Here's a novelty - a Brit playing in an American closed championship. The organisers have discretion to allow a national from another country under certain conditions (I think Katie will be debarred from the European championships, but we are only allowed two entries in each age bracket for those...
Jathan Malik and Alex Jhun (who is yet to play Turkey F15 R2 this week due to rain!) should be in the main draw and it looks like Miles Bugby has scraped in too. QR2: (q5) Bruce Strachan WR 1665 v (wc) Stanislav Nefedov (RUS) UNR QR2: Scott Lister UNR v (q9) Tinotenda Chanakira (ZIM) WR 2222 (CH 1456 in 2007)...
All three get a bye through to QR 2 (only Joe was on the acceptance list, but the others seem to have showed up!) QR2: Joe Cooper v Alberto Neto (ESP) UNR QR2: (1) Imran Aswat WR 1209 - to be determined QR2: (2) David Porter WR 2207 - to be determined
Dan Evans and James Ward are DAs here while Kyle reportedly has a wild card. QR1: Alex Ward WR 362 v Christian Hirschmüller (GER) WR 1166 (CH 901 last Nov) The German lost 3 & to Liam Broady in Manama a few weeks ago. The seeds in Alex's section are (q6) Egor Gerasimov (BEL) WR 273 and (q2) Andre Ghem (B...
All of us are desperate to see GB success at the top table of international tennis, and many rightly talk about taking the learnings from Spain and France, who produce great players in large volumes. But as Tony Blair might say, perhaps there is a "third way". We've all been aware of both Cro...
L32: Heather Watson WR 122 v (LL) Giulia Gatto-Monticone (ITA) WR 215 (CH 214 last month) L32: Johanna Konta WR 111 v (WC) Myrtille Georges (FRA) WR 288 (CH 245 last May) -- Edited by steven on Monday 5th of May 2014 06:15:03 PM
James M should be in the main draw. In a full 64-strong qualie draw, Enrique gets the top seed in round one, which is unfortunate! Q1: Enrique Vidal UNR v (1) Mark Vervoort (NED) WR 1115 CH 814 (May 2012) Q1: (WC) William Flavell v Eric Beci (ESP) UNR
R1: (WC) Enzo Couacaud & Laurent Lokoli (FRA/FRA) CR 2387 (1055+1332) vs (2) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 143 (67+76) Surely they can get past the first round this time...
Mirabelle Njoze is the only Brit here, and she plays first (8am BST) on court 3, which should be streamed. Click the link from http://www.tcsantacroce.com/en/home_torneo.php R1 (L64) Mirabelle Njoze (GBR) v Qiu Yu Ye (CHN)
The main draw is out but the new WTA rankings still aren't - possibly waiting for the Indian Harbour Beach doubles final that was held over until today. Anyway, Brits make up a quarter of the main draw! L32: Eden Silva WR 1129 v Ekaterina Tsiklauri (RUS) WR 1052 (CH 985 last Jun) L32: (7) Danielle Konotop...
Q1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 412 v TANAKA, Yuuki (JPN) 475 (CH=397 Jun 2013)Anna Smith was on the list of qualifiers but doesn't appear in the draw.Naomi, Sam, Tara and Jade are due to appear in the MD
Here are two interviews with Lisa that have appeared in our paper today where she talks about the financial hardship of being on tour and also how she was advised to give up tennis shortly before she broke on to the main tour. She touches on quite a number of issues in both articles, I hope they're of inter...
A chance for our two leading '99 boys to shine Boys R1 (L32) (Q) Ahmed Amine Herress (MAR) v (7) Finn Bass (GBR) (Q) Oussama Aziz (MAR) v (4) Max Stewart (GBR) Girls R1 (L32) Alice McGinty (GBR) v Kristina Delyan (RUS) Lily Reynolds (GBR) v (2) Natsumi Okamoto (JPN) -- Edited by DavidC on Monday 5th of May 2...
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
