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.
She did sign in this week after all. 64 qualifying draw, but 30 first round byes. QR1:- Soumeya Anane (GBR) (UNR/2067) [12] v BYE QR2:- Soumeya Anane (GBR) (UNR/2067) [12] v Dora Olgungul (TUR) UNR (15 yrs) -- Edited by the addict on Saturday 2nd of January 2021 05:33:25 PM
With all the 2001-ers dropping out, our list of boys is looking very healthy now. However, not much change of note for the girls. BOYS 06/01/20 Top 50021+15ArthurFery2002Great Britain42807.5HEAD 2 HEAD28+21FelixGill2002Great Britain42695HEAD 2 HEAD71+54JackPinnington Jones2003Gr...
For the second time in 5 years the WTA have overhauled their website. And, again, they've ruined it. Try finding the ranking points tables now. RSS feeds don't work. The player results pages now contain far less data (rank of player when playing tournament, points earned from tournament, etc.) And s...
No sign of Max Basing in the main draw as a wild card, but he has one in the doubles: L16: (WC) Max Basing & Marc Othman (ESP) UNR vs Denis Klok & Oleg Prihodko (RUS/UKR) CR 1240 (793+447)