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...
Well, it's got to be done..... Sonay Kartal, age 19, has just won the ITF 15 title in Turkey, and deserves her own thread. A promising youngster, who played a lot against/with Emma Raducanu as a tiddler and young teenager, she's had a few injuries issues and, for whatever reason, didn't travel abroad...
The French Open Q list should be based on the next rankings at 20/04. Our top 10 down to Dan are clearly ranked high enough for MD or Q list entry, though Dan himself has only played an Aus Open Q match since last September. Then we have 6 players currently live ranked 219 to 246. With I understand a final las...
Strong field in Tokyo ! QR1:- Mika Stojsavljevic (GBR) WR276 [Q1] v Kurumi Tamura (JPN) WR1469 [QWC] QR1:- Heather Watson GBR) WR288 [Q3] v Kokona Ishii (JPN) UNR/1483/16yo/JR141 [QWC]
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...
As usual a large field of Brits for this J200, won last year by Ben Gusic Wan and Megan Knight. Main draws are up here with Mark Ceban seeded 2 and Rhys Lawlor 3 in the boys, whilst Hollie Smart is seeded 2 and Daniella Britton 5 in the girls. Live scores are available here
QR1: (q5) James Beaven WR 1353 (CH = 1303 last November) vs Jason Harris (RSA) UNR QR1: Maksim Mihic (RSA) UNR vs Thomas Linley UNR QR1: (q8) Stefan Cooper WR 1389 (CH = 1321 in February) vs Giovanni Ciocca (ITA) UNR
QR1: Billy Harris WR 148 (CH = 101 in September 2024) vs (q13) Daniel Mérida (ESP) 104 (CH = 101 two weeks ago) QR1: Henrique Rocha (POR) 126 (= CH) vs (q19) Jan Choinski WR 117 (= CH)
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...
QR1: (q2) Viktor Frydrych WR 1199 (CH = 1159 last October) vs BYE QR1: Faris Khatib UNR (CH = 905 in March 2006 - he's 38!) vs André Meinertz (DEN) UNR QR1: Shaurya Swarup (IND) UNR vs Mattias Southcombe UNR (CH = 1337 in November 2023) QR1: Finn Reilly UNR vs (q10) Tim Loosen (GER) WR 1956 (CH = 1802 las...
Hi everyone, This isn't really tennis related, but as it's still the off season, I thought I'd share a little bit of proud, personal news. As some of you know, I'm a health and medical journalist. I've spent the last three years researching and writing a book called The Age Code, which is all about the li...
QR1: Sam Bird UNR vs (q15) Mustapha el Natour (LBN) UNR QR1: (q4) Oscar Brown WR 1567 (CH = 1547 in February) vs BYE QR1: Marko Retlj (SLO) UNR vs Ned Smith UNR QR1: Casper Nicolle UNR vs (q16) Hudson Baxter (AUS) UNR QR1: Charles Dossetter UNR vs (q11) Carlos Zerega (MEX) WR 1956 (CH = 1764 last May) ...
QR1: (q6) Matthew Carroll WR 1866 (CH = 1827 last December) vs (qWC) Asim Hashem (USA) UNR QR1: Asier Meneses (ESP) UNR vs (q10) Rahul Dhokia WR 2181 (CH = 1550 in August 2022) Henry Searle should be in the main draw.
