Alex is in the main draw which will be probably released tomorrow, I think it's going to be a day later than usual as the qualifying goes on until Monday. The indoor hard courts should suit him, hopefully he gets a good draw.
Jamie Murray is in qualifying. He's had a good win in rd1, over a 20 year old un...
Event web site now up and running.... www.aberdeencup.com
Team line-ups :
Scotland : Andy Murray, Jamie Murray and Elena Baltacha England : Greg Rusedski, James Auckland and Katie O'Brien
Latest press release :
Aberdeen Cup Press Release: WARM RECEPTION AWAITS MUR...
Hi, i know this player is not british, but im just not sure, why he didn't go to the masters of the egypt sat.
Yonne Villar, had done all the things needed to get the one entry point, all he needed to do was go to the masters draw, and he would of picked up at least one singles entry point. Does anyone know why...
Qualifying:
Rd1:
F Kinsella [GB] v V Simouli [Gre][WC] [unranked]
M Brooks [GB][6] v A Sadikovic [Sui] [unranked]
L Jacks [GB][7] v B Ritschka [Aut] [unranked]
Nick Cavaday entered qualies : QR 1 def Rylan Rizza (USA) 7-6(1) 6-1 QR 2 def Richard Bonner (USA) 6-1 6-0 QR 3 lost to Kai Nishikori (WR 986) (JP) (7) 6-2 6-2 Good effort from Nick looking to add to his single WR pt (WR 1555) No other Brit in this to my knowledge.
The tournament starts on Monday 25th September so as happened last year, Andy will be making the difficult transistion from European clay to fast indoor hard courts. Hopefully GB can wrap up the Ukraine tie in 2 days so that Andy can fly to Bangkok earlier on the Sunday, giving him more time to recover f...
Anne is 4th on the qualies list here. Reasonable chance of her making the main draw or if not, she'll be one of the top seeds in qualies which start on Sunday.
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Here's division 2. As ever, please let me know if you spot any anomalies
unning|--------Start of week----------|Running So 18th Def1 19th Rank rank name  ...
Josh was 3rd on the alts list but he's now made the main draw:
Entry list:
1 Kendrick, Robert USA 143
2 Delic, Amer USA 145
3 Reynolds, Bobby USA 148
4 Morrison, Jeff USA 157
5 Russell, Michael USA 160
6 Dorsch, Benedikt GER 166
7 Querrey, Sam USA 174
8 Odesnik, Wayne USA 181
9 Gucc...
This match is the 5th and final rubber of the tie
They've played twice before, both times in the juniors. Jamie won 6-4, 6-4 on grass in rd1 of the Roehampton junior championships in 2004 and a few weeks later he won 6-1, 7-6[1] in rd3 of junior Wimbledon.
Bubka reached a high of no 4 in the juniors...
Lots of British players are competing in Madrid next week: Melanie South, Sarah Borwell and Katie O'Brien will be seeded. Rebecca Llewellyn and Amanda Keen are also competing. Sarah Coles is 1st on the alternates list so she'll be extremely unlucky if she doesn't get in direct.
Others to look ou...
Started a thred for this homw futures event which starts Monday in Nottingham GB F13 - Nottingham - Hard Main draw should feature : 1. Richard Bloomfield 5. Lee Childs 6. J Marray 14. A Slabinsky 15. Neil Bamford 16. Ian Flanagan Quali draw should include... 18. Tom Rushby 22. R Irwin 23. Rob Searle 24. T...
Match is underway, Andy leads 6-3, 0-1
Brief summary:
Stakhovskyt started brightly hitting some blazing winners on the 2nd shots combined with some big serving. He had a couple of chances to break Andy at 2-2 but missed them and in the next game Andy stepped things up, hitting a superb foreha...
Anne Keothavong has made the main draw for the WTA tournament, the first time she's made a WTA draw on her own ranking Given that there are a large number of European 25Ks this week plus a tier 4 in Slovenia which she would have got into easily, going for this tournament which has much bigger...
Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jnr is Ukraine's next great hope. Kiev-born protegee of former French Open finalist Andrei Medvedev, Dolgopolov doesn't turn 18 until November and is already ranked 375. This year he's won 5 futures events, all on clay and 2 in the Ukraine. He qualified for ATP Bucharest this w...
Qualifying:
James Ward hasn't entered, I presume he's got a SE place.
Rd1:
R Brooks [GB][14] v J Jimenez [Esp]
A Wright [GB] v R de la Rosa [Esp]
R Dee [GB] v G Gomez [Esp][6]
O Podlewski [GB] v M Palacios [Esp]
A Gomez [GB] v D Prats Catalan
Sergiy Stakhovsky is ranked 184 with a career high of 173 reached earlier this year. He's had an ok year, reaching 2 challenger semis but has done nothing else. He's been beaten by Boggo and Martin Lee [on grass in straights]. He had an average junior career up until the 2004 US Open when he stormed throu...
2 Brits in qualifying.
Matt Hanlin is seeded 12. Haven't seen him for a while.
Max Jones also in draw. Never heard of him!
Hanlin lost in first round to Ben Gonzales of USA. Score was 75 03 when Hanlin retired...in other words he was winning but was unlucky to have to retire.
J...