Mika is a late 2008-born player. Plays lots of sports. Has only releatively recently decided to specialise in tennis. Tall-ish, athletic girl. A slightly 'deliberate' sort of style. But it's obviously developing. Coached by Lewandowski (and maybe others) - and hence an LTA favourite. She re...
I was intrigued by the name of the city which doesn't look remotely Spanish in origin, so I did a bit of digging. Turns out that it is a reflection of its foundation by Welsh settlers in the second half of the 19th century, "tre" meaning "town" in Welsh & "lew" the first syllable of the surname of one o...
L16: (1) Harri Heliövaara (FIN) & Henry Patten CR 93 (36+57) vs Pedro Martínez & Sergio Martos (ESP/ESP) CR 366 (255+111) L16: Luke Johnson & Skander Mansouri (TUN) CR 163 (87+86) vs (WC) Laurent Lokoli & Otto Virtanen (FRA/FIN) UNR (0+516) Winners play one another in the QF - lou...
So, Brighton is hosting a UTR tennis tournament with £1800 for the winner, decent money all the way down, prizes for the divisional winners, host families, etc. etc. It seems to be a men/women mixed event (based purely on UTR ranking), which is interesting. Is this a completely new thing? Or have I jus...
QR1: (q1) Masamichi Imamura (JPN) WR 841 (CH = 595 in March 2019) vs (qWC) Luke Hooper UNR QR1: Christos Antonopoulos (GRE) WR 1782 (CH = 1390 in March 2017) vs (q13) Finn Bass WR 1281 (CH = 756 in September 2018) QR1: (q2) Daniel Little WR 843 (CH = 564 last June) vs Mason Naumosvki (AUS) WR 1464 (CH = 146...
J100 Morocco Excellent win by Erin Pearce over the 2nd seed in R1 And a win over 14 year-old French girl, Lebeau, 7-5 in the third, in R2 J60 Qatar Issah Ali lost in R1 As did Ophelia K Davies Sophier Bekker got a R1 win but lost in R2 J100 USA Josh Hinton lost in R1 J100 Canada Athina Schlepphorst won in R1...
This thread is going to be a record for its brevity! QR1: (q14) Simon Knezevic (MNE) UNR defeated Aleksandar Daskalovic UNR by 5 & 2 Happy Valley comes to Serbia!
QR1: (qWC) Roy Keegan UNR vs (q9) Marcel Politowicz (POL) WR 1782 (CH = 1771 at the start of the month) QR1: Jack Caso UNR vs Jeffrey Hsu (TPE) UNR (CH = 1430 in August 2022) QR1: Venedikt Tsirikidze (***) UNR vs Nikolai Marin UNR Stuart Parker should be in the main draw.
Not sure if there is a thread for this years tournaments. I couldnt find one, having gone through the pages till I found the 2023 one. I notice the post Wimbledon ITF tournaments are now showing on the ITF calendar. Unlike last year they are all showing as Hard court tournament. real shame that we wont ha...
Only the top two teams so far visible in the draw: L16: (1) Joshua Charlton (AUS) & Emile Hudd CR 771 (478+303) vs ???? L16: ??? vs (2) Masamichi Imamura & Ryuki Matsuda (JPN/JPN) CR 843 (526+317)
David & Patrick earn themselves a seeding: L16: (4) Patrick Harper (AUS) & David Stevenson CR 662 (337+325 (*)) vs Luciano Emanuel Ambrogi & Ignacio Carou (ARG/URU) CR 831 (607+224) (*) both CHs again - +62 & +54 respectively
L96: (29) Cameron Norrie WR 30 (CH = 8 in September 2022) vs BYE Michelson or the Brazilian WC, Fonseca, in the last 64 L96: Qualifier vs Jack Draper WR 43 (CH = 37 last month) winner will play Hurkacz (8) L96: Daniel Evans WR 69 (CH = 21 last August) vs Qualifier winner will play Rublev (7)
Surprisingly, did not seem to have a pre-existing thread. WTA did a featurette on Ms. Boulter (duration 02:19) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1gyCi7KnpM
L16:- Tara Moore (GBR) / Annali Olivelle (GBR) UNR (UNR+UNR) v Melania Delai (ITA) / Francesca Pace (ITA) CR2054 (899+1155) And if they get through the top seeds are waiting in the QF
