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"Lord’s could serve as venue for tennis".
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Roger Draper, the chief executive of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), is to contact his opposite number at MCC, Keith Bradshaw, next week, with a view to staging a tournament for the leading women players at Lords from 2008.
An operations manager has examined the grass in front of the G...
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Week 20 - ITF Womens 25k - Palm Beach Gardens
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Main Draw - Naomi Cavaday Qualifying - Karen Paterson -- Edited by VSandhi20 at 13:30, 2007-05-10
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Week 20 - Tropicana Tour(W) - Doncaster
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Entry list... 1 Deborah Armstrong 9832 Annabel Bann 10993 Naomi Broady 11044 Natasha Marks 11045 Holly Richards 13846 Lisa Sutton 2.17 Lereesa Easterbrook 2.28 Lindsay Rawling 3.19 Olivia Howlett 3.110 Annabel Gledden 3.111 Zoe Bambridge 3.112 Leah Roberts 3.213 Laura White 3.214 Amy Askew 4.1...
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Week 20 - ITF Womens 25k - Gran Canaria
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Main draw - Anne Keathavong, top seed Qualifying - Sarah Coles, Jade Curtis
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Week 20 Women ITF 10K Irapuato, Mexico
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Emily WS and Tara M in MD. Emily seeded 7, R1 vs Danielle Mills Tara vs Natalia Cretu -- Edited by Happycynic at 20:17, 2007-05-15
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Week 20 - Womens ITF 25K - Antalya, Turkey
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qualies R1 Anna Smith - bye Anna Fitzpatrick - bye QR2 Smith bt Rybakova 6-4 6-7(3) 7-6(3) Fitzpatrick bt Pitenina 6-4 6-4 QR3 Smith (2) (481) vs sofia Kvatsabaia (Georgia) (1183) Fitzpatrick (5) (560) vs Ksenia Lykina (Russia) (830
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Week 20 - ITF Womens 25k - Changwon
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Sarah Borwell in the main draw, Bally in the qualies AGAIN! QR1: (14)Elena Baltacha (GBR) bt Ji-Won Park (KOR) 6-0 6-0
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Sure to please Sheddie
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in the latsest british tennis magazine there is a piccy if webely, o brien and stoop modeiling sports bras. the one in the middle seems fairly well endowed for a tennis player.
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Week 19 - Womens ITF 10K - Mazatlan, Mexico
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Emily Webley-Smith has been given a tough draw for this week's 10K in Mazatlan (Mexico). She faces 17 year old Mexican 8th seed Valeria Pulido-Velasco in rd1 who has a women's ranking of 631 and is inside the world's top 30 in the juniors. Like Emily, she made the semis of Obregon two weeks ago before los...
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Week 19 - Womens ITF 10K - Edinburgh
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THE wild cards are interesting here!!!! some of the wc last week didnt make the best use of them. main draw julia bone olivia scarfi lucy warburton liz thomas WC naomi broady WC deb armstrong WC sophie proctor qualifying mel berry maddie brooks(official name on itf now) jade curtis tasha hillyer mel p...
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Week 20 - ITF Women 50k - Saint Gaudens
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Qualifying - Anna Smith, seeded 2. Romina Sceats in qualifying though not sure if she's particpating.
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Week 19 - Womens ITF 25K - Korea (Gimcheon)
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Despite SF place last week, no SE for Bally, so she is in qualies Q1 (10)Elena Baltacha (GBR) v Jae-Hee Lyoo (KOR) 62 60 Q2 Elena BALTACHA (GBR) (10) defeated In-Young HWANG (KOR) 61 61 QR vs Jin-A LEE (KOR) (5) Sarah B is in MD, providing her back is better I guess. -- Edited by Drew at 21:42, 2007-05-07
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Week 19 - Womens ITF 25K - Antalya, Turkey
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qualifying anna fitzpatrick v BYE 2ND ROUND Anna fitzpatrick def. vladlena petushkova 61 60 last round qualies anna fitzpatrick v sonal phadke she is seeded 3 in qualifying here so she should qualify -- Edited by Drew at 21:40, 2007-05-07
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Playing Styles
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Apart from the odd match at Wimbledon I haven't seen many of our girls play so would be very grateful if anyone could enlighten me on how some of our girls play.
