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Doubles only this week. An eight-pair draw QF:- Samantha Murray Sharan (GBR) / Eden Silva (GBR) CR222 (99+123) v Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers (ESP) / Nuria Parrizas Diaz (ESP) CR1235 (89+1146) QF:- Emily Appleton (GBR) / Maia Lumsden (GBR) CR172 (94+78) [2] v Belinda Bencic (SUI) / Celine Naef (SUI) UNR...

Only 19 players in a 32 draw qualifying (and only 5 seeds) FQR:- Anjali Kotecha (GBR) UNR/1956/19yo [Q5] v Allegravan der Walt (RSA) UNR/UNR/16yo FQR:- Marelie Raath (GBR) UNR/UNR/18yo v Srivally Varma Medishetty (IND) UNR/UNR/19yo

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Em grabs herself another singles place. QR1:- Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) UNR/900 [A] v Friederike Nolte (GER) WR1299/18yo [Q10]

Looks like a strong entry in Loughborough as last weeks J60 players are joined by some higher ranked juniors

QR1: (q2) Max Benaim WR 1740 (CH = 1676 in July) vs Breno Braga (BRA) UNR QR1: Dhruva Mulye (USA) UNR vs (q10) Daniel Vishnick WR 2084 (CH = 1999 in May) QR1: Denzel Seetso (BOT) UNR vs (q9) Felix Mischker WR 2045 (CH = 1747 last December) QR1: (qWC) Jayden Summers (RSA) (*) UNR vs (q12) James Beaven UNR...

QR1:- Katherine Barnes (GBR) WR829 [13] v Bye

Draws are up for main draw but in qualies, Athina Schlepphorst won through to the FQR, beating the second seeded Jamaican, James, to do so and quite a big beating as well, of 3 and 1. Sadly, she lost in FQR. In main draw, Allegda K-D and Flora Johnson are in the girls, Oli B (seeded 4) and Viktor F go in the bo...

L32: (5) Emile Hudd WR 524 (CH = 520 two weeks ago) vs (SE) Kody Pearson (AUS) WR 1110 (CH = 790 last December)

I was shocked & saddened by the news yesterday that Charlotte Dujardin had withdrawn from the British dressage team for the Paris Olympics following the emergence of a four-year-old video which showed her, as she terms it, "making an error of judgement". My shock & sadness turned to horr...

QR1: Kornel Halmos (HUN) UNR vs Fabio Nestola WR 2084 (CH = 1870 in May) QR1: Karim Ibrahim (EGY) WR 1564 (CH = 1428 in September) vs Michael Shaw WR 2132 (CH = 1143 in last November) QR1: Mattias Southcombe UNR (CH = 1337) vs Kyle Rae UNR Stuart Parker should be in the main draw.

R1: Isabella Wong def. (5) Yushan Shao (CHN) 6-4 4-6 6-3 R2: Isabella Wong LOST to Mutsumi Uemura (JPN) 7-5 6-2 Shame Isabella couldn't capitalise on the excellent R1 win Still got doubles to come For those interested, the 2010-born winner of Les Petits As this year (Mariia Makarova) is also play...

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Vote will close at 9.55 pm Tuesday 3rd December - our list is below: please say who you vote for and why! It helps, it does, honestly! And remember, all PoM winners and runners up qualify for Player of the Season in around one month. Only December POM to come and then player its player of the season: 1 - Luk...

Sadly the Wimbledon singles champion of 1960 Australia's Neale Fraser passed away on 2nd December 2024 aged 91. He won the US singles Championships of 1959 and 1960. In the 1959 US Championships he also won the doubles and mixed and is the last man to win all 3 titles at the same Grand Slam. He won...

QR1: Raffaello Papajcik UNR vs (q11) Nicolás Rafael Goldberg (ESP) WR 1629 (CH = 1606 last December) QR1: Thomas Drayton UNR vs (q13) Rafael Giotis (ESP) WR 1663 (CH = 1216 in August 2022)

A sizeable British contingent here, including many from last week's successful J100 in Stavanger. Unluckily Brits have drawn the top two seeds in the girls event, though that wasn't a barrier to Sophie Bekker last week. Conor Brady is drawn against last week's boys winner, and former Les Petits A...

QR1: Alessio Demichelis (ITA) UNR (CH = 1684 in September last year) vs (q14) Thomas Drayton UNR QR1: Jason Janis (GER) UNR vs (q13) Felix Mischker WR 2046 (CH = 1747 last December) Ewen Lumsden should again be in the main draw.

The quali draws kick off tomorrow Karina Kiss is top q seed in the girls, Mathias Lescano-Vecchi top q seed in the boys

QR1:- Freya Christie (GBR) WR679 [Q16] v Barbora Michalikova (CZE) WR1348

So here we are, onto November - nominations thread. Month will run for 4 weeks through to Sunday December 1st Anyone can nominate, just add a name below to the latest list and a reason and repost! Nominations List 1 2 3 4 5 6

A strong British cast here for one of the top graded events outside Slams, augmented by Freya Peet who negotiated qualifying. Boys R1 (L64) (3) Oliver Bonding v Kase Schinnerer (USA) (13) Maxwell Exsted (USA) v Viktor Frydrych Valentin Garay (ARG) v (2) Charlie Robertson Girls R1 (L64) (9) Thea Frod...

J100 Latvia Alisha Ndukwu lost in R1. She got a win in doubles though. Max Carrier made the QFs in singles, before losing out But has made the finals of the doubles - good luck, Max J100 Hong Kong Isabella Wong got a R1 win, before losing in R2 J60 UAE AleksandarDaskalovic lost to the top seed, in three s...

QR1: Rein Koenders (NED) UNR vs Carl Holder UNR QR1: (q6) Kylian Collignon (BEL) WR 1434 (CH = 1310 in February) vs Jamie Forrest UNR QR1: (q7) Matisse Bobichon (FRA) WR 1496 (CH = 1470 last month) vs Charles Dossetter UNR Ryan Peniston should again be in the main draw.

L16: (4) James Davis & James Mackinlay CR 584 (270+314) vs Neil Oberleitner & Mats Rosenkranz (AUT/GER) CR 1105 (231+874) L16: Giles Hussey & Oliver Okonkwo CR 1490 (887+603) vs (3) Roy Stepanov & Tennyson Whiting (ISR/USA) CR 579 (323+256) Giles & Oliver won their encount...