L48: Lloyd Glasspool WR 403 (CH = 282 in July 2016) vs (WC) John McNally (USA) WR 642 (CH = 470 last July) He'll play the 16th seed, Thomaz Bellucci, in the last 32 if he wins that one!
The year's first Grade 1 event is the Coffee Bowl in Costa Rica where Luka Petrovic is a direct acceptance. He has been joined by Alexander de Sousa, who qualified by beating an American who he now plays again (as a lucky loser) in round 1 R1 (L64) (LL) Maxim Groysman (USA) v (Q) Alexander De Sousa Edson A...
Seems amazing to see Katie B, Katie S and Sam all in qualifying for just a W25 event!! Katie B is not even seeded, to show how far done her ranking is now. QR1: Katie BOULTER (GBR) 319 vs Laura ASHLEY (AUS) 1028 (CH:1022 Nov19) 18yrs QR1: Samantha MURRAY SHARAN (GBR) [q3] 221 vs BYE QR1: Katie SWAN (GBR)...
This tournament was moved from Canberra due to the bush fires. Looks like challenger doubles draws will now come out on Saturdays now. L16: (1) Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) & Jonny O'Mara vs Marcus Giron & Bradley Klahn (USA/USA) Liam Broady will be signing into qualifying, though I doubt he will...
An early start to the season for some of our juniors, with this the highest grade event. The January events in Sweden have often provided British success, including Harry Wendelken here last January Boys R1 (L32) (4) Mans Dahlberg (SWE) v Peter Alam (Q) Giacomo Revelli v (3) Aleksandr Myagkov (RUS)...
The main draw entry list has been announced. As noted by seagull in the weekly entries thread, there are not Brits on it. It will be interesting to see who is awarded...
It's the quiet time of the year to try and predict the GB top 10 WTA ranked players. Should be a bigger choice than the men as we already have quite a few WTA ranked. Not sure how the WTA/ITF split will impact.
No Brit direct acceptances. L16: (WC) Liam Broady & Scott Clayton CR 394 (238+156) vs (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & Purav Raja (IND/IND) CR 155 (72+83) L16: Matt Reid & John-Patrick Smith (AUS/AUS) CR 199 (98+101) vs (WC) Paul Jubb & Ryan Peniston UNR (0+800) L16: (WC) Jan Choi...
The Junior Orange Bowl has just begun today, with a fair sprinkling of British interest U12 R1 (L128) Cassius Haye v Jacob Shen (HKG) (LL) Maddox Bose (USA) v (9) Samy Khediri (Q) Hanu Kawanaka (JPN) v (6) Benjamin Gusic-Wan Shinnosuke Ryota (GER) v (9) Oliver Bonding U14 R1 (L128) (LL) Edward Wang (US...
Just out of interest now that we have all cast or not cast our votes. The more interesting and relevant re us as a group, the more that respond - anonymously of course unless you choose to say.
As usual next years British Tour starts this year with the Tier 2 event at Graves, Sheffield. Last years leader board winner and masters runner up Sean Hodkin is the top seed for this event.
As Mark 1968 points out, the 2019 British Tour started this year with the Tier 2 event at Graves, Sheffield, in the last week in Dec.FINAL: Victoria Allen def. Amelia Rajecki 6-2 6-1
Not often we have a top seed in the Junior Orange Bowl, but Mingge Xu is off to a flyer today - joined equally impressively by third seed Hephzibah Oluwadare U12 R1 (L128) (1) Mingge Xu d. Paige Wygodzki (USA) 6-1 6-2 Brooke Wrigley (USA) d. Gabriella Rawles 6-2 6-1 (3) Hephzibah Oluwadare d. Agustina El...
QR1: (q2) Niklas Johansson (SWE) WR 1167 (CH = 1026 in September) vs Ying Hou UNR (???) Toby Martin & young Harry Wenkelden, sorry, Wendelken, should again be in the main.
Both Mirabelle and Destinee are playing this morning (in theory) in qualis here. In this event's qualis, Eliz is also down to play today against Maelys Bougrat, who is the French girl she's also supposed to be playing in R1 of last week's event which still hasn't been played yet Don't know if that means...
