QR1: (qWC) Blake Croyder (USA) UNR vs Luke Bambridge WR 621 (CH = 481 last May) It looks as though Luke's been a bit unlucky: 11 of the players have byes in QR1!
I thought it might be worth having a separate topic to cover anyone wanting to comment on the other ties as opposed to GB v FRA which has its own thread of course! Apologies if I got this wrong! AUS v USA draw is out already - no changes to line ups and Jordan Thompson leads off v Jack Sock and then Nick K is up ag...
QR1: Joe Salisbury WR 1068 (CH = 559 in October 2015) vs Lucas Miedler (AUT) WR 372 (CH = 367 last month) QR1: Raymond Sarmiento (USA) WR 383 (CH = 335 in February) vs (q7) Liam Broady WR 329 (CH = 158 in August 2015) QR1: (q4) Austin Krajicek (USA) WR 313 (CH = 94 in October 2015) vs Ed Corrie WR 337 (...
QR1: Cosmin Ontica (ROU) WR 1947 (CH = 1359 in December 2015) vs Alex Jhun UNR (CH = 1034 in February last year) QR1: Juan Bautista Otegui (ARG) UNR vs (q14) Ryan Storrie WR 1506 (CH = 1503 earlier this month) Joel Cannell should be in the main draw.
QR1: Katy DUNNE (GBR) [q2] 286 v. Yuki NAITO (JPN) 829 (CH 813, Jan. 2017 - 16 yo, JWR 30; JCH 15, Sep. 2016) Naito lost to Emily Appleton in AO Juniors 2017, 3-6 in the third. QR1: Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 557 v. Ayaka OKUNO (JPN) 451 (CH 263, Feb. 2016) Laura R is due to be in MD
Apparently has split with his entire coaching team incl Marian Vajda to try and kick start his comeback with shock tactics. Big move but I guess all had become stale and perhaps it is what he needs...
QR1: Idan Harel Gross (ISR) UNR vs Edward Hubner UNR QR1: Ron Klain (ISR) UNR vs Nicholas Nugent UNR QR1: (q7/qWC) Toby Martin WR 1254 (CH = 641 in June 2015) vs BYE QR1: Yam Ziv (ISR) UNR vs (q14) Luke Johnson WR 1570 (CH = 1558 at the start of this month)
Dangnabbit! QR1: Sarah Beth GREY (GBR) [q6] 725 v. Alicia BARNETT (GBR) 1112 > H2H 1-0 > 2016 Heraklion, Greece - ITF $15K - Hard - AB(WC) - R32 - Grey by 2-6 6-2 6-3 Harriet is pencilled in as top seed for the MD.
MJ is playing a G4 in Namibia this week. Derrick Chen also has a wildcard into a G4 in China. And double winner from 2 weeks ago, Blu Baker, is in the States this week, at a clay G4 in Florida: He came through three matches of qualifying and then won his R1 match but it's a big draw one so lots of tennis and no po...
Looks like we have double Brit interest: Womens Draw: Keys - KuznetsovaRadwanska - MuguruzaKonta - Halep Puig - Sharapovamens DrawDimitrov v EvoPouille v VerdascoBerdych v SockStan v Lopez According to David Law, whole event is live tomorrow night on DAVE channel (is that Channel 12 on Freeview...
Masters 1000 Madrid - Evans, Edmund, Murray Seoul Challenger - Klein (A Ward, Corrie, Broady, Glasspool, J Clarke) WTA Madrid - Konta ITF men Nigeria 25k - (Canter, Cooper, Basriev, Hale) Bulgaria - (Farmer, Jones, Rose, Gunn, K Newman) China - (Purcell) Hungary - (Parker) Israel - Paris (Martin, J...
FQR: Dominique COVINGTON (GBR) UNR v. Blanca PUIG CABALLERO (ESP) UNR (CH 887, Aug. 2015) The Spaniard got her ranking in an interesting manner. She got a WC for the Florianopolis International qualies in 2015 - they were desperate, as there were only 14 entrants for qualies for 32 places! Then she go...
Turns out Aljaz didn't need an SE, but he hasn't an easy draw by any stretch of the imagination: L32: (WC) Marton Fucsovics (HUN) WR 154 (CH = 135 in October 2015) vs Aljaz Bedene WR 68 (CH = 45 in November 2015) If he survives that one (Fucsovics is a tenacious customer), he'll play the top seed, Raonic, i...
And another 128-man draw (actually 126 - 2 byes)! QR1: Adam Skalsky UNR (CH = 1297 in November 2014) vs (q16) Jason Legall (USA) WR 1863 (CH = 1851 last December) QR1: (q8) Mark Whitehouse WR 1378 (CH = 979 in October 2015) vs Luís Alberto Quintero (COL) UNR
Last chance for those aiming for Roland Garros to gain points before the cut-off Boys R1 (L48) (13) Max Stewart bye (10) Finn Bass bye (7) Barnaby Smith bye Girls R1 (L48) (WC) Rime Benhadi (MAR) v Holly Fischer (2) Francesca Jones bye
Several of our women are in interesting positions wrt qualification. Points totals from what is currently the 3 week forecast, below, are relevent... http://live-tennis.eu/en/forecast-wta-ranking Heather, 524 points, missing next week at the Fed Cup, is probably one WTA win short of making t...
QR1: Sarah Beth GREY (GBR) [q6] 725 v. Alicia BARNETT (GBR) 1112 > H2H 1-0 > 2016 Heraklion, Greece - ITF $15K - Hard - AB(WC) - R32 - Grey by 2-6 6-2 6-3 Harriet is pencilled in as top seed for the MD.