Qualifying for the first UK domestic junior tournament starts this weekend. In addition there is a Tennis Europe cat 3 at the same time with qualifying on the Wirral. Quite a few new names for me on the acceptance list and I should be down for the first couple of days
Allegra Korpanec Davies is playing the third of 5 South American tournaments she is entered for, culminating in the Brazilian J500. The last 3 have slightly stronger fields, so she just misses out on a seeding position. If she wins her opener tomorrow she will face the third seed, an early winner. I...
The first J500 event of the year sees Ben Gusic Wan seeded 8 Boys R1 (L64) (WC) Youssef Elshafei (EGY) v Maximilian Carrier (8) Benjamin Gusic Wan v Egor Shcherbakov (***) Girls R1 (L64) (13) Flora Johnson v (Q) Jana Mohamed Elsayed (EGY)
QR1: José Freitas (POR) UNR vs (q14) Russell Henderson UNR QR1: Finn Murgett UNR (CH = 1434 in December 2023) vs (q11) Peter Sychev (ISR) UNR QR1: (q6) Joe Leather WR 1755 (= CH) vs Máximo Nagele (ESP) UNR Millen Hurrion should be in the main draw.
There's an important J100 event in South Africa for our younger players: a big GB turnout in the boys R1: (q) Niall Pickerd-Barua (age 14) won, 6-2 1-6 6-2 (3) Rhys Lawlor (age 15) won, 6-2 6-2 (q) Scott Watson (age 14) won, 6-0 6-3 Kasra Shirazi (age 15) won, 6-3 6-0 Unfortunately, Eric Lorimer had to r...
L16: (4) Daniel Cukierman (ISR) & Joshua Paris CR 293 (153+140) vs Mac Kiger & Eliot Spizzirri (USA/USA) CR 393 (167+226) L16: Scott Duncan & Alexandru Jecan (ROU) CR 374 (216+158) vs Ivan Sabanov & Matej Sabanov (SRB/SRB) CR 341 (184+157) Beat 'em in three sets in the first round...
Only the names of the top two seeded pairs have so far been posted for some strange reason, but setting the ball rolling now will save a wee bit of time later: L16: (1) Tom Hands & Harry Wendelken CR 732 (404+328) vs ??? L16: ??? vs (2) Liam Hignett & James Mackinlay CR 796 (458+338)
L28: Qualifier vs Cameron Norrie WR 63 (CH = 8 in September 2022) Fritz is the top seed, Paul the second & Opelka has a WC... Let's hope Eubanks can get the better of him.
Semifinal groups, all with 9 players in total, placed depending on where they finished in the previous roundVOTE WILL CLOSE FRIDAY EVENING AT 9PM - IF YOU VOTE PLEASE DO SAY WHO AND WHY AND TRY AND PERSUADE OTHERS TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE - THIS IS A NO HOLDS BARRED COMPETITION AND I WILL PROVIDE REGULA...
Semifinal groups, all with 9 players in total, placed depending on where they finished in the previous roundVOTE WILL CLOSE FRIDAY EVENING AT 9PM - IF YOU VOTE PLEASE DO SAY WHO AND WHY AND TRY AND PERSUADE OTHERS TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE - THIS IS A NO HOLDS BARRED COMPETITION AND I WILL PROVIDE REGULA...
Semifinal groups, all with 9 players in total, placed depending on where they finished in the previous roundVOTE WILL CLOSE FRIDAY EVENING AT 9PM - IF YOU VOTE PLEASE DO SAY WHO AND WHY AND TRY AND PERSUADE OTHERS TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE - THIS IS A NO HOLDS BARRED COMPETITION AND I WILL PROVIDE REGULA...
QR1: (q4) Miles Jones (USA) WR 793 (= CH) vs Oliver Okonkwo WR 1424 (CH = 1350 last July) QR1: Blu Baker WR 1312 (CH = 608 in November 2022) vs (q15) Keshav Chopra (USA) WR 1236 (CH = 936 in November 2023) QR1: (q6) Matthew Summers WR 867 (CH = 864 last month) vs (qWC) Jack Secord (USA) UNR QR1: (q7) Andrew...
QR1: (q4) Jeremy Gschwendtner WR 1141 (CH = 1139 last December) vs Massimo Pizzigoni (ITA) UNR QR1: Viktor Frydych UNR vs (qWC) Marc Ferrando (ESP) UNR
Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
Ok, 5th year of our Favourite British Tennis Player vote. Started in 2020 and been able to run it most years since! 64 players, 48 singles and 16 doubles, 32 men and women each. Divided into 8 groups of 8. Top 3 from each group plus ties go through to the semis 24 + players in the semis, into 3 groups of 8. Top...
