There seems to be a bit of discussion about Fed Cup, so I thought it deserved it's own threadDates: 3-6 February 2016Venue: Municipal Tennis CentreCity: Eilat, IsraelSurface: Hard court - outdoor Seems a lot shorter competition than normal.TEAMS Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Estonia Georgia Great...
The first of 2 weeks of G4s in Nottingham as usual, with a strong home contingent, including the top 5 seeds (Jake Hersey, Aidan McHugh, Damian Rodriguez, Louis Newman and Ewen Lumsden). Also look out for top 2001s Jack Draper and Anton Matusevich who are in the same eighth of the draw ( http://www.itf...
Qualifying is still going on here but the main draw should be out later this evening. The main draw starts tomorrow and should feature Ewan Moore, Ben Draper, Jack Molloy, Emily Appleton and Ali Collins. Live scores available at http://www.tennisticker.de/FRA/FRA2762/sb.html
One interesting pairing: R1: Dominic Inglot & Andy Murray CR 213 (37+176) vs Pablo Cuevas & Marcel Granollers (URU/ESP) CR 67 (34+33) R1: BYE vs (4) Jamie Murray & Bruno Soares (BRA) CR 14 (1+13) Jamie & Bruno get Nestor & Ugly Mug or Gasquet & JWT in the second round.
Q1: DREW, Jazzamay (GBR) 2 877 v Bye Q1: WILKES, Francesca (GBR) UNR v PARK, Soyeon (KOR) UNR -- Edited by Peter too on Sunday 10th of April 2016 04:36:59 PM
L64: Lukas Rosol WR 61 (CH = 26 in September 2014) vs Aljaz Bedene WR 57 (CH = 45 last November) L64: BYE vs (2) Andy Murray WR 2 Andy gets a qualifier or Guido Pella WR 46 in the last 32.
A quartet of Brits are down to be in Bulgaria for a couple of G2s. The girls main draw starts on Wednesday and Georgie Axon and Jodie Burrage should be in it. Boys R1 (L32) Nikita Mashtakov (UKR) v (8) Finn Bass Andrea Guerreri (ITA) v (3) Alastair Gray
L32: James Ward WR 176 (CH = 89 last July) vs Gonzalo Lama (CHI) WR 228 (CH = 196 in September 2014) James will face the top seed, Denis Kudla (WR 59), or his compatriot, Noah Rubin (WR 190), if he gets through that one. Perhaps worth noting that he won the title here in 2009, beating Carsten Ball in three.....
In Martinique (G5), Daniel Vishnik came through a couple of Q matches, lost his last one, but then got fished out again as a LL - and won his R1 match R1: Daniel VISHNICK (GBR) 6-3 6-2 Martin BARBIER (FRA) Aaron Hepburn is also in the main draw. In the girls, Kate Cunningham won two Q matches and is a...
Ok. Fitzy has now authorised me to let you all know what is happening with him. He is very busy at the moment but will be back on tour (and on the forum) very soon. He has handed in his notice at work. By the sounds of it, 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday didn't suit him !! Basically, the reason he hasn't entered...
I did not know Sara Beth had changed her name. QR1: Laura SAINSBURY (GBR) UNR vs. Almudena SANZ-LLANEZA FERNANDEZ (ESP) (UNR =CH - played total of 8 events in last 8 years, all $10K, qualified once) QR1: Anna POPESCU (GBR) UNR vs. Elyse LAVENDER (USA) UNR (=CH - 17yo, JCH 396 01/2015) QR1: Sara Beth GREY...
There has been a lot of press over recent days regarding Gail Falkenberg. For those not aware Gail is 69 years old and still playing. This week she entered a 25K at Pelham and managed to beat Rosalyn Small 6-0 6-1 and it was her first win on the tour since 1998. Rosalyn Small unsurprisingly is on a 25 game lo...
A couple of Brits in a 64-man qualifying field: QR1: Malte Christesen (GER) UNR vs (q14) Andrew Watson WR 1582 (CH = 1247 last July) QR1: Ethan Dunbar (USA) UNR vs (q15) Ryan Peniston WR 1615 (CH = 1607 in July 2013)
QR1: Tara MOORE (GBR) 312 vs. Catalina PELLA (ARG) [q6] 275 (CH 269 07/2014) Pella won both singles and doubles in her last event, Curitiba $25K in March; beat Tara in dubs SF there. She has been regularly making clay $25K SF/F/W. Sister of ATP top 40 player, Guido.
