I was pleased to find videos of Evonne Cawley's matches against Hana Mandlikova and Tracy Austin, from 1980 on youtube. The full matches as well. Lots of other Hana Mandlikova matches as well.
A few weeks ago we talked about following players from the start of their Wimbledon journey to the eventual winner. With no pre qualies, it therefore seemed reasonable to start in qualies at the first stage. Im not sure who the lowest ranked in each event are , but selecting our national under 18 wild ca...
So with the grass court season starting in Nottingham at the weekend, and events across UK, Germany and Spain (and a mens M15 in Italy), which British MENS player do you think will get the most MAIN DRAW wins in DOUBLES over the period through until the end of Wimbledon. Note, this includes MIXED. I hav...
So with the grass court season starting in Nottingham at the weekend, and events across UK, Germany and Spain (and a mens M15 in Italy), which British WOMENS player do you think will get the most MAIN DRAW wins in DOUBLES over the period through until the end of Wimbledon. Note, this includes MIXED. I h...
So with the grass court season starting in Nottingham at the weekend, and events across UK, Germany and Spain (and a mens M15 in Italy), which British WOMENS player do you think will get the most MAIN DRAW wins in SINGLES over the period through until the end of Wimbledon. I have listed below the top 19 Br...
So with the grass court season starting in Nottingham at the weekend, and events across UK, Germany and Spain (and a mens M15 in Italy), which British MENS player do you think will get the most MAIN DRAW wins in SINGLES over the period through until the end of Wimbledon. I have listed below the top 19 Brit...
Just to amuse myself, and not to upset anyone, I decided to create a sort of mixed doubles ranking list. Given there are only 4 pro events (that I know of) ie the 4 slams each season, I took two seasons worth of performances, so 8 events from FO 17, through to AO19. Like real world rankings, I will drop FO17 w...
Qualifying starts at Roehampton tomorrow for junior Wimbledon. Jasmine Conway is a direct entry, but unfortunately is in the same section as the Korean she lost to this week - who went on to the quarter-finals of the main draw. None of the Roehampton wildcards appear in qualifying, so are likely con...
Just as Roehampton started 2 days later, so does junior Wimbledon, with qualifying beginning tomorrow in Roehampton. None of the Roehampton main draw wildcards are in qualifying, so they are the most likely recipients of main draw wildcards. QR1 (q1) Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg (FRA) v (qWC) Matt...
QR1: (q5) Harry Wendelken WR 1271 (CH = 1270 last week) vs André Rodeia (POR) UNR QR1: Russell Henderson UNR vs (q12) Terence Das (IND) WR 1716 (CH = 1353 in August 2019) QR1: (q8) Daniel Cox WR 1308 (CH = 206 in July 2014) vs Pavel Motl (CZE) UNR (CH = 1887 in March 2016) QR1: David Quayle UNR vs (q16) Aar...
Greece, J4: Matt Rankin and Max Relic both made the QFs here (in both singles and dubs) before losing out. Tabitha Holmes lost in R2 of the singles BUT is into the dubs final tomorrow - good luck to her! Cairo, J5: Zach Stevens also made it to the QFs (in both singles and doubles) Nairobi, J5: George Ru...
From next month there will be advance entry to ITF tournaments at 25K and above. 7 teams will be accepted for advance entry based on their combined doubles ranking. The remaining teams will continue to be accepted on site based on best of singles or doubles ranking. The entry deadline will be 24 hours a...
Sorry if it's been mentioned elsewhere , but I'm just delighted. The fact it's on terrestrial and people might watch not just the headline matches but some juniors, mixed doubles or the like is a very good thing as far as I'm concerned. I think BBC sports live broadcasts are streets ahead of the competi...
The J5 event in Edinburgh this week is practically 100% British - there's barely a foreign player (less than in the 'closed' events we had earlier) I'm also assuming quite a few of the top entrants won't be there as they have/had wildcards into Wimbly (i.e. Issey Purser and Jaquie O, for instance, hav...
Difficult draw for Fran, though her opponent only has a 10-10 WL record this year but did win a 100K on clay in Nov last year. R32: Fran Jones WR211 (CH 185, May 21) v [3] Mayar Sherif EGY WR119 (CH 114, Feb 21)
