QR1: Curtis Clarke UNR (CH = 1518 in September last year) defeated Ankit Chopra (IND) UNR by 3 & 1 **** FQR: (q7) Alexander Braun (GER) WR 2058 (CH = 1335 in September last year) vs Curtis Clarke UNR
The under 18s will have their own thread (no draws shown yet), but draws are up for the lower age groups including a number of Brits. Jake Hersey, Harry Butler and Jack Draper are seeded in the under 16s and Barney FitzPatrick in the under 14s plus Will Jenkins in the under 12s, while on the girls side Kyli...
QR1: (q2) Alexis Canter WR 1582 (= CH) vs BYE QR1: BYE vs James Allemby UNR (CH = 2052 in September 2015) ***** QR2: (q5) Omar Alawadhi (UAE) WR 1648 (CH = 805 in July 2003 - he's 34!) vs James Allemby UNR
In the second event here, Kai Maxted (fresh off his excellent run last week), Matt Beecher and Harry Thursfield all came through qualis. They joined George Loffhagen, Zyaan and Charley Gregory. In the MD: BOYS: R1 (L48): Matthew BEECHER (GBR) 6-3 6-1 Albert NJOGU (KEN) Kai MAXTED (GBR) 6-...
QR1: (qWC) Michael Nott UNR vs (q11) Dane Webb (USA) WR 1213 (CH = 1075 in July 2012) Korolev (WR 1869/CH = 46 in February 2010) is lurking in the qualies draw again.
Fairly tough for the 3 boys here. Max Stewart has a reasonable starter but will have to take on the top seed Miomir Kecmanovic if successful, while the other 2 draw seeds. Boys R1 (L64) Max Stewart v (WC) Russell Benkaim (USA) Barnaby Smith v (11) Trent Bryde (USA) (5) Duarte Vale (POR) v Finn Bass Girls R...
QR1: (q1) Alastair Gray WR 1099 (= CH - +391 places this week ) vs BYE QR1: (q2) Luke Oakley WR 1353 (CH = 1347 last week) vs BYE QR1: Rasmin Metin (CYP) UNR vs Michael Morphy UNR QR1: Nicolas Grandjean (SUI) UNR vs Oliver Hudson UNR (CH = 986 in April 2012) QR1: Jeremy Gschwendtner UNR vs Bastien Kol...
I see we have 3 x 15K tournaments in February next year - Glasgow, Edgbaston and Wirral. Let's hope they're not the year's only entry level tournaments on our shores.....
Yet another British Luke & one of whom I've never heard: QR1: Arvid Nordqvist (SWE)UNR vs Luke Issajenko UNR QR1: Alexander Pavlioutchenkov (RUS) UNR (CH = 704 in September 2003 - he's 30) vs James Markiewicz UNR
Not the best of draws ! R1: Josh Paris (GBR) WR 989 v (2) Yannick Mertens (BEL) WR 266 (CH 179 in Aug 15) Having a player with his ranking, in a 10k, and not even the top seed - it's a bit sad. Mind you, he's been out injured for a month or so .....
QR1: BYE vs (q5) Farris Gosea WR 817 (CH = 557 in July last year) QR1: (q3) Luke Bambridge WR 515 (CH = 481 in May) vs BYE ***** QR2: Strong ( ) Kirchheimer (USA - where else? ) WR 1188 (CH = 1123 last month) or Matthew Mendez (USA) UNR vs (q5) Farris Gosea WR 817 QR2: (q3) Luke Bambridge WR 515 vs Jonathan H...
Following the success in Serbia, it gives me great pleasure to start this new thread so we can all start speculating on a venue. Personally, I think there will be a lot of diplomatic talk about taking the show around the country to appease fans froms various regions and looking at different venues etc,...
QR1: BYE vs Samuel Beddow UNR ***** QR2: Danail Banov (BUL) UNR (& 16 years old) vs Samuel Beddow UNR First time I've seen a Nepali (19-year-old Abhishek Bastola) in a tennis draw!