Only the doubles draw is out for now: L16: (3) Nathaniel Lammons & Jackson Withrow (USA/USA) CR 182 (99+83) vs Lloyd Glasspool & Harri Heliövaara (FIN) CR 261 (150+111)
looking at the tournament schedules for last year, it would be much easier and financially beneficial for a male player to try and get started on the tour than a female player. Based on the ITF calendar there were only 8 10/15k tournaments for the ladies in GB, whereas the men had significantly more(tw...
We don't normally concentrate too much of qualis of lower events but there's not a great deal of tennis going on and there's a lot of names I don't know, so good to give them all a shout out..... In Nairobi, J4, in qualis: Girls: Maria Ustic (age 13) won her QR1 match & and then lost her QR2 match, 9-11...
L28: Cameron Norrie WR 74 (CH = 41 last May) vs (WC) JC Aragone (USA) WR 299 (CH = 153 last September) Cam will play Mannarino (3) in the last 16 if he wins that one.
QR1: Oscar Weightman WR 1271 (CH = 1255 last November) vs (q10) Jonathan Eysseric (FRA) WR 617 (CH = 202 in June 2013) Arthur Féry should be in the main draw as a JR. No sign of Jack Draper.
QR1: (q9) Billy Harris WR 720 (CH = 609 in October 2018) vs Kaan Cepal(TUR) UNR(ITF =2814) QR1: Edward Hubner WR 1520 (CH = 1380 in Nov 2019) vs Benedikt Emesz(AUT) UNR(ITF= 1727) Edit: Missed Edward lower down in the draw -- Edited by Madadman on Saturday 16th of January 2021 05:10:12 PM
Although unsurprisingly most Brits who were on the entry list, including Jack Pinnington Jones, have pulled out one has made the trip to Ukraine R1 (L32) Marko Stakusic (CAN) v Derrick Chen
R1: (WC) Luka Petrovic (GBR) (age 18) UNR v Adam El Mihdawy (USA) (age 31) WR 582 (CH 281 in April '15) In the doubles, Elbert Barr played with Adam (above) but they lost in R1, 2-6 2-6, to an Argentinian pair
Further to JonH's suggestion on the DC thread in the Andy Murray forum, just creating a new home for the discussion in advance of the kick-off for the new-style competition using Stu Fraser's "The Slice" feature from last Saturday's Times which expains how the new format dreamt up by Gerard Piqué's m...
Hello hello I'm a newbie - hope all is good with you. I'm a full time tennis coach in a village near Derby - I can't work during lockdown so have really focused in on podcasting to keep positive! Last week I spoke to a remarkable man called Sam Jalloh. Sam grew up in Sierra Leone during the Civil War - he went t...
For Week 2 - a number of British juniors are playing in both Belgrade (Joel Pierleoni, Kylie Bilchev, Ranah Stoiber - Given Roach lost first round) and also in Israel (Harry Lazell, Matthew Rankin, Hep).Kylie is top seed and Joel is 2nd seed in Belgrade.
QR1:-Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) 512 v Carole Monnet (FRA) 403 [9]Monnet played six weeks in a row in Monastir W15's at the end of the last year, winning two, runner-up in another and semi-final in a fourth. First matches of the year for both though.
L128: Jay Clarke WR 191 vs Tung Lin-Wu (TPE) WR 247 (CH 213 Feb 20) L128: Liam Broady WR 187 vs Constant Lestienne (FRA) WR 227 (CH 142 Jan 19) Edit Neither of these pairings have played each other before. -- Edited by Bob in Spain on Saturday 9th of January 2021 03:29:50 PM
QR1: Evan Kennedy UNR vs (qWC) Markus Giersiepen (ESP) UNR QR1: Oliver Foran UNR vs Iván Bas (ESP) UNR Two new names on me. No sign of Max Basing. I wonder whether he has a wild card this week.
