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Minsk 25K
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Starts on Monday 30th on indoor carpet in Belarus.
Anne Keothavong is 3rd on the entry list. Amanda Keen is 7th so both will be seeded 
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G2 juniors - South Carolina
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Jade Curtis is the 3rd seed. She plays American Allie Will in rd1. She should reach the semis here, at least.
For some reason Anna Fitzpatrick is playing here, I've no idea why she's taken to playing junior tournaments instead of futures; unless she can't play any more senior tournaments this yea...
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Stockholm 10K
(Preview)
Qualifying starts on Saturday 28th.
Deborah Armstrong, Madelaine Brooks and Francesca Kinsella are competing.
Francesca has her own official website [and no, this one isn't run by me  [url=http://www.francescakinsella.co.uk]http://www.francescakinsella.co.uk[/...
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Erding 10K
(Preview)
Qualifying [starts on 28th]:
Linsey Jacks is the only British representative, it's on indoor carpet in Germany
I've just seen that there's a futures in India next week and all the main draw players are Indian  Now why can't we do that !
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Shanghai 50K
(Preview)
Starts on Monday 30th October
Mel South is 12th on the entry list
Rebecca Llewellyn will be in qualies
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Istanbul 25K
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(Preview)
Q1: Claire Peterzan (6) bt Huliya Velieva (Bul, 1267) 6-3 7-6
Next vs. 14 Andrei, Laura-Ioanna (ROM, 713) for main draw place.
Anne K, Amanda K and Katie O'B are listed in main draw.
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British girls heading on tour down under
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[url=http://www.lta.org.uk/Newsroom/GeneralNews/061027Australia.htm?BSMGuid=cc555b87-3091-4456-b40f-f16175344739]http://www.lta.org.uk/Newsroom/GeneralNews/061027Australia.htm?BSMGuid=cc555b87-3091-4456-b40f-f161753447...
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South Africa 10K
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R1 Ines JANBAKHSH (GBR) (6) defeated Natalie HANDLER (ISR, UR) 61 61
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Augusta 25K
(Preview)
Qualifying:
Rd1:
A Fitzpatrick [GB] v K Carson [USA]
D Brown [GB] v M Inoue [USA]
Winnable matches for Anna and Danielle. Kit Carson is ranked 911 and she's on a 6 match losing streak stretching back to July. The highlight of her year has been qualifying for a weak 25k in Canada where sh...
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St Cugat 25K - Spain
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Qualifying:
Rd1:
R Sceats [GB][wr:1392] bt V Vallis-Comamala [Esp] [wr:851] 6-4, 7-5 
B Morata [Esp][wr:802] bt A Carreras [GB][unranked] 6-2, 6-2
K Woolley [GB][14][wr:769] bt I Koripenko [Isr] 6-3, 6-3
Rd2:
G Mortello [It][10] [wr:685] bt R Sceats [G...
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Glasgow 25K
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(Preview)
MD WC's for: O'Donoghue Paterson Khan Smith
Cavaday and Stoop in qualifying.
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El Paso - G5 juniors - USA
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Rd1 results:
A Fitzpatrick [GB][3] v bye
E Ullathorne [GB][14] bt V Wojakowska [USA] 6-4, 6-3
J Dobbins [GB] bt N Reynolds [USA] 6-2, 6-0
Rd2:
A Fitzpatrick [GB][3] v A Allin [USA]
E Ullathorne [GB][14] v J Dobbins [GB]
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Melissa Berry
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(Preview)
Bladetiger rates her as the hottest player in British tennis, so as you can imagine, I'm anxious to check this out.
Now, Doug posted a link to a site with pics of all the female british players but alas I deleted the thread which the post was in, a while back. I wondered if he could re-post the link to th...
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Sevilla 10K
(Preview)
Tara Wigan makes the main draw but gets tp seed Ana Timotic of SRB ranked 310 in round 1. 
She must be furious as the main draw lists 12 ( yes that's right 12) spaces for qualifiers or lucky losers, but she has to play the op seed.
Of those 12 spots the only Brit still in it is Anna Hawkins w...
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Lagos 25K
(Preview)
A little bit of a contrast from Qualifying in Glasgow...
Q1: Lucy WARBURTON (GBR) (4) defeated Folashade OGUNSHOLA (NGR, UR) 60 60
Q2: Lucy WARBURTON (GBR) (4) defeated Beauty OGHENEKEVWE (NGR, UR) 61 60
I think Lucy has harder qualifying battles..... can't help but think this would be bette...
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50K Houston
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Q1: Danielle Brown vs SMYSER, Georgiana (USA), an UR 16 year old WC.
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Other action, week 9th Oct
(Preview)
Australia 25K
Q: Lucy Fletcher
Lagos 25K
Q: Lucy Warburton
Quite a weak field, could make it through with a good draw. Should be seeded.
Spain 10K
MD: Kirsty Woolley
Q: Romina Sceats, Anna Hawkins (should be seeded), Nikki Prosser, Amanda Carreras, Aimee Jarrett
Portugal 10K
MD...
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Jersey 25K
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(Preview)
MD: Anne K, Mel S, Katie O'B, Becky L as DA
Wild cards: Naomi C, Georgie S, Karen P, Anna S
Lots in qualifying-too many to type out!
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50k Joue-Le-Tours
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Amanda Keen has popped up in qualifiers here.
R1 bt Nadege Vergos of France 57 63 62
R2 bt Ekaterina Dzehalevich of Belarus 63 62
R3 bt Estelle Guisard of France 60 61
And therefore qualifies!!!!!!!!!!!
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Katie O'Brien's player diary
(Preview)
http://www.lta.org.uk/Newsroom/PlayerDiaries/061009OBrien.htm?BSMGuid=f7e5c0c1-d503-4151-8266-57696cc303a5
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Player of the month - September
(Preview)
Nominees:
Katie O'Brien: Reached back to back 25K finals in Madrid and Nottingham. She won Nottingham, her first 25K title. She also won the Madrid doubles title.
Amanda Keen: Runner-up in Nottingham 25K final in singles and won the doubles title.
Naomi Cavaday: Reached semis of Nott...
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The Ren sisters
(Preview)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/get_involved/5410746.stm"With the Grand Slams there are so many opportunities to win," said Venus Williams after taking the singles and doubles titles at the Sydney Olympics.
"A gold medal, it's just once every four years...
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Nantes 25K
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(Preview)
Mel South, Rebecca Llewellyn and Jane O'Donaghue are in the main draw. Amanda Keen should get a SE aswell.
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Granada 10k
(Preview)
Qualifying highlights
R1
Sarah Needham 36 46 vs Marta Espigado Dlegado
Nikki Prosser 60 63 vs Yevgeniya Kryvoruchko
Aimee Jarrett vs bye!
Sarah Stallard vs bye!
R2
Prosser 16 61 64 vs De Block
Jarrett 06 06 vs Gago Fuentes :furio...
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Volos 10k
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Qualifying highlights
Madeleine Brooks (GBR) is seeded 5 and has byes through to the final qualifying round where any of her possible opponents will be unranked.
Fran Kinsella (GBR) faces unranked Ukrainian ALina Shazhko in round one with the winner facing Austrian Birgit Ritschka fo...
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