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Singles Qualifying Draw (1)Claire De Gubernatis (FRA) v BYE Annelies Bornauw (BEL) v Elisa Salis (ITA) (2)Celine Cattaneo (FRA) v BYE Marija Mirkovic (AUS) v Catherine Grotz (BEL) (3)Claire Feuerstein (FRA) v BYE Audrey Bergot (FRA) v Magalie Girard (FRA) (4)Laura Bsoul (GE...
Original story: Murray hires trainer to toughen up for US Open By Gavin Versi (Filed: 20/08/2006) During a radio interview at the end of 2004 Andy Murray said his target for the following season was to break into the world's top 50. Given that he had not even played a professional match at the time and wa...
Santoro [1.4] v Vik [2.75]
Benneteau [1.53] v Horna [2.37]
Lopez [1.36] v Volandri [2.87]
Querrey [1.57] v Martin [2.25]
Muller [1.25] v Pashanki [3.5]
Karlovic [1.61] v Rusedski [2.2]
Fish [1.44] v Sanguinetti [2.62]
Ramirez-Hildago [1.72] v Rochus [2.0]
Mi...
As many of you will be aware, the US Open series is a mini-ranking list competition covering the 6 pre-USO weeks of the US summer hard court swing.
Players who finish in the top three of the US Open Series get a bonus on top of any money they win at the US Open itself. For example, last year Kim Clijsters wo...
If you haven't heard, Penn are running a competition for this week's TMS event in Cincinatti in conjunction with the ATP.
It's a predictions competition, if you haven't done so already go to the ATP site and click on the massive logo and register for free.
Then click on "my picks," what you hav...
This is currently one of the big debating points in the tennis world.
What do you think ?
Views:
Navratilova: "They should outlaw it. It's really unfair to the opponent and it's terrible for the public. At the net you need to hear the ball hit the racket so you know how fast it's travellin...
I mean do i need to introduce him, the fed express.............i think no
But if andy murray were to really judge himself at this point in time then wouldnt it be correct in saying that here is his cahnce. Although not at all expecting andy to win, i am expecting him to win a set and that will be enough for...
From Sporting Life:
Andy Murray has enlisted a fitness trainer best known for bulking up basketball superstars as he looks to shape up for the US Open - the grand slam he relishes even more than Wimbledon.
But after 14 matches in 17 days, including appearances in the final, semi-final and qua...
Martin Lee(2), Arvind Parmar(8) and Jamie Baker are all in qualifying here.
Martin faces Carlos Salamanca of Colombia in Round One.
Arvind faces Florin Merge of Romania who Jamie beat last week!
Jamie has drawn 6th seed Peter Wessels of the Netherlands in R1.
Arvind would appear to have the...
Apologies for presumptious posting. Have to go out and wanted to put my bet in of 15 on Roddick to win the final. Hope this is ok.
Mods feel free to delete this or move it to appropriate place, but please count my bet.
Many thanks
1 am tonight! For the Insomniacs !!!!!
It's expected to be a tough match but, hey, so was the Federer match but worse! *LOL*
Could someone add the poll ? -- Edited by timmoore46 at 08:08, 2006-08-18-- Edited by Drew at 17:25, 2006-08-18
Nominees:
Anne Keothavong: Reached quarters of the Lexington 50K Challenger moving closer to bettering her career best ranking of 140
Mel South: Won her first 25K challenger title in Chengshu and reaching 25K semis in Felixstowe and Chongging. Overtook Sarah Borwell to move into top 200...
Qualifying:
Rd1: M Phillips [GB] v A Biasella [It]
A Wright [GB] v A Giraudo [It]
Morgan having his first attempt at challenger qualifying on clay in Italy. In rd1 he faces Alan Wright's conqueror from last weekend, 25 year old Adriano Biasella. Biasella is ranked 732 and hasn't won a mat...
I'm posting this before the rankings have come out and before tennisfacts has updated so I apologise if there are any mistakes. If you spot a mistake please let me know and I'll correct it. I will update the table after the final of Toronto.
STRONG>Running|----------Start of week-------| Run...
4 Brits in qualifying here. Draw has been pretty unkind.
James Auckland, Jonny Marray, Jamie Delgado and Ross Hutchins.
Delgado and Hutchins play each other and then the winner faces Auckland(3) or Patrick Gamauf of Austria. He's ranked 1557.
Jonny M(7) has drawn an Austrian Wildcard calle...
from bbc sport:
Evander Holyfield launched his comeback bid with a second-round stoppage of journeyman Jeremy Bates in Dallas.The 43-year-old former undisputed heavyweight champion had Bates in trouble at the end of the first round before the bell sounded. Holyfield continued his onsla...
Week 1 got underway last week and Britain's David Brewer [world ranking: 1070] got off to a good start on his favoured clay.
Results:
Rd1: D Brewer [GB] bt E Zurabian [Ukr][wr:1204] 6-3, 7-6
Rd2: D Brewer [GB] bt T Ouahabi [Morocco][7] [wr: 924] 2-6, 6-3, 7-5
QF: D Brew...
What are your views on courtside coaching, do you think it should be made legal ?
The views of top players on this:
Nadal: "What kind of rule is this that coaches can't say anything during a match ? In what other sport does this happen ?"
Rusedski: "It's a free-for-all, so you might as well ha...
Tough one for Greg here.. Tbh he'll have to be on his game really to stand any chance of winning this match against Ljubicic and if he does it will be in 3 sets. Certainly a match of big servers and if Greg can put in a good serve who knows what could happen during this match. But I just feel Ljubicic will win, s...
my time has been very limited the past few days....can some help me and update the leader board for day 3 and 4.........sorry 7.6-Ferrero v Nadal-1.14 2.3-Murray v Roddick-1.69 2.64-Robredo v Ljubicic-1.57 1.5-Gonzo v Ferrer-3.2
This thread is for following the Cinci main draw.
Just seen that Querrey has won the 1st set against Nadal, 7-5 in the 1st set tiebreak !
Wow !!!!!!
Querrey's only ranked 178 and a couple of years ago he was nowhere even in juniors !!!!
Well now it's time to stop celebrating folk over Murray's historic win over the world's no 1 and focus on his 3rd round opponent Ginerpri. They have played each other before and that was way back in Bangkok last year which was also on hard courts such as here in Cincy and of course he came through in 3 sets t...
No Brits in Main draw
-- Edited by timmoore46 at 08:08, 2006-08-18 -- Edited by Drew at 17:25, 2006-08-18
QF: D Brew...
Querrey's only ranked 178 and a couple of years ago he was nowhere even in juniors !!!!