One of the South American events moved from the early to late part of the year, thus forming a small nest of G2s this month (Chile was last week, with Uruguay and Peru to follow), Blu Baker is the only Brit taking part. His efforts this year have earned him a seeding, and therefore a bye, which may be a mixed...
QR1: James Markiewicz UNR vs Ingo Herzgeroot (GER) UNR (he's 46!!!) QR1: BYE vs (q11) Rob Carter WR 1538 (CH = 803 in May 2014) QR1: (q2) Ryan Peniston WR 992 (= CH) vs BYE QR1: Christian Braun (GER) UNR vs Edward Harwood UNR The boys are all in the top quarter of the draw!
L16: Santiago González & Julio Peralta (MEX/CHI) CR 65 (33+32) vs Dom Inglot & Daniel Nestor (CAN) CR 98 (58+40) The North/South American pairing fared pretty well in Shanghai this, dumping out the eighth seeds, Harrison (R) & Venus, in two tie-breaks in the first round before fallin...
An easier qualifying draw for Alice this week. Just one match to win. And thus far, despite Indy's protestations that the rainy season was due to end in Colombo, end of Sept, there doesn't seem to have been much easing off. They are trying to play L16 matches today on hard courts with third set MTBs QR1...
Thought I'd add this, semi relevant since we talk about Collegiate tennis on this forum. This article shows the environment College athletes can find sadly themselves experiencing, at the hands of coaches who don't care about the welfare of the athletes. http://www.collegian.psu.edu/featur...
Normally a handful of Brits participate in this GA event, but this year George Davis is our sole representative, and his chances of an extended run weren't helped by drawing the 4th seed R1 (L64) George Davis v (4) Naoki Tajima (JPN)
QR1: (q1) Liam Broady WR 201 (CH = 158 in August 2015) vs (qWC) Ryder Jackson (USA) UNR QR1: Alexios Halebian (USA) WR 596 (CH = 537 in June last year) vs (q5) Jay Clarke WR 282 (CH = 280 last month) QR1: (q4) Roberto Ortega (ESP) WR 242 (CH = 241 in August) vs Alex Ward WR 408 (CH = 242 in June last year)
QR1: Strahinja Jovanovic (SRB) UNR vs Darryl Hale UNR QR1: (q3) Chandril Sood (IND) WR 1594 (CH = 908 in December 2015) vs Sizya Kivanda UNR (CH = 1880 in October 2015)
QR1: (q7) Jakob Johansson-Holm (SWE) WR 1183 (CH = 1109) vs Edward Hubner UNR QR1: Pedro Muratori (BRA) UNR vs (q9) Dan Dowson WR 1298 (CH = 770 last December)
L32: (SE) Raphaël Baltensperger (SUI) WR 809 (CH = 803 last month) vs Neil Pauffley WR 597 (CH = 408 in August 2013) L32: (PR) Evan Hoyt UNR (CH = 542 in June last year) vs (5) Pascal Meis (GER) WR 530 (CH = 511 last month) L32: Tom Farquharson WR 505 (CH = 429 in March 2014) vs Scott Griekspoor (NED) WR 543...
A large British contingent here with the main draw starting on Tuesday - Ali Collins, Gemma Heath, Anna Loughlan, Destinee Martins, Anton Matusevich and Ewen Lumsden should be in that. Qualifying started today, with wins for Jacob Fearnley, Jake Hersey, Oscar Weightman and Harry Wendelken. Ther...
QR1: Naomi BROADY (GBR) 132 v. Alexandra CADANTU (ROU) 157 To play the winner of Andreescu/Krejcikova [q8]. There are 3 rounds to qualify though; very tough for an International. Izzy Wallace also has a WC in to qualifying.
Two players in qualifying, only one match to play each. Tara has not had the best of draws. QR1: Byes QR2: Taro KEENS (GBR) UNR vs (Q2) Lamis ALHUSSEIN ABDEL AZIZ (EGY) 929=CH QR2: Dominique-Chante MCLEAN (GBR) UNR vs Andreina PINO (ITA) UNR
L56: Kyle Edmund WR 47 (CH = 40 last October) vs Jiri Vesley (CZE) WR 62 (CH = 35 in April 2015) Kyle leads the head-to-head by 1-0 (first round of last year's Miami Masters, 6-4 5-7 7-6(5)). Cilic in the next round, if he wins. L56: Aljaz Bedene WR 50 (CH = 45 in November 2015) vs Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) WR 38 (...
QR1: (q13) Emily Appleton (GBR) WR 874 v Jade Lewis (NZL) WR 1063 Added: QR1: Laura Deigman (GBR) WR 998 v Anna Baranovski (USA) UNR (age 16) Jade is a player I follow a little because she played a lot in France as a junior. (She's born Dec. 1998). And the biggest news recently I read about her was that she'...
