Robbie Ridout is the sole Brit here. His first round opponent last appeared on this board in a Maltese G4, where he lost in the quarters to Mason Recci. R1 (L32) Robbie Ridout (GBR) v Radu Matei Lupu (ROU)
Next week Morocco hosts a G1 event and we have a quartet here for the warm-up. Unfortunately the three who were unseeded drew seeds and exited, leaving just Alex Sendegeya R1 (L32) (8) Dominik Stary (CZE) d. Samuel Taylor (GBR) 7-5 6-4 (7) Dennis Uspensky (USA) d. Mason Recci (GBR) 6-2 6-2 (3) Jaime Ign...
L32: Jamie Baker WR 237 v (8) Bastian Knittel (GER) WR 184 (CH 157 in 2011) These two have met once before, at Nottingham 7 years ago, when Jamie won in 3 sets 7-5 2-6 6-1.
Samantha Murray should be in the main draw here. Emily just missed out on direct entry, though if she manages to qualify it may work out ok because points (0, 1, 4, 6) are available for qualifying at a 50K. QR1: (q1) Emily Webley-Smith WR 416 v Cai Xi-Wei (CHN) UNR All of the other players in her section ar...
Apart from the French G1 this is the only other junior ITF this week with British interest: R1 (L32) Timur Razmaitov (RUS) v (7) Aswin Lizen (GBR) Christopher Reynolds (GBR) v (WC) Jordan Dinevski (BUL) (8) Lewis Roskilly (GBR) v Ben Fatael (ISR)
DAs for Slabinsky, Fitzpatrick, Cox, Gabb, Carpenter, Hewitt and Martin. O'Mara has a main draw wild card and other possibilities include Orton, Hudson, Carter and Malik all of whom were on the qualifying entry list but who are not in the draw. Orton and Hudson might have sneaked into the main draw if...
Not quite as many Brits in Greece for this one but we have DAs for Corrie, Willis, Burton and Morgan. QR1: Harry Meehan WR 1959 v Stefan Steinbrugger (GER) UNR
DAs for Baker, Pauffley and Farquharson. Also looks like Coupland has sneaked in. QR1: Steven Jarman UNR v Pavle Daljev (SRB) UNR QR1: Robert Morris UNR v Flurin Vital Leuch (LIE) UNR
It looks like James Ward made it into the main draw in the end without having to go through qualifying. QR1: (wc) Dan Regan UNR v (wc) Sven Lalic (BIH) UNR QR1: Kyle Edmund WR 515 v Pablo Gor Costales (ESP) WR 1569 Dan played Futures qualifying four times in 2008, losing in straight sets in QR1 each time to f...
L32: Alexander Ward WR 451 v (Q) Maxime Chazal (FRA) WR 744 L32: (7) Dan Smethurst WR 371 v Miljan Zekic (SRB) WR 436 -- Edited by RJA on Sunday 21st of April 2013 05:22:21 PM
The sequence of high-grade tournaments in France ends with this G1. Mirabelle Njoze has impressively come through qualifying for the third time. Late withdrawals, including Isabelle Wallace (injured I think) and Katie Boulter, leave Jazzi Plews seeded, when it may have been in her best interest...
James Marsalek is a DA here and should be seeded in what looks like a pretty weak field. Strangely enough quite a few players are less than eager to play tennis in a city that is just 8 miles from the Gaza strip and which is often targetted by rockets. QR1: James Allemby UNR v (q8) Saar Steele (ISR) WR 1895
Q1: THOMAS, Elizabeth (GBR) v ByeQ1: DEAVES, Eleanor (GBR) v ByeQ2: THOMAS, Elizabeth (GBR) UNR v ORMAZABAL-OREGUI, Amaia (ESP) UNRQ2: DEAVES, Eleanor (GBR) UNR v DANESCU, Onana (GER) UNR
Decent new partner for Ken this week &, on the face of it, a winnable first-round match: R1: Xavier Malisse (BEL) & Ken Skupski WR 104 vs (WC) Victor Hanescu & Gilles Müller (ROU/LUX) WR 477 And good to see Dom continung to compete at this level. Trouble is, it's a cr@p draw: R1: Dominic I...
Sod's law, but an early opportunity to avenge this week's second-round defeat, I suppose : R1: Colin Fleming & Jonny Marray WR 46 (*) vs (4) Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi & Jean-Julien Rojer (PAK/NED) WR 15 (**) (*) 35th in the race as of yesterday (**) third in the race -- Edited by Stircrazy...
