A complete bus load of young Brits are here this week - five boys and TEN girls: BOYS R1 (L64)Oliver RICHARDS (GBR) 6-1 6-2 Neo NIEDNER (GER)Joel PIERLEONI (GBR) [4] 6-4 7-6(4) Maikel DE BOES (BEL)Harry LAZELL (GBR) [16] 6-0 6-2 Alessandro D'ANNA (ITA)Constantino...
Those of you who read my various scribes on here will no doubt remember that I have on occasions waxed lyrical about the facilities and the set up at the La Manga Club. The facilities remain unchanged but there has been a notable change in another way. James Rose, who had spent several years there and wa...
QR1: BYE vs (qWC/q10) Joshua Rose UNR (CH = 1643 in June 2017) (ITF 2025) ***** FQR: (q5) Joseph Imeh Ubon (NGR) UNR (CH = 1415 in December 2016) (ITF 1247) vs (qWC/q10) Joshua Rose UNR (ITF 2025)
L16: (1) Erik Crepaldi & Jakub Paul (ITA/SUI) CR 376 (239+137) (ATP CR 1159 [723+436]) vs Anurag Nenwani (IND) & Stuart Parker UNR (759+0) (ATP UNR [825+0]) I think Stuart must have sneaked into the singles main draw.
So here is the thing - I am 53 years old now and love my work, but I expected that by my age I would have seen everything and learnt not to be disappointed by how things dont always turn out the way you want! I went to see a client in November and after a couple of discussions talking them through various pro...
L48: Qualifier vs Jan Choinski WR 267 (CH = 234 last April) The winner of that encounter will face the Swedish 14th seed, Mikael Ymer, in the last 32, so not a bad draw (if Jan wins!).
So outside of Norrie, Evo and Edmund, the men of British tennis have been poor this year. Ward-done nothing really this year, but nothing was really expected Clarke- very disappointing, may now potentially face a challenger level career and never be an atp player Choinski- the new Brydan Klien, oft...
FQR: (q1) Brydan Klein WR 371 (CH = 169 in September 2015) vs (qWC) Hsieh Cheng-Peng (TPE) UNR (CH = 1098 in July 2011) Dare I say Brydan could hardly have hoped for a better chance to get into the main draw of a Challenger 125? That said, he needs to reach the second round to pick up five points. It is perh...
L32: (1) Nam Ji Sung (KOR) WR 362 (CH = 341 last November) (ITF 84) vs (IR) Mark Whitehouse UNR (CH = 566 last December) (ITF 238) The ITF rankings haven't been updated yet.
Q1: Katie SWAN (Q7) WR 166 vs Elena-Gabriela RUSE (ROU) WR 237 Hopefully this will prove to be a busy thread this coming week with Boulter, Watson and Dart all scheduled to be in the main draw, but it's not the easiest start for Katie S. Should she come through this and QR2, she could be in line to face Chri...
