R1: (3) Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) CR 67 (34+33) vs (WC) Alexander Satchsko & Jan-Lennard Struff (GER/GER) CR 525 (80+445) R1: (PR) Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins CR 316 (36+280) vs Daniele Bracciali & Andreas Seppi (ITA/ITA) CR 107 (56+57) The pairs are in opposite halves o...
QR1: Henry Ogden UNR v Dinko Panzic (CRO) UNR - winner to play (q1) Ivan Krivic (CRO) WR 1437 (CH 1396 in Jan) in the FQR It's rare to not recognise the name of a Brit then find he has tried Futures before, but having said that, 22-year-old Henry's only other foray into Futures was in Tipton in 2011, when he t...
Katy, Katie, Dasha and Harriet should be in the main draw here and it looks like Fran has scraped in too. QR1: Aimee Gibson UNR v Sofia Sabljarevic (SRB) UNR FQR: Savannah Sills UNR v (q1/wc) Ola Abou Zekry (EGY) WR 951 (CH 949 last month) FQR: (q2) Eden Silva WR 1128 v Disha Satish Agarwal (IND) UNR FQR: Gi...
Q1: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 3 283 v YONEMURA, Akiko (JPN) 597 (CH=208 May 2008)Q1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 401 v MIYAMURA, Miki ((JPN) 6 310 (=CH)Q1: SMITH, Anna (GBR) 445 v HIGUCHI, Yuka (JPN) 491 (CH=396 Aug 2013) Edit: just to get the title into the usual format for ITFs, i.e. "ITF ($75K)"...
James Ward and Dave Rice should be in the main draw here. QR1: Sean Thornley WR 1712 v Andrew Carter (USA) WR 982 (CH 797 last Jul) Carter has lost his last 9 singles matches, while Sean is playing singles for the first time since Champaign Challenger qualifying last year and he needs to qualify here to av...
Not exactly news, having been announced 2 weeks ago, but I didn't post it then because of the welter of Easter tournaments taking place. From next year the ITF start an 8 person Masters event in China for the top juniors. It's an idea being tried increasingly at different levels, not always succeeding...
L32: (6) Richard Gabb WR 428 v (WC) Kim Sun-Yong (KOR) WR 1424 (CH 660 in 2006) L32: (4) Ed Corrie WR 352 v Qualifier L32: George Coupland WR 730 v Gengo Kikuchi (JPN) WR 935 (CH 735 last Jun) The winners of Ed and George's matches will meet in R2.
It's a strange week when Spain is the closest place to go to find a tournament that is not on clay! The draw could be better - Josh gets one of the highest-ranked unseeded players and the unseeded Brits both play seeds in R1 - Matt getting the 2nd seed in R1 for the 2nd week in a row: L32: (6) Josh Milton WR 578 v...
Eleanor Dean should be in the main draw again here. QR1: Mollie Crouch UNR v Luisa Ryskova (SVK) FQR: Crouch or Ryskova v (q1) Cristina Ene (ROU) WR 1194 (CH 825 in 2013)
The main event for British juniors in week 18 is this tournament in Italy Boys R1 (L64) (7) Rhett Purcell (GBR) bye Aswin Lizen (GBR) v (WC) Giorgio De Rossi (ITA) Girls R1 (L32) Anna Brogan (GBR) v Silvia Chinellato (ITA) (4) Freya Christie (GBR) v (WC) Tatiana Pieri (ITA) (7) Maia Lumsden (GBR) v (WC)...
L32: Dan Evans WR 132 vs (8) Andrey Kuznetsov (RUS) WR 131 Rankings couldn't be much closer... Up to Dan to prove himself on clay on a lower-tier stage.
QR1: James Turbervill UNR v Tayjhon McGee (USA) UNR QR1: Thomas Knights UNR v Agustin Savarino (ARG) UNR QR1: Alex Sendegeya UNR v Marko Vukalovic (SRB) UNR McGee is 15 and yet to win more than 2 games in a set in 4 attempts at Futures qualies. The other opponents are teenagers too, with Vukalovic (18) pl...
Another tangled web unfolds ! The LTA showing their better judgement again in choosing to use Max Clifford to assist in "damage limitation" campaign ! I seem to remember that this was around the time they were securing the Aegon sponsorship deal ! Money comes first ? They just cant seem to m...
Another WC MD place for Jack: R1: (WC) Jack Oswald UNR v (Q) Mauricio Alvarez-Guzman (CHI) WR 1500 CH 1050 (2010) And a victory (of sorts): R1:Andrea CAMURRI (ITA) / Jack OSWALD (GBR) def.Arseniy MOROZOV (RUS) / Bjoern PETERSEN (GER) Walkover-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 30th of Ap...
Italy v Great Britain The venue is very hard to predict because Italy seem to do their best to avoid ever playing two home ties in the same place. However, it is virtually certain to be on red clay, though at least the timing isn't too bad - it will require a quick surface switch after Miami but won't requir...
