Some people may say that the Tories are very divided, but the Labour party is in a right mess and has been for sometime. 7 resigned this morning. One has already lost the whip and is effectively independent. Expect more to resign over the next few weeks. My MP is Luciana Berger - I am not surprised she has r...
Glasgow list is out. Harriet is only Brit in main draw. Katie Swan, on initial entries, does even make the main draw! and is in qualifying. Katy Dunne, Maia, Jodie, Fran et al are all alts. Fran is 8th alt for a reserved place Naomi is not entered. Freya has a main draw wild card from winning the British Tou...
The Winter Cups season has started this weekend with qualifying for the under 12s final. Both our teams have made it through. The girls cruised past Slovenia and Switzerland for the loss of 7 & 5 games respectively. Hephzibah Oluwadare and Mingge Xu played singles, backed up by Lily Harper. T...
Do we know which British Men will be playing the Barnstaple M25? Just curious as I live nearby and I'm looking at maybe going down so wondered who might be playing. Edit: subject line-- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 10th of February 2019 10:18:00 PM
It appears that the LTA is doing a good thing and bidding to host the Euro Africa Zone event in February. Loughborough or Bath appear to be the most likely venues. This would be good and would certainly help our team! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/45365548 Fingers crossed it comes off -...
Q1: MOORE, Tara (GBR) 494/162 v LUKAS, Tena (CRO) 1 272/440 CH = 241/440 01/10/18 Another tough draw for Tara and a BIG ranking WTA difference between them. That said, she is currently showing as the 15th alt, so can count herself a bit fortunate to be in the quals draw. Must have been a lot of withdra...
No nothing about these guys and their history but seems surprising on face of it...there is a twitter feed call WTA Tea that seems to imply various things about her coach and indeed about various players and their coaches and things they are linked to. Implying there is some stuff going on behind the sc...
L16: (3) Luke Bambridge & Jonny O'Mara CR 105 (50+55) vs Denys Molchanov & Igor Zelenay (UKR/SVK) CR 131 (65+66) L16: Kevin Krawietz & Andreas Mies (GER/GER) CR 130 (62+68) vs (2) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 85 (54+31)
QR1: (q1) Samm Butler ITF 553 vs (qWC) Dominik Palan (CZE) ITF 1680 QR1: (q5) Alexis Canter ITF 624 vs (qWC) Kristjan Tamm (EST) ITF 1065 -- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 10th of February 2019 11:53:31 PM
Sasha and Anna back here this week. QR1: Sasha HILL (GBR) [q7] UNR/431 vs Maelys BOUGRAT (FRA) UNR/830 16yrs (JCH:425 July 17) QR1: Anna POPESCU (GBR) UNR/580 vs Amy ZHU (USA) [q3] UNR/348 (CH:769 Sept 16)
Amelia has a tough start... though by the standards of her recent draws, Emilie Lindh would probably think it's a great one! R32; Amelia STUART (GBR) UNR/897 vs Bojana MARINKOV (AUS) [5] 781/UNR (CH:775 Jan 19) 17yrs (JCH:584 Dec 18)
Just to note that Myah Petchey, the daughter of Mark Petchey, previously South African, now seems to have switched over to GB (according to the ITF site) She's 2001-born, and currently ranked 182 in juniors. Welcome, Myah
Think this may be one of the least active threads of the year (in terms of days), but a surprise QWC for EWS in this WTA Premier event. Q1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 506 vs BLINKOVA ANNA (Rus) 95 CH = 90 14/01/19
