Doubles draw out first, and at least this week the Pitak sisters will only potentially have to play the top seeds in the Qf not the first round (having played the 2nd seeds first up last time). Emilie is playing with Laetitia PULCHARTOVA (CZE) again and they also have an unseeded pair first round. Tif...
L48: Liam Broady WR 278 (CH = 154 in April last year) vs Victor Estrella DOM WR 305 (CH = 43 in July 2015 - he's now 38!) L48: (ITF) Tom Jomby (FRA) 392 (CH = 313 last November) vs Jan Choinski WR 280 (CH = 234 in April last year)
Emma Raducanu, Victoria Allen, Destinee Martins, Jacob Fearnley and Harry Wendelken should be in the main draw here, with Connor Thomson and James Story trying to join them. Both won their first qualifier earlier today, and play for a place in the main draw this evening with scores at http://scores...
Only 2 Brits were direct entries for the strong Les Petits As tournament this year, but they have been joined by 4 qualifiers. Live streaming from selected courts is available at https://www.lespetitsas.com/en/match-center/live/ The only Brits playing tomorrow, Luca Pow and Fabio Nestola, a...
A Kazak junior player up first for Fran R32: Francesca JONES (GBR) [1] 425/44 vs Yekaterina DMITRICHENKO (KAZ) UNR/407 (CH:943 Dec 18) 17yrs (JCH:164 Dec 18)
Good and bad news for Tanysha. The good news is that she has got into the q draw as an alt... The bad, she faces the top seed first up Very unfortunate as I think lower down the draw she may have had a good chance of qualifying... She still may do but will need a very good match first up. Her opponent at least h...
There has been lots of GOAT talk recently by fans of Fed, Nadal and Novak. Each fanbase of is quickly trying to make valid arguments. For example, Novak and Fed do not have the singles Olympic gold medal. Nadal has never won the tour end finals. I believe the GOAT should not be drawn up from the Slam count...
Thought Id start thread tracking the top 100 players over/under 30 just to see any changes that might happen going forward in the mens game. Players aged over 30: 7 in top 10 8 in top 16 12 in top 32 18 in top 50 34 in top 100 7 current Grand Slam winners over 30 Players aged under 30: 3 in top 10 8 in top 16 20 in t...
L128: (22) Roberto Bautista (ESP) WR 23 (CH = 13 in October 2015) vs (PR) Andy Murray WR 230 (CH = 1 in November 2016) The head-to-head is 3-0 in Andy's favour, with the last meeting between the two being the Shanghai Masters final in 2016 which Andy won in straight sets L128: Cameron Norrie WR 93 (CH = 66...
Nominees:
Josh Goodall: Qualified for the US Open and took a set off world no 59 Paul-Henri Mathieu in rd1
Alan Mackin: Reached semis of GB F12 and quarters of Holland F4 and F5
Martin Lee: Won the Bronx 50k challenger doubles title with Harel Levy and reached a career high doubles ranking...
Here both Maia and Eden are in qualifying and Katy D should be in the MD. This field does not look like there have been late withdrawals, as Maia was 4th in the q list, but is now only q2, which suggests the only two moved up from the qual list above her are filling the two unused SE places in the MD. Eden does ha...