Ed carries on ploughing a lone furrow & keeps plugging away, but he's drawn the short straw again: L32: Ed Corrie WR 233 vs (2) Go Soeda (JPN) WR 85 (CH = 47 in July 2012)
L64: BYE vs (2) Andy Murray WR 3 In the next round Andy will play either Philipp Kohlschreiber or a qualifier. The other seeds in his half of the draw are Nishikori (4), Raonic (5) & Ferrer (7). The top seed is Roger the Lodger.
L32: Marshall Tutu WR 1077 v (1) Marko Tepavac (SRB) WR 400 L32: (Q) Alexander Jhun WR 1716 v Karim Hossam (EGY) WR 865 L32: (8) Daniel Evans WR 772 v Mehdi Jdi (MAR) WR 1021 Although Jhun is technically a qualifier he didn't have to play a match as only 11 people turned up for qualifying so 5 players receiv...
This was something i was thinking about the other day, prior to seeing the recent post on ITF prizemoney increases. The ATP should priotitize getting together and petitioning all the Grand Slams to contubute a small fixed % of their earnings to help fund Challenger level tournaments. Because the GS...
Marcus Willis is third seed in the doubles, playing with Spaniard, Jose Checa Calvo. Edit: have just noticed, as a result of checking on its location that "Móstoles" (situated south west of Madrid) has a stress mark over the "o", so I've added it!-- Edited by Stircrazy on Thu...
Josh carries on some good wins: QR1: Joshua PARIS (GBR) 6-0 6-0 Roy YARON (ISR) QR2: Joshua PARIS (GBR) 6-2 6-4 Yannai BARKAI (ISR) FQR: Joshua PARIS (GBR) v Guy MICHELEVITZ (ISR) UNR (CH 1522 in 2012)
ATPRome Masters (Clay) - Murray (James Ward and Kyle Edmund are on qualifying list, but quite a way down at present)CHALLENGERSSamarkand $50K+H (Clay) - Broady, KleinSeoul $50K (Hard) - Corrie (Milton)FUTURESCroatia $10K (Clay) - (O'Mara)Egypt $10K (Hard) - (Evans)Israel $10K...
Thought I'd better start a fresh thread to steer clear of the arguments over Dino's ranking status/entitlement to WCs! R1: Jamie Murray & John Peers CR 49 (24+25) vs Leonardo Mayer & Juan Mónaco (ARG/ARG) CR 168 (72+96) JJR playing with our old "friend", Horia Tecau, this week....
There is an article on the BBC site this morning where Andy Murray comments on the Futures level prize money and how the game is losing players through lack of funding. He is suggesting that the top players could help to fund the futures events. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/tennis/27496927 Oh. And d...
In the G4 in Turkey, Lawrence Perrin continues his good run of form: R1: Lawrence PERRIN (GBR) [4] 6-2 6-4 Oguzhan CEYLAN (TUR) R2: Lawrence PERRIN (GBR) [4] 7-6(4) 6-0 Yanki EREL (TUR) into the quarters . . In the G4 in the US, qualifier Barnaby Thorold won his R1 match and will be playi...
Ken & Neal return to Europe & it seems they still can't win - not literally, I sincerely hope! R1: (1) Robin Haase & Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (NED/PAK) CR 88 (40+48) vs Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 251 (126+125) R1: (3) Colin Fleming & Jonny Marray CR 138 (76+62) vs (WC) Mathias B...
With the draw this year being reduced to 32, how many wildcards to British players are expected to be handed out? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/32602141 -- Edited by skibbarriz on Wednesday 6th of May 2015 06:34:50 PM
Oops, i whould probably post here too. I've recently got into following tennnis a bit more after last years Wimbledon and then following mens Challenger tournaments. Something captured my imagination, even though I'd seen Wimbledon plenty of times before. I've only played the sport casually wi...
Max Stewart retired from his only ITF match so far this year, and will be hoping for no recurrence in his second tournament. R1 (L32) Max Stewart v (WC) Ayman Cherqaoui (MAR)
