Friday sees the start of the 2020 BT at Loughborough University. Unusually this year there are two tournaments before the end of the year as opposed to the usual one, giving someone the chance to be top of the leaderboard before the year has even started!It's a Tier 2 event with Marcus Walters as top se...
In Nairobi, this week, Gabi Paskauskas is joined by older sister, Kristina. GIRLS QR1: Wins for the two Paskauskas sisters, Maria Ustic and Anjali Kotecha QR2: Kristina P (seeded 2) lost but younger sister, born 2006, won hers. A win for Anjali, but Maria lost. BOYS QR1: Miles Groom lost 9-11 in th...
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.
