Apologies for the shameless plug but am hosting a chat show with Ross Hutchins next month. It is a really small venue so not many seats but thought I would out it on here as going to be chatting lots about his career, his current treatment and his friendship with Andy. At the end there will be questions fro...
Going to Canada for events like this is usually a good move - while still a good standard, they tend to be slightly weaker than the equivalent US and European events because the Americans seem to shun them. L32: Emily Webley-Smith WR 415 v Miharu Imanishi* (JPN) WR 356 (CH 352 last month) L32: (7) Naomi...
A seventh junior title of the week picked up by Andrew Watson in doubles, his second of the year Boys R1 (L64) Shamael Chaudry (GBR) d. (WC) Luuk Wassenaar (NED) 6-2 6-0 (8) Andrew Watson (GBR) Bye R2 (13) Justin Roberts (BAH) d. Shamael Chaudry (GBR) 7-5 6-4 (8) Andrew Watson (GBR) d. Renta Tokuda (IPN)...
R1: Nicola Slater (GBR) & Diana Marcinkevica (LAT) 346 vs. Irina Buryachok (UKR) & Anna Tatisvili (GEO) 183 [4] Good luck Nik! I'd have said it was a good draw as Tatishvili has been in awful form, but she just made the doubles final last week in Budapest. Serena is playing singles here inte...
Responding to a request from Paul on gbtennisgirls.com to publicise this. Seems like a very worthy petition - Sarah Borwell was looking to sign it! Paul's message: Hi guys, It's been talked, moaned and debated about for ages, so I felt I would try and do something: let's get the ITF to listen to fans a...
Shortest thread of the week? QR1: Taylor Bate UNR lost to Antonio Batlle (ESP) UNR by & I was going to say it was a Futures baptism of fire for 18yo Taylor, but in fact he played qualies in Portugal in March, where he won 4 games in his first match.
Yet another new partner - & a lousy draw - for Delgo, while the Skupskis play their first Challenger together & are seeded ( ): R1: (1) Stefano Ianni & Dane Propoggia (ITA/AUS) CR 248 vs Marius Copil (ROU) & Jamie Delgado CR 420 R1: Pierre-Hugues Herbert & Albano Olivetti (FRA/...
Mirabelle Njoze maintains her excellent record of qualifying for top grade events to join four seeded Brits in the main draws. Live scoring is available via a link from the Juniors page of the ITF site Boys R1 (L64) (Q) Zdenek Derkas (CZE) v (8) Evan Hoyt (GBR) (WC) Gregor Hutterer (AUT) v (10) Alexande...
Evo, Brydan & Ed should be in the main draw here. QR2: (q7) Sean Thornley WR 1217 v Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) UNR (CH 655 in 2004) FQR: (q2) Dave Rice WR 445 v (q8) Gilad ben Zvi (ISR) WR 1217 or Ilya Ivashka (BLR) WR 1388 FQR: Thornley or Ratiwatana v (q4) Filip Veger (CRO) WR 682 -- Edited by steven on Fri...
Pauffley, Willis, Fitzpatrick, Gabb, Farquharson, Burton, Bloomfield, Ward-Hibbert, Broady, Coupland, Orton, Ireland, Malik and Hudson should all be in the main draw here. Looks like a wild card for O'Mara, although he might have sneaked in as the last DA. Qualifying Draw NB: If anyone is planni...
ATP No British EntrantsCHALLENGERSAstana $125K (Hard) - Brydan KleinLexington $50K (Hard) - James Ward, Dan EvansGuimares $50K (Hard) - Alex Ward Orbetello $35K+H (Clay) - (Edmund) Tampere $50K (Clay) - Dan SmethurstFUTURESIreland F1 $15K (Carpet) - Richard Gabb, Tom Farquharson, Jath...
Peter Ashley is third seeded here, joined by Rhett Purcell, who picked up a title in the Netherlands last week, and Maia Lumsden. Boys R1 (L32) Rhett Purcell (GBR) v (WC) Vlad Andrei Dumitru (ROU) (WC) Valentin Vanta (ROU) v (3) Peter Ashley (GBR) Girls R1 (L32) Maia Lumsden (GBR) v (7) Raluca Georgia...
Martina Hingis has decided to play again. She is now 32 and has entered the Carlsbad doubles with Hantuchova. She has just been inducted into the Hall of Fame.
QR1: Tom Miller UNR v (q5) Oskars Vaskis (LAT) WR 1613 Tom is a 21-year-old making his Futures debut. His only previous matches on ITF are a & 1 loss to Keelan Oakley and a 2 & loss to Conor Bunting in qualifying for the two Nottingham junior G4s in 2009, so good luck to him in Tallinn - he might nee...
Our Swingball Pro [serious stuff!] finally went to plastic toy heaven in the sky yesterday due to excessive use over the last few years, peaking over the last 2-3 weeks. 2 warnings to everyone. 1. My smallest kid has just been bought a Head Youtek Speed Graphene (Novak Djokovic), and this resulted in t...
I was going to say it was a Futures baptism of fire for 18yo Taylor, but in fact he played qualies in Portugal in March, where he won 4 games in his first match.