Georges [WC] Musgrave vs. [12] Kanepi Karin Knapp is a fast-rising 20 year-old Italian ranked 50 in the world. She did however lo...
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new rules on wildcards
(Preview)
http://www.itftennis.com/shared/medialibrary/pdf/original/IO_30105_original.PDF
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tennisbrain
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britishtennis.net - 2007 player of the year
(Preview)
Who's your female player of the year for 2007 ? Nominees: (1) Anne Keothavong: Climbed from outside top 200 to a new career high of 118 and became the first British woman to make a WTA semis since 1992, in Kolkata. Also made two 50K finals in the States, winning the big Vancouver title and reached the fina...
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Wk 1 - WTA Auckland - Tier 4
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(Preview)
Qualies draw comes out tomorrow There's a live video stream at: http://www.planetstream.tv/1a -- Edited by Sheddie at 12:19, 2007-12-27
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Wk 1 - WTA Gold Coast - Tier 3
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(Preview)
Qualifying begins tonight on the Gold Coast !!! (2) Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) v. Darya Kustova (BLR) Margit Ruutel (EST) v. Anne Keothavong (GBR) Jessica Moore (AUS) v. Galina Voskoboeva (RUS) (WC) Monika Wejnert (AUS) v. (5) Olga Savchuk (UKR) Keothavong v Ruutel starts at midnight GMT
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Baltacha's rise heads charge of young hopefuls
(Preview)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article3111967.ece
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British women in WTAs - first two weeks of 08
(Preview)
Week 1: Gold Coast - Tier 3 Keothavong - 5th alt. O'Brien - 14th alt. Cavaday - 35th alt. South - 51st alt. (priority 2) Borwell - 63rd alt. Auckland - Tier 4 Keothavong & O'Brien - quali (priority 2) Cavaday - 21st alt. (priority 2) South - 31st alt. (priority 1) Borwell - 49th alt. (priority 2)
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Tropicana British tour - masters
(Preview)
This happened last week....results below: R1: K Jordan (Middlesex) beat G Hingley (Staffordshire) 6-0 7-6(4) A Gledden (Yorkshire) beat A Sargeant (Staffordshire) 6-3 6-1 O Howlett (Somerset) beat A Gibson (Essex) 6-1 6-4 J Rabot (Essex) beat M Gibb (Buckinghamshire) 6-0 6-3 H Parish (Essex) be...
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Sheddie
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2008 Points Defences
(Preview)
Here is the chronology of points scored by the top 5 British women in 2007. Tournaments not currently counting as part of the top 17 are displayed in brackets, and 1-point scores are not shown. The months listed refer to the start of the tournament. Points will drop off either in the corresponding mont...
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Points Breakdown
(Preview)
Can anyone point me to a site that has a breakdown of the British Ladies points for 2007 (best 17 scores)? WTA site does not seem to have the same breakdown as ATP site
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Week 51 - $25,000 - Lagos, Nigeria
(Preview)
QR1 Nicola Mooney d. Eden D'Oliveira (Rsa) 6-1, 6-2 QR2 Nicola Mooney d. Margaret Olagundoye (Ngr) 6-0, 6-1 MDR1 Nicola Mooney v Lizaan Du Plessis (Rsa) Dubs R1 Mooney / D'Oliveria (Rsa) v Du Plessis (Rsa) / Petushkova (Rus)
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Week 50 - La Habana 10k
(Preview)
R1 Emily Webley-Smith v Keren Shlomo (Isr) Doubles R1 Webley-Smith / Khabibulina (Blr) v Covello (Can) / Verhulsdonk (Ned)
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