A massive 128-man draw here next week! And a fair sprinkling of Brits, most of whose names are not familiar to me, not to mention a Nepali who rejoices in the name of Ivanhoe Lissanevitch! QR1: Roberto Preka UNR vs Bogdan Djurdjevic (GER) CH 1754 (CH = 1135 last May) QR1: José Vicent Monsonis (ESP...
A win for 17 year-old Matt, fresh from the junior competitions: QR1: Thibault DUCARME (FRA) 6-1 6-0 Elijah ANDREWS (GBR) Matthew STORY (GBR) 6-4 3-6 6-4 Tyler MERCIER (USA)
Katie Swan is top seed for the second Junior Masters in Chengdu, which takes the form of a knock-out competition for 8 players, starting on Friday, with losers playing off for minor positions. There is a $160,000 prize fund in travel grants (each player guaranteed $7,000) plus wildcards for pro tou...
Jay Clarke should be in the MD (getting some clay experience in before the French Open?). As well as Ryan, Ewan, Emily App, Fran and Lauryn J-B. In qualis, young Marni gets a win As does the enigmatic Julie Ball (keeping that 'top of the success-rate leader-board for all GB female players for 20...
On an Indoor Hard Court against a PLiskova serve.. good luck Heather! Winner plays either top seed Aga (likely to withdraw by some accounts) or Rybarikova. R1: Heather WATSON (GBR) 69 vs. Kristyna PLISKOVA (CZE) 101 (CH 86 01/2013) H2H 1-0 2014 Cincinnati, OH, USA - WTA Premier - Hard - HW[q12] - QR1, H...
With condolences to the family of Julien, who passed away earlier today. He was with the LTA for a good number of years, the personal coach to Dan Evans, strongly involved with the GB Davis Cup team, the coach of JoKo for a while.... He was also a really fun, pleasant guy. Tennis will miss him.
Well this one nearly slipped through the net. L32: James Marsalek WR 624 v (Q) Andrew Ruppli (SUI) WR 1314 (CH 1222 Sep 2015) L32: (5) Dan Cox WR 553 v (WC) Mousa Shanan Zayed (QAT) WR 2252 (CH 1668 Oct 2012) Decent draws too.
Ema, Ali and Georgie should all be in the main draw. As should Ben Draper and jack Molloy. In qualis, Jeremy G has come through one round but has a hard match next against a very good, but lowly ranked, French boy who plays far better than his ranking (made the semis of the G2 last week in Spain). QR1: Jeremy...
R1: (1) Dominic Inglot & Robert Lindstedt (SWE) v (WC) Reda El Amrani & Lamine Ouahab (MAR/MAR) R1: Marin Draganja & Aisam-Ul-haq Qureshi (CRO/PAK) v Jonathan Erlich (ISR) & Colin Fleming R1: Guillermo Duran & Maximo Gonzalez (ARG/ARG) v Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS) & Jon...
Q1: PITAK, Katarzyna (GBR) UNR v ByeQ1: SAMWAYS, Chelsea May (GBR) UNR v NIKITOVIC, Nina (SRB) UNR 17yo Q1: PITAK, Aleksandra (GBR) UNR v STOSIC, Aleksandra (SRB) UNR 18yo
Evo should be in the main draw here QR1: (q8) Ed Corrie WR 417 v (wc) Simon Baudry (FRA) WR 2084 QR1: (q7) Lloyd Glasspool WR 401 v (wc) Manuel Guinard (FRA) WR 1624 -- Edited by RJA on Saturday 26th of March 2016 09:00:23 PM
For the sake of completeness: R1: Filip Horansky & Vasko Mladenov (SVK/BUL) CR 1197 (771+426) defeated Joe Cooper & Michal Konecny (CZE) CR 1732 (1080+652) by 1 & 3 Given the larger purse, you can't blame Joe for trying, I suppose.
As does the enigmatic Julie Ball (keeping that 'top of the success-rate leader-board for all GB female players for 20... 