JoKo is likely to be the top seed here, with Tara, Jade (who looks to have scraped in at the last moment) and wild cards Anna Smith, Dasha Konotoptseva, Beth Askew and Jasmine Asghar also in the main draw. QR1: (wc) Charlotte Pearce UNR v (q1) Myrtille Georges (FRA) WR 304 QR1: (q15) Manisha Foster WR 742...
After claiming his maiden ITF singles title last week in Abu Dhabi, plus the doubles, Youssef Hassan looks for more titles in the Middle East Boys R1 (L32) Nikita Valentsev (RUS) v (WC) Karim Najia (GBR) (WC) Fares Al Janahi (UAE) v (6) Charlie Ridout (GBR) Piers Farhang (GBR) v Sherzodbek Radjabov...
Willis and Burton are again in the main draw. QR1: (q13) Miles Bugby WR 1539 v Bye QR2: (q13) Miles Bugby WR 1539 v Matej Maruscak (SVK) WR 1784 or Lukas Weinhandl (AUT) WR 1649
Good to see JoKo in the qualifying draw here - hopefully means that whatever forced her to pull out in Sunderland wasn't too serious. QR1: Johanna Konta WR 114 v Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) WR 123 (CH 86 a year ago) -- Edited by steven on Friday 24th of January 2014 05:32:07 PM
The COSAT circuit moves on to clay with Alex Sendegeya looking for another title this week R1`(L64) Silas Araujo De Cerqueira (BRA) v (6) Alexander Sendegeya (GBR) (15) Rafael Antonio Coutinho (VEN) v Aswin Lizen (GBR)
Wasn't sure where to put this but for anyone who's interested there's a section on the LTA website about this year's off-season that I assume will be updated as time goes on. Right now they have videos/interviews with Gordon Reid, Colin Fleming, Jo Konta, Jamie Murray and Tara Moore and photo galler...
L128: Laura Robson WR 46 v (18) Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) WR 19 (CH 13 last Aug) The winner plays Zvonareva or Dellacqua and the other seed in the section is 12th seed Roberta Vinci. -- Edited by steven on Friday 10th of January 2014 12:39:51 AM
L32: James Ward WR 165 v (6) Denis Kudla (USA) WR 113 (CH 90 in Jul) L32: Dan Evans WR 150 v Austin Krajicek (USA) WR 226 (CH 210 in Jul) The latter a bit odd, given that all indications are that Evo is currently in Nottingham Kudla beat James 6-2 4-6 6-3 in Roland Garros qualifying in 2012.
The third week of Indian tournaments sees a scale back to G3 level. Jay has exited to Wei-De Lin in the last two weeks, but he is a likely second round opponent for Alexis Canter this time R1 (L32) (Q) Amarnath Arora (IND) v Jay Clarke (GBR) Alexis Canter (GBR) v Nikshep Ballekere Ravikumar (IND)
Ratty's favourite! R1: Flavia Pennetta & Fabio Fogninin (ITA/ITA) CR 68 (33+35) vs Abigail Spears (USA) & Dom Inglot CR 52 (24+28) R1: Cara Black (ZIM) & Jamie Murray CR 62 (14+48) vs (5) Anabel Medina & Bruno Soares (ESP/BRA) CR 34 (31+3) Those two pairs are both in the same quarte...
Kyle should be seeded in the main draw here and Alex Ward may well be seeded too, but first there is a mammoth 4-day qualifying competition to be played: QR1: Stefan Cooper UNR v Dennis Uspensky (USA) WR 1618 (CH 1519 in Oct; junior WR 73) Edited to amend title.-- Edited by Stircrazy on Friday 10th of Jan...
ATPAustralian Open Week 2 (Hard) - Andy MurrayCHALLENGERSMaui $50K (Hard) - Dan Evans, James WardFUTURESSunderland GBF2 $10K (Indoor Hard) - Dan Cox, Ed Corrie, David Rice, Dan Smethurst, Ashley Hewitt, Richard Gabb, Tom Farquharson, Josh Milton, Neil Pauffley, James Marsalek (Ward-...
Eden Silva stays in Egypt for another week and is in the qualifying draw QR1 Eden Silva GBR(14) 1201 v Bye QR2 Eden Silva GBR(14) 1201 v Darya Kasatkina(RUS) UNR Horrible draw for Eden against one of the best juniors in the world at the moment.
As you can probably see, I've been making an number of updates in the last couple of hours.
[1] Calendar button: There is now an online calendar which lists when our members joined and also birthday reminders. In the new season, I'm going to update it with details of Andy's matches and also his tour...
Jade, Anna, Katy, Lucy, Dasha, Manisha, Jess Simpson and Jess Ren plus Jasmine, Maia, Lana and Beth all in main draw As expected Tara has a QWC and will only have to beat a French girl Sparse qualifying draw and one GB guaranteed girl in the main draw. Draw on ITF site, but not on LTA yet.
Aswin Lizen is joined by Alex Sendegeya for the second COSAT hardcourt event. Corentin Moutet, who caused Max Stewart a lot of problems last year in under 14 events, and a quarter-finalist in last week's G1, is a potential second round opponent for Alex R1 (L64) (5) Alexander Sendegeya (GBR) bye Vita...
Corrie, Rice, Smethurst, Hewitt, Gabb, Farquharson, Pauffley, Marsalek, Ward-Hibbert and Coupland should all be in the DAs in the main draw. Martin and O'Mara may also have joined them if there were late withdrawals or may have wild cards. I wouldn't be too surprised to see Cox turn up as wild card ei...
Willis and Burton will be in the main draw here. QR1: (q16) Miles Bugby WR 1539 v Bye QR2: (q16) Miles Bugby WR 1539 v Matan Shay Ganzi (ISR) UNR or Matija Pecotic (CRO) WR 1668 Edited to correct spelling of "Eilat".-- Edited by Stircrazy on Friday 10th of January 2014 07:39:47 PM
A number of top juniors opt for the European events in former Czechoslovakia (a G2 followed by a G1). Julian Cash is one of them, and secures the top seeding here. Jamie Malik will be hoping to tear a strip off his opponent. R1 (L64) (1) Julian Cash (GBR) bye Luca Sucevic (SRB) v Joel Cannell (GBR) Philip M...
A lot of GB representation here this week: Boys: Youssef HASSAN (GBR) (1) def. Thibault SAIVE (BEL) Daniel LITTLE (GBR) (6) def. Rhys MILNE (RSA) Also playing (presumably first rounds tomorrow) are: Piers Farhang, Lucas Taylor, Charlie Ridout (4), Karim Najia (WC), William Bissett (Q) and Fredd...
