Lots of British players are competing in Madrid next week: Melanie South, Sarah Borwell and Katie O'Brien will be seeded. Rebecca Llewellyn and Amanda Keen are also competing. Sarah Coles is 1st on the alternates list so she'll be extremely unlucky if she doesn't get in direct.
Others to look ou...
Started a thred for this homw futures event which starts Monday in Nottingham GB F13 - Nottingham - Hard Main draw should feature : 1. Richard Bloomfield 5. Lee Childs 6. J Marray 14. A Slabinsky 15. Neil Bamford 16. Ian Flanagan Quali draw should include... 18. Tom Rushby 22. R Irwin 23. Rob Searle 24. T...
Match is underway, Andy leads 6-3, 0-1
Brief summary:
Stakhovskyt started brightly hitting some blazing winners on the 2nd shots combined with some big serving. He had a couple of chances to break Andy at 2-2 but missed them and in the next game Andy stepped things up, hitting a superb foreha...
Anne Keothavong has made the main draw for the WTA tournament, the first time she's made a WTA draw on her own ranking Given that there are a large number of European 25Ks this week plus a tier 4 in Slovenia which she would have got into easily, going for this tournament which has much bigger...
Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jnr is Ukraine's next great hope. Kiev-born protegee of former French Open finalist Andrei Medvedev, Dolgopolov doesn't turn 18 until November and is already ranked 375. This year he's won 5 futures events, all on clay and 2 in the Ukraine. He qualified for ATP Bucharest this w...
Qualifying:
James Ward hasn't entered, I presume he's got a SE place.
Rd1:
R Brooks [GB][14] v J Jimenez [Esp]
A Wright [GB] v R de la Rosa [Esp]
R Dee [GB] v G Gomez [Esp][6]
O Podlewski [GB] v M Palacios [Esp]
A Gomez [GB] v D Prats Catalan
Sergiy Stakhovsky is ranked 184 with a career high of 173 reached earlier this year. He's had an ok year, reaching 2 challenger semis but has done nothing else. He's been beaten by Boggo and Martin Lee [on grass in straights]. He had an average junior career up until the 2004 US Open when he stormed throu...
2 Brits in qualifying.
Matt Hanlin is seeded 12. Haven't seen him for a while.
Max Jones also in draw. Never heard of him!
Hanlin lost in first round to Ben Gonzales of USA. Score was 75 03 when Hanlin retired...in other words he was winning but was unlucky to have to retire.
J...
He's withdrawn from Bejing. No idea why, but that's one of his last chances to get ranking points before he stops making the direct entry list at ATP tournaments. -- Edited by UltimateBoggoFan at 07:39, 2006-09-22
edit: this is from todays Times
TWO years ago my ranking was in the 600s and the Davis Cup was something that Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski did for Great Britain. Today, in Ukraine, I may find out that I’m playing for my country for the first time and that fills me with wonder.
If it happens, ther...
Russia v USA [clay]
M Safin [1.61] v A Roddick [2.2]
J Blake [1.8] v M Youzhny [1.9]
Australia v Argentina [clay]
Hewitt [1.72] v Acasuso [2.0]
Nalbandian [1.07] v Philippousis [7.5]
Vince Spadea's new book "Break point" has caused quite a stir among his fellow pros, it's an account of the 2005 season and focuses largely on Spadea's performances but controversially it contains a large number of anecdotes from "behind-the-scenes."
“I feel like in writing that book, he may h...
Qualifying:
6: Francesca Kinsella
Francesca is 19, she reached no 211 in the juniors in 2005. She's currently unranked, she needs 2 more tournaments in which she wins ranking points.
From Ace magazine:
On money:
"When I look at a dollar note I only see a picture of George Washington on a piece of paper. Money is only money. It makes life easier but I don't feel sexy or might because of that."
On stardom:
"I am not a singer or a rock star. Tennis is tennis. If you want to see a cl...
This tournament starts on October 9th
Anne Keothavong is entered, she was 25th on the qualifying list on 12th September
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Qualifying: Rd1: M Phillips [GB] bt G Burniol [Esp][6] 5-7, 7-5, 6-2 A superb victory for Morgan over the in-form Spaniard. Burniol is ranked over 150 places higher at 457 and at the beginning of September he won a futures tournament on clay in Poland. Last week he took a set off former top...
Britain's Michael Thompson and Graeme Dyce have both qualified. Thompson is 16 and lives in South Africa. His favourite surface is grass and he's coached by former British no 1 doubles player Neil Broad who played many DC ties.
Rd1: M Thompson [GB] v T Hodorov [Isr]
G Dyce [GB] v H Dil [Holland...
J...