Mimi Xu is (with Hep) the other extremely promising prospect we have amongst our young female players. She also is born 2007. Comes from Swansea. And has been a top LTA prospect for several years. I was very impressed when I saw her in the U18 nationals. The thing that stands out is her physique - she is...
The last PoM process of 2025 is now started. Weeks 48-52, meaning we close on Sunday 28th December. December is a strange month in relative terms. Maybe the bar for entry shifts a little - that is down to nominators to decide initially. My only guidance is that, as always, nominate who you wish and for a...
Time to start scratching your heads and come up with your predictions for 2026. We had 47 entries last year, which was the most since I have been running this competition. It would be great to get above 50 this year, especially if some of the more recent and more active members would enter. The closing d...
Wherever you are, whatever you celebrate, or don't, here's best wishes for the festive season, and for a healthy year ahead Luv y'all !!!!! Peace on earth
Inspired by Bob's suggestion of a dedicated thread following an entertaining discussion on the Loughborough M25 thread, I'm launching this. Feel free to chip in with contributions of your own, especially what gets your goat about other people's glaring grammatical errors when you see/hear the...
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...
A new quarter - a new table ATPSinglesPoints off and gained includes non-countersCHWRAs at 24/11/25PointsOff 12/25Off 1/26Off 2/25Total OffGainedNett% Def410Jack Draper2990200330530-53017.7%827Cameron Norrie157350100150-1509.5%4971Jacob Fearnley7871...
A new quarter - a new table WTASinglesPoints off and gained includes non-countersCHWRAs at 24/11/25PointsOff 12/25Off 1/26Off 2/25Total OffGainedNett% Def1029Emma Raducanu156313077207-20713.2%4470Sonay Kartal937104555-555.9%7174Francesca Jones9122067160247-2472...
Week 1 - from 30/12 : Men's Singles ITF M25 Indore, India Alastair Gray Men's Doubles ATP 250 Brisbane, QLD, Australia Julian Cash & Lloyd Glasspool ATP 250 Hong Kong Luke Johnson ( & Sander Arends, NED ) Juniors ITF J60 Arlon, Belgium BD: Liam Channon (16) ( & Romain Andres, FRA )
I often come on this forum to find, sadly, that no one has made it to Friday (usually Quarter Finals day). So I'm going to start this thread to celebrate those that do! Week 45Challenger 80 ($54,160+H) - Knoxville, TN, USA (hard)QF: Liam Broady WR 262 vs Gijs Brouwer (NED) WR 441 (CH = 342 Aug 19)ITF M15 - C...
I will use this thread to update the list of qualifiers as the season progresses. Not intended to be one for much chat, just to keep the list readily available Obviously, none qualified yet! In terms of qualifying for Player of the Season, players can qualify through 4 means:January to December Playe...
Time to start scratching your heads and come up with your predictions for 2026. We had 36 entries in 2025 which was 11 less than the women's competition, so I hope more will take part this time around. The closing date for entries is midnight on Saturday Dec 27th as I will be out of the country for the foll...
Aus Open qualifying prospects have been discussed in a few threads recently so I thought I would set up a specific thread with the latest rankings points positions. As paulisi says in the Canada W75 thread, Harriet has essentially secured her place with her progress to the SF there. So that makes 1 :...
Time to start scratching your heads and come up with your predictions for 2025. We had just 29 entries last year, so I hope more will take part this time around. he closing date for entries is midnight on Friday Dec 27th as I will be out of the country for the following week. So you have 2 weeks to get your ent...
I've a feeling that Hollie Smart's name is going to be a frequent one on this forum in years to come. So it's about time she had her own thread. Hollie was born in June 2009. She's a tall, slender girl. Plays quite a defensive game. After Hannah Klugman, she is pretty much the LTA's top pick for her age (alth...
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...
Always a bit random with the youngsters as to whose individual player page will still be up in the mix in five years time, and whose will have sunk without trace, but... Mark Ceban is born 2009, tall and willowy, has just won the U14 Bolton event, and has come on leaps and bounds in the last 12 months, reall...
New thread to keep 2025 PoM and PoS updates and calendars. And Ill post some thoughts later re learnings from 2024 -- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 13th of May 2025 05:50:30 AM-- Edited by JonH comes home on Tuesday 29th of July 2025 10:39:01 PM
