Gabi Taylor is amongst the British group here. Anna Brogan entered qualifying (not on the original list, or she would have been a direct entry) but lost her final qualifier R1 (L32) Gabriella Taylor (GBR) v (WC) Maria del Prados Cid (ESP) Ksenija Sharifova (RUS) v (6) Lana Rush (GBR) (Q) Cristina Bucs...
The majority of the British boys have stayed on here for the second Maltese event R1 (L64) Youssef Hassan (GBR) v Gianluca Grison (ITA) (10) Christopher Morrow (GBR) bye Daniel Little (GBR) v (Q) Can Paul Gueven (AUT) (3) Ben Stride (GBR) bye Damon Roberts (HUN) v Mason Recci (GBR) Joel Cannell (GBR) v...
ATP No British EntrantsCHALLENGERSGuadalajara $100K (Hard) - (Rice, Thornley)FUTURESQatar F2 $10K (Hard) - James Marsalek, Dan CoxUSA F9 $15K (Hard) - Alex Bogdanovic France F7 $15K+H (Indoor Clay) - Alex Ward (Hodgetts)Greece F2 $10K (Hard) - Josh Goodall, Josh Milton , Richard Bloomfield...
Several Brits here, including second seed Samm Butler R1 (L32) (LL) Carlos Gomez Sanchez (ESP) v Christopher Reynolds (GBR) Jorge Martinez Martinez (ESP) v Lewis Roskilly (GBR) (4) Ferran Calvo Eman (ESP) v Sebastian Rey (GBR) (WC) Francisco Adolfo Blanco Paris (ESP) v (5) Billy Harris (GBR) (7)...
R1: Jamie Murray & John Peers (AUS) v Marcelo Demoliner & Franco Skugor (BRA/CRO) Sean & Dave not here, Sean tweeted they were going to train in Orlando for a week. Looks like it's even stronger than last week with a lot of the players that played Guadeloupe coming over as well. The irony is...
Neither Federer or Nadal competing here so a good opportunity for Andy. He has RUP points from last year to defend Possible opponents include R2: Tomic R3: Dimitrov R4: Seppi / Janowicz QF: Tsonga / Cilic SF: Berdych / Gasquet F: Djokovic / Ferrer / Del Potro -- Edited by RJA on Monday 18th of March 2013 0...
R1: Helen HARVEY/Tanisha ROHIRA (GBR/IND) lost to Mariona DEL PERAL-FRANCIN/Charlotte ROEMER (ESP/ECU) 1-6 4-6 New name to me, I think it's this player (?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQB_540Q4iE She wasn't even entered into the singles as an alternate though.
Reasonable R1 draws, but little chance of going really deep: L96: Heather Watson WR 39 v Ayumi Morita JPN WR 50 (CH 40 in 2011),who beat her 5 & 2 at the same stage 2 years ago L96: Laura Robson WR 43 v Camila Giorgi (ITA) WR 85 (CH 73 last month) L64: Watson or Morita v (31) Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) WR 30 - wi...
Maia Lumsden and Anastasia Mikheeva are amongst the large British contingent here, and could meet in the quarter-finals R1 (L64) Elena Belenova (RUS) v Mollie Crouch (GBR) (10) Katie Dyson (GBR) v Carmen Blasco Robaina (ESP) (LL) Florence Abbott (GBR) v (8) Mira Antonitsch (AUT) Nika Kozar (SLO) v...
Two of our top '99 girls Georgina Axon and Katie Swan are in the Caribbean for 3 weeks of tournaments Boys R1 (L64) (1) Robbie Ridout (GBR) bye Charlie Ridout (GBR) v (WC) Timothy Davis (TRI) Alex Hagon (GBR) v Patrick Nkrumah (TRI) Girls R1 (L32) Katarina Guarino (USA) v (Q) Katie Swan (GBR) Georgina Ax...
A surprise but welcome reappearance by a Brit who was top 700 a couple of years ago but has, as far as I know, been dogged by injuries since and hasn't played on the circuit at all since September: QR1: (wc) Jennifer Allan UNR v Nicole Melichar (USA) WR 451 -- Edited by steven on Saturday 30th of March 2013...
Croissy-Beaubourg is a small commune just east of Paris (close enough to be on an RER line), and this event has a pretty strong field, though nowhere near as strong as the 50K in Florida. Anna has drawn a former top 40 player in R1, who is now just a year younger than her career high ranking: L32: Anne Keoth...
Baker boy is here, sadly James Ward is not. Jamie Baker (GBR) WR 209 v Qualifier Finally a nice draw for Jamie, top seed here is Benoit Paire WR38. If Jamie gets past the qualifier, he could get 35 year old 8th seed Marc Gicquel WR117 Edited to correct the spelling of the venue & to add "+H&...
A fine tournament for Emily Arbuthnott reaching her maiden ITF singles final and coming within a couple of points of the doubles title. Her opponent in the singles final is a strong '98 though R1 (L32) (WC) Dana Kamyshev (ISR) d. India Sanders (GBR) 7-5 6-1 Emily Arbuthnott (GBR) d. Alona Puskkarevsk...
ATP Davis Cup v Russia (Indoor Hard) - James Ward, Jamie Baker, Jonny Marray, Colin FlemingCHALLENGERSSt Brieuc $35K+H (Indoor Hard) - (Corrie)Leon $35K+H (Hard) - (Rice, Thornley)FUTURESQatar F1 $10K (Hard) - Dan Cox, James Marsalek (Carter)Greece F1 $10K (Hard) - Josh Goodall, Josh Mil...
The traditional Easter week exodus to Malta sees 20 Brits in the main draw. Daniel Little has a tough match-up with the former Tennis Europe no. 1 from Roumania R1 (L64) (Q) Alp Sentay (TUR) v Robert Leck (GBR) Youssef Hassan (GBR) v Keivon Tabrizi (SUI) Denis Borisov (RUS) v (13) Sacha Modica (GBR) (12...
Did anyone else notice that Harriet Dart lost to Georgia Craven in her first match of this week's British Tour event - by 1-6 0-6!!! I can't imagine she's injured or ill, as its only a British Tour event, so there's no need or pressure to play. Her juniors form hasn't been its best in recent weeks, but that...
I was contacted by someone today who is looking for tennis fans to take part in an ad for a betting company, who are doing separate ads featuring rugby, cricket and tennis fans. He had contacted the LTA and says James Munro (who turns out to be the LTA communications director) suggested he contact me. (...
I know this is a topic which is probably less relevant than 10-15 years ago, as court speeds have generally declined and the balls have changed enough to negate the impact of the very very fast servers of yesteryear. The game appears more balanced than it perhaps was a few years back. However, a quick lo...
L64: (3) Andy Murray WR 3 v Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) WR 83 (CH 68 last month) or Tatsuma Ito (JPN) WR 84 (CH 60 last Oct) H2H 0-0 v Donskoy, 1-0 v Ito (RG R1 last year, 1, 5 & 0) Andy is in Nole's half. Not sure whether it is that relevant at this stage, but Rafa is in the Fed/Ferrer half. in Fed's quarter. -- Edit...
The highest grade event this week has a couple of Brits involved, but neither are likely to find progress easy. Samm Butler's opponent has reached the final in 3 of his last 4 events, albeit lower grade, whilst Jakub Oravec has won a Grade 2 and reached a Grade 1 final R1 (L64) Samm Butler (GBR) v (WC) Jaco...
New name to me, I think it's this player (?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQB_540Q4iE She wasn't even entered into the singles as an alternate though.