A big welcome to the professional rankings for 19 year-old, Alicia Dudeney 03/10/22 - WTA 1221 (with 8 points) A tall, slender girl, she's always had a good serve and strong groundshots. And did particularly well at junior Wimbledon (the grass suiting her). She made the QFs in 2021. But she was alway...
Next year's early ITFs are already on the ITF calendar. Fewer tournaments in January/February than 2024 but Manchester is introduced to the women's calendar which is a nice change from the usual venues. I would expect there to be at least 1 ATP Challenger. As a reminder there is an increase in prize mo...
Mika is a late 2008-born player. Plays lots of sports. Has only releatively recently decided to specialise in tennis. Tall-ish, athletic girl. A slightly 'deliberate' sort of style. But it's obviously developing. Coached by Lewandowski (and maybe others) - and hence an LTA favourite. She re...
After making the final in Aldershot on hard Ruby Cooling makes a quick transition to the clay here. Boys R1 (L32) Maximilian Carrier v (WC) Timo Rosenkranz Koenig (AUT) Girls R1 (L32) (Q) Laura Chlumska (CZE) v Ruby Cooling
Eight team draw with two seeded pairs L8:- Tereza Mihalikova (SVK) / Olivia Nicholls (GBR) CR65 (34+31) v Bianca Andreescu (CAN) / Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) UNR (UNR/CH=47+42) [WC] Liv and Tereza need the title to improve their points total, but for now they are both up one place in the live rankings - an...
Congrats to Blu on getting selected for sponsorship by Token Stars. It will be interesting to see what sort of year he has - there's definitely good potential there, and he's been a fave for a while, but one could argue that he is currently 'fully priced in', there's no 'rough diamond' argument there. ...
Lauryn comes from the East End of London and is a junior I saw play quite a bit (because she was London-based) A good athlete, a well-rounded game, good ball skills - a lot better than many of her cohort and (IMO) always in the 'interesting' group, if not in a 'stand-out' group. She managed to get hersel...
QR1: Louis Allen WR 2012 (CH = 1789 in November 2020) vs (qWC) Iván Alvarez (ARG) UNR QR1: Mahmoud Salim Gannouni (TUN) UNR vs Charles Dossetter UNR QR1: Ned Smith UNR vs (q9) Ammar Elamin (IRL) WR 1375 (CH = 1356 last October)
Here we go: 15 contenders - as per usual, vote for the player, pair, team you think deserves to be our player of the month and tell us when you vote and why (to keep it interesting for others). Vote will be closed 10 pm Tuesday night, 29th April. If there is a tie for top spot, there will be a tie break vote to d...
L16: Joe Cooper & Eric Vanshelboim (UKR) CR 2607 (2257+350) defeated (1) Gregor Ramskogler & Kai Wehnelt (AUT/GER) CR 772 (538+234) by 6-1 6-7(4) [10-8] ***** QF: Joe Cooper & Eric Vanshelboim (UKR) CR 2607 (2257+350) vs Adrian Oetzbach & Martin van der Meerschen (GER/BEL) CR...
There is a strong field in the boys event for a J200, with 9 players ranked inside 100, including Ben Gusic Wan and Mark Ceban. By contrast Brooke Black is the only girl ranked inside 100. Qualifying is underway with live scores available here (game scores only in qualifying) Early winners in round 1 o...
Dont wish to make a fool out of anyone, but April starts here. 4 week process, nominations close 27th April - end of week 17, which happens to be mid way through Madrid. Cant be helped as doing it any other way creates a 3 week April or 3 week May and that wouldnt work, sorry! Nominations and supporting re...
