A remarkably strong field for a 10K sees Morgan having to qualify.
QR1: (q4) Morgan Phillips WR 611 v Migual Olaso-de la Rica (ESP) WR 1049 QR1: Robert Dee WR 1541 v Andrea Aloisi (ITA) WR 1117
Both Brits are 3rd on court at about 11.00 GMT on Saturday.
The winners of the two QR1 matches above will pl...
Thought I'd open a post for anyone staying up to watch tonight's action. I'll probably be watching Hingis in the first match, but will be keeping an eye on the Chela/Nieminen score. Anyway, just thought it might be a good idea to have a post where those of us staying up can chat until we get to Andy's match...
An incredibly weak qualifying draw with nobody in the top 1000 - compare Calvia where all 16 Q seeds are in the top 800! All of the Brits have byes in QR1:
QR2: (q3) Ross Connolly WR 1055 v Jonathan Kuhn (GUA) UNR QR2: (q5) Amadeus Fulford-Jones WR 1110 v Manuel Chavez (GUA) UNR QR2: (q6) Edward Seator WR...
Who do we think will win the Aussie Open ?
Federer is odds-on favourite by miles but for me, Roddick is probably the next likely to take the title. OK he had a dodgy match against Tsonga but his form at Kooyong last week was sensational, finally beating Federer for the first time in nearly 4 years must...
The big news from day 3, Monfils winning 7-6, 6-2, 2-6, 6-0
That's a massive upset, Monfils played some great stuff at times tonight and his serve was on fire but Baggy was dreadful, made over 50 ues and his volleying was dire. It's been a poor start to the year for him - got hammered in Doha by Soderlin...
Begins on 7th January. It's played on indoor hard.
Tom Knights, Neil Pauffley, Simon Baker, Matthew James and Dominic Hodgson in the main draw.
Dan Smethurst, James Chaudry, Edward Jones and Scott Sears in the qualies draw.
Oliver Evans is in the alts.
Smethurst needs seven withdrawa...
Rotterdam 1 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 3 2 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 4 3 Robredo, Tommy ESP 7 4 Ancic, Mario CRO 9 5 Berdych, Tomas CZE 13 6 Djokovic, Novak SRB 14 7 Ferrer, David ESP 16 8 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 17 9 Gasquet, Richard FRA 18 10 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 19 11 Stepanek, Radek CZE 20 12 Johansson, Joachim SWE 21 @ 1...
Since the bottom half rd 2 matches are still playing and possibly be suspended overnight, ive just decided to do the top half matches for Wednesday. All bets in by 11pm GMT.
Novak Djokovic [1.20] v Feliciano Lopez [4.33]
Marcos Baghdatis [1.36] &...
Nicolas Lapentti is WR 68 but was ranked as high as no. 6 seven years ago (I didn't remember that, I must admit!) and reached the semi-finals of the AO in 1999, after beating ToJo in R1 then having a dream draw.
Alan has played 10 lost 10 in ATP main draws (ATP site implies 11, but I can only find 10) a...
Doubles draw now out:
Top of the bottom half...
(5) M Damm (Cze) & L Paes (Ind) vs N Djokovic (Srb) & J Tipsarevic (Srb) N Healey (Aus) & R Smeets (Aus) vs K Kim (USA) & H-T Lee (Kor)
J Benneteau (Fra) & N Mahut (Fra) vs B Becker (Ger) & J Murray (Gbr) F Dancevic (Can) & X Ma...
Apart from the British matches, some intriguing clashes will take place over the next 12 hours.
The pick of them is probably James Blake v Carlos Moya (I wish the Beeb were showing that after Murray instead of the Hewitt match which will probably be an easy straights win for Hewitt). It'll be an int...
Just realised that it's Arka's birthday today ! (Bebo birthday reminders are so useful )
Happy birthday Arka, I hope you've had a great day and that it's a great week for you with Murray, Mackin, Daniel Cox and all the Brits enjoying great success.
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******* Doha pts *****
Johnnylad completely correct. 120pts
*********** Latest Table ********
Johnnylad 120pts
(everyone else will get added to the table when they win some points)
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I thought I'd start this up again for the new y...
Murray and Mackin's matches are also selcted though Mackin's match was tough to find online, so i had to google and found sporting odds. 10 matches will be chosen per round until the quarter finals. I've picked random matches that got a 50/50 chance of either player winning except Murray's 1st rd matc...
Thought it might be a good thing to have a thread for talking about tonights action!
Is there a stream on eurosports website???? Does anyone know the URL?
Annacone said: "The journey has just begun.
"He has done a great job and Andy is a tremendous talent. Nothing he does will really shock me." Annacone suggested that for a player of Murray's "tremendous" ability, featuring in a major final like the Australian Open should not be the pinnacle of his...
Andy Murray says "everything is in place" to launch a strong challenge at the Australian Open, which starts in Melbourne on Monday.
The British number one, seeded 15th, meets Spain's Alberto Martin in the first round on Tuesday.
Murray told BBC Five Live: "[The preparation] has been perfe...
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Miles Kasiri (GBR) vs Jeff Dadamo (USA)
Chris Harfield (GBR) vs Lorenzo Cava (ECU)
+ player of interest for Arka! -
Rhyne Williams (USA) vs (WC)Carlos Marquez (VEN)
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Happy birthday Arka, I hope you've had a great day and that it's a great week for you with Murray, Mackin, Daniel Cox and all the Brits enjoying great success.
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