Jovana's first tournament as a Brit and she's got quite a tough draw: L32: Jovana Knezevic WR 1211 v (4) Lisa-Maria Moser (AUT) WR 590 (CH 280 in 2014)
Any advance on this Top 20 GB men's doubles career highs since the ATP doubles rankings started in 1976: 2 Jamie Murray (Feb 2016) 9 Neil Broad (Apr 1990 - born in RSA but he started playing for GB in the second half of 1988) 15 Jonny Marray 17 Colin Fleming 18 Dominic Inglot 25 Jeremy Bates 26 Ross Hutchin...
A few Brits giving it a go in qualies: QR1: Dan Smethurst WR 446 (CH = 234 in June 2014) vs Clay Thompson (USA) WR 453 (= CH) The q1, Alex Bolt, lies in wait if Dan gets through that one. QR1: Ed Corrie WR 452 (CH = 215 in October 2014) vs Gonzales Austin (USA) WR 758 (= CH) QR1: Joe Salisbury WR 640 (CH = 559 in O...
Our trio all have reasonable draws, though Sultanov won 5 consecutive G3s last year in and around his home country, while Jay and Ema's opponents have won a handful of matches at ATP/WTA level. Jay is the only one on court tonight Boys R1 (L64) Khumoun Sultanov (UZB) v Ewan Moore Mattias Siimar (EST) v (...
QR1: Benjamin ADRIAN (USA) 6-1 7-6(3) Peter BILLINGHAM (GBR) Mark CHEPURNOY (RUS) 6-0 6-4 Matthew GORDON (GBR) Nicolas MEJIA (COL) 6-0 6-4 David O'LEARY (GBR) Ravi PATEL (GBR) 6-1 6-0 Karan LALCHANDANI (IND)
A couple of heart-breakers: QR1: Young Barnaby Smith lost in a third set tie-breaker against an 18 year-old ranked 1662 And Josh Paris lost 5-7 in the third too against a player WR 1738 Bill Harris was also beaten 6-2 6-4 by an unranked 18 year-old But James Allemby won 6-0 6-0
R1: Naomi BROADY (GBR) 111 [3] vs. Lyudmyla KICHENOK (UKR) 341 (CH 156 07/2014) Kichenok's ranking may be a bit misleading; she has been playing a lot of doubles with her sister on the WTA tour (both WR top 60 in doubles). Therefore, she has not entering singles every week, and indeed, consequently, t...
Alexis Canter plays his third tournament of the year (each on different continents) and is third seed R1 (L32) Joshua Rose v (5) Konstantin Kirovski (SRB) Yevgen Sirous (UKR) v (3) Alexis Canter
Another big contingent of British youngsters, and the last week of the tour, I believe, for those who have specially gone out: R1 Boys: (LL) Zyaan AHMED (GBR) 6-2 3-6 6-2 Ntamba RADJABU (BDI) (Q) Charley GREGORY (GBR) 2-6 6-1 6-1 Lee SADLER (CAN) Younes MOUKTABIL (MAR) 2-6 6-4 7-6(5)...
(q2) Scott Clayton WR 776 def. Nathan Seatuen (FRA) UNR age 18 6-4 6-3 Nat beat Stuart Parker by a whisker last week. -- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 23rd of January 2016 05:37:55 PM
Johanna has changed, over the last year. JoKo 2.0... From losing 6-0, 6-1 in the FedCup play-offs a year ago, incapacitated by nerves, to the ice-maiden of Melbourne, what happened? I'm sure her recent exploits are a huge inspiration to all players, of whatever nationality, or sex, on the ITF circu...
Unsurprisingly given political developments there are fewer Brits than usual in Tunisia for the G2s Boys R1 (L32) Aziz Ouakaa (TUN) v Max Stewart Girls R1 (L32) Ilona-Georgiana Ghioroaie (ROU) v Donia Abdel-Aziz
R1: (16) Gabriela Dabrowski & Alicja Rosolska (CAN/POL) CR 90 (46+44) v Johanna Konta & Heather Watson CR 229 (106+123) R1: Jocelyn Rae & Anna Smith CR 138 (69+69) v Chen Liang & Shuai Peng (CHN/CHN) CR 529 (36+493) Winner of the two matches to play each other in R2. Edit: combined r...