I had hoped to go to Edinburgh this week since it's only an hour away by train, so I could see some for myself, but alas I have an exam on saturday...
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Week 19 - Womens ITF 50K - Indian Harbour, Florida
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Qualies: Naomi Cavaday (wc), Karen Paterson Qualies start on Sunday. There's been a lot of confusion around the boards about Naomi's plans for this week....I'll try and clear things up from what Naomi told me last week. Naomi says that whenever there's a British tournament going on, she always ente...
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Week 19 - Women ITF 50K - Japan (Fukuoka)
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Katie O'B Mel S and Natasha K all in MD R1 (5)Katie O'Brien (GBR) v Mari Tanaka (JPN) (7)Melanie South (GBR) v Chiaki Okadaue (JPN) Nataska Khan (GBR) v Yuka Kuroda (JPN) Here's hoping for a change in Mel's fortunes. Katie is defending serious points from here last year. -- Edited by Drew at 21:43, 2007...
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Week 19: Rabat 10K - Morroco (clay)
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In Morocco, Kirsty Woolley is through to the main draw of this week's Rabat 10K as a lucky loser. The qualifying draw was very weak - only 1 round, but Kirsty lost 6-4, 7-6 to unranked Spaniard Nuria Parrizas-Diaz. She'll really have to up her level to get a ranking point here as she's drawn 17 year old Rus...
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obrien storms ahead
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i thought katie deserved a topic of her own as she is the new british womens no. 1 from wtatour.com...................... 1. katie obrien 163 points (wr181) 2. anne keothavong 162.25 points (wr183) 3. mel south 149.50 (wr192 to give you an idea all you cavaday fans 5. naomi cavad...
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Week 19 - Womens ITF 75K - Monzon, Spain
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main draw anne keothavong v WC sabina mediano alvaraz(wr1010) aamanda keen v christina wheeler(wr311) -- Edited by Drew at 21:39, 2007-05-07
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Week 18 - Womens ITF 10K - Bournemouth
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Commitments Main 4. Julia Bone 6. Olivia Scarfi 14. Lucy Warburton 15. Rebecca Fong 16. Elizabeth Thomas W.C. Jade Curtis W.C. Amanda Carreras W.C. Olivia Howlett W.C. Laura Slater Qualifying 7. Claire Ricketts 9. Deborah Armstrong 10. Anna Hawkins 11. Madelaine Brooks 12. Lucy Fletcher 13. Nata...
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Week 18 - Womens ITF 25K - Antalya
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Anne K and Amanda Keen will be seeded 3 and 4 in the main draw....both need a good run here, it's on hard so will be disappointing if either fall early. Anna Smith was just 2 places off the cut, not in qualies so she must have made it -- Edited by Drew at 14:11, 2007-05-01
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Week 18 - Womens ITF 25K - Incheon, Korea
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Sarah Borwell will be top seed in the main draw so fantastic chance for her to really rack up the points ! Bally's in qualies. (5)Elena Baltacha (GBR) v Kyung-Hwa Lee (KOR) Ji-Sun Kim (KOR) v Soo-Min Kim (KOR) Shiori Araki (JPN) v Yoon-Young Jeong (KOR) (16)Cho-Won Lee (KOR) v Joohyoung Kim (KOR) -- Edi...
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Week 18 - Womens ITF 10K - Los Mochis, Mexico
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emily webley smith and dani brown look forward to second week in mexico hope they dont meet early in the comp again though nice to see them meet in final -- Edited by Drew at 17:50, 2007-05-01
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Week 18 - Womens ITF 50K - Gifu, Japan
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(Preview)
this comp has been extremely well attended by british players in the past this years entries main draw katie o'brien mel south natasha khan -- Edited by Sheddie at 09:38, 2007-04-25 -- Edited by Drew at 16:06, 2007-05-01
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Mel South writes from Japan
(Preview)
Mel South is writing a regular diary on her official website from her trip to Japan for a series of challengers. She plays another Brit, Natasha Khan in rd1 this morning. It's been raining a lot in Gifu which makes the astroturf courts even faster, both girls have pretty good serves so it's probably goi...
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