So Andy plays WR60 Gilles Simon of France. He best Soderling and Bagdahtis on the way to winning his only ATP title in Marseille last year. He did get a retirement on the way v Hewitt but he won the 1st set 6-1 ! He also won his QF, SF and the final in 3rd set tie breaks !!! So no mug and a tester for Murray. Murr...
not many brits, a very low cut atm. Also no baker that i can see of. Roland Garros Qualifying 1 Zabaleta, Mariano ARG 89 2 Seppi, Andreas ITA 94 3 Bolelli, Simone ITA 96 4 Guccione, Chris AUS 98 5 Galvani, Stefano ITA 99 6 Pavel, Andrei ROU 100 4 Devilder, Nicolas FRA 101 8 Sanguinetti, Davide ITA 102 9 Guz...
Hi everyone. I know that I am new here, but I have a proposal for everyone here: could ourselves, as British tennis fans, be a bit more proactive and have some fun as well? Would others be interested in banding together and producing a radio broadcast of, say, the semifinals/finals of the summer challe...
Tim is first up on 'court 1' Monday Almagro is WR39 but was at 28. 2 ATP titles - Valencia 2006 + 2007 He is no mug !!! -- Edited by Drew at 23:25, 2007-05-06
Hopefully no one has posted these before....I found them funny. THE YEAR'S BEST [actual] HEADLINES OF 2005:Crack Found on Governor's Daughter[Imagine that!] Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says [No, really?] Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers[Now that's taking things a bit...
The New table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) The only change as the week begins is Nalbandian dropping off the table because he's defending 300 points from winning Estoril in 2006. The only threat this week is: Haasin Munich, who only needs to reach the semi- finals to overtake Andy
QR1 (of 4): Matthew Short (Gbr) UNR bt Kazuya Murata (Jpn) UNR 6-1, 6-1 Artem Petushkov (Rus) UNR bt Ryan Horgan (Gbr) UNR 6-1, 6-0 QR2: Matthew Short (Gbr) UNR vs Jay Goldman (USA) UNR
I've got time to get these up now before I go away. Probably won't be able to get any more up for weekend, so will update leaderboard on Sunday: 1330 P-H Mathieu 1.40 v J Monaco 2.75 1345 R Gasquet 1.10 v V Spadea 6.50 1500 T Robredo 1.61 v A Calleri 2.20 1600 N Djokovic 1.14 v G Garcia-Lopez 5.00 Bets accepte...
I thought it'd be fun to have our own world championships for the arcade game "space invaders."
I'm looking for 64 participants, please sign up in this thread stating the country you wish to represent [GB will be split up into the home nations eg: Scotland, England, Wales, NI + Isle of Man, Jersey,...
These are a collection of some of the funniest letters to be published in newspaper editorial sections...some are simply classic Could the Home Secretary explain to me how biometric checks on iris Patterns and fingerprints are going to help keep tabs on Muslim cleric Abu Hamsa. Les Barnsley ------...
Live rankings now updated here (at Britishtennis.net) Jamie starts the week back up to WR39 as a result of Friedl defending final points from Estoril last year. Aucks starts the week up 3 places to WR56. Most players on the table are again in action this week.
Anne K and Amanda Keen will be seeded 3 and 4 in the main draw....both need a good run here, it's on hard so will be disappointing if either fall early. Anna Smith was just 2 places off the cut, not in qualies so she must have made it -- Edited by Drew at 14:11, 2007-05-01
The New table is posted here (on britishtennis.net)Richard starts the week climbing 2 places to 183: He drops behind Cuevas, Kollerer and Mertinak as he's defending 5 points from 2006. However, Labadze, Gremelmayr, Odesnik, Minar and Oahab drop behind him as they defend higher totals. He has a h...
The New table is posted here (on britishtennis.net)All four Brits start the week by climbing some serious points: Josh up 5 to 211; Jamie up 5 to 233; Jonny up 6 to 228 and Alan up 3 to 258. - Big losers are Marc Lopez and Lamine Ouahab who won or were finalists in challengers last year and are defending thos...
The New table is posted here (on britishtennis.net) Boggo starts the week gaining a place to 118 as Di Mauro defends a quarter- final plae from 2006. If he wins in Lanzarote, he can rise up as far as 104. A first round win takes him past Bozoljac and Novak. A Quarter- final place takes him past Giraldo as w...
Qualies R1 (of 4): Jorge Tupayachi-Llanos (Esp) UNR bt Zander Woodford-Smith (Gbr) UNR 6-2 6-3 Oscar Podlewski (Gbr) UNR bt Oriol Mirallas-Vinas (Esp) UNR 6-1 6-0 QR2: Oscar Podlewski (Gbr) UNR vs (7) Alfonso Fernandez-Guimera (Esp) WR1388 The Spanish number 7 seed is yet to win a main draw match th...
