I thought this might be a topic others might contribute to. I am sure many of us enjoy tennis books. Im always keen for a good recommendation so I thought this might be a thread some people could note down and recommend books theyve read for others. I took delivery today of a book called Bjorn Borg and th...
Congratulations to Charlie Swaine (2006) and Elizabeth Evans (2007) for winning the G2 in Hull this week Finals Charlie Swaine (2006) d. [4] Jamie Forrest 6-2 6-4 [5] Elizabeth Evans (2007) d. [4] Sarah Copley (2007) 6-2 1-0 ret.
I have started a new thread because I wanted to put up a new vote. As Theresa May announces her "3rd way" for a customs union/agreement/alignment/arrangement, I am wondering how people's opinions have changed (if at all) over the last two years. I will leave the debating points until later, other th...
J100 USA Athina Schlepphorst beat the 4th seed, won her next match and then went out, in a third-set TB, to Hannah Ayrault, age 13, who is making quite a lot of waves in her first ITF event J100 Turkey Freya Peet has won two rounds and is into the QFs in singles, and semis in doubles J60 Costa Rica Ollie H...
Qualifying draw in full. 19 Brits - but only one guaranteed qualifier at this early stage. QR1:- Alice Gillan (GBR) WR737 [1] v Ellie Blackford (GBR) UNR/UNR/1108/18yo [WC] QR1:- Diana Chehoudi (TUN) UNR/1029 v Michelle Dzjachangirova (AZE) WR1274 [13] QR1:- Andre Lukosiute (LTU) WR770 [2] v Anj...
Some of our top juniors are involved in the third J500 event of the year. Hannah's opponent in round 1 has reached the semis in her last 2 J300 events. Oli Bonding is going for his second J500 title in a row, after winning in Brazil, where he beat Naoya Honda in the final. The Japanese boy is Viktor Frydr...
QR1: (q1) Masamichi Imamura (JPN) WR 845 (CH = 595 in March 2019) vs Joe Tyler UNR (CH = 1339 in August 2022) QR1: Patrick Foley UNR (CH = 1271 in September 2019) vs (q13) Matthew Summers WR 1468 (CH = 1224 last November) QR1: (q2) Matt Hulme (AUS) WR 886 (= CH) vs Fabio Nestola WR 1941 (CH = 1931 at the star...
As you would expect there is a large British contingent for this J200, though only one boy ranked high enough to be seeded. The British seeds are Ben Gusic Wan (1) Gabia Paskauskas (3), Hannah Read (4) Allegra Korpanec Davies (6) and Brooke Black (7). Conor Brady's title in the Latvian J100 earns hi...
L96: (29) Cameron Norrie WR 30 (CH = 8 in September 2022) vs BYE Michelson or the Brazilian WC, Fonseca, in the last 64 L96: Qualifier vs Jack Draper WR 43 (CH = 37 last month) winner will play Hurkacz (8) L96: Daniel Evans WR 69 (CH = 21 last August) vs Qualifier winner will play Rublev (7)
L16: (1) Joshua Charlton (AUS) & Emile Hudd CR 771 (478+303) vs Alex Knaff & Enzo Wallart (LUX/FRA) CR 1911 (500+1411) L16: (WC) James Markiewicz & Michael Shaw CR 2166 (1170+996) vs (WC) James Beaven & Toby Martin CR 1949 (1080+869) L16: (3) Charles Broom & Daniel Little CR...
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...
And the ball keeps rolling. April is a 4 week period, ending Sunday 28th April for PoM purposes. The eagle eyed will see Madrid starts a few days before hand, but if we moved the PoM cut off earlier, we would have a 3 week month this month and that isnt really going to work; similarly, if we moved it a week lat...
Mika is a late 2008-born player. Plays lots of sports. Has only releatively recently decided to specialise in tennis. Tall-ish, athletic girl. A slightly 'deliberate' sort of style. But it's obviously developing. Coached by Lewandowski (and maybe others) - and hence an LTA favourite. She re...
New thread for Fall 2023 college signings as there seems to be a few currently happening '2023 commitsFollowing his recent official visit, Louis Bowden (UTR 12.85) has verbally committed to@BaylorMTennis and will join the Bears for the fall of 2023. The 18-year-old has an ITF juniors career-hi...
