Quite a high quality ranking list means that just Tara has made the main draw directly. WC's for Naomi, Sam, Jade and Jess Simpson Quali draw should be on the LTA website soon I intend to be present on Wed and possibly the weekend as long as there is GB involvement,
QR1: Johanna Konta WR 116 v (q17) Petra Martic (CRO) WR 98 (CH 42 in 2012) H2H 0-1 - Martic won 2 & 3 in Copenhagen in 2012 The winner plays 4th Q seed Dellacqua or Tatishvili in the FQR. QR1: (wc) Heather Watson WR 134 v (q7) Virginie Razzano (FRA) WR 83 (CH 16 in 2009) H2H - first meeting The winner plays 2...
Dan, Ed & Richard should be in the main draw again but with more players turning up in plenty of time for the following week's Challenger (including Olivier Rochus beefing up the Belgian contingent), they are likely to be seeded lower than this week - and if wild cards go to high-ranked players aga...
The draw is finally out on LTA site Rice, Willis, Tom F, Broady, Milton, Bambo, JWH, George C, Cam, Rob C and Toby should be in the main draw. Jathan, Harry, Sam Hutt and Peter Ashley look like they have made the main draw either directly or via wildcards. Qualis don't look that strong and George Morgan s...
Naomi should be the top seed in the main draw, Dasha is also due to play and it looks like Eden Silva has made it straight in too. FQR: Farah Abdelaziz UNR v Tereza Mihaliková (SVK) UNR A very weak qualifying draw but Farah has drawn the short straw, it seems - 15-year-old Mihaliková is world junior no. 78!...
Oli should be seeded in the main draw here. QR1: William Flavell UNR v Michele Longo (ITA) UNR The winner will play (q4) Ivan Sabanov (CRO) WR 990 in QR2
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...
