Inspired by Bob's suggestion of a dedicated thread following an entertaining discussion on the Loughborough M25 thread, I'm launching this. Feel free to chip in with contributions of your own, especially what gets your goat about other people's glaring grammatical errors when you see/hear the...
Clay Iles Clay Iles who played at Wimbledon in the 1960's passed away in early February 2026. Based in Eastbourne he was better known as a coach and among the players he coached were Sara Gomer, Julie Salmon and Clare Wood.
The first rankings of the 2025-26 US College season - reflecting results over the fall semester - are much healthier for our women than the pre-season rankings were. Savannah's breakout semester is rewarded with a top 5 ranking. Gabia is a surprise at No 11 - although the seeding at the NCAA implied su...
QR1: (q5) Melih Anavatan (TUR) WR 1649 (CH = 1621 last November) vs Thomas Linley UNR QR1: Mason Dace UNR vs (q14) David Qariaqus (AUS) UNR QR1: (qWC) Issah Ali (KSA) UNR vs (q16) Barney Fitzpatrick UNR QR1: Mohammed Qali (KUW) UNR vs (q11) Thomas Drayton UNR Matt Summers & Ali Habib should aga...
There doesn't appear to be a thread for Jack Draper so here's one for people to contribute to. I will start by pointing out that Jack has made the shortlist for BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year
L16: Patrick Zahraz & Tim Rühl (GER/GER) CR 277 (231+146) vs Mark Whitehouse & Jan Jermar (CZE) CR 449 (202+247) Edited to correct the spelling of the location.-- Edited by Stircrazy on Saturday 31st of January 2026 02:41:08 PM
First PoM vote of 2026. Vote from the list below and please let us know when you vote, who you vote for and why - not obligatory of course! Top 2 plus ties qualify for the 2026 Player of the Season vote. This year, we will have no play off votes, so if we tie for top place, it will be a draw. vote will close Tue...
Another J300 qualification for Daniella Britton, who thus joins Rhys Lawlor and Billy Moxon in the main draw. The two boys have drawn wildcards, but Billy could face the strong top seed (JWR17), who opted out of an Australian Open trip, in round 2 Boys R1 (L32) (WC) Matias Quintero Tobon (COL) v Willi...
For my own amusement, I thought I would try and keep track of the top tennis nations over the course of the year and see where GB stacked up. Being honest, my main interest is the mens game, so I planned to track the week by week average rankings of the top 10 players in each of the key countries and see if GB ma...
The wallies responsible for the ATP site have finally got their act together! QR1: (q2) Shunsuke Mitsui (JPN) WR 543 (= CH) vs (PR) Brandon Walkin WR 1849 (CH = 702 in February 2020)
QR1: Harlyn Thomas UNR vs (q16) Calin Apostol (ROU) UNR QR1: Tim Vaisman (ISR) UNR vs Henry Best UNR QR1: John-Mark Montague UNR vs Boran Barkoglu (TUR) UNR
Seems we have a number of Leeds fans on here so I thought we deserved our own thread Greatest team of all time: 1) Gary Sprake 2) Paul Reaney 3) Terry Cooper 4) Billy Bremner 5) Jack Charlton 6) Norman Hunter 7) Peter Lorimer 8) Allan Clarke 9) Mick Jones 10) Jonny Giles 11) Eddie Gray 12) Paul Madeley (Supe...
