Noting that this includes December performances as well, the 14 nominations are: in order of being nominated 1. Katy Dunne - was doing so well, a firm favourite for just being fun, and upbeat, and a nice person, and then has been injured for ages, and now has won the 15k title in Sharm. Which she brillian...
Q1: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) 489 (CH=482 2022) v RUS.HITI, Arlinda (SUI) (9) 398 (CH=352 2023) Winner plays the top seed. Sarah Beth Grey was above Emily in the acceptances and Matilda Mutavdzic just below but neither appear in the draw. Edited to get past the censor's problem with Arlinda's name. -...
QR1: Ruari McLennan UNR vs Karol Tomanski (POL) UNR QR1: John Horoz Garner UNR vs Maj Najvirt Kilaric (SLO) UNR QR1: Maceo Simpson WR 1862 (CH = 1732 last August) vs Maurus Malgiaritta (SUI) UNR (CH = 1579 in January 2020)
UAE J100: R1 win for Luca Bluett Doha, J60 R1 win for Max Castle R1 wins for Flora Johnson (over top seed), Vlada Kozak and Jade Issah Ali and Isabella Gibson lost South Africa J60 Sophie Bekker (age 14) has won two matches and is into the QFs Daisy Clifford lost Czechia J30 Max Carrier won R1 Turkey...
R128: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) 75 (CH=10 2022) v KORPATSCH, Tamara (GER) 74 =CHThey met on clay in Stuttgart in 2022 with Emma winning in three R128: DART, Harriet (GBR) 96 (CH=84 2022) v TEICHMANN, Jil (SUI) (32) 33 (CH=21 2022) They met in Eastbourne in 2022 with Harriet winning in three
Please put your nominations here. Usual format - note, January is included December 2022 play as well as it is a shorter and also less active month. Someone mentioned Katy, not sure who she is or what for (sorry not been following!) but please put nominations and reasons in usual list below Just to note...
A sizeable group of Brits are tackling the hard court section of the Latin American swing of high grade events (which moves on to clay in February) 6 Brits in the main draws, plus Ellie Blackford, who lost in qualifying. Surprised to see that Ruby Cooling has been granted a wild card, rather than havi...
QR1:(q1) Simon Freund (SWE) WR 1100 (CH = 677 in November 2022) vs Yuriro Onuma WR 1862 (= CH) QR1: Ying Hou UNR vs(q9) James Davis WR 1507 (= CH) QR1:(q2)Federico Bertuccioli (ITA) WR 1233 (= CH) vs Tom Hands UNR (CH = 1333 in Mach 2020) QR1: David Quayle UNR vs (q11) Jack Karlsson Wistrand (SWE) WR 1...
L32: (1) Jan Choinski WR 249 (CH = 234 in April 2018) vs Daniele Capecchi (ITA) WR 551 (CH = 473 last October) L32: (PR) Thiemo de Bakker (NED) UNR (CH = 40 in July 2010 - he's now 34!) vs (2) Alastair Gray WR 268 (CH = 237 last September)
Qualifying for this year's Australian Open gets underway overnight, with Imogen Haddad in the draw. Ella McDonald and Ranah Stoiber (if recovered - she is still on the acceptance list) should be in the main draw. I notice that Sara Bejlek is at the bottom of the acceptance list. She gets in with her...
The second week in Tunisia for Ben Gusic Wan and Marelie Raath. A tough draw for Ben, though both he and his opponent lost to the eventual runner-up last week Boys R1 (L32) (4) Vuk Radjenovic (SRB) v Benjamin Gusic Wan Girls R1 (L32) Vladislava Andreeskaya (KGZ) v Marelie Raath
In the boys the top four seeds are: Niels Ratiu (BEL) Viktor Frydrych Charlie Robertson WilliamRejchtman Vinciguerra (SWE) Slightly unfortunately, Dilhan Wasantha has been drawn against Viktor in the first round Conor Brady, who made the semis, in a recent GB J4 event, has drawn the top seed G...
