The first G1 tournament of the year offers a chance for Emily Appleton to win her first title at this level - and she started with an easy win today. Holly Fischer is also in the draw, with a winnable round 1 but the tough prospect of top seed Ellie Douglas in round 2 R1 (L64) Jada Robinson (USA) v Holly Fisch...
And so we start another year - or at least a quartet of Brits do - with a G3 followed by a G2 in India. Three of the four are favoured by drawing local wildcards Boys R1 (L32) (3) Jack Draper v Kabir Manrai (IND) Freddie Grant v (WC) Tarush Bagai (IND) Girls R1 (L32) (WC) Prinkle Singh (IND) v (7) Esther Adeshi...
In Sweden, British youngsters are taking part in a G4, and starting with an excellent win for young Harry W (born Dec. 2001): BOYS R1: Will DAVIES (GBR) [5] 6-4 4-6 6-2 Jesper KLOV NILSSON (SWE) Harry WENDELKEN (GBR) 6-0 6-2 Kenzo KOISTILA LARSSON (SWE) [6] Alexandr BINDA (RUS) 6-4 6-...
Sydney 1 Thiem, Dominic AUT 8 2 Cuevas, Pablo URU 22 3 Troicki, Viktor SRB 29 4 Carreno Busta, Pablo ESP 30 5 Kohlschreiber, Philipp GER 32 6 Muller, Gilles LUX 34 7 Klizan, Martin SVK 35 8 Granollers, Marcel ESP 37 9 Mahut, Nicolas FRA 39 10 Lorenzi, Paolo ITA 40 11 Delbonis, Federico ARG 41 12 Verdasco, Fe...
QR1: Jordan Angus UNR vs (q10) Milos Nikolic (SRB) WR 1416 (CH = 1409 last week) Luke Bambridge should be in the main draw. edit -Surface added to title-- Edited by paulisi on Monday 2nd of January 2017 12:34:15 PM
As it is a mixed team exhibition tournament, I've put it in general section. GB - Evans & Watson First match is currently live on Eurosport - Evans v Federer.
A new thread for the new year. There's an event in Graves going on this week, while the first week of the New Year sees a big Premier Tier event with plenty of familiar faces involved. Highlights of the event in Graves has seen several US college players coming through qualifying: Qualifiers: (1) Mark L...
QR1: Brydan Klein WR 322 (CH = 169 in September 2015) vs Lawrence Bataljin (AUS) WR 2014 (CH = 1933 last September) If Brydan wins that one, he'll play the q7, the Canadian (but born in Tel Aviv) Wunderkind (he's 17), Denis Shapovalov.
Andy has been knighted in the New Year Honours List Also knighted are Mo Farah and dressage paralympian Lee Pearson. Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katherine Grainger are made Dames.
The first event of the year, a Grade 2 in Sheffield has just finished. The final was between the top two seeds, with unranked Louise Holtum defeating Manisha Foster (WTA 1027) in straight sets 7-6(4), 6-3
His end-of-year interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAKnNXogW7k (didn't know where else to put it) Nothing radical but all sounds good overall . . .
