QR1: Oleg Kolninov (***) UNR vs Ersel Kalfaoglu With a name like that, young Ersel (he's only 16) must be of Turkish extraction. His opponent is only a year older.
There's a very good contingent in Slovakia, this week Slovakia, J100 Luca Bluett lost in R1 in three sets Henry Jefferson and Charlie Robertson still to play In the girls, Millie Skelton got unlucky, drawing the top seed and losing easily Hannah Read and Hannah Rylatt both won in their R1 matche...
L32: (4) Ryan Peniston WR 159 (CH = 123 last July) vs Qualifier L32: Jay Clarke WR 315 (CH = 152 in July 2019) vs (WC) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) WR 306 (CH = 75 in April 2019)
QR1: Joe Tyler WR 1422 (CH = 1339 last August) vs Max Cunat (FRA) WR 1925 (CH = 1580 last August) QR1: Ben Jones WR 1120 (CH =1001 last December) vs Joshua Schäfer (GER) WR 1806 (CH = 1694 last August) QR1: BYE vs (q10) Joshua Goodger WR 895 (CH = 869 last October)
The second leg in Liverpool.... BOYS Ilias is top seed again. But Jack Curtis has turned up for second seed place. Last week's winner Jay Johnson-Hauldren is in the draw again. Will be interested to see how (wc) Jesse Clarkson (age 14) gets on - he's raised a fair bit of interest GIRLS THe top two seed...
South Africa J60 Josh Manuel has reached the boys final - good luck, Josh ! Max Castle made the quarters but is in the doubles semis Serena Manca also made the QFs in the girls, and is also into the semis in the dubs Daisy Clifford lost in R1 Sri Lanka, J30: Sirena Waas is into the semis Josh Hinton lost...
A group of girls have decided to skip the Liverpool second leg and go to Dublin instead (not quite sure why....) And there are quite a few other GB players here, as is to be expected BOYS (q) Robin McAlpine, (LL) Matt Upton and (q) Henry Best all won in R1 but (q) harry Abel lost GIRLS Wins for Tegan Bush,...
An evening in Edinburgh ... Do my shopping at the local Sainsburys a couple of miles away. Get on direct bus home. Realise I have left my phone on bench. Stop bus at lights and walk back and collect phone. Next bus in an hour and pissing down. What next? Ahh, bus due soon at nearby stop and I can get connecti...
Didn't see a thread for this so thought I'd update: Girls Marelie Raath is going well in the girls singles and is now in the QF, where she faces the 5th seed, after two comfortable straight sets wins in the earlier rounds. She is number 1 seed for this event by the way. Daisy Clifford lost in the first round...
QR1: Jana Rovira Alier (ESP) UNR vs (qWC) Niamh Campbell UNR QR1: (q5) Katriin Saar (EST) WR 1121 vs Alisha Reayer UNR QR1: (qWC) Sara Dols (ESP) UNR vs (q14) Sarah Tatu WR 1236 QR1: (q7) Mihaela Djakovic (SRB) WR 1134 vs Aryana Bartlett UNR
The South American (COSAT) swing of top grade tournaments moves on to clay, culminating with a J500 (Grade A) event in Brazil in March. Most of the British squad has returned home, but Oliver Bonding has entered one further tournament in Peru. Transitioning to clay so quickly after the Colombian h...
This year there is just one Brit in the leading under 14 event by direct acceptance, but Georgiana Mititelu is joined by wildcard Hannah Klugman (welcomed by the organisers here ) while Mark Ceban and Liam Channon have come through qualifying. Hannah is fifth on the streamed court 2 tomorrow. Str...
QR1: Kenzo Koistila Larsson (SWE) UNR vs Charles Dossetter UNR Both Alastair Gray & Giles Hussey were originally on the acceptance list, but have now withdrawn, Giles as recently as yesterday.
L16: (1) Jamie Murray & Michael Venus (NZL) CR 50 (34+16) vs Jonny O'Mara &John-Pattrick Smith (AUS) CR 186 (105+81) L16: Ilya Ivashka & Oscar Otte (***/GER) UNR (0 [but a CH of 340 in August 2016]+244) vs (3) Julian Cash & Henry Patten CR 127 (64+63 - both CHs)
The hard court section of the Latin American swing ends this week in Colombia with 48 player draws, so only Ellie Blackford and Daniela Piani needed to go through qualifying, both successful. Henry Searle's good run in San Jose gives him a high seeding here, while in early matches there is a win for Ru...
L32: Jan Choinski WR 249 (CH = 234 in April 208) vs Qualifier L32: (6) Liam Broady WR 158 (CH = 116 last February) vs (ALT) Robin Haase (NED) WR 235 (CH = 33 in July 2007)
