I heard something on the radio about how it was unlikely that anyone would win their first major at Andy Murray's age or over. So I thought I'd check the history. In the 59 completed majors since 1996, there have been 21 separate winners. 7 of them won their first major when aged 24 or over. For 6 of them it w...
Today is the 2-year anniversary of the Monday in October 2005 when the ranking list showed that we had 20 players in the top 500 for the first time in years (possibly the first time ever) and things were beginning to look quite bright. Two years on, we have just 9 players in the top 500, with that number due...
QR1: (qWC) Noah Prehn (GER) UNR vs Max Lacount UNR QR1: James Allemby UNR (CH = 2052 in September 2015) vs (q15) Marcus Mansson (SWE) WR 1773 (CH = 1438 in October 2016) QR1: Hamish Stewart UNR vs (q9) Kai Lemstra (GER) WR 1298 (CH = 1261 in April) QR1: (q8) Ewan Moore WR 1272 (CH = 959 last October) vs Be...
Q1: CASTRO NINO, Emely Paola (GBR) UNR v VILLET, Marie (FRA) UNRQ1: NJOZE, Mirabelle (GBR) 5 1120 v BULATOVIC, Carolina (GER) UNR Q1: JORGE, Vaishali (GBR) UNR v HAMBURG, Nynke (NED) UNR 16yo JCH=1840 -- Edited by Peter too on Friday 13th of July 2018 05:12:55 PM
Just seen the draw and wow, our Brits really have got mixed luck. Dunne v Ostapenko Broady v Murguruza Dart v Pliskova Watson v Flipkens Swan v Begu Taylor v Bouchard Boulter v Cepede Royo Konta v Vikhlyantseva I think the first three look almost impossible as Pliskova, Ostapenko and Murguruza are su...
The doubles draw is also being made today. A reminder of the seedings:MARACH, Oliver (AUT) & PAVIC, Mate (CRO)KUBOT, Lukasz (POL) & MELO, Marcelo (BRA)KONTINEN, Henri (FIN) & PEERS, John (AUS)HERBERT, Pierre-Hugues (FRA) & MAHUT, Nicolas (FRA)MURRAY, Jamie (GBR) & SOAR...
Emily has ended up the 2nd seed this week, so has a somewhat better first round draw than last... May she progress at least 3-4 matches this week. R32: Emily APPLETON (GBR) [2] 625 18yrs (JCH:10 Feb 17) vs Eva VEDDER (NED) [WC] UNR 18yrs (JCH:359 April 17) -- Edited by Michael D on Wednesday 11th of July 2...
PockyTastic wrote: This probably should be in a new thread, but Soumeya stayed on in Romania for a third week and has made it to the doubles final in Bucharest. Shes playing with Elaine Genovese from Malta. Quite agree! R16: Anane/Genovese (GBR/MLT) [4] defeated (WC) Borodina/Daniels Sierra (R...
The doubles draws are out now too. The British women have more middling draws than in the singles, with none of the pairs being drawn against top 8 seeds. The Katies and Anna/ Xenia have the toughest first round matches, as the two pairs up against seeds. R64: Katie Boulter/ Katie Swan (GBR/GBR) 847 (4...
Well, worth seeing what us tennis fans know about football. As an aside, Gareth Southgate owns a house nearby to where I live in Harrogate - a massive manor house near to Fewston Reservoir. I have seen him in two restuarants locally, the Italian Connection on Cold Bath Road , and Al Bivio on Hornbeam Pa...
Lots of GB interest here, as you would expect. Girls playing first. First two matches on each court completed. Best GB result so far is a win in two for unranked Madeline Frediani against the third seed, ranked about JWR 800. Girls R1 (L32):Holly STAFF (GBR) [1] 6-4 6-2 Hannah DAZLEY (GBR)...
R1: Billy Harris (GBR) WR 646 v Diego Hidalgo (ECU) WR 828 Hidalgo's CH is 767 in 2012 but he's only age 25 now; is also ex junior JWR 16 Billy also playing dubs with Polish partner but have drawn the second seeds.
QR1: (q4) Nicholas Horton (AUS) WR 1229 (CH = 935 in March 2013) vs Andrew Rozanov UNR QR1: Aydan Gómez (CUW) UNR vs James Ledger UNR QR1: Michalis Sakellaridis (GRE) UNR vs (q13) Adam Jones WR 1707 (CH = 1580 in April) QR1: Hans Albert Schubert (CHI) UNR vs Cheraag Bajwa UNR
Having done a clean sweep of trophies last week in Ireland, the kids are trying again, although Toby and James McKinlay have left: Boys R1:Finn MURGETT (GBR) [3] 6-3 6-2 Rory HOGAN (IRL)(q) Thomas DILLON (GBR) 6-2 7-6(1) Arthur O'SULLIVAN (IRL)Joe LEATHER (GBR) [5] 6-...
What do people think of the new timing rules and stop clock? There will be a visible 25 second stop clock for player's serving time. It seems like there has still got be some umpire discretion on when this clock starts (I mean we've seen it when there's been a great rally, the crowd won't calm down), for...
Winnipeg MD out now too. Sam has a very tough match against Marino who had not ranking at the beginning of the year, but has regained it the hard way. Freya has a tough match too. Jodie plays a qualifier, now added. R32: Alicia BARNETT (GBR) 616 vs Alexandra MIKHAILUK (CAN) UNR 17yrs (JCH: 550 April 18) ...
Q1: JANSEN FIGUERAS, Helena (GBR) UNR [18yo JCH=290] v ByeQ1: KEMPSTER, Sashi (GBR) UNR [15yo] v HELMI, Olga (DEN) 1156 =CH [18yo JCH=410]Q2: JANSEN FIGUERAS, Helena (GBR) UNR v JORGE, Francisca (POR) 9 685 CH=671 11/6/18-- Edited by Peter too on Sunday 8th of July 2018 02:13:15 AM
R16: Anane/Genovese (GBR/MLT) [4] defeated (WC) Borodina/Daniels Sierra (R...
