QR1: Naomi BROADY (GBR) [q4] 126 v. Georgina GARCIA PEREZ (ESP) 155 (=CH) We met GG-P collectively, three times last year: Harriet won in Surbiton (grass), Gabi won in Navi Mumbai (hard), but Katy D lost in Pune (hard).
The first of the Winter Cups started today - qualifying for the under 12 event. The boys team of Jamie Diack, Viktor Frydrych and Henry Trump had a comfortable 3-0 win over Croatia, not losing a set, and take on Hungary for qualification to the finals. The girls team of Sophya Devas, Vlada Kozak (who re...
Doubles draw out now, and for once Emily will be playing with the same partner this week, Anastasia Pribylova, and they are top seeds again. Singles draw is still not great for Em as unfortunately she is not seeded this week, and plays the 8th seed. It's a good junior Emily is playing, it won't be an easy m...
Q1: COMPSON, Chloe (GBR) UNR v DIMITROVA, Daniella (BUL) WC UNR 16yo JCH=232 Q1: TAYLOR, Ella (GBR) 12 1181 v CONDE MONFORT, Laia (ESP) UNR 16yo JCH=428 Q1: CHANGWEREZA, M J (GBR) UNR v MEZAN, Nelly (SWE) UNR 15 yo JCH=1400 This is a battle of teenagers. Chloe is 16 and MJ 14 only Ella stands out as an...
L32: (6) Kyle Edmund WR 26 (= CH) vs (SE) Roberto Carballes (ESP) WR 107 (CH = 95 in August 2016) There is no head-to-head. The top seed is Dominic Them.
A big British contingent here, though the boys draw is not yet up Girls R1 (L32) Kim Hansen (NED) v Indianna Spink (Q) Madelief Hageman (NED) v (6) Sasha Hill Carola Cavelli (ITA) v Elisa Van Meeteren (8) Tiegan Aitken v Lian Tran (NED) Kylie Bilchev v (4) Carol Plakk (EST) Gabriella Mujan (NED) v (2) Vi...
QR1: (qWC/q1) Juan Sebastián Gómez (COL) WR 786 (CH = 469 in October 2015) vs BYE QR1: George Houghton UNR vs BYE QR1: George Foster UNR vs Alexander Maggs UNR QR1: BYE vs Pierce Widdecombe UNR QR1: (q2) Daniil Zarichanskyy (UKR) WR 856 (CH = 849 last August) vs BYE QR1: Kyle Stocker UNR vs BYE QR1:...
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