Holly Fischer's long awaited return is very challenging - she plays a former top 20 junior who has reached 4 $15K finals in the last few months R1 (L48) Varvara Gracheva (RUS) v Holly Fischer
With half-term in some parts of the country there is a British invasion of Europe for a couple of G4s this week. Here top 2003 boys Jack Pinnington Jones and Joel Pierleoni have come through qualifying, but draw top seeds. Boys R1 (L32) (1) Harry Wendelken v Johan Garpered (SWE) (4) Kevin Chahoud (SWE)...
R1: Katie Boulter WR 194 (=CH) vs Qualifier Katie, having uprooted from her original Australian run plan for the Fed Cup, has now moved to the US for the next couple of weeks. Tara was ( still is ) on the ITF qualifying list but must have been a late withdrawal.
These I think are the seeding pots for the draw. Serbia Great Britain Croatia Poland Hungary Turkey Georgia Estonia Austria Latvia Bulgaria Portugal Sweden Slovenia
A change of partners for Neal next week (Ken going home to see the family? ): L16: Wesley Koolhof & Artem Sitak (NED/NZL) CR 115 (59+56) vs Daniel Nestor (CAN) & Neal Skupski CR 122 (60+62) They must stand a chance, but if perchance they do win, they'll in all probability face the top seeds, the...
Egypt, G5: R1 (L48): Russell HENDERSON (GBR) [10] BYE R2 (L32): Russell HENDERSON (GBR) [10] 6-1 6-0 Abd Elrahman HASSAN (EGY) R3 (L16): Russell HENDERSON (GBR) [10] 6-4 6-1 Patrick Yeh Hsiang WONG (TPE) Russell is through to the QFs in the dubs too. Kenya, G5: R1 - BYES R2 (L32): Ma...
Inspired by a conversation with CD on another thread and also by a book I am reading at the moment, (re reading) called "Open Tennis" by Richard Evans; it is a history of the first 20 years of Open tennis from 1968 onwards. One of the things that struck me in the early days (and remembering the debate we hav...
QR1: (wc) Jack Molloy (GBR) UNR, age 18 def. Nick Chappell (USA) WR 1023 (CH 627 June '16) 4-6 6-3 6-2 Edit: just correcting the spelling mistake in the subject line. -- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 5th of February 2018 03:36:20 PM
QR1: George Kennedy UNR vs Tommaso Metti (ITA) UNR QR1: Philip Sikman UNR vs Loïc Ratsaratany (FRA) WR 1671 (CH = 1613 last December) QR1: Alex Zuckerman UNR vs Daiki Kato (JPN) UNR QR1: Pedro Gabriel Rodrigues (BRA) UNR vs Patrick Keane UNR QR1: Edward Harwood UNR vs Joseph Gray (USA) UNR
QR1: Mirko Cutuli (ITA) WR 1211 (CH = 945 last November) vs (qWC) Dan Dowson UNR (CH = 770 in December 2016) QR1: Razvan Marius Codescu (ROU) WR 1671 (= CH) vs James Allemby UNR (CH = 2052 in September 2015)
An extremely tough draw this week for Emily in the singles, since although she is seeded she is playing the runner up from last week. Em will have to hope for some fatigue. L32: Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) [7] 543 vs Nadja GILCHRIST (USA) [WC] UNR (CH:397 Oct 15)
QR1: (q1) Billy Harris WR 645 (= CH) vs BYE QR1: Edward Hubner UNR vs UNR (CH = 1600 in May 2016) QR1: Marcos Torralbo (ESP) UNR (blimey! He's 32!) vs George Foster UNR QR1: BYE vs (q11) Joshua Paris WR 1027 (CH = 893 last July) [non-GB: - QR1: (q2) Paul Wörner (GER) WR 683 (CH = 651 last November) vs BYE...
QR1: (q2) Jay Clarke WR 259 (CH = 219 last December) vs Alexandre Muller (FRA) WR 354 (CH = 302 last July) QR1: (q3) Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS) WR 300 (CH = 78 in November 2016) vs Tom Farquharson WR 456 (CH = 429 in March 2014)
I've been asked to write a quarterly article (700 words or so) for a magazine to highlight some of the achievements of Brits below tour level. Sounds interesting (and right up my street) but they're not offering to pay for the articles despite it being a paid-for magazine, instead offering to publici...
QR1: George Kennedy UNR vs Andrea Bessire (ITA) WR 1828 (CH = 1676 last July) QR1: Harrison Lombe (AUS) WR 1828 (CH = 1589 in September 2016) vs Philip Sikman UNR QR1: Alexis Canter WR 1421 (CH = 1303 last November) vs Joseph Gray (USA) UNR QR1: Quentin Folliot (FRA) WR 1944 (CH = 1524 last June) vs Pat...
