A quick 'shout out' for the GB Masters Uni World Champs team: Jess Ren, Alex Walker and Anna Fitzpatrick Nick Eeckalaers, Darren Walsh and Mark Whitehouse Good luck !!! (Britain won the bronze medal last year, beating France, behind Russia in silver and USA in gold)
I was slightly surprised last week when Anna Brogan was only entered for one week and guess what. She has stayed on and has taken a wildcard; R32: Anna Brogan WR 975 v Danna Valentina Galeano(Q) (COL) UNR - aged 16
Ewan Moore, who won a couple of G5s in the summer, has progressed to his first G4 final Boys R1 (L32) (6) Ewan Moore d. Boy Schweiger Muzar (SLO) 5-7 6-1 6-2 R2 (6) Ewan Moore d. (WC) Zvonimir Oreskovic (CRO) 7-5 6-3 QF (6) Ewan Moore d. Alen Rogic Hadzalic (CRO) 3-6 6-1 6-2 SF (6) Ewan Moore d. (Q) Roko Glasno...
Second week of Indian junior events with the grade rising from 4 to 3 Boys R1 (L64) (1) Jay Clarke bye (4) Jack MacFarlane bye Girls R1 (L64) Chelsea May Samways v (Q) Dakshata GirishKumar Patel (IND) (13) Georgia Lawson bye (5) Georgina Axon bye
Josh Ward-Hibbert and James Marsalek should be in the main draw here. QR1: Christopher Reynolds UNR v (wc) Levar Harper-Griffith (USA) UNR (33yo CH 224 (!) in 2001) QR1: George Davies UNR v (q3) Francesco Vilardo (ITA) WR 1174 (CH 798 in 2012) QR1: (q10) Evan Hoyt WR 1581 v Antoine Leduc (CAN) UNR QR1: (...
Farris looks to have drawn the short straw in the singles: L32: Farris Gosea WR 589 vs (2) Agustín Velotti (ARG) WR 275 (CH = 166 in September last year) ***** R1: Farris Gosea & Marek Michalicka (CZE) CR 1043 (729+314) vs Adam El Mihdawy & Luís Patino (USA/MEX) CR 1545 (1085+460)
There's good British representation in the girls at the prestigious Eddie Herr Grade 1 event at the IMG Bollittieri academy. Firstly, congrats to Ema Lazic who got through qualifying. (Jodie Anna Burrage and Sebastien Butler both lost in the second round of qualies) BOYS: R1: Alexis Canter v (10...
Cav, Dasha, Eden and Jazzamay all in Egypt this week. Jazzamay seems to have sneaked into the main draw. The draw is not on the ITF site yet, but tomorrow's OOP is: Cav has drawn Dasha Eden has drawn a lowly ranked Chinese girl
L32: (5) Dave Rice WR 347 vs Phassawit Burapharitta (THA) WR 922 (CH = 919 earlier this month) L32: Karunuday Singh (IND) WR 528 (CH 393 in in April) vs (2) Brydan Klein WR 266
Have heard that there will be at least 2 BT events during the first half of the year with an increased prize pot of just over £8K, giving the winners £1,500 each and the runners up £800. Perhaps this is part of the new approach to funding.
Hello, Does anyone else use the RSS feeds? If so have they gone screwy for you over the last ~36 hours? I had 104 items for the womens section pop up overnight! Tried a couple of different readers, and feeds to get them to work again today, but no joy. Had no trouble in the last year or so, so just wondering....
The team sheets for the mens and womens county cups have been released and include: Aljaz Bedene, Richard Bloomfield, Liam Broady, Ed Corrie, George Coupland, Evan Hoyt, Josh Milton, George Morgan, David Rice and Dan Smethurst Emily Arbuthnott, Jasmine Asghar, Harriet Dart and Charlotte Pearce...
QR1: Shane Brown UNR v Mateusz Smolicki (POL) UNR (1st Futures) QR1: Philip Sikman UNR v Stefano Reitano (ITA) UNR * QR1: Jack Oswald UNR v (q14) Michal Dembek (POL) WR 1557 (CH 1549 earlier this month; 17yo junior WR 156) QR2: (q10) Aswin Lizen WR 1450 v Antonio Massara (ITA) WR 1703 (CH 1166 in Jun) or Ar...
So.... who else is waiting for this to start? I think the 2010/11 English team was a better one, but this Australian team is definitely worse, too, so it sort of evens out. I think England should win, but who knows with these guys. I'm going for a 3-1 to England.
James M should be in the main draw Q1: (q3) Bruce Strachan WR 1159 v Oscar René Jeppesen (DEN) UNR Q1: (q4) Imran Aswat WR 1226 v Sadok Laribi (TUN) UNR (listed as age 37, age started tennis: 36 !!!!!!!!! ) Q1: (q8) Evan Hoyt WR 1573 v Marco Gjomarkaj (ITA) UNR
L32: (4) Richard Gabb WR 611 v (Q) Menelaos Efstathiou (CYP) UNR (15yo) L32: Scott Clayton WR 1119 v Mousheg Hovhannisyan (USA) WR 1318 (CH 974 in 2011) * * H2H 1-0, Scott won 3-6 6-3 6-0 in the FQR here last week
A change of personnel, in the girls at least, compared to last week's GA here. Anastasia Mikheeva's opponent won a G2 event in September. Live streaming is available at http://copayucatan.com.mx/partidos-en-vivo/ for the stadium court and live scores are promised. Nastya and Jodie should hav...
