A reduced contingent in Italy this week, with Maia Lumsden a late withdrawal Boys R1 (L64) (4) Rhett Purcell (GBR) bye Nicolo Turchetti (ITA0 v Aswin Lizen (GBR) Girls R1 (L32) Anna Brogan (GBR) v Lucrezia Stefanini (ITA)
Alex Jhun is a direct acceptance again here and it looks like Bruce Strachan may have scraped into the main draw as well - the top 2 qualifying seeds aren't on the entry list at all and the 3rd Q seed was a place behind Bruce. QR1: Scott William Lister UNR v Kento Tagashira (JPN) UNR
Dan Smethurst should be in the main draw here (Dan Cox was a late withdrawal, don't know why) QR1: Ed Corrie WR 352 v Kim Cheong-Eui (KOR) WR 576 (CH 530 last Aug) H2H 1-0 - Ed beat Kim 3 & 2 in London-Cumberland Futures in 2011
L32: (7) Andy Murray WR 8 v Nicolas Almagro (ESP) WR 24 (CH 9 in 2011) or a qualifier H2H v Almagro is 3-1 but 0-1 on clay, that 4 set win for the Spaniard at Roland Garros in 2008. The likely route to glory if he survives that R2 match is: R3: (11) Tsonga QF: (4) Federer SF: (1) Nadal FINAL: (2) Djokovic Good luc...
James Marsalek should be in the main draw here. QR1: Filipe Sharratt UNR v Jordi Mas de Ugarte (ESP) UNR QR1: Charlie Hughes UNR v Dylan Bednarczyk (CAN) UNR QR1: Ross-Tiree Wilson UNR v Álvaro Barranco Vilaltella (ESP) UNR QR1: Enrico Vidal UNR v (q14) Thibault Forget (FRA) WR 1718
Tennis is a wonderful sport but there is one ugly side of it which is getting kids to run after professional tennis players with their towels. It makes tennis players look like spoilt ego driven people. It's also demeaning for the ball boys and girls.One simple solution is for the ATP and WTA to ban tow...
The "bloody Poles" rear their ugly heads - again! R1: Mariusz Fyrstenberg & Marcin Matkowski (POL/POL) CR 50 (23+27) vs Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 67 (33+34) Kubot & Lindstedt (7) in the second round, if they win. R1: Julien Benneteau & EdouardRoger-Vasselin...
Evo should be in the main draw too - not sure whether or not Kyle might have sneaked in too. QR1: Lewis Burton WR 807 v Gibril Diarra (AUT) WR 824 (CH 771 last Aug)
R1: (3) Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 67 (34+33) vs (WC) Alexander Satchsko & Jan-Lennard Struff (GER/GER) CR 525 (80+445) R1: (PR) Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins CR 316 (36+280) vs Daniele Bracciali & Andreas Seppi (ITA/ITA) CR 107 (56+57) The pairs are in opposite halves o...
QR1: Henry Ogden UNR v Dinko Panzic (CRO) UNR - winner to play (q1) Ivan Krivic (CRO) WR 1437 (CH 1396 in Jan) in the FQR It's rare to not recognise the name of a Brit then find he has tried Futures before, but having said that, 22-year-old Henry's only other foray into Futures was in Tipton in 2011, when he t...
Katy, Katie, Dasha and Harriet should be in the main draw here and it looks like Fran has scraped in too. QR1: Aimee Gibson UNR v Sofia Sabljarevic (SRB) UNR FQR: Savannah Sills UNR v (q1/wc) Ola Abou Zekry (EGY) WR 951 (CH 949 last month) FQR: (q2) Eden Silva WR 1128 v Disha Satish Agarwal (IND) UNR FQR: Gi...
Q1: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 3 283 v YONEMURA, Akiko (JPN) 597 (CH=208 May 2008)Q1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 401 v MIYAMURA, Miki ((JPN) 6 310 (=CH)Q1: SMITH, Anna (GBR) 445 v HIGUCHI, Yuka (JPN) 491 (CH=396 Aug 2013) Edit: just to get the title into the usual format for ITFs, i.e. "ITF ($75K)"...
James Ward and Dave Rice should be in the main draw here. QR1: Sean Thornley WR 1712 v Andrew Carter (USA) WR 982 (CH 797 last Jul) Carter has lost his last 9 singles matches, while Sean is playing singles for the first time since Champaign Challenger qualifying last year and he needs to qualify here to av...
Not exactly news, having been announced 2 weeks ago, but I didn't post it then because of the welter of Easter tournaments taking place. From next year the ITF start an 8 person Masters event in China for the top juniors. It's an idea being tried increasingly at different levels, not always succeeding...
