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Les Petits As - Tarbes, France
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This is one of the most prestigious Under 14 events in the international calendar. Boys 14 Singles 1st Round Luke Bambridge bt Stefan Vinti (ROU) 6-3, 6-7, 7-5 Conor Bunting bt Filip Veger (CRO) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 Liam Broady (5) bt Maximilian Waeters (FRA) 6-2, 6-2 2nd Round Kevin Kaczynski (8) (GER) bt B...
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Girls: Czech Republic - G1
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R1 Amanda CUNNINGHAM (GBR) defeated Anastasia PUTILINA (RUS) 6-4 2-6 7-5 Laura ROBSON (GBR) defeated Klara KOPRIVOVA (CZE) 6-1 7-6(10) R2 Valeria SAVINA (RUS) (3) Vs Amanda CUNNINGHAM (GBR) Zuzana LUKNAROVA (SVK) (8) Vs Laura ROBSON (GBR)
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Boys: Czech Republic - G1
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R1 Thomas KNIGHTS (GBR) (7) BYE Mathew JAMES (GBR) (15) BYE Daniel SMETHURST (GBR) defeated Stanislav POPLAVSKYY (UKR) 6-3 7-6(2) R2 Mathew JAMES (GBR) (15) defeated Vlad CIRLA (ROU) 4-6 6-3 6-4 Daniel SMETHURST (GBR) defeated Dusan LAJOVIC (SRB) (16) 7-6(3) 3-6 7-6(6) Daniel GEIB (AUT) Vs Thomas...
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Boys: Ecuador - G2
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R1 Rodrigo RAPPACCIOLI (NCA) defeated Matthew SHORT (GBR) (11) 6-1 1-6 6-2 Maximilian NEUCHRIST (AUT) defeated Michael DAVIS (GBR) (14) 6-4 6-2 Joao FERNANDES (BRA) defeated Joseph COHEN (GBR) 6-3 6-2 R1 DAVIS (GBR) / SEAL (USA) (3) defeated DUJOVNE (CHI) / TORRES (ARG) 6-1 4-6 7-6 NUNEZ (CRC) / ORE...
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The Serbs show the Brits the way
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... according to an article in today's Times, at any rate! Then there's the Djokovic dynasty...
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Boys: Australian Open
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Niall Angus (Gbr) v Cesar Remirez (Mex) (1)
Daniel Evans (Gbr) (3) v Cheng Peng Hsieh (Tpe)
Neil Pauffley (Gbr) v Zalan Klempa (Svk)
Marcus Willis (Gbr) (16) v Andrew Gregory (Aus)
Daniel Cox (Gbr) v Jared Easton (Aus) (7)
11:00pm GMT start on Saturday night.
Pauffley 2nd on Court 5
Willis 4th...
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Girls: Australian Open
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Jade Curtis (Gbr) (13) v Olivia Rogowska (Aus)
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Girls - Slovak Indoor Grade 2
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1st Round Laura Robson bt Paula Kania (POL) 7-6 (3), 6-2 Amanda Cunningham vs. Viktoria Yemialyanova (BLR) (4) 2nd Round Laura Robson vs. Anna Arina Marenko (RUS) (3)
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Boys - Slovak Indoor - Grade 2
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Matthew James makes his 2008 Junior debut. He is the 9th seed, and defeated Patrik Brydolf of Sweden 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 to reach the Last 16. Now he plays the 8th seed, Czech Richard Hampel, who is ranked 132.
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Girls: Barranquilla, Colombia - G1
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R1 Tara MOORE (GBR) (7) BYE
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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
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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
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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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Boys: Copa Gatorade G1, Caracas, Venezuela
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Matthew Short (16) v bye Either plays Gabriel Dias or Ricardo Belloti in R2.
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Boys: Chandigarth, India - G3
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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
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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
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/01/06/stwhit106.xml
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Traralgon International Grade 1 Girls
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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!
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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
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R1 Alejandra MORALES (GUA) Vs Victoria BROOK (GBR)
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2007 player of the year: girls
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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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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
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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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