Qualifying starts on Saturday 28th.
Deborah Armstrong, Madelaine Brooks and Francesca Kinsella are competing.
Francesca has her own official website [and no, this one isn't run by me [url=http://www.francescakinsella.co.uk]http://www.francescakinsella.co.uk[/...
He's one lucky guy. He only got into the quals for Paris as a late replacement for Mahut. Won one game. Lost in the final qual round, but now finds himself thru to the second round of the main draw as an LL replacement for Fed (with a first round bye of course).
He'll probably get a w/o next ...
The Englishman was forced to turn down the offer of a wild card from tournament director Cedric Pioline last Friday.
It was a shame I had to say no, Henman continued. I would have loved to have gone back to Paris where I won the event in 2003 but the knee was too sore at that stage to say yes.
From LTA...
******* Basle pts *****
Mkkreuk, Imoen, Drew and Ed all partially correct 15pts each
*********** Latest Table ********
Points standing after Basle:
Imoen 800 pts (the 'Fed' of this competition )
Mkkreuk 400 pts
Akhenten 330pts
Ed 3...
London has been backed to host the ATP's season-ending Masters Cup by its chairman Etienne De Villiers.
Shanghai's deal to stage the event runs out in 2008, after which De Villiers said it is likely to return to Europe.
He said: "It's an open process, but I'd love it to go to London in the run-up...
Well today I was thinking of an idea.. As I have Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2 on my PS2 and well while I was playing career mode, that why not do another one but write a story about the player I am on its career, on here. Just like when people write their stories when they play the likes of Football Mana...
Simon Childs 18 won his first ATP Futures title when he won the Mexico F19 Doubles today. The score 7-6 6-4. His partner was an Icelandic dude. Obviously a great combination as they were semi finalists in the previous Future in Mexico.
Its been a great tour for Simon who one his first singles point in h...
This is a G4 junior tournament, being held in Finland this week. I assume that Dan Evans, Neil Pauffley and Matthew James are competing in it.
Are they on the entry list for this Greenleaf ?
Do you know if there's a tournament website ?
Entry list per steveg (and now MTF): 1 Federer, Roger SUI 1 OUT2 Nadal, Rafael ESP 2 OUT3 Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 3 OUT4 Nalbandian, David ARG 4 OUT 5 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 5 6 Roddick, Andy USA 6 OUT[/col...
Next match up on centre court
Auckland got a wildcard here because he plays league tennis for the local team. He also won the doubles title here in 2005.
20 year old Stakhovsky is ranked 159. He and Auckland have played once before. James won 6-4, 6-2 in rd2 of the 2004 Togliatti challenger.
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Qualifying [starts on 28th]:
Linsey Jacks is the only British representative, it's on indoor carpet in Germany
I've just seen that there's a futures in India next week and all the main draw players are Indian Now why can't we do that !
Childs who reached semi final final of doubles at the F18 has now reached the Final of the Mexico F19 Doubles. Great Performance. He was too late to play singles in the qualies at this event.
Q1: Claire Peterzan (6) bt Huliya Velieva (Bul, 1267) 6-3 7-6
Next vs. 14 Andrei, Laura-Ioanna (ROM, 713) for main draw place.
Anne K, Amanda K and Katie O'B are listed in main draw.
1 Vik, Robin CZE 85 2 Sluiter, Raemon NED 90 3 Norman, Dick BEL 98 4 Del Potro, Juan Martin ARG 99 5 Waske, Alexander GER 118 6 Bogdanovic, Alex GBR 119 7 Economidis, Konstantinos GRE 120 8 Kunitsyn, Igor RUS 122 9 Carlsen, Kenneth DEN 126 10 Bolelli, Simone ITA 127 11 Moodie, Wesley RSA 133 12 Wang, Yeu-Tzu...
Maybe stagger will be going to this tournament ? I haven't seen him on the board much lately, will have to email him. Dan Cox and Josh Milton are playing here. They're seeded 2 and 3 respectively. Both crushed their rd1 opponents. Rd1 results: J Milton [GB][3] bt K Tsung [TPE] 6-0, 6-0 D Cox [GB][2] bt B Fa...
Qualifying:
Rd1: A Wright [GB] bt I Ogarkov [Rus] 6-3, 6-0
A Bisevac [Aut] bt M Gregor [GB] 6-2, 6-2
V Sanchez-Gil [Esp] bt J Morris [GB] 6-0, 6-1
A Di Gaetano [It] bt Z Wooford-Smith [GB] 6-1, 6-1
Rd2:
A Wright [GB] v L MacKenzie [NZ]
As mentioned in Nottingham thread, James Auckland is playing ATP doubles here with Wayne Arthurs. Two pretty good servers playing together!
They were the last direct acceptance into the main draw with a combined ranking of 149. Pretty intimidating draw really. Some great singles players playi...
4 Brits around the world next week in Challengers.... Boggo 6th seed in Aachen, Germany Bloomfield 5th seed in Rimouski, Canada Martin Lee in the MD in Seoul, Korea OUT - withdrawl Jamie Baker now in the MD for Louisville, USA. Will keep this over-view thread up-dated with results during the week for q...
Martin Lee has made the draw with the last DA.....! 1 Gimelstob, Justin USA 71 2 Goldstein, Paul USA 74 3 Phau, Bjorn GER 76 4 Kim, Kevin USA 92 5 Marach, Oliver AUT 102 6 Udomchoke, Danai THA 106 7 Peya, Alexander AUT 144 8 Muller, Gilles LUX 115 9 Querrey, Sam USA 137 10 Guccione, Chris AUS 156 11 Chiudinell...
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Now why can't we do that !