On Friday morning at 6.30am, I was awakened by a hooded man with a scarf across his face on my bedpoking a knife at me. I was quickly escorted downstairs where my housemate was being held at knifepoint by another man. We were both sat down in the living room with the knife continuing to be pointed at us whil...
The first of two prestigious year-ending tournaments in the USA sees Julian Cash and Lana Rush join Isabelle Wallace and Alex Sendegeya in the main draws. Qualifying is underway with a welcome reappearance of Anna Brogan, for the first time since Wimbledon, who battled her way through a tight 3 set...
Hi all, new member here! Thought you might like to know the Sunday Mail up here in Scotland has a story today that Andy may soon be raking in £1 million in sponsorships. They are quoting Play Station 2 and McDonalds, amongst others, as being interested in sponsoring him. They report that a deal should be...
Just catching up on this event which took place in Aix-en-Provence, France over the weekend. 8 countries involved (invitation only I think), 6 player teams, with each tie the best of 7 matches. Each player must be a student at Uni and last year Jarmere Jenkins lead USA to victory and since graduati...
Mel joins the list of brits retiring. Her career path surprised me both in terms of the highs and the lows. I thought reaching the top 100 was a superb achievement though evidently she wasn't good enough to sustain that level for any length of time. Apparently she's looking to go into coaching. http://...
Q1: ASKEW, Sarah Beth (GBR) UNR v ByeStrangely all players in the qualifying event get a bye into the main draw.Katy Dunne and Harriet Dart should get through to the main draw without going through "qualifying".
FQR: Karl Grossey UNR v (q3) George Barth (USA) WR 1802 (44-year-old, CH 1456 in 2007) Barth first played on the ITF Pro Circuit in 1992, i.e. 21 years ago. Back in 2007, he retired against Greg Howe, when both of them were still in their 30s.
Congratulations to Dan Cox who won the title at Edgbaston winning five matches on route to the title as he plays himself back into form from injury. Next week its a Tier 1 level event at Corby with a few ranked players such as Josh Goodall and Bloomers in the line up.
L32: (4) Dave Rice WR 317 v Julien Obry (FRA) WR 580 (CH 274 in 2012) To say Obry is inconsistent would be putting it mildly (so in other words, he might just be a danger if he's 'on')
Isabelle Wallace plays her first junior event since the US Open, joined here by Katie Swan and Alex Sendegeya. All three have reasonable first round draws. Boys R1 (L64) Tadas Babelis (LTU) v (15) Alexander Sendegeya (GBR) Girls R1 (L64 Katie Swan (GBR) v (16E) Maria Fernanda Navarr Oliva (MEX) (8) I...
Josh Goodall should be in the main draw and may be seeded. QR1: (q15) Tom Allen WR 1655 v Keisuke Watanuki (JPN) UNR QR1: (q12) Harry Meehan WR 1607 v Igor Tubic (SWE) WR 2158 (CH 1253 in May)
L32: Neil Pauffley WR 568 v Marko Danis (SVK) WR 861 (CH 843 in 2012) H2H 1-0 - Neil won 4 & 4, on clay in Belgrade in 2011 The winner is likely to face 2nd seed Grigelis in R2.
L32: Scott Clayton WR 1347 v (Q) Aviv Darmon (ISR) WR 1611 (CH 1607 last week) L32: George Morgan WR 991 v (8) Vladyslav Manafov (UKR) WR 613 (CH 598 in Aug, SFs in F2) L32: Myles Orton WR 1139 v (2) Grzegorz Panfil (POL) WR 292 (CH 279 in 2009) An awful draw for Myles. George has played Manafov once before, be...
L32: Brydan Klein WR 348 v (WC) Phassawit Burapharitta (THA) WR 1922 (CH 1706 in Jun) A very kind R1 draw for Brydan. The winner will play 5th seed Jordan Thompson (whose last match with a R2 loss to Brydan in Traralgon) or Borna Coric in R2, with Coric a heavy favourite to make the QFs, I imagine. Edit: upd...
