3 Brits are seeded here, after Eliz Maloney cruised through qualifying (her acceptance ranking wasn't good enough for main draw entry, but winning the Moldova G2 has boosted her ranking hugely) Boys R1 (L32) Justin Schlageter (GER) v (8) Anton Matusevich (Q) Kirill Yarmoshuk (BLR) v (4) Barnaby Sm...
L32: Aljaz Bedene WR 105 (CH = 45 in Nivember 2015) vs Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) WR 102 (CH = 12 in April 2008 - he's 35) Aljaz will have to take on the fourth seed, Lucas Pouille, if he wins that one.
L16: (1) Jamie Murray & Bruno Soares (BRA) CR 15 (8+7) vs Marcus Daniell & Marcelo Demoliner (NZL/BRA) CR 101 (46+55) The outcome of that one is no foregone conclusion.
L32: Adrian Mannarino (FRA) WR 56 (CH = 27 in July 2015) vs (8) Kyle Edmund WR 49 (CH = 40 last October) The top seed is Milos Raonic, thus the other seed in Kyle's quarter.
Nice win by young Annali in particular: Boys R1: Ying HOU (GBR) 7-6(3) 6-1 Jonathan ANAS (FIN) Girls R1: Sasha HILL (GBR) [5] 7-5 6-1 Shauna HEFFERNAN (IRL) R1: Annali OLIVELLE (GBR) 6-3 6-4 Katriin SAAR (EST) [7]
Next week it's Darryl Hale who'll be ploughing a lone furrow in the 128-man qualies draw & I don't give much for his chances of survival: QR1: (q6) Mico Santiago (USA) WR 816 (CH = 684 in September 2015) vs Darryl Hale UNR Darryl was a qWC this week, drew Santiago in QR1 & gave him a walkover... ...
The inevitable massive draw, but Jordan will have a bit of moral support next week: QR1: Nathan Perrone (USA) UNR vs Jordan Angus UNR QR1: (q4) Mico Santiago WR 817 (CH = 684 in September 2015) vs (qWC) Darryl Hale UNR QR1: Sumner ( ) Chase USA UNR (bloody hell! He'll be 62 in December!) vs Thomas Kn...
Oslo has been a happy hunting ground for Brits, with Emily Smith, Jodie Burrage and Jack Draper all winners of this tournament in the last 4 years. Emma Raducanu looks for her second title this month. Boys R1 (L32) (4) Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) v Aaron Hepburn Lukas Ridemar (SWE) v (2) Joshua Rose Girls R1 (...
A large assortment of lower ranked tournaments with one or two young British players having a go this week.... In Kazakhstan, G4, Zyaan Ahmed is playing. In the South Africa, G5, two wins for the girls: R1 (L32) M J CHANGWEREZA (GBR) 6-0 5-1 Retired Danica MALAN (RSA) Sasha SOUTHGATE (GBR) ...
The Winter Cup season got off to an inauspicious start from a British perspective as both under 12 teams failed to qualify for their finals. The boys beat Finland 2-1 but then lost 3-0 to Russia whilst the girls lost 2-1 to Switzerland before winning 2 consolation matches. Tomorrow sees the under 14 a...
Some of our top youngsters in Germany this week: In the girls, Annali Olivelle came through qualis but Emma R is proving stellar, taking out the top seed today in two easy sets: GIRLS: R1 (L48) Emma RADUCANU (GBR) 6-1 6-3 Clarisse BENNOIT (FRA) Annali OLIVELLE (GBR) 6-4 6-2 Alicia MELOS...
No sign of Rhett Purcell in qualies, where I think he would have been the q1, an honour which has gone to the Japanese four places below him on the acceptance list, so I assume he's gone straight into the main draw.
Jossanna didn't get an awful draw! R1: Tara MOORE/Conny PERRIN (GBR/SUI) 310 v. Arina RODIONOVA/Galina VOSKOBOEVA (AUS/KAZ) 223 R1: Jocelyn RAE/Anna SMITH (GBR/GBR) 185 v. Aleksandra KRUNIC/Nina STOJANOVIC 170
(q1) James Marsalek (GBR) WR 732 v Nikita Tatyanin (TUR) UNR (born 1999) JWR 874 (q16) Tom Farquharson (GBR) WR 1126 v Pol Fernandez (ESP) UNR (wc) Craig Walker (GBR) (age 32) v Alexander Weis (ITA) WR 1432 (q14) Billy Harris (GBR) 1042 v Vitalii Scherba (UKR) WR 1348 ('97, top 100 JWR)
Atlanta Falcons 28 New England Patriots 34 in overtime Wow !! Some already well off Boston gentlemen came to Houston and mugged some poor Atlanta gentlemen. In the 3rd quarter Atlanta went 28-3 up At start of the 4th quarter Atlanta were 28-9 up. Inside 4 minutes to go Atlanta were 28-20 up as New Engla...
