For my own amusement, I thought I would try and keep track of the top tennis nations over the course of the year and see where GB stacked up. Being honest, my main interest is the mens game, so I planned to track the week by week average rankings of the top 10 players in each of the key countries and see if GB ma...
Graves Grade 2 Men's winner: Joseph Newman-Billington (defeating Albert Calin) Women's winner: Sophia Christodoulou (defeating Lara Savic) Marcus Walters was top seed in the men but gave a walkover in the semis Summer Yardley was top seed, and Tegan Bush seeded #2, but both lost before reac...
QR1: Jason Huang (CAN) UNR vs (q12) Patrick Foley WR 2102 (CH = 1271 in September 2019) QR1: (q4) Alexis Canter WR 1442 (CH = 773 in September 2019) vs BYE QR1: Michael Kokkinis (AUS) UNR vs (q13) Alexander Maggs WR 2012 (CH = 1764 last October) QR1: (q6) Nicolas Philibert WR 1720 (CH = 1586 in Janua...
New season starts in Melbourne this week with the Series 1 Victoria Open; Melbourne Super Series follows and then the AO. In the Victoria Open, Alfie is top seed in the mens and Gordon is 4th; in womens, Lucy plays and is unseeded. In quad, Andy is 3rd seed and Greg Slade also plays, unseeded. Mens draw...
Hannah is the talk of young tennis, worldwide. She's only 12. Born 2009. She's a tall-ish girl, with a super serve, especially given her age, moves well, very lucid, turns defence into attack very effectively. Her match in Les Petits As (the top world event for U14s) against the other 2009-born sta...
Here we go and into June. This is a 5 week period ending Sunday 29th June ie the day before Wimbledon starts. Everyone knows the process now: just add to the last version of the list below. Nominations list: 1 2 3 etc.
Jack Draper will be the only GB flag-carrier by right on the men's side & conceivably the third seed. Given his recent heroics on the red stuff, could Jake Fearnley, currently likely to be the top seed in qualies, but in the list of...
QR1: BYE vs (q11) Peter Alam WR 1755 (CH = 1534 last June) QR1: Alexandru Toubi Hebhang Balan (CAN) UNR vs (q14) Finn Murgett UNR (CH = 1434 in December 2023)
QR1: (qWC) David Wu (USA) UNR vs (q12) Adam Jones WR 1521 (CH = 1155 in April 2023) QR1: (qWC) Adrien Abarca (USA) UNR vs (q14) Joe Leather WR 1562 (CH = 1556 last month) Oliver Tarvet & Finn Bass should be in the main draw.
We've had a specific rankings thread in the women's section for ages. But not one in the men's. So, in the good-old period, it all got put in the STEVEN thread. Which seemed a little weird after a while. And during the horrid-old period, there was the transition tour section for ITF rankings, and we har...
19/2/18 Anna Popescu up 28 to 1061 + 1 point from Loughborough Gabriella Taylor up 37 to 585 +9 points from Launceston Daneika Borthwick up 6 to 529 + 1 point from Loughborough Olivia Nicholls up 17 to 509 +18 points from Loughborough -12 off from Edgbaston Maia Lumsden down 5 to 520 -1 off from Edgebasto...
J100 Guatemala Athina Schlepphorst had to retire in R1 - hope you're OK, Athina (Still in the doubles draw for the moment) J60 South Africa Last week's winner, Vincent Fletcher, won his R1 match. Has the top seed next. J60 Baku Henry Bell has qualified for the main draw J30 Uganda Katarina Kirk is i...
Week 1 - from 30/12 : Men's Singles ITF M25 Indore, India Alastair Gray Men's Doubles ATP 250 Brisbane, QLD, Australia Julian Cash & Lloyd Glasspool ATP 250 Hong Kong Luke Johnson ( & Sander Arends, NED ) Juniors ITF J60 Arlon, Belgium BD: Liam Channon (16) ( & Romain Andres, FRA )
So, Brighton is hosting a UTR tennis tournament with Ł1800 for the winner, decent money all the way down, prizes for the divisional winners, host families, etc. etc. It seems to be a men/women mixed event (based purely on UTR ranking), which is interesting. Is this a completely new thing? Or have I jus...
