I can hardly wait for the main draw to come out (tomorrow, I think), but couldn't resist starting the thread now just to reiterate the fact that there will be TWELVE men representing GBR: Directacceptances - Cam Norrie (currently WR 28); - Jack Draper (WR 160); - Jan Choinski (WR 106). Wild cards - ...
I wondered if anyone else had some issues the past few days - I keep getting a 502 Bad Gateway message and am blocked out for a half an hour here or there and its happened the past two evenings, It seems to resolve itself but I wondered if anyone else had it and was it me or was it some issue with this forum serve...
QR1: (q1) Viktor Frydrych WR 1074 (CH = 1071 at the start of the month) vs Chen Shijie UNR QR1: Ying Hou UNR vs (q11) Harrison Satara (AUS) WR 1583 (CH = 1548 in April)
Player entry list: Cam probably seeded, Jack (ranked 112 in yesterday's list) scrapes in on his previous WR of 74. Announcement of wild cards awaited...
QR1: (q1) Tomás Curras (ESP) WR 884 (CH = 729 last December) vs Liam Hignett WR 2223 (CH = 1916 last September) Lui Maxted, Emile Hudd & Matt Summers should be in the main draw.
I noticed on the new (17 Dec) ATP rankings that Jan Choinski is showing as having switched from Germany to GB, and he is also now shown as British on the ITF site, so it may actually be true. He is 22, current singles ranking 270 (CH 234 in Apr), which would make him GB no. 7 between Andy and Liam. His doubles r...
QR1:- Georgina Hays (GBR) UNR/643 [Q14] v Alba Almenar Zabala (ESP) UNR/2296/16yoQR1:- Anna Boron (GBR) UNR/534/15yo/JR651 [Q12] v Nahia Echaide Gonzalez (ESP) UNR/UNR/19yo
Everyone knows about Billy and his 'Billy-van'. And Bob's famous laundry service. But there was an interesting article about his recently in the French press (about Billy, that is, not Bob ) and the Isle of Man tennis club site put up a translation: Harris, the Atypical Englishman :Having left Engl...
Noticed Toby doesnt have a page and thought I would start one by saying that Toby is actually 2nd in the Race - which seems mad but it started post the Tour Finals and Toby is on 115 points, just 6 behind Argentine Federico Gomez. Go, Toby!
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...
) Erler & Olivier Erler (FRA/FRA) UNR