A couple of our younger players, and Alastair, giving the G4 in Tunisia a go: Round 1: Jake HERSEY (GBR) (born 2000) def. Breno SOUZA PLENTZ (BRA) 6-2 6-4 Alastair GRAY (GBR) [7] (born 1998) def. Yassine CHOUAIEB (TUN) 6-4 6-0 Finn Bass (born 1999) also playing tomorrow -- Edited by Coup...
I don't know enough detail about how elite tennis funding works, but from what i can gather if you hit the targets in the matrix you are in line for either A or B funding and appeals can be made if players can justify not reaching the ranking target i.e injury I think this is perfectly feasible at junior l...
roehampton meet A1 in their penultimate team match v national title holders needing 1 win from the last 2 group matches or 4 rubbers from the 12 rubbers in the final 2 fixtures 12.00 start spectators welcome A1 line up No1 marcus Willis no2 Toby Martin no3 Neil pauffley no4 Harry Meehan roehampto...
At any of the four Grand Slams, a few minutes from Centre Court or Arthur Ashe stadium, one will find a tired looking rental car parked by the side of the road. This is where Christian Filhol has slept every night during tennis premier tournaments for the past 23 years. Filhol, a 53 year old Frenchman wit...
QR1: Nikki Roenn UNR vs Grigoriy Korobeynikov (UZB) UNR QR1: Taylor Bate UNR vs Alvaro Alfonzo Ruiz (ESP) UNR Matthew Short should be in the MD. -- Edited by BradMarx90 on Friday 12th of June 2015 06:55:44 PM
Qualies draw is out. 16 strong, 3 wild cards and Brydan Klein is the only Brit, Paul Henri-Mathieu and Jared Donaldson being the other two. -- Edited by Shhh on Friday 12th of June 2015 08:41:19 PM
Andy Murray has brought such heights to Tennis in the U.K and the seats at the courts fill up to capacity,his achievements to British Tennis are phenomenal. Andy Murray was presenting awards at Queens yesterday,there should be an award for him alone for the pride and pleasure he has brought to Britis...
Alex will have to do it the hard way: R1: Mark Whitehouse WR 1079 v CORTES ALCARAZ, Aaron (ESP) WR 1130 (CH 1084 a couple of weeks ago) R1: Oliver Hudson WR 1339 v (5) TAWEEL, Issam Haitham (SYR according to ITF, or EGY according to ATP) WR 699 (CH 635 12 months ago) R1: (wc) Imran Aswat WR 1548 v (Q) Hugo Schot...
Max Stewart and Eliz Maloney are amongst the British contingent here Boys R1 (L32) (Q) Kerim Han Bilgin (TUR) v (7) Matthew Story (4) Costantinos Christoforou (CYP) v Max Stewart (Q) Adam Jones v Emilis Rusakevicius (LTU) (8) Barnaby Smith v Nikolay Vilegzhanyn (RUS) Girls R1 (L32) Alexandra Shchi...
I was shocked when I saw the price of coaching for my 5 year old, one club wanted £7.50 for a 45min session and another wanted £10/hour...for group coaching...8 kids per coach! The club near me who charge £10 session (this is outside of London on the Herts/Essex border) wanted £130 upfront for a block of...
There is a big article in the telegraph today from Simon Briggs, suggesting the NTC is set to close as a national tennis centre and become administrative only. That would make sense now given a post on twitter by Harry. I think this will throw a few noses out of joint. The following players will have to fi...
Quite a few British qWCs to contest with: QR1: (qWC) Alex Ward WR 419 vs (q5) Igor Sijsling (NED) WR 169 (CH = 52 in Feb 2014) QR1: (qWC) Daniel Smethurst WR 542 vs Alex Kuznetsov (USA) WR 276 (CH = 120 in Sep 2013) QR1: (qWC) David Rice WR 423 vs Daniel Nguyen (USA) WR 227 (=CH) QR1: (qWC) Daniel Evans WR 665 vs...
Could've been a real doddle draw, given the field, but Sabrina can't really complain: R1: (WC) Sabrina Bamburac UNR (CH 818 Feb 13) v Kayla Rizzolo (USA) WR 1091 (CH 883 Aug 10) No idea about Rizzolo in US College rankings. Sabrina also has a play in the doubles.
