You can't fault the lad for his willingness to have a go, but what a rotten draw: QR1: (q3) Austin Krajicek (USA) WR 130 (CH = 94 last October) vs Lloyd Glasspool WR 282 (= CH) Go, Lloyd! Give him what for! Shame about USO qualies.
Maria Budin is top seed here. Charlotte Navinweinstein has a wc but has drawn the second seed. Aleksandra Topalovic has been drawn against the 8th seed. (Graziella Barrett, Vicki Subev, Jack Navinweinstein and Nathan Fernandes lost in qualifying).
There are tons of GB youngsters playing all over the place this week. And a huge cohort of them seem to have descended on Portugal. In the Boys, there are: James Story and Joe White - who lost their last rounds in Q but who both got in as LLs; Seeds (1) Jack Molloy; (2) Joe Tyler; (3) Will Davies; (7) Emile Hu...
The first of the European Summer Cups, the under 14s, concluded qualifying today for the finals, as the tournament acts as a qualifier for the World Juniors in August. The draws for these are something of a lottery, and unfortunately we ended up in a group where we add to face one of the four strongest n...
After a good week in Switzerland Anton Matusevich scales back to a G4, joined by some of our top younger junior girls Boys R1 (L32) (4) Anton Matusevich v Alexander Maarten Jong (NED) Girls R1 (L32) (1) Eva Marie Voracek (GER) v (LL) Lauren Armstrong (3) Esther Adeshina v Celine Fritsch (GER) (WC) Meri...
Our two boys here will do well to win a round, and if they do they will face two of Europe's top juniors Geoffrey Blancaneaux and Mate Valkusz. Max lost narrowly to Finn's opponent in a G2 earlier in the year, while Finn was well beaten by Max's opponent in another G2. The girls have a much better chance of p...
The team of Benjamin Heynold, Barney FitzPatrick and Toby Samuel qualified for the 16 country finals starting tomorrow. We have been drawn in a group with Italy (top seed), Korea Republic (seeded 7) and Mexico, opening tomorrow against Korea. Italy have 2 boys ranked in the TE top 5 and won the Europe...
QR1: Jeremy (the first since Bates? He's only 17) Gschwendtner UNR vs Tadas Tarasevicius (LTU) UNR QR1: Edoardo Sardella (ITA) UNR vs Ewan Moore UNR Jonny Gray should be in the main draw.
QR1: BYE vs Alexis Canter UNR (CH = 1975) Dylan Gee is on the acceptance list & should have been in qualies. Wonder whether he's snuck into the main draw...
QR1: Christian González (ESP) UNR vs (q13/qWC) Sizya Kivanda WR 2022 (CH = 1880 last October) QR1: Robert Hughes UNR vs Carlos Fernández (ESP) UNR QR1: (q4) Mark Whitehouse WR 1336 (CH = 979 last October) vs BYE QR1: Mario Paccini (ESP) UNR (CH = 1729 last September) vs (q15) Oliver Hudson WR 2133 (...
In case you've somehow missed the TV adverts, if you have an EE, Orange or T-Mobile phone, you can get 6 months free subscription to BTSport which will give you access to the WTA broadcasts on BT Sport 2. Unfortunately, it only works on the phone, you can sign in on a PC/TV but if your Phone & TV support...
Continuing on the theme where are they now? What happened to Caitlin Steel and Katie Gator? both touted as prospects by Tennis Scotland. Now we have Maia Lumsden Anna Brogan and Joanna Henderson as prospects will they succeed I wonder?
28 man field, so 4 byes ( for the top 4 seeds ), 3 qualifying rounds with first two due to be played on Saturday. The top qualifying seed is Ruben Bemelmans WR 191 ( Neil P's prospective second opponent of the day ) with the remaining 7 seeds all in the top 250. QR1 Brits : Neil Pauffley WR 569 vs Ernesto Escobe...
