Mark Ceban and Hollie Smart are our direct acceptances this year for the main draw. Rosie Cho is in the qualifying draw, which starts tonight with live scores available here Girls QR1 (q6) Rira Kosaka (JPN) v Rosie Cho
Russell Fuller's turn to ask a $64,000 question in the sports section of the Beeb's web site. My answer to it is that I agree with Pat Cash, as I can't really be bothered to pay much attention now once the field of a Grand Sla...
I have long since despised Trump and his form of government but in his most recent tweet today, he is showing signs to me that he no longer mentally stable enough to remain in the position of POTUS. WARNING: This is the video of a 75 year old man being pushed to the ground by police and suffering injury, all...
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: (q5) Daniil Sarksian (ARM) WR 1062 (CH = 974 last October) vs William Nolan WR 2095 (CH =1801 last August) QR1: Dylan Davies UNR vs (q11) Pan Weiwen (CHN) WR 1488 (CH = 1461 last November) QR1: Sven Corbinais (FRA) UNR (CH = 1405 in April 2024) vs Louis Allen UNR (CH = 1789 in November 2020)
QR1: Juan Martínez (ESP) UNR vs (qWC) Enzo Kahi UNR An unknown (? to me at least) 17-year-old Brit. QR1: Motoharu Abe (JPN) UNR vs Ned Smith UNR QR1: Nadir Mirza (PAK) UNR vs (q10) Joe Leather WR 1331 (CH = 1296 last October) Interesting first name for the 17-year-old Pakistani. Let's hope he live...
L16: (1) Johannes Ingildsen & Mick Veldheer (DEN/NED) CR 227 (122+105) vs Ben Jones & Joshua Paris CR 305 (206+99) L16: (WC) Francisco Rocha & Tiago Torres (POR/POR) CR 940 (338+602) vs Billy Harris & David Vega (ESP) CR 746 (578+168) L16: Alexander Donski & Stefan Latin...
Mariano Puerta Guilty of Doping ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/4549544.stm
Argentina's Mariano Puerta has been banned from competition for eight years after failing a doping test following this year's French Open final.
The International Tennis Federation confirmed th...
This curtain raiser for the under 14 season takes place a week before Les Petits As, attracting a strong field.. In total there are 15 British boys and 17 girls in the main draw. British seeds are Oskar Laskowski (9), Frederick Fabricius (12) in the boys and Dasha Jones (5), Ginny Chen (10), Isabella...
Ophelia K D is joined by her sister Hermione for the second Indian J200. All 3 Brits here have drawn wildcards or lucky losers. Boys R1 (L32) Kasra Nathaniel Shirazi v (WC) Hruthik Katakam (IND) Girls R1 (L32) (LL) Reet Jhawar (IND) v Hermione Korpanec Davies (WC) Ananya Jain (IND) v (2) Ophelia Korpa...
J100 UAE Sophie Bekker has won two rounds and is into the QFs J60 Austria Scott Watson and Niall Pickerd-Barua both won in R1 and are into R2 As is Grace Watson But Milica Milojevic lost in R1 to the 4th seed J60 Hong Kong Millie Ryder got a win before losing in R2 Charlotte Perks lost in a third-set TB ...
QR1:- Emily Appleton (GBR) WR377 [Q2] v Julie Pastikova (CZE) WR521 QR1:- Amelia Rajecki (GBR) WR451 [Q10] v Anastasia Kulikova (FIN) WR511 QR1:- Victoria Allen (GBR) WR439 [Q8] v Diana Martynov (FRA) WR615 Mika is on the entry list for the main draw
Time for the AO wins prediction contest. We count main draw wins in mens and womens singles and doubles and mixed; a doubles win counts as 1 win regardless if whether a pair is made up of one or two British players. A retirement win counts as a win; a walkover win doesnt - the match has to start. The aim is...
The draw won't be made for a few days yet, but I have found the entry list on Tennis Forum Rankings are the current ones, not those applicable at the entry cut-off Olivia Nicholls (GBR) / Tereza Mihalikova (SVK) CR55 (25+30) potentially seeded 12, entry ranking of 55 Sonay Kartal (GBR) / Isabelle Haver...
L32: Tom Gentzsch (GER) WR 283 (CH = 269 last September) vs (3) Jack Pinnington Jones WR 196 (CH = 177 last September) L32: Borna Gojo (CRO) WR 284 (CH = 72 in November 2023) vs (2) Jay Clarke WR 178 (CH = 153 in July 2019)
A new thread for a new season. This will be the first season under the House settlement agreement that allows for revenue sharing with athletes -though tennis as a non-revenue Olympic sport is not likely to see much of that - and roster limits of 10 players. With the new landscape athletics department...
