Congrats to Blu on getting selected for sponsorship by Token Stars. It will be interesting to see what sort of year he has - there's definitely good potential there, and he's been a fave for a while, but one could argue that he is currently 'fully priced in', there's no 'rough diamond' argument there. ...
Lauryn comes from the East End of London and is a junior I saw play quite a bit (because she was London-based) A good athlete, a well-rounded game, good ball skills - a lot better than many of her cohort and (IMO) always in the 'interesting' group, if not in a 'stand-out' group. She managed to get hersel...
QR1: Louis Allen WR 2012 (CH = 1789 in November 2020) vs (qWC) Iván Alvarez (ARG) UNR QR1: Mahmoud Salim Gannouni (TUN) UNR vs Charles Dossetter UNR QR1: Ned Smith UNR vs (q9) Ammar Elamin (IRL) WR 1375 (CH = 1356 last October)
Here we go: 15 contenders - as per usual, vote for the player, pair, team you think deserves to be our player of the month and tell us when you vote and why (to keep it interesting for others). Vote will be closed 10 pm Tuesday night, 29th April. If there is a tie for top spot, there will be a tie break vote to d...
L16: Joe Cooper & Eric Vanshelboim (UKR) CR 2607 (2257+350) defeated (1) Gregor Ramskogler & Kai Wehnelt (AUT/GER) CR 772 (538+234) by 6-1 6-7(4) [10-8] ***** QF: Joe Cooper & Eric Vanshelboim (UKR) CR 2607 (2257+350) vs Adrian Oetzbach & Martin van der Meerschen (GER/BEL) CR...
There is a strong field in the boys event for a J200, with 9 players ranked inside 100, including Ben Gusic Wan and Mark Ceban. By contrast Brooke Black is the only girl ranked inside 100. Qualifying is underway with live scores available here (game scores only in qualifying) Early winners in round 1 o...
Dont wish to make a fool out of anyone, but April starts here. 4 week process, nominations close 27th April - end of week 17, which happens to be mid way through Madrid. Cant be helped as doing it any other way creates a 3 week April or 3 week May and that wouldnt work, sorry! Nominations and supporting re...
The IMG future stars is the high-profile invitational event for "the top 48 under-12 players from all over the world. These young talents competed fiercely, not only for the tournament title but also for the coveted prize: two tickets to the Eddie Herr International Junior Championship (under...
QR1: Daniil Golubev (***) UNR vs (q9) Toby Martin WR 835 (CH = 641 in June 2015) QR1: (q2) Liam Broady WR 626 (CH = 93 in September 2023) vs Nicolò Toffanin (ITA) WR 1569 (CH = 1539 in January) Jay Clarke should again be in the main draw & the top seed.
Only four matches in the first round of qualifying - and the Brits all have byes. QR2:- Ranah Akua Stoiber (GBR) WR577 [3] v Anastasiia Aralova (***) UNR/1634 QR2:- Basant Kaur (USA) UNR/1356 v Victoria Allen (GBR) WR1171 [14] QR2:- Ekaterina Kuznetsova (***) WR1351 v Holly Hutchinson (GBR) WR917 [...
There's a Cat 1 14U Tennis Europe event this week Grace Watson, Milica Milojevic and Judy Zhang are all through to the QFs April Sackflame (a year younger) lost in ther first match, in three sets Sophia Cuninghame (a year younger) lost in two Hermione K Davies won in R1 and then lost. In the boys, Kamr...
QR1: Filip Söderqvist (SWE) UNR vs Charles Dossetter UNR QR1: (q2) Adan Freire da Silva (FRA) WR 1000 (= CH) vs Ned Smith UNR QR1: Ammar Alamin (IRL) WR 1378 (CH = 1356 last October) vs Louis Allen WR 1957 (CH = 1789 in November 2020) QR1: Mason Dace UNR vs Takahiro Kubo (JPN) UNR QR1: (q7) Tuncay Dura...
QR1: Konstantios Loukopoulos (GRE) UNR vs Joe Kelt UNR QR1: Finn Reilly UNR vs Yuan Yi (HKG) UNR Ali Gray, Hamish Stewart & Ben Jones should be in the main draw.
QR1: (q4) Ali Habib WR 1133 (CH = 933 last October) vs Vuk Arnautovic (SUI) UNR QR1: Adam Kushnir UNR vs (q11) Carlos Giraldi (ESP) WR 1551 (CH = 1475 last August)
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...