All the GB women have managed to avoid each other first round this week. BUT they are all in the top half of the draw and will potentially meet in all the next rounds. At least they avoid Ksenia Lykina early this week, who is in the bottom half of the draw. Laura is missing as noted in the Wuhan thread, but Kat...
Not wholly clear what is happening here this week. On the acceptance list Amelia Stuart, Emma Raducanu and Emile Lind Gallagher should all have been in the qualifying draw. In the end though in a rather abbreviated draw, it is only Emma that appears, and she will have to win just one match to get into the...
Emily is the top seed in qualifying here, so has just missed out on the main draw. However, her path to the MD looks relatively smooth. She will have to play two matches but none of her potential opponents are ranked. QR1: Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) [q1] 585 vs BYE
Another tough qualifying draw for Lissey again this week. In a draw of 64 she will likely have to get past the top q seed Berfu Cengiz (TUR) WR 453 in the FQR to reach the main draw. And two matches to get that far. Freya, in contrast, has an easier draw this week (having lost to Lissey in last week's qualifyi...
Kvitova might be tired after winning so many matches... ... ... R64: Johanna KONTA (GBR) 23 v. Petra KVITOVA (CZE) [10] 10 (CH 2, Oct. 2011) > H2H 1-2 > 2016 Wuhan, China - WTA Premier 5 - Hard - QF - Kvitova by 6-3 6-4 > 2016 Eastbourne, UK - WTA Premier 12 - Grass - R16 - Konta by 5-7 6-4 6-0 > 2015 U...
L32: (7) Liam Broady WR 163 (CH = 154 in February) vs Stéphane Robert (FRA) WR 170 (CH = 50 in October 2016) Not sure whether that's a good or a bad draw for Liam: Robert's now 37, but his favourite surface is apparently clay & he's certainly been round the block a few times...
Anton Matusevich was on the acceptance list, but has pulled out following reaching the final last week R1 (L32) James Story v Brandon Perez (VEN) Connor Thomson v (LL) Leon C Roider (AUT)
QR1: Luke Stevenson UNR vs Willie van Zyl (RSA) UNR QR1: (q4) Joel Cannell WR 1383 (CH = 822 in December 2016) vs BYE QR1: Kooros Ghasemi (CAN) UNR vs Michael Jalpota UNR QR1: Alexander Romay UNR vs Jorakuly Jorayev (TKM) UNR (another 39-year-old!)
We have 3 boys in the main draw at Roland Garros (Aidan McHugh, Jack Draper and George Loffhagen) and one in qualifying (Jacob Fearnley). Jacob is the only one of the four scheduled to play junior warm-up events, starting here. Live scores are available at http://scores.tennisticker.de/ita/sb.h...
QR1: (q4) Niklas Johansson (SWE) WR 1509 (CH = 1351 last November) vs (qWC) Darryl Hale UNR QR1: (q7) Emmett Ward (USA) WR 1583 (CH = 1580 late last month) vs Joe Cooper UNR Wonder if we'll see George picking up an SE again - or possibly a wild card?
I think we missed this last week. A belated congratulations to Olivia Sonnekus-Williams on getting her first counter. R32: SONNEKUS-WILLIAMS, Olivia [WC] 17yo UNR def MILAS, Katja (CRO) UNR (CH:782 Oct 2011) 6-4 6-3 R16: SONNEKUS-WILLIAMS, Olivia [WC] 17yo UNR lost to ZEBALLOS, Noelia (...
R16: SONNEKUS-WILLIAMS, Olivia [WC] 17yo UNR lost to ZEBALLOS, Noelia (...