Several boys made it into qualifying eventually as the cut-off dropped, though all will have to beat a seed to reach final qualifying. It would appear that Alex Sendegeya, Rhett Purcell, Josh Sapwell, Julian Cash, Joel Cannell and Jamie Malik have main draw wildcards QR1 (WC) Marcus Walters v (12) A...
Darren's back in harness with Adham, who's using his protected ranking, but it ain't gonna be easy... R1: Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Dino Marcan (FRA/CRO) CR 583 (120+463) vs (PR) Adham El-Effendi (USA) & Darren Walsh CR 823 (525+298)
There seems to be a plethora of SW19-related posts on here now, so I thought I'd rev up for the men's doubles, since the wild cards have now been announced: Evo & Dino, Colin & Ross, Ken & Neal Skupski, Ed Corrie & Dan S & Jamie D & Gilles Müller. The last two have not been assig...
Not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but World Team Tennis started last night and Ross Hutchins played for the Springfield Lasers against the Philadelphia Freedoms. Ross won the Men's Doubles 5-3 with Michael Russell against Frank Dancevic and Marcelo Melo. Ross then lost the Mixed Dou...
I'm just back having been invited by a friend to No1 court to see 2 mens' invitational matches and a mixed doubles semi-final. Mr Bahrami has a lot to answer for, watching Andrew Castle (sorry my pet hate) attempting to be funny was tough but he tried very hard bless him. An opponent retired injured in th...
Unusually we have a seed in qualifying (normally all British players ranked that high get main draw wildcards). In this case it is Emily Smith, who withdrew a few days ago and so needed a wildcard for qualifying. Her section (with Lana Rush) and the one including Jasmine Asghar plus Anna Brogan presen...
Charles Broom is having a great tournament here, reaching his maiden ITF final R1 (L64) Charles Broom (GBR) d. (WC) Niklas Fischer (GER) 6-2 6-1 R2 Charles Broom (GBR) d. (Q) Lucas Hellfritsch (GER) 6-2 3-6 6-1 R3 Charles Broom (GBR) d. (5) Joel Vincent Link (GER) 6-4 6-4 QF Charles Broom (GBR) d. Lucas...
R1: (10) Jamie Murray & Casey Dellacqua (AUS) CR 44 (32+12) vs BYE R1: (WC) James Ward & Anna Smith CR 1415 (1280+135) vs Nicholas Monroe & Shuai Zhang (USA/CHN) CR 117 (67+50) R1: Scott Lipsky & Jie Zheng (USA/CHN) CR 61 (41+20) vs (WC) Colin Fleming & Jos Rae CR 174 (36+138) R...
Don't know if anyone picked this up earlier in the week, but Grigor has parted ways with his new coaching set up, the "Good to Great Academy" in Sweden. The impact seemed to be immediate - he apparently practiced in the gloom and long nights of Scandinavia all through last year's off season (...
Piers Foley got knocked out in the third round but Luke Hammond is through to the semis, and together the boys have made the doubles final: Singles: QF: Luke HAMMOND (GBR) 6-0 6-4 Edwyn RAMOS (AUS) SF: Luke HAMMOND (GBR) v Jack WONG (HKG) [1] Doubles: Semi-Final: Piers FOLEY (GBR) / Luke H...
There's so much Brit interest in the doubles (only four non-Brits, in fact!) that I though it sensible to give them their own thread: R1: Ed Corrie & Josh Ward-Hibbert CR 544 (193+351) vs Joe Gill & Bruce Strachan UNR R1: Rob Carter & Ryan Penniston CR 1402+1702) vs Lewis Burton & Jo...
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Poor Sam (unless you assume she wasn't going to win anyway and a day on a show court is a bonus!) Decent draws for Heather, JoKo and perhaps even Tara (given Zvonareva's shaky comeback so far) and Naomi (given how close she has got to Babos in the past): L128: Heather Watson WR 70 v Ajla Tomljanovic (CR...
Well, it had to happen some time, I guess - Jack due to play Samm in the second round of qualis (if Samm wins round one) Q1: Jack Carpenter WR 1229 - BYE Q1: Samm Butler WR 2054 v (wc) Tzvetan Mihov (BUL) UNR CH 934 in 2010 Q1: Andrew Bettles UNR v Velislav Cholakov (BUL) UNR age 16 And if Andy wins, he play...
Apart from Wimbledon there are a couple of Grade 2s this week Boys R1 (L64) (LL) Nikola Aleksic (SRB) v Luke Oakley (GBR) Girls R1 (L32) (LL) Julia Rosenqvist (SWE) v Georgina Axon (GBR)
(unless you assume she wasn't going to win anyway and a day on a show court is a bonus!) Decent draws for Heather, JoKo and perhaps even Tara (given Zvonareva's shaky comeback so far) and Naomi (given how close she has got to Babos in the past): L128: Heather Watson WR 70 v Ajla Tomljanovic (CR...