Allegra Korpanec Davies had a good week in the J100 (revised Grade 3) event in Chandigarh last week, but didn't quite go far enough to earn one of the first Special Exempts of the year. Nevertheless she has managed to come through 3 qualifiers (the first narrowly) to earn her place in the main draw alon...
L32: (WC) Jaime Faria (POR) WR 590 (CH = 300 last September) vs (2) Jay Clarke WR 240 (CH = 153 in July 2019) -- Edited by indiana on Monday 9th of January 2023 05:09:20 PM ( changed title to Challenger 75 )
Q1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) UNR (CH=240 2011) v KUZMOVA, Katarina (SVK) (11) 618 (CH=616 2022) Q1: CHRISTIE, Freya (GBR) (6) 444 (CH=286 2016) v HAAVISTO, Ella (FIN) 1111 (CH=1109 2022) Eden is in the main draw.
No idea where to put this but , in fact, I agree with this idea https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/64231044 the atp started as a union but clearly is no more. The players Should be represented. In the absence of anything else
There's a J100 (formerly J3) event in Sweden this week with a few young Brits involved. Boys: Dilhan Wasantha made it all the way through qualies to make the MD, meaning Brits have a quartet of Swedish opponents in R1. Albert Widell (SWE) vs [5] Henry Jefferson [3] Charlie Robertson vs Emil Kindhult (S...
QR1: Asler Civera (ESP) UNR vs Harry Hines UNR QR1: Alexander Carlos Parker UNR vs (qWC) Per Jürgens (GER) UNR QR1: (q8) Stijn Pel (NED) WR 1728 (CH = 1550 last August) vs Casper Nicolle UNR
L32: (5) Arthur Féry WR 473 (CH = 465 last November) vs Lucas Renard (SWE) WR 1021 (CH = 672 in March 2013) -- Edited by Stircrazy on Tuesday 3rd of January 2023 09:46:44 AM
QR1: Matija Zugic (SRB) UNR (CH = 1817 last August) vs (qWC) Ersel Kalfaoglu UNR With a name like that, the young man (he's only 16) has to be of Turkish extraction himself.
L32: Qualifier vs Jack Draper WR 42 (CH = 41 last month) L32: (6) Jannik Sinner (ITA) WR 15 (CH = 9 last month) vs (PR) Kyle Edmund WR 582 (CH = 14 in October 2018) L32: Andy Murray WR 49 (CH = 1 in November 2016) vs Sebastian Korda WR 33 (CH = 30 in May)
Rex Bellamy I have just purchased the ATP Media Guide for 2023 and I note that the Times Tennis correspondent from 1967 to 1989 Rex Bellamy passed away on 17th November 2022. He also wrote 11 books , 3 of which were on tennis. I can recall seeing him at Eastbourne WTA tennis during the 1980's. I
Tony Trabert, the American multiple Grand Slam winner of the 1950's passed away on 3rd February aged 90. He won 5 major singles titles between 1953 and 1955 , being 2 French , 1 Wimbledon (1955) and 2 US. When he won the French in 1955 ,it would be another 34 years in 1989 before an American man wo...
L16: (1) Rajeev Ram (USA) & Joe Salisbury CR 7 (3+4) vs Sebastián Báez & Luis David Martínez (ARG/VEN) UNR L16: Julian Cash & Henry Patten CR 139 (70+69) vs Diego Hidalgo & Emil Ruusuvuori (ECU/FIN) CR 916 (80+836)
R1: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) 78 (CH=10 2022) v FRUHVIRTOVA, L inda (CZE) 79 (CH=74 2022) {17yo JCH=2} Not the easiest matches for R1 but could be worse. -- Edited by Peter too on Sunday 1st of January 2023 10:13:10 AM
QR1: Nicolas Philibert UNR vs Patrick Toman (USA) UNR QR1: Mohamed el Hafedh Said (MTN) UNR vs (q13) Ying Hou UNR QR1: Gabriele Camini (ITA) UNR vs John Horoz Garner UNR
