From the BBC:
Tennis legend John McEnroe believes new coach Brad Gilbert can help Andy Murray achieve "great things".
Murray, 19, beat world number one Roger Federer last week and has broken into the world top 20 for the first time.
McEnroe told the Merrill Lynch Tour of Champions websi...
A really tough rd1 match for Richard against the veteran Czech 25th seed.
Zib is ranked 139 but this time last year he was 51 in the world. He has beaten Henman in the past indoors but is most at home on clay.
In Jan and early Feb he reached 2 challenger finals but since then he's been on a very bad run...
The news which has rocked the athletics world:
BBC article:
The ramifications of Justin Gatlin failing a drugs test are extensive and serious for both the American and his sport.
The world and Olympic 100m champion - and joint holder of the world record - was found to have elevated level...
Anna Kournikova has hinted about making a return to the tennis circuit and linking up again with Martina Hingis to renew their grand slam winning doubles partnership.
However, Hingis had a warning for the Russian, "She'd really have to commit herself to this and grind it out" said the Swiss.
[1.50] Jose Acasuso v Nicolas Mahut [2.65][1.50] Juan Ignacio Chela v Andreas Seppi [2.75][2.10] Mardy Fish v David Ferrer [1.70][1.80] Nikolay Davydenko v Arnaud Clement [2.20] [2.10] Paradorn Srichaphan v Stanislas Wawrinka [1.66] [1.40] Fernando Verdasco v Julien Benneteau [2.95]...
Josh has got possibly the best draw of all the Brits. Dorsch is rd1 and then Cyril Saulnier [seeded 20] who lost to Auckland in Graz last week is a possibly rd2 opponent and if he got to the final qualies round then Belgian veteran Dick Norman would be seeded to play him.
Dorsch is at a career high ranki...
Entry list:
1 Dancevic, Frank CAN 96
2 Vanek, Jiri CZE 100
3 Pless, Kristian DEN 101
4 Berrer, Michael GER 105
5 Patience, Olivier FRA 106
6 Roitman, Sergio ARG 108
7 Delgado, Ramon PAR 109
8 Koubek, Stefan AUT 110
9 Portas, Albert ESP 113
10 Galvani, Stefano ITA 114
11 Carlsen,...
Alex has the chance to gain revenge tonight for his two DC defeats against Okun. The Israeli is ranked over 100 places below Alex at 257 but he's been in the top 200 [world no 95 in 2002] and that experience has shown both times they've played.
The 1st match was on the hard courts of Tel Aviv in March 200...
Bizarrely the main draw has been released but there's no sign of the qualifying draw which should have started yesterday !!
Karlovic is quite a nasty draw for Greg considering that he couldn't have faced a seed in rd1 [all seeds got byes through to rd2]. The winner of this match will play Jarkko Nie...
Doubles main draw
(1)Dusan Karol/Matteo Volante (CZE/ITA) vs Giuseppe Moeri-Delgado/Marco Simoni (GBR/ITA)
Don't know if this is a typo on stevegtenis or if he really is representing Britain.
YOU DECIDE!
Belgium Westende.
Singles Qualifying Draw (1)Claire De Gubernatis (FRA) v BYE Annelies Bornauw (BEL) v Elisa Salis (ITA) (2)Celine Cattaneo (FRA) v BYE Marija Mirkovic (AUS) v Catherine Grotz (BEL) (3)Claire Feuerstein (FRA) v BYE Audrey Bergot (FRA) v Magalie Girard (FRA) (4)Laura Bsoul (GE...
Original story: Murray hires trainer to toughen up for US Open By Gavin Versi (Filed: 20/08/2006) During a radio interview at the end of 2004 Andy Murray said his target for the following season was to break into the world's top 50. Given that he had not even played a professional match at the time and wa...
Santoro [1.4] v Vik [2.75]
Benneteau [1.53] v Horna [2.37]
Lopez [1.36] v Volandri [2.87]
Querrey [1.57] v Martin [2.25]
Muller [1.25] v Pashanki [3.5]
Karlovic [1.61] v Rusedski [2.2]
Fish [1.44] v Sanguinetti [2.62]
Ramirez-Hildago [1.72] v Rochus [2.0]
Mi...
As many of you will be aware, the US Open series is a mini-ranking list competition covering the 6 pre-USO weeks of the US summer hard court swing.
Players who finish in the top three of the US Open Series get a bonus on top of any money they win at the US Open itself. For example, last year Kim Clijsters wo...
If you haven't heard, Penn are running a competition for this week's TMS event in Cincinatti in conjunction with the ATP.
It's a predictions competition, if you haven't done so already go to the ATP site and click on the massive logo and register for free.
Then click on "my picks," what you hav...
This is currently one of the big debating points in the tennis world.
What do you think ?
Views:
Navratilova: "They should outlaw it. It's really unfair to the opponent and it's terrible for the public. At the net you need to hear the ball hit the racket so you know how fast it's travellin...
I mean do i need to introduce him, the fed express.............i think no
But if andy murray were to really judge himself at this point in time then wouldnt it be correct in saying that here is his cahnce. Although not at all expecting andy to win, i am expecting him to win a set and that will be enough for...
From Sporting Life:
Andy Murray has enlisted a fitness trainer best known for bulking up basketball superstars as he looks to shape up for the US Open - the grand slam he relishes even more than Wimbledon.
But after 14 matches in 17 days, including appearances in the final, semi-final and qua...
Martin Lee(2), Arvind Parmar(8) and Jamie Baker are all in qualifying here.
Martin faces Carlos Salamanca of Colombia in Round One.
Arvind faces Florin Merge of Romania who Jamie beat last week!
Jamie has drawn 6th seed Peter Wessels of the Netherlands in R1.
Arvind would appear to have the...
Apologies for presumptious posting. Have to go out and wanted to put my bet in of 15 on Roddick to win the final. Hope this is ok.
Mods feel free to delete this or move it to appropriate place, but please count my bet.
Many thanks
1 am tonight! For the Insomniacs !!!!!
It's expected to be a tough match but, hey, so was the Federer match but worse! *LOL*
Could someone add the poll ? -- Edited by timmoore46 at 08:08, 2006-08-18-- Edited by Drew at 17:25, 2006-08-18
Nominees:
Anne Keothavong: Reached quarters of the Lexington 50K Challenger moving closer to bettering her career best ranking of 140
Mel South: Won her first 25K challenger title in Chengshu and reaching 25K semis in Felixstowe and Chongging. Overtook Sarah Borwell to move into top 200...
No Brits in Main draw
-- Edited by timmoore46 at 08:08, 2006-08-18 -- Edited by Drew at 17:25, 2006-08-18