Ali and Fran have gone back, so just Emily left Emily gets a qualifier with little pedigree in round one with the Argentine second seed the likely 2nd Round match. Emily lost to her in three sets in the grade 2 in Agentina
L32: Dan Smethurst WR 489 (CH = 234 in June 2014) vs Qualifier L32: (3) Omar Jasika (AUS) WR 281 (CH = 256 last August) vs Luke Bambridge WR 486 (= CH) L32: Lloyd Glasspool WR 441 (CH = 439 last month) vs Qualifier L32: Ed Corrie WR 531 (CH = 215 in October 2014) vs Adrian Sikora (SVK) WR 411 (CH = 275 in Febr...
Fran Jones skips continents for another G1, and draws a local wildcard. She joins 3 boys, all with reasonable but testing draws on paper. Boys R1 (L64) (10) Ryan James Storrie v Alexandru Vasile Manole (ROU) Max Stewart v Tomas Liska (SVK) (15) Ewan Moore v August Holmgren (DEN) Girls R1 (L64) Frances...
Josh Paris is having a go at qualifying Q1:Josh Paris(q9) WR 1161 v Lofo Ramiaramanana (MAD) WR 2256 (CH 1074) Josh took the first set 6-4 -- Edited by paulisi on Saturday 12th of March 2016 01:32:04 PM
Robert Leck has come nicely through qualis and won a MD round. Jake Hersey has a BYE in R1. Maria Budin should be in the MD girls. BOYS: Qr1: Robert LECK (GBR) [q7] 7-6(6) 3-6 6-2 Dominik JEDLICKA (CZE) Fqr: Robert LECK (GBR) [q7] 6-1 6-4 Fabian MAROZSAN (HUN) [q4] R1: Robert LECK (GBR) ...
No less than 8 Brits in qualies this week but no sign of Scott Clayton or Jonny O'Mara. Looking at the drawsheet, it seems as though Scott has made it in on ranking. Perhaps Jonny has a WC as I know he has planning to play this week. In fact he is looking forward to playing with his new rackets. Over an exte...
There is a interesting discussion of the Chris Lewis' article "How to develop new American stars" http://wp.me/p2iyrR-kV The article has more than 60 comments from the coaches around the world: USA, Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand, etc. And you know what, I have had more than 200...
QR1: Luke Simkiss (GBR) lost to Aleksandr Malyshev (UKR) UNR 7-5 7-5 Jonathan Gray - BYE Philip Sikman - BYE QR2: (q7) Jonathan Gray (GBR) WR 1539 def. Youssef Messaoud (TUN) UNR 6-1 6-0 -- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 5th of March 2016 06:02:43 PM
L32: (Q) Yankel Zemel (ISR) WR 1108 (= CH) vs James Marsalek WR 696 (CH = 537 in May 2013) L32: (7) Richard Gabb WR 485 (CH = October 2013) vs Daniel Cukierman (ISR) WR 1066 (CH = 1028 last August)
Myself and the guys from Tweener were thinking about re-starting a National Championships style event. This would be a yearly event with county qualifying and a finals weekend that moves around the country from city to city. As well as showcasing the finals, it would also be a tennis festival, wi...
Aaron (born 2000) has made it through qualis, in just his second ever junior event (I think). QR1: Aaron HEPBURN (GBR) 6-1 6-1 Kunaal NAMASHIVAYA (IND) FQR: Aaron HEPBURN (GBR) 7-5 6-3 Yugo HOMMA (JPN) He's drawn an unseeded, unranked player in the main draw, the very last on the main dr...
Yet another new partner for Darren & he doesn't look like a very handy one! R1: Maximiliano Estévez & José Hernández (ARG/DOM) CR 813 (552+261) vs Michael Linzer (AUT) & Darren Walsh CR 1513 (1268+245)
I know it seems a bit early to start this thread but next year's World Group draw is due to take place this week, I think. The teams in the 2016 World Group and where GB would play them are as follows (the 2015 finalists, who are automatically the top seeds next year wherever they are ranked, and the rest in c...
R1: Aslan Karatsev & Frank Moser (RUS/GER) CR 356 (251+105) vs (3) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 165 (80+85) R1: (WC) Markus Eriksson & Milos Seulic (SWE/SWE) CR 1129 (543+586) vs (2) Rameez Junaid (AUS) & Jonny Marray CR 151 (73+78) Needless to say, both pairs are the same half of t...
R1: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 4 26 v DUQUE-MARINO, Mariana (COL) 72 CH=66 12/10/15R1: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 83 v DOI, Miskai (JPN) 51 =CHH2H 3-0Birmingham 2011 6-2 6-4New Haven 2011 6-4 6-2Osaka 2012 7-6(2) 7-5 -- Edited by Peter too on Saturday 27th of February 2016 08:28:35 PM-- Edited by Peter too on Sa...