This pretty topical and fortunately getting lots of press because of the plight of Dulwich Hamlet FC, there are lots of great things about Hamlet, they get massive support for step 3 (the 7th tier of English Football) gates often North of 1500 generally a good gate at that level is 300-450. It is a genui...
QR1: (qWC) Noah Folkesson-Doudy (USA) UNR vs (q11) William Nolan WR 1796 (CH = 1782 in February) Blu Baker, Charlie Robertson & Zach Stephens should be in the main draw +, I think, Oliver Okonkwo & Toby Martin.
Qualifying starts tomorrow for the under 18 nationals, with Mark Ceban, Rhys Lawlor, Hollie Smart and under 16 champion Daniella Britton expected to be the highest ranked ITF players in the main draws. On offer in the way of wildcards are: 18U Boys Singles Winner Wild card for Wimbledon Championshi...
Long overdue I think, better than bundling all sorts into the Leeds and non league thread. I see, after all the speculation, Graham Potter has just left Swansea to join Brighton, signing a 4 year deal. I know everyone wants to progress in their career / life and the lure of the Premier League would be big...
L28: Marcelo Melo & Alexander Zverev (BRA/GER) CR 192 (46+146) vs Luke Johnson & Jan Zielinski (POL) CR 58 (27+31) L28: (4) Christian Harrison (USA) & Neal Skupski CR 14 (11+3) vs BYE L28: (7) Francisco Cabral (POR) & Joe Salisbury CR 29 (21+8) vs Hugo Nys & Edouard Roger-Va...
R1:- Alicia Dudeney (GBR) WR375 v Astrid Cirotte (FRA) WR660 [WC]R1:- Yuriko Lily Miyazaki (GBR) WR295 v Eva Guerrero Alvarez (ESP) WR239 [8]Freya+Eden and Alicia+Elena are on the acceptance list for the doubles
L16: (1) Finn Bass & Anthony Genov (BUL) CR 512 (266+246) vs Tim Händel & Paolo Schiavone (GER/ITA) CR 2297 (654+1643) L16: (WC) Daniel Aleksandar Amarandei & Lorenzo Berto (ITA/ITA) CR 4486 (2243+2243) vs Joe Cooper & Jelle Sels (NED) CR 2505 (1963+542) L16: (3) Zachary Fuchs...
For my own amusement, I thought I would try and keep track of the top tennis nations over the course of the year and see where GB stacked up. Being honest, my main interest is the mens game, so I planned to track the week by week average rankings of the top 10 players in each of the key countries and see if GB ma...
QR1: Zubin Omar (USA) UNR vs Sam Bird UNR QR1: Alex Michael UNR vs (q9) Conor Gannon (IRL) WR 1278 (= CH) QR1: Casper Nicolle UNR vs Gonzalo Le Gentil (ARG) UNR QR1: Fred Barnett UNR vs (q15) Carl Holder WR 1628 (= CH) QR1: Louis Allen UNR (CH = 1789 in November 2020) vs (q14) Matteo Fondriest (ITA) WR 1...
QR1: (q2) Viktor Frydrych WR 1201 (CH = 1159 last October) vs BYE QR1: (q4) Luke Hooper WR 1284 (CH = 1279 last month) vs BYE QR1: Finn Reilly UNR vs Vasyl Makarenko (UKR) UNR QR1: Younes Jenkins UNR vs Dmitrii Burtsev (***) UNR Paul Jubb should be in the main draw & the top seed.
We've had a specific rankings thread in the women's section for ages. But not one in the men's. So, in the good-old period, it all got put in the STEVEN thread. Which seemed a little weird after a while. And during the horrid-old period, there was the transition tour section for ITF rankings, and we har...
Plenty of late withdrawals here including Naiktha and Ruby. Isabelle gets in from 6th on the alternates list. QR1:- Isabelle Cherny (GBR) WR1474 v Maria Toma (ROU) WR801
L32: (WC) Daniel Rincón (ESP) WR 299 (CH = 181 in December 2023) vs (8) Toby Samuel WR 172 (CH = 171 last month) L32: George Loffhagen WR 236 (CH = 200 last October) vs (5) Zsombor Piros (HUN) WR 153 (CH = 106 in March 2024)
Week 1 - from 05/01/26, plus the week before for the earlier starting juniors : Men's Singles ITF M25 Antalya, Turkey Felix Gill Men's Doubles ATP Challenger 50 Nottingham, GB Charles Broom & David Stevenson Women's Doubles ITF W15 Oslo, Norway Amelia Rajecki ( & Katerina Kuzmova, SVK...
Seeing Jamie Murray sneak back quietly into the top 100 this week, we now have; MS: Andy Murray MD: Ross Hutchings, Colin Fleming, Ken Skupski, Jamie Murray WS: Anne Keothavong, Elena Baltacha, Katie O'Brien WD: Sarah Borwell Nine in total, is this a record in the modern era or just the best for the las...
The topic of those in and around the top 500 has resurfaced again after a while, so I thought I would reintroduce a dedicated thread. There are 13 men currently in the men's top 500 - Gabb should appear in next week's list. Nearest candidates are Rice, Salisbury, Marsalek, Farquharson, Glasspool, Ba...