Four years ago Maia Lumsden won this prestigious under 12 event, and in the week she made a major step in the under 18s this tournament again sees British representation in the final stages. Holly Fischer, Indianna Spink, Benjamin Heynold, Johannus Monday and Jack Pinnington Jones all lost in the ea...
A second chance for Katie Boulter and Freya Christie to win a G1 title, but in a stronger field headed by Shilin Xu (WTA 553/JWR 9 ), who beat Jo Konta earlier in the season. It's a 48 draw, which helps our boys avoid seeds unlike last week. Boys R1 (L64) Andrew Li Hei Yin (HKG) v Lewis Roskilly (GBR) Rhett Pu...
The COSAT circuit enters its final straight with a couple of G1s before the Brazilian GA. Alex Sendegeya joins this week, and has won encouragingly this afternoon against a South American of similar rank, who was a semifinalist in the G2 last week. His reward is a crack at the Japanese 4th seed, ranked...
R1: (PR) Jamie Delgado & Gilles Müller (LUX) CR 680 (155+525) vs (WC) Sergey Strelkov & Philipp Tarpischev (RUS/RUS) UNR They could hardly have hoped for a better draw.
The second week of G2s in South Africa sees Maia Lumsden with the toughest draw seemingly, a chance to avenge last week's defeat by the eventual runner-up. Rob Smith is blogging, mainly focusing on Ben Stride's preparation, at http://itc-tennis.com/category/blog Ben has a much better draw tha...
QR1: Jazzamay Drew UNR v Michelle de Groot (NED) UNR (CH 1103 in 2009) FQR: Drew or de Groot v (q2) Amelie Intert (GER) WR 1034 (CH 1005 in Aug) FQR: (q3) Harriet Dart WR 1043 v Teodora Djordjevic (ITA) UNR or (wc) Barbara Choon (POR) UNR
L64: (5) Andy Murray WR 6 v Lukas Rosol (CZE) WR 47 (CH 33 last May) or Qualifier The perils of being outside the top 4 - Andy is in Rafa's quarter, with Stani and Fed also in the top half. Full 'route': L64: Rosol / Q L32: (32) Andújar (or Vesely/Sijsling) L16: (10) Raonic / (18) Janowicz QF: (1) Rafa SF: (3) W...
Not sure I'll still be up when the qualifying draw appears but it looks like two players have won qualifying WCs in the wild card tournament (see http://bit.ly/1nywLzh) and I'm pretty sure that one of them, Samm Butler, is a Brit! Edit - Samm is indeed a Brit - he is 19 and at Southern Methodist Universit...
QR2: Jack Oswald UNR v Gabriel de Andrade Bendazoli (BRA) UNR The winner will play (q2) Antoine Richard (CAN) WR 1218 in the FQR -- Edited by steven on Sunday 9th of March 2014 11:31:42 PM
The final week of Scandinavian tournaments for Max Stewart et al, with all 3 boys avoiding seeds R1 (L32) Daniel Bennett (GBR) v (LL) Lukas Uney (SWE) Thomas Wright (GBR) v (WC) Max Lindqvist (SWE) Gonzalo Morell Raschiatore (AUS) v Max Stewart (GBR)
After a tough 2 weeks in Thailand playing $10K events, ending up by drawing the top seed, Katie Boulter becomes the hunted top seed here. She has a lot of points to defend in the next few weeks, having reached a couple of G1 finals in the 2013 Asian swing, plus winning a G2 in Spain. She opens against a 14 yea...
L32: (4) Brydan Klein WR 426 v (Q) Daniel Guccione (AUS) WR 2057 (= CH; junior WR 96) Edit: updated now that qualifiers have been placed and with new rankings-- Edited by steven on Monday 3rd of March 2014 09:16:25 AM
There are 2 weeks of G2s in South Africa, with a strong British contingent, especially on the girls' side. Rob Smith is blogging at http://itc-tennis.com/category/blog adding a lot of colour to proceedings. Boys R1 (L32) Jay Clarke (GBR) v Kris Van Wyk (RSA) Ben Stride (GBR) v (3) David Poljak (CZE...
Stabekk finalist Dan Bennett and Max Stewart made convincing starts to their next Scandinavian tournament Boys R1 (L32) Max Stewart (GBR) d. Emil Pettersson (SWE) 6-1 6-3 Daniel Bennett (GBR) d. Jasper Akerlund (SWE) 6-0 6-2 Thomas Wright (GBR) v (Q) Filippo Mora (ITA) Girls R1 (L32) Georgia Lawso...
Dave Rice (likely to be the top seed), Ashley Hewitt, Liam Broady, Tom Farquharson, Josh Milton, Neil Pauffley, Luke Bambridge and Josh Ward-Hibbert are all main draw DAs here. Judging by who is in qualifying (See the link below), the top 8 Brits on the qualifying list at the freeze deadline (Couplan...
Hello hungry bracketeers, I know I know... I'm bummed about the ATP halting its Draw Challenge Circuit :( But, thanks to Steven and his BOTB Competition, at least we have the Replacement BOTB Comp! It doesn't have any of those cool prizes and it's not as professional but it's better than nothing ;) O...
