Watched a match or two of Clarke's recently, in his run to Challenger win, I think he is more advanced that Kyle Edmund was at the same age, better movement, better serve, touch at the net. Only weakness I see at this point, is the speed of the groundstrokes, seem a bit slow for top 50 material, depth seem...
QR1: (qWC) Jonathan Garcia (IRL) UNR vs Jonathan Binding UNR (CH = 1756 in December 2016) QR1: Edward Harwood UNR vs Andrew Kirwan (IRL) UNR QR1: Sizya Kivanda UNR (CH = 1880 in October 2015) vs Caleb Ralston (IRL) UNR QR1: Morgan Dill (USA) UNR vs Jacques Woodall UNR QR1: (qWC) Cathal Butler (IR...
Is this draw in the current $15K in Kazan, Russia, unique? A full 32/32 are domestic players. I can't remember that, at leasst not for a very, very long time. There were only two non-Russians in the 32 place qualifying draw, too (an Iranian & a Ukranian) The doubles draw is unsurprisingly also all-...
QR1: Joshua Goodger UNR vs Daniil Tsebrenko (UKR) UNR QR1: (q4) Ewan Moore WR 1334 (CH = 959 last October) vs Samo Polakovic (SVK) UNR QR1: (q5) Paul Jubb WR 1465 (CH = 1442 in March) vs Leon Petko (SVK) UNR QR1: Jack Molloy UNR vs Hamish Stewart UNR QR1: Barnaby Smith WR 1925 (CH = 1889 earlier this m...
Aaron lost in the FQR but got an LL spot and made the most of it. And MJ won her first match too: Boys: R1 (L48)Arran TRAINOR (GBR) 3-6 6-2 6-1 Milledge COSSU (USA)Blu BAKER (GBR) [3] BYE George DAVIS (GBR) [11] BYE Girls: R1 (L48): M J CHANGWEREZA (GBR) 6-3 6-3 Maria...
Two verytough assignments R32: Heather WATSON (GBR) 134 v. (WC) Claire LIU (USA) 153 (=CH - 18 yo; JCH 1, Jul. 2017) R32: Johanna KONTA (GBR) 48 v. Serena WILLIAMS (USA) [6] 27 (CH 1, a lot) > H2H 0-1 > 2017 Australian Open - Hard - QF - Williams by 6-2 6-3
Best of luck Harriet QR1: Harriet DART (GBR) [q4] 167 v. Shuko AOYAMA (JPN) 340 > H2H 0-1 > 2012 Nottingham, UK - $50K - Grass - QR2 - Aoyama by 6-2 7-6(0) Two rounds to qualify; winner of this plays winner of: (WC) McNally USA 684 (JWR 8) / Di Lorenzo (USA) [q5] 194
Anton Matusevich is top seed for this G2 event R1 (L32) (1) Anton Matusevich v Dominic Stephan Stricker (SUI) (7) Harry Wendelken v (WC) Gian Luca Tanner (SUI)
According to Colette of Zootennis only 4 wildcards have been allocated for the main draw, fewer that I can ever recall in the last 20 years or so. These go to Emma Raducanu, Francesca Jones, Victoria Allen and Destinee Martins. Seven Brits are in the 2 day qualifying competition, but Gemma Heath, Esth...
QR1: Shamael Chaudhry WR 1690 (CH = 1606 at the start of last month) vs Roy Hobbs (SGP) WR 1531 (CH = 1346 in March 2016) Doesn't look as though Isaac will be in the main draw.
QR1: (q2) Charles Broom WR 1072 (CH = 1067 earlier this month) vs Bradley Holt (USA) UNR QR1: David Perez UNR vs Joshua Ortlip (USA) UNR Tom & Finn should again be in the main draw.
QR1: Terence Das (IND) UNR vs (qWC) Luke Issajenko UNR QR1: Gonçalo Ferreira (POR) UNR vs Julian Robinson UNR QR1: (qWC) Sebastião Vilas (POR) UNR vs Ewen Lumsden UNR (CH = 1748 in September 2016)
QR1: Harriet DART (GBR) [q4] 167 v. Shuko AOYAMA (JPN) 340 > H2H 0-1 > 2012 Nottingham, UK - $50K - Grass - QR2 - Aoyama by 6-2 7-6(0) Two rounds to qualify; winner of this plays winner of: (WC) McNally USA 684 (JWR 8) / Di Lorenzo (USA) [q5] 194