At the grand age of 91, Nick Bollettieri has passed away. An amazing and 'pioneering' US tennis coach, a big character, working with a lot of the big names, but also a whole load of kids. There are lots of great tributes out there to him, not only for his coaching but also for being a good guy.
Most of our team in Mexico (except Henry Searle) have moved up to the United States for the last two major tournaments of the year (joined by Ranah Stoiber). Hugo Coquelin gained a Special Exempt for reaching the Merida doubles semi, while luca Pow was originally in qualifying, but got bumped up to th...
Q1: AMOS, Abigail (GBR) (6) 1166/125 =CH v DJEKIC, Kasandra Leoni (AUT) WC UNR/UNR =CH {18yo JCH=UNR/3645 (CH=UNR/2224 2022) -- Edited by Peter too on Sunday 4th of December 2022 04:15:37 AM
Time to start scratching your heads and come up with your predictions for 2022 Just so everyone is clear, and for anyone who didnt take part last year, here are the competition rules Select 10 players and give your prediction of their end-of season GB ranking and world ranking.As in the 2021 competi...
The first thing that jumped out at me from the acceptance lists here was the name of Tamara Kuti, ranked 1183, age 15. Not that I'd ever heard of Tamara, which was the point .... who she? From a little research, she was playing for Germany up until recently (but probably based here) So I'm figuring that s...
QR1: (q3) Dax Donders (NED) WR 989 (CH = 985 in September) vs Ali Habib UNR Mark Whitehouse has returned to Europe & should be in the main draw, conceivably as the third seed.
Israel, J3: Congrats to 16 year-old Luke Hooper, who's made ther QFs, here He beat the 3rd seed along the way, who is ranked about 600 places better than him ! Gabia P has also made the QFs, beating the 2nd seed France, J3: Freddy Blaydes (seeded 2) won his R1 but lost in R2 Morocco, J4: R1 wins for Isab...
Q1: KHAN, Iman (GBR) UNR/1019 (CH=UNR/1005 2022) {18yo JCH=867} v ZHANG, Jale (CHN) (8) UNR/510 =CH {18yo JCH=UNR} They played last week with Iman winning 1 & 2 Q1: BARTLETT, Aryana (GBR) UNR/685 (CH=UNR/679 2022) [17yo JCH=1027} v DE KONING, Rikke (NED) UNR/1570 (CH=UNR/1543 2022)
Although the big profile events are over in the States now, this J3 has a lot of well-ranked GB players, including: Girls: (1) Marelie Raath, (5) Millie Skelton Boys: (3) Viktor Frydrych, Henry Jefferson, Joel Gibson -- Edited by Coup Droit on Sunday 27th of November 2022 07:51:13 PM
The 2023 ITF rulebook has been published. Changes for the women's tour: * as we know New 40K/40K+H introduced (ranking points TBC) * to hold a 40K, national associations must first agree to hold at least the same number of 60/80/100 tournaments in 2023 as 2022. * 40K rules for the most part aligned with...
QR1: (q4) Stefanos Sakellaridis (GRE) WR 899 (CH = 866 at the start of the month) vs Sizya Kivanda UNR (CH = 1698 in August 2019) Stuart Parker should be in the main draw, conceivably seeded fourth.
So 48 hours to vote, that will be circa 8.45 pm Tuesday vote from the list below for the player you feel is the PoM in the final vote of 2022! 1. Matthew Rankin - for making it on to the WR rankings for the first time with a L32 in in Egypt, and still a junior.2. Jamie Murray - for reaching the milestone of 500 wi...
QR1: Joshua Luck (RSA) UNR (CH = 1518 in September 2015) vs Matthew Rankin WR 1735 (= CH) QR1: Nicolò Toffanin (ITA) UNR vs (q13) Billy Blaydes WR 1618 (CH = 1539 in September) QR1: Freddie Ridout UNR vs Victor Paganetti (FRA) WR 1654 (CH = 1550 in August)
QR1: (qWC) Ersel Kalfaoglu (*) UNR vs (q16) Emir Sutekin (TUR)WR 1654 (= CH) QR1: (q8) Michel Hoppe (GER) WR 1388 (CH = 1293 in August) vs Joseph White UNR (*) Another newcomer, this one very obviously of Turkish extraction
A stronger field for the Mexican Grade A event, which means Ella McDonald drops down to 4th seed (top seed in the Grade 1). Phoenix Weir, Henry Searle and Imogen Haddad are the only Brits on today's schedule Mimi Xu has a tough looking draw against a girl who played Kaitlin Quevedo (last week's winne...
From the Davis Cup websiteThe International Tennis Federation and Kosmos Tennis have confirmed the four cities selected to host the group stage of the 2022 Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals on 14-18 September as Bologna (Italy), Glasgow (Great Britain), Hamburg (Germany) and Malaga (Spain).The ITF al...
