Tom Colautti plays his first junior event of the year here, and is seeded along with Samm Butler R1 (L32) Olexei Kolisnyk (UKR) v (8) Samm Butler (GBR) Robbie Ridout (GBR) v Alexander Lebedyn (UKR) (6) Thomas Colautti (GBR) v Oybek Abdurahimov (UZB)
An embarassment of Brit doubles riches here - & they're (nearly) all seeded! R1: (1) Colin Fleming & Jonny Marray vs (WC) Gaël Monfils & Josselin Ouanna (FRA/FRA) R1: (4) Jamie Delgado & Ken Skupski vs André Begemann & Martin Emmrich (GER/GER) R1: Rameez Junaid & Jarkk...
After winning both titles between them in Sfax the second Tunisian Grade 2 gives the opportunity for Isabelle Wallace and Katie Boulter to repeat the feat. Lana Rush however has left, but the British contingent has been boosted by a couple of qualifiers. Katie is likely to face the Kazakh girl who bea...
The second Tunisian Grade 2 features the same 6 Brits as last week, with Alex Sendegeya and Jonny O'Mara in identical places in the draw. Lewis Roskilly, Isaac Stoute and Julian Cash appear to have tough draws against seeds. R1 (L32) (1) Skander Mansouri (TUN) v Lewis Roskilly (GBR) Isaac Stoute (GBR...
A maiden final for Jamie Malik R2 (L32) (8) Samuel Taylor (GBR) d. (Q) Tim Ruehl (GER) 6-4 6-0 (4) Jamie Malik (GBR) d. Nathan Elia Schmid (SUI) 6-2 6-3 R3 (11) Simone Roncalli (ITA) d. (8) Samuel Taylor (GBR) 6-2 6-1 (4) Jamie Malik (GBR) d. (14) Marco Mosciatti (ITA) 7-5 6-4 QF (4) Jamie Malik (GBR) d. (7)...
In the second of the Kenyan events Jay Clarke has reached his maiden semi, whilst we have representation in 3 of the 4 boys doubles semifinalists. Jay's semi opponent is the player who knocked him out last week. Boys R1 (L64) (6) Jay Clarke (GBR) bye (15) Daniel Little (GBR) bye (8) Alexis Canter (GBR) b...
Read about Neal Skupski "shock win" at the Wirral, do me a favor anyone who has any knowledge or knows tennis and I know the idiots of Liverpool city council could not identiy talent if it hit them in the face example was Ken skupski. That is why that tennis centre is a white elephant. Neal Sku...
Q1: Jade WINDLEY (GBR) [5] 449 vs. Melanie BENYADI (FRA) (WC) UNR (H2H: 0-0)Jade should qualify from a section mostly filled with local WC. The other seed is 29 yo Nicole Clerico [15] (CH 381)
Draw for qualies is out but too busy watching the AO to type it out. Good to see however that Dan Cox is playing and has been given a WC into the qualies.
Byes in qualifying and, perhaps surprisingly, only one Brit: QR2: (q1) Alex Bogdanovic WR 309 v Luka Gregorc (SLO) WR 698 (CH 172 in 2009) or (wc) Jon Wiegand (USA) WR 1480 (= CH) H2H v Gregorc is 1-0, Alex having won 3 & 2 in the Champaign Challenger QFs in 2011. -- Edited by steven on Saturday 2nd of F...
This interview on the BBC website this morning. I find many of the comments and quotes rather extraordinary - vague, misleading, disingenuous - in fact much of it reminds me of the leader of the London Olympics "Deliverance" Committee on the brilliant comedy 2012 - "so that's all go...
QR1: Dave Rice WR 733 v (q7) Roberto Marcora (ITA) WR 442 H2H 1-0, Dave won 1 & 4 at the Cherbourg Challenger last year. Marcora went out to Dan S in R2 in Sheffield this week.
L32: (7) Johanna Konta WR 153 v Julia Glushko (ISR) WR 176 (CH 157 last Sep) Probably the worst R1 draw JoKo could have got as a seed - the H2H is 0-4 (0-2 in juniors & 0-2 in seniors), including a 3 & thrashing in the Lexington 50K Final last summer, though there are two 3-setters in that H2H as well...
First chance to follow Isabelle Wallace as a Brit in junior competition. She faces a testing opener against the player who Maia Lumsden beat in the Orange Bowl semis. Isabelle, Lana Rush and Katie Boulter are all seeded. Lana has the chance to avenge a defeat by her opponent last year. R1 (L32) (Q) Theo...
First junior ITF of the year for Jonny O'Mara, amongst a group of Brits here R1 (L32) (LL) Ghassen Khedder (TUN) v Lewis Roskilly (GBR) (4) Alexander Sendegeya (GBR) v Mikhail Korovin (RUS) Isaac Stoute (GBR) v (7) Adrian Bodmer (SUI) (WC) Majed Kilani (TUN) v (3) Jonny O'Mara (GBR) (Q) Christopher Re...
Wardy is staying down under to play this Challenger in Tasmania: L32: James Ward WR 247 v (6) James Duckworth (AUS) WR 223 (CH 167 last May) Duckworth was the player who beat Ben Mitchell 8-6 in the 5th in the all-Aussie WC R1 match at the AO then lost 10-8 in the 5th to Kavcic in R2, when the Slovenian ended u...
L32: (8) Heather Watson WR 50 v Timea Babos (HUN) WR 73 (CH 59 last Aug) Starting with her loss to Petkovic in New Haven (and includng her loss to JoKo at the USO), Babos is on an 8-match losing streak, though she did go very close against Mladenovic at the AO - the Impaler won 11-9 in the 3rd. The other seed i...
What a shame. Definitely going to be less engaged now with Andy's matches. I don't use twitter or facebook, so that is not going to help. There is still murraysworld, but never used that. I may check it out. -- Edited by steven on Thursday 18th of August 2011 12:46:35 PM
