L48: Benjamin Bonzi (FRA) WR 359 (CH = 176 in July 2017) vs James Ward WR 311 (CH = 89 in July 2015) The winner will play the Russian fourteenth seed, Pavel Kotov.
QR1: Liam Broady WR 234 (CH = 154 in April 2018) vs Ilya Ivashka WR 136 (CH = 80 last February) Kudla (q7) or Tomic in the next round, should Liam perchance win that one. QR1: Blaz Kavcic 341 (CH = 68 in August 2012 - he's now 32) vs Jay Clarke WR 154 (CH = 153 last July) An outside chance for Jay? Gojowczyk (q...
Mandy in the q draw this week. Just two rounds I think, and 8 qualifiers so Mandy is the top seed in her quadrant. I'm using this week's rankings as they're available now. QR1: Amanda CARRERAS (GBR) [q7] 353 vs Alice RAME (FRA) 409/55 (CH:406 Nov 19) This is the same first match Mandy had last week, except...
The COSAT circuit moves on to clay, with Luka Petrovic up today against a Chilean who had success in lower grade events last year. R1 (L48) Matias Gaedechens (CHI) v Luka Petrovic
There is a plethora of high grade tournaments this week - the Tunisian one being the fifth at Grade 2 or above to start. Ranah Stoiber lost out in qualifying but Kylie Bilchev won a 12-10 match tiebreak to enter the main draw. Eva Shaw's opponent has won her last two tournaments dropping very few games,...
The traditional warm-up for Les Petits As is underway with a fair sprinkling of Brits through to the last 16. In the boys event Henry Searle (14), Jamie Diack and Viktor Frydrych (7) are through while youngsters Ben Gusic Wan and Oliver Bonding both won one match. The girls last 16 features Jadesola C...
Bosnia and Herz. J5 has not been so fruitful this week - both Mattias Southcombe and Luca Mcmanus won their R1 matches but lost in R2. However, they're into the SFs of the doubles together. Daniela Kotara also lost in R1 (against the top seed) In Israel, J4, Patrick Brady has won R1. As has Jaquelyn Og...
QR1: Sébastien Mathieu UNR vs Hans Peter Kaufmann (GER) UNR QR1: Kirill Mishkin (RUS) UNR vs (q11) George Loffhagen WR 1150 (CH = 687 in December 2018) Aidan McHugh should again be in the main draw.
QR1: Paul Théate (or Théaté? Unable to confirm one way or t'other) (FRA) UNR vs Sizya Kivanda UNR (CH = 1698 last August) QR1: (q3) Alexis Canter WR 961 (CH = 773 last September) vs BYE Anton M should be in the main draw.
QR1: Rodrigo Banzer (BOL) UNR (CH = 902 in December 2014) vs (q10) David Fox WR 1082 (CH = 1081 last December) Mark Whitehouse should be in the main draw.
As already noted by Status Quo in the Road thread, these are good draws first up, the GB players are the higher ranked in every match up, even if close to be sure. Note for the rankings, these are current today from the WTA site. The AO site has last week's rankings; Savinykh has fallen 25 places this week...
Hi , thanks for whoever's closed the AO poll thread, however. It seems the actual thread is closed in totality and therefore not able to accept new posts etc. I was hoping the poll itself could be closed to new voters but the thread be kept open! Is it possible to reactivate it on that basis, or shall I ju...
Hi everyone, I've thought of a new idea, mainly to help people compete against players that are better than them (in order to improve) but that will also provide some funding for aspiring players. It would be limited to Greater London in the first instance. Simply it's a pyramid where the number of pla...
Gabi and Jodie are still in the draw for the MD. First round matches for all these players were byes FQR: Emily MORTON (GBR) [q10] UNR/1480 vs Diana CHEHOUDI (NED) [q5] 1036/374 (CH:1028 Nov 19) FQR: Katie MORTON (GBR) [q12] UNR/1818 vs Carola CAVELLI (ITA) [q7] UNR/973
The traditional pre Australian Open event should start tomorrow, weather permitting, with 3 of our AO acceptances (Amarni Banks is missing). Felix Gill appears to have the toughest draw against the former JWR5, who has won a Grade A event Boys R1 (L64) (11) Bu Yunchaokete (CHN) v Felix Gill (13) Arth...
