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Gurgaon G2, India ITF
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Lewis Barnes fresh from his great title run last week competes here with James Richardson & Faris Akhazzan. If Lewis & James have good runs here they can make the top 100. The draw is being done now so will update when possible.
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Boys: Nottinghill, Australia - G1
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R1 Niall ANGUS (GBR) Vs Milos RAONIC (CAN) Silvio DADIC (CRO) Vs Neil PAUFFLEY (GBR) Daniel EVANS (GBR) (3) Vs Erik CREPALDI (ITA) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) (7) Vs Daniel COX (GBR) Marcus WILLIS (GBR) (14) Vs Abhijeet TIWARI (IND)
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Boys - Barranquilla, Colombia - G1
(Preview)
R1 Michael DAVIS (GBR) defeated Diego ACOSTA (ECU) 6-4 6-3 Mauricio ASTORGA (MEX) (14) Vs Matthew SHORT (GBR)
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Girls: Nottinghill G1
(Preview)
Not much to report as Jade had a bit of a shocker, was seeded 10 but went down to Russia's Marta Sirotkina 7-6(5), 6-7(7), 6-1 in rd1.....Sirotkina is ranked 40 places lower at 71
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Sheddie
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Boys: Copa Gatorade G1, Caracas, Venezuela
(Preview)
Matthew Short (16) v bye Either plays Gabriel Dias or Ricardo Belloti in R2.
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Boys: Chandigarth, India - G3
(Preview)
James Richardson (5), Faris Akhazzan (8) and Lewis Barnes (9) all got byes in R1 R2 Giorgi KHMIADASHVILI (GEO) Vs James RICHARDSON (GBR) (5) Lewis BARNES (GBR) (9) Vs Ben MCLACHLAN (NZL) Faris AKHAZZAN (GBR) (8) Vs Veera Vasanth VENKATESH SRIRAMAREDDY (IND)
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Aussie Open pick'em - the Battle of the Boards
(Preview)
I know that the "Tennis predictions section" doesn't get as many clicks so here's an attempt to get more entrants for the britishtennis.net team For those who haven't competed before, pick'em is our inter-tennis forum predictions competition which runs during each of the slams and mas...
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Future looks bright for George Morgan
(Preview)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/01/06/stwhit106.xml
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Sheddie
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Traralgon International Grade 1 Girls
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(Preview)
The main draw is out with only Jade Curtis in action. Jade is the 4th seed, and plays Aussie Tammi Patterson, ranked 292nd. If she wins, she faces the winner of Janaki Gunuganti (IND) #172, and Sabrina Xu, an Australian qualifier ranked 1119. Don't know anything about the local girls, but looks like an...
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Evo For The Top 10!
(Preview)
As many must have realised, Dan Evans isn't too far behind cracking the ITF top 10. Even though it'll not be easy, if he gets to the top 10 by the end of 2007, it'll be great achievement as he'll - 1) Become only the third Brit to get there since the combined ranking system was launched. 2) Get gifts from L...
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Boys: Coffee Bowl - G1, Costa Rica
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QR1 Ashley WATLING (GBR) (1) defeated Josef KURKA (CZE) 6-2 6-0 James ALLEMBY (GBR) defeated Juan MUNOZ (ECU) (7) 6-1 6-3 QR2 Ashley WATLING (GBR) (1) defeated Joao BOSCO COSTA (BRA) 6-3 6-1 David HOLINER (USA) defeated James ALLEMBY (GBR) 6-1 6-1 R1 Ashley WATLING (GBR) Vs Julen URIGUEN (GUA) (16) M...
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Girls: Coffee Bowl - G1, Costa Rica
(Preview)
R1 Alejandra MORALES (GUA) Vs Victoria BROOK (GBR)
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2007 player of the year: girls
(Preview)
Nominees: (1) Anna Fitzpatrick: Anna ended the year at a new career high inside the top 400. Started the year well with a 10K final in Sunderland and then made the latter stages of further futures in Canada and Nottingham later in the year. She's started to trouble challenger level players on a regular...
