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...
QR1: (Alt) Andrew Watson WR 1507 (CH 1247 in July 2015), age 20 vs (q4) Darian King WR 139 (CH 130 in November last year) Andrew is I believe at the University of Memphis.
We know that that life on the tennis fringes is tough. You need to have a very high talent level to be in the top small percentage that can financially carve a living in pro tennis. As Naomi Cavaday said, there are in effect 100 jobs in (singles) tennis. For the players who make up the pro ranks, there are a...
Q1: WILLIAM, Tiffany (GBR) UNR v HERRERO LINANA, Alicia (ESP) 1114 CH=1110 6/2/17 Q1: STUART, Amelia (GBR) UNR v DISSANAYAKE, Tanysha (GBR) UNR Q1: MATOS SEQUEIRA FERNANDES, Jizel (GBR) UNR v ARGYELAN, Csilla (HUN) 14 915 CH=475 2015 Maia was in the list but has probably been moved into the main...
A strong British crop here, particularly on the boys' side. The girls started today with just Sasha Hill progressing. Boys R1 (L32) Daniel De Jonge (NED) v (6) Will Davies (3) Damian Rodriguez v (WC) Gijs Akkermans (NED) Andrew Rozanov v Guy Stokman (NED) (WC) Sidane Pontjodikromo (NED) v (4) Freddi...
Three entrants here, including the number 2 and 3 seeds in the girls. In the boys, Tad came through qualis and then beat some player ranked 1200 places higher: GIRLS: R1 (L32): Maria BUDIN (GBR) [3] 6-2 6-1 Karolina JASKIEWICZ (POL) Megan DAVIES (GBR) [2] 6-1 6-0 Magdalena HEDRZAK (POL)...
I was musing on the fact we have 3 back to back Futures events this month in GB as well as 3 grass Challengers and also , if it works as per last season, 3 Futures events towards the end of the year (on the mens side that is). It made me think back to the old Satellite circuits and I wondered if anyone recalled th...
In South Africa, G5, young Ben Heynold (2002) made it through qualis and: R1 (L48): Benjamin HEYNOLD (GBR) 6-2 6-1 Corne BENEKE (RSA) Tom THELWALL JONES (GBR) [5] BYE R2 (L32) Tom THELWALL JONES (GBR) [5] 6-0 6-0 Andreas SCOTT (RSA) Ben to play... No joy for MJ or Sasha, though, in t...
Emma Raducanu goes for a second successive G4 title, but has a tough draw against the top seed, a finalist at last year's week 2 of the Nottingham Open. However the two have experienced opposites in 2017 juniors with Emma having won all her matches and Clara having lost hers (G1/2) Boys R1 (L32) (4) Emil...
