Plans for major changes at the AELTC have been announced. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1WZLVrhm8k Unsurprisingly court 1 will get a roof, hopefully by 2019. Plans also in place for 3 new courts to the north of court 1. This will allow court 19 to be removed and 2 courts from 4-11 to also be remove...
Oli really needs to get things going this week. He soon his some pretty big points to defend L32: (5) Oliver Golding WR 459 v Kristijan Mesaros (CRO) WR 655
Katie Boulter has opted to join the Brits in Spain for the last of the current series of events, and is second seed. R1 (L32) Gabriella Taylor (GBR) v (WC) Carmen Garcia Pardo (ESP) Sara Ottomano (SUI) v Lana Rush (GBR) Anastasia Nefedova (RUS) v (5) Harriet Dart (GBR) (Q) Irene Burillo Escorihuela (ES...
Luke Bambridge returns here as the defending champion, and the draws for the Brits have been fairly favourable, with all but Jazzi playing qualifiers or a wildcard, though Evan's opponent is a former Eddie Herr U14 semifinalist who has won a lot of matches this year after 6 months out Boys R1 (L32) (Q)...
Big British participation again this week. Goodall, Bloomfiled, Willis and Burton are DAs. QR1: Harry Meehan WR 1953 v (wc) Athanasios Verbis (GRE) UNR QR1: Adam Skalsky UNR v (q15) Vaclav Safraneck (CZE) WR 1184 QR1: (q13) Oliver Hudson WR 1134 v Ivan Polyakov (RUS) WR 1764 QR1: (q9) George Morgan...
A very early start to this thread ... but why not! Three European teams lost WG II play-offs at the weekend, so there will be 16 teams in E-A Zone Group I in 2013, one more than this year. The other 15 will be as follows: Down from WG II 2012 BLR (lost 0-5 to USA in Feb then 1-4 to SUI at the weekend, when Govorts...
ATP No British EntrantsCHALLENGERSSavannah $50K (Clay) - (Ward, Bogdanovic, Edmund)FUTURESBournemouth GB F9 $10K (Clay) - Alex Slabinsky, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Dan Cox, Richard Gabb, Jack Carpenter, Ashley Hewitt, Toby Martin (Coupland, Orton, Hudson, Ireland, Skupski, Findel-Hawkins,...
Kyle has got a main draw wild card, but believe it or not: L32: James Ward WR 217 v Kyle Edmund WR 517 GB's top clay court player other than Andy against the player who may well fit that description before too long. To make things worse, the winner will play top seed Michael Russell or former world no. 45 Mis...
GB nos 9 & 10 head to Corsica (nice work if you can get it! ) but haven't got the nicest of draws: L32: Dan Smethurst WR 371 v (Q) Antoine Hoang (FRA) UNR (in fact, "inactive" according to the ATP!) L32: Alex Ward WR 456 v (8) Nikola Ciric WR 349 (CH 151 in 2011) The not so nice bit about Dan's dra...
R1: (1) Dustin Brown (GER) & Jamie Delgado WR 142 vs BYE R1: Adham El-Effendi (USA) & Darren Walsh WR 683 vs Andreas Beck & Martin Fischer (GER/AUT) WR 854 The boys are in different quarters of the top half of the draw. -- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 14th of April 2013 02:05:33 PM
A somewhat smaller group than for last week's G1 but Robbie Ridout has entered after a successful Caribbean trip R1 (L32) (SE) Pedro Martinez Portero (ESP) v Callum Poland-Smith (GBR) Robbie Ridout (GBR) v (Q) Alejandro Artunedo (ESP) Billy Harris (GBR) v Carlos Benito Hergueta (ESP)
Bally has just tweeted that she is in main draw at Roland Garros. Is that protected ranking or wildcard? -- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 17th of April 2013 10:32:11 PM
R1: Colin Fleming / Jonny Marray WR 44 v Julian Knowle / Frederik Nielsen (AUT/DEN) WR 47 Winners will play Qureshi and Rojer in round 2 -- Edited by RJA on Saturday 13th of April 2013 04:37:04 PM-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 17th of April 2013 09:00:47 AM
Hello! Thought I would write a little message to say hello as I have just joined this might forum. I'm a bit of a armchair tennis fan but I'm looking to get out and play more. Love nothing better than a forearm down the line shot (hence the name)...anyone care to share their favs? Apart from that, here to li...
Boggo is a DA here and it looks like Rice and Thornley have been forced into a change of plans by the high cut offs at the Mexico challangers QR1: (q1) David Rice WR 721 v Bye QR1: (q2) Sean Thornley WR 1025 v Bye QR1: Samuel Beddow UNR lost to Renier Moolman (RSA) UNR : 6-2, 6-1 QR2: (q1) David Rice WR 721 v Ma...
It has been a good week for junior titles. Stefan Cooper gets his first ITF in the doubles here R1 (L64) Stefan Cooper (GBR) d. (WC)c Javier Suarez Rivera (PUR) 6-4 6-0 R2 (6) Afonso Salgado (POR) d. Stefan Cooper (GBR) 6-4 6-1 Doubles Final Cooper/Fisher (GBR/RSA) d. (8) Lo/Salgado (USA/POR) 6-4 6-4 ...
Those playing the Caribbean tournaments had three options nearby this week (Katie Swan tried the toughest, a G3 event in Costa Rica, where she qualified but copped a tough draw against a WTA ranked seed) and Georgina Axon plus Mia Smith have benefited from the weaker field here Boys R1 (L32) (WC) Cons...
