Got there just before the doors opened at 10am yesterday morning.
First I went and found my seat, which wasn't the best as it was right in the corner and quite far away from the court. Then it was off to have a look at the outside courts to see if any of the big names were out practicing. There was noone I rec...
Arsenal FC have decided they will now play all home matchs from anfield, as it obviuosly suits them well, over 135 mins of football they have scored 7 goals and conceded only 2.
this is good
(lets hope liverpool dont turn it around)
Spains F1 - Clay - Menorca MD : 18 - Morgan Phillips Edit : Morgan through to R2 El Salvador F1 - Clay - Santa Tecia - ALL BRITS OUT Alts : A Fulford-Jones Ed Seator Edit : Both play in QR2. Both got QR1 byes. See seperate thread. Edit : Both lost then fled missing a LL spot ! Great Britain F1 - Sheff...
Thought we might as well have a thread in the build up to the first Grand Slam of the Year.
Jonny Marray is in mid air right now, and will arrive early in the morning on Friday in Australia, quite a trek.
Peter Lundgren, British Davis Cup Coach, will be in Australia for the week of Qualies, and will be wo...
Auckland:
Vliegen (1.28) v Tipsarevic (3.25)
Ferrer (1.53) v Gaudio (2.37)
O Rochus (1.83) v Nieminen (1.83)
Simon (1.83) v Bracciali (1.83)
Kohlschreiber (1.5) v Horna (2.5)
Monfils (1.2) v Martin (4.0)
Serra (1.44) v Lapentti (2.62)
Robredo (1.16) v Ramire...
Great field for us confirmed today.
Niemenen will return to defend the title he won this year, along with Ancic who was runner up to him. Hrbaty will return for the 9th time while Ferrero makes his 2nd appearance here. Other big names include Robredo, Ferrer, Rochus, Gaudio and Chela.
No British p...
Boggo is in the qualies here and has drawn 7th seed, world 88, Delic in round 1.
Tough opening round for alex against the big hitter who has beaten him on surbitions grass in 06 and the usoq in 05.
In The Independent there is an interesting article by Brad on Andy. He thinks it will take Andy another 2 years to be at his best. Brad Gilbert: 'Andy is two years away from being best player he can be' Murray's ten...
Some news to warm the heart of Arka ! Nadal goes out to Malisse
Once Nalbandian had lost, I thought that Nadal was a cert for the title. However, Malisse beat him 6-4, 7-6[4]. Once again, he was outhit by an attacking baseliner with a booming forehand. So Nadal's drought contin...
Well I guess it's time we checked out how Andy's ranking might be affected by the action in week 1. Here's the table of the players around Andy's position (C)GC77.unning Start of week ...
Jamie Murray looking to Jamie Delgado as long term double partner according to Judy Murray.... http://sport.scotsman.com/tennis.cfm?id=30122007 Seems a bit strange....maybe ?
I have invested in the ATP edition of the Tennis Navigator software and have been looking through the varied reports and feature of what basically is an updated SQL database of the ATP tour. One thing it shows very clearly for any player is their ranking history.... Ranking & Number of weeks at tha...
So what do we think will be the outcome of this match? Is Ljubicic harder to beat than Davydenko? (feel free to jazz up the poll anyone!) -- Edited by ultimateshedman at 20:39, 2007-01-05
Only Jamie Baker in qualies here. He plays Wesley Whitehouse WR 383 from South Africa in round 1 and would need to take care of seeds Simon Greul WR 82 and Nicolas Lapentti WR 67 to make the main draw - pretty tough but good match practice for Aus Open qualies!!
Qualifying singles draw: http://www.atp...
Just as the title says. I'll start us off with a couple:
First up is poison russian imp Davydenko on the right and poisoned Russian spy Litvinenko on the left.
And secondly Andy Roddick on the left and Stifler from American Pie on the right.
(lets hope liverpool dont turn it around)
