Unusually, many of the top singles players are also playing doubles here this week (i wonder if the appearance money has made it worthwhile!!). Even a certain Mr Federer has appeared in the draw with countryman Yves Allegro (WR38, WR40 on live rankings). Just for those of you interested the cut for th...
Just two Brits in qualifying here and a Friday start means they are both out already. QR1: Philip Barlow UNR lost to Francesco Zacchia (ITA) UNR by 6-4 5-7 6-3 QR1: Alexander Ward UNR lost to (WC) Mark Vervoort (NED) UNR by 6-1 4-6 6-2
The new table is posted here (On Britishtennis.net) - thanks Guy! It's now Jamie & Bootie's turn to try some masterful inactivity (c) Tim Henman. As the week begins, Jamie's career- high, top 50 ranking of 44 goes straight up to 42, as Coetzee and Skoch drop below him. Aucks also ris...
Joc Rae in main draw Amanda Elliot and Caitlin Steel in qualies Olivia Howlett in ALTS... Broady and Yasmin Clarke withdrew a fortnight ago. http://www.cosat.org/main/index.php?i=torneo.list
One day, in line at the company cafeteria, Al says to Mitchell behind him, "My elbow hurts like hell. I guess I'd better see a doctor." "Listen, you don't have to spend that kind of money," Mitchell replies. "There's a diagnostic computer down at Wal-Mart. J...
I've extracted the top Brits from most of steveg's 2006 stats lists and I'll post them in the next couple of days, but first let's have a bit of fun. (some of you might find it fun, anyway! ) Without looking at the stats (obviously!), PM me as many of the answers to the questions b...
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Unusually there wasn't a single late withdrawal here so Morgan Phillips again has to play qualies. The draw was made on Thursday evening and round 1 was played today: Q1: (1)Morgan Phillips WR 578 bt Asim Jalilov (Azb) UNR 6-0 6-1 Nicolas Pinones-Haltenhoff (Chi) UNR bt Zander Woodford-Smith (...
Ross Connolly turns up in qualifying here (3 round): QR1: bye QR2: (10)Ross Connolly(Gbr) WR 1053 vs Andreas Eichenberger(Sui) UNR/ Patrick Linke(Aus) UNR
Anne Keothavong and Katie O'Brien have both entered qualifying for this week's Las Vegas 75K. Anne is seeded 6th and faces 17 year old wildcard Julia Cohen in round 1. Cohen is the world no 6 in the juniors and already has a women's ranking of 368. She plays most of her tournaments in Centra...
3 Brits in qualifying here: QR1: (6)Myles Blake (Gbr) WR849 bye Joshua Oxley (Gbr) UNR vs Erkki Viitisaari (Fin) UNR Simon Childs (Gbr) UNR vs David Currer (Aus) UNR QR2: (6)Myles Blake (Gbr) WR849 vs Mark McCook (Aus) UNR/ Todd Breeze (NZ) UNR (13)Mao-Xin Gong (Chi) WR992 vs Joshua Oxley (Gbr...
16 year old Amanda Carreras has been given a wildcard into the main draw of this week's 10K in Sant Boi, Spain. Carreras trains at an academy in Barcelona and gained her first world ranking last week. Unfortunately Amanda will be the only British player in action in Sant Boi. Kirsty Woolley and Abb...
There are lots of award cermonies etc about, so i thought its time we had one. We could do a proper voting system at some stage but for now i have put forward my winners: Stat King: Robc Stat Queen: Imoen Match Reviews: Kundalini Junior Knowledge: Arka Hardest Working: Shed Man Worst Replyer to PM'...
Jamie and Eric are ATP Doubles Team of the Month for February. Oddly, Player of the Month is Duckboy - "The ATP World No. 3 had a 9-2 ATP record in February including runs to the San Jose semifinals (l. to Murray) and the Memphis final (l. to Haas)." This seems a bit rough on Andy, who h...
Sam Querrey will be a very tough opponent. The 19 year old has shot up the rankings in the past two years to 92. In 2006, he won 3 challengers and enjoyed a fine spell on the ATP tour in the summer, beating players like Vince Spadea, Alberto Martin, Janko Tipsarevic and Philipp Kolschreiber and he also too...
QR1: Alexander Ward UNR lost to (WC) Mark Vervoort (NED) UNR by 6-1 4-6 6-2 
) Without looking at the stats (obviously!), PM me as many of the answers to the questions b... 