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Junior player of the year: boys
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(Preview)
OK, so here are the 6 nominations for that coveted title of britishtennis.net player of the year ! (1) Dan Evans: Evans started the year in stunning form, making two G1 finals (taking the Asuncion Bowl title in Paraguay) and beating a string of the world's best juniors - Stephane Piro, Andrei Karatch...
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Casablanca Cup, Mexico GA - boys
(Preview)
Great opportunity for some of the lower ranked juniors to rack up some points, this field is always really weak as its during Christmas....GAs are the same level pts wise as slams and so the likes of Akhezzan, Thomson twins etc would not normally make the main draw cut. Results (rankings in brackets):...
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Junior Orange Bowl
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(Preview)
Jess Ren took the U12s title last year to join Andy Murray and Jamie Delgado among British winners of this.....Jamie Murray was runner up in U14 singles back in 98 too Will there be a British winner this year ? Laura Robson must surely be huge favourite in the U14s -- Edited by Sheddie at 22:02, 2007-1...
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Casablanca Cup, Mexico GA - girls
(Preview)
R1: Victoria Brook GBR d. Krista Damico USA 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 (4) Jade Curtis GBR d. LL Sofia Espana MEX 6-1, 6-1 Lereesa Easterbrook GBR d. Thais Romero MEX 6-2, 6-3 Heather Watson GBR d. Olivia Bennet TRI 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
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Welcome George Coupland
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(Preview)
George, welcome to the forum - sorry to delete your thread: We're delighted that you've all joined up to the forum and are posting here but it's best not to use the forum for this level of gossip - however interesting! We pride ourselves on our factual accuracy and lack of argument and upholding of gre...
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best stato,most reliable and has a wealth of tennis knowledge!
(Preview)
Hands down Arka is the master if you will, and deserves the title of stato king!! top banana!!
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Boys: Mexico G1
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R1 Rhyne WILLIAMS (USA) (7) defeated Michael DAVIS (GBR) 6-1 6-3 Ashley WATLING (GBR) defeated Marcelo AREVALO (ESA) (13) 7-6(4) 6-4 Marcus WILLIS (GBR) (11) defeated Dino MARCAN (CRO) 7-6 6-2 Michael THOMPSON (GBR) defeated Manuel SANCHEZ (MEX) 7-6 6-4 Neil PAUFFLEY (GBR) defeated Sebastian F...
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Girls: Mexico G1
(Preview)
R1 Charlotte RODIER (FRA) defeated Jocelyn RAE (GBR) 7-6(4) 6-4 Mallory BURDETTE (USA) defeated Naomi BROADY (GBR) 7-6(4) 6-0 Jade CURTIS (GBR) (7) defeated Jessica PEGULA (USA) 6-2 6-2 Tara MOORE (GBR) (13) defeated Victoria LOZANO (MEX) 6-2 6-0 Brooke BOLENDER (USA) defeated Lereesa EASTE...
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MSLTA G4 Mumbai India
(Preview)
Great start to the week!! Dave Thomson arrived here on his own from Gurgaon due to Mat playing in MD final & Dave needing to qualify & qualify he did!! He has had a trapped nerve in his back & has played through the pain to register impressive wins over highier ranked opponents to make the MD!...
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What's happened to Vicky Brook
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(Preview)
Vicky was one of our best juniors if I remember, a right handed double fister she could smash it with the best of them but she has seemed to sink without trace ? I hope she can get back to winning ways, soon & if any of you have any news let me know!!! -- Edited by Sheddie at 19:41, 2007-12-18
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Girls: Prince Cup Grade 4
(Preview)
http://tennislink.usta.com/tournaments/Draws/EventDraw...
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Boys: Prince Cup Grade 4
(Preview)
First round qualifiers: Adam Thornton-Brown (GBR) vs Alexanru-Andrei (CAN) Pasareanu (16) Nick (GBR) Jones (15) vs Daniel (USA) (WC), Sauter In the U14 event, Andrew Bettles qualified and made it to the semi-finals but was beaten there by George Morgan. George, the second seed, now plays th...
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