ATP Delray Beach $455K (Hard) - (Bogdanovic)CHALLENGERSCherbourg $50K+H (Indoor Hard) - Jamie BakerSalinas $35K+H (Clay) - James WardFUTURESCardiff GBF5 $10K (Indoor Hard) -Josh Goodall, Dan Smethurst, Richard Bloomfield, Alex Ward, Ed Corrie, Neil Pauffley, Tom Burn, James Marsalek, M...
Lewis Roskilly is top seed here, and progressed smoothly through round 1. Georgina Axon played a major part in the under 14 team's third place at the weekend, but ran out of steam here. Boys R1 (L32) (1) Lewis Roskilly (GBR) d. (Q) Christopher Robin Klettenberg (EST) 6-4 6-1 R2 (1) Lewis Roskilly (GBR)...
Q1: Jessica REN (GBR) [q4] 1116 vs. (WC) Paulina WULCAN (SWE) UNR Q1: Anna SMITH (GBR) UNR vs. Ella LEIVO (FIN) [q6] 1119 Wulcan: 17yo CH:UNR JWR992 never won senior itf level match Leivo: 18yo CH:1110 (12/2012) former JWR410 first match for 18 months Bamburac should be MD, Danielle not staying on t...
Q1: Nicola SLATER (GBR) [q7] 787 vs. Bye EWS should be MD here Worth comparing this $25K to the current one in Rancho Santa Fe. Tara, Sam, Lisa & Mel would all be MD & seeded here. In America none were seeded. Mel had to qualify, and Lisa got MD because of a rush of last minute withdrawals.
Lana Rush and Anna Brogan have ventured to South America as the COSAT circuit nears its end, and fields gradually become tougher. Anna's opponent won the only junior ITF tournament she has played in the last year R1 (L64) (11) Lana Rush (GBR) bye Anna Brogan (GBR) v (WC) Julieta Lara Estable (ARG)
Q1: Eleanor Deaves (GBR) UNR vs. Laura GIBANEL VELASCO (ESP) UNR Gibanel Velasco: 17yo CH:UNR JWR:622 4 10K qualies in last year, made MD once Lucy Brown should be MD here
Q1: Laura DEIGMAN (GBR) [q5] 1013 vs. Sirui HE (CHN) UNR Q1: Farah ABDELAZIZ (GBR) UNR vs. Melina FERRERO (ARG) [q9] 1119 He: 23yo CH:807 (08/2010) failed to qualify all 12 attempts at 10K level in last 12 months Ferrero: 20yo CH:792 (09/2009) qualified for MD lats 2 weeks in Sharm
Fitzy is due to be in the main draw here and it looks like Matthew Short (his first Futures appearance this year) has scraped in too. QR1: Daniel Bristow UNR v Konstantin Feise (GER) UNR (both in their first Futures event) QR1: Nikki Roenn UNR v (q11) Sergio Magro Moreno (ESP) WR 977 QR1: Matthew Chadwic...
The under 12 team of Jack Draper, Jacob Fearnley and George Loffhagen started the season of Winter Cup events in fine style thumping Hungary, Ukraine and Austria 3-0 without dropping a set to qualify as one of 4 seeded teams for the finals in 2 weeks time. Next week the under 14s (Jack Molloy, Les Petit...
The Tennis Europe Winter Cup started this weekend with the under 12s succeeding in qualifying for the finals to be held in 2 weeks time in Sheffield. The team of Lauren Armstrong, Esther Adeshina and Tanysha Dissanayake beat Belgium 2-1 to secure qualification, but hardly won a game against the per...
This is the only ATP Challenger being held anywhere next week. QR1: (q2) Jamie Baker WR 203 v Sam Barry (IRL) WR 601 H2H 1-0, 3 & 4, Glasgow Fut R1 2011 The other seed in this section is (q7) Nicolas Renavand (FRA) WR 274
Samm Butler has reached the final here, where there will be a battle of the top seeds, neither having dropped a set. Samm had a good win in round 2 over the younger of the much touted Ymer brothers (last year's Tennis Europe No. 1) Boys R1 (L32) (1) Simon Friis Soendergaard (DEN) d. Youssef Hassan (GBR) 7-...
Four British seeds here, headed by Aswin Lizen. Jamie Malik looks for a second successive singles title. After a comfortable opener he plays the Orange Bowl u14 runner-up next. R1 (L32) (1) Aswin Lizen (GBR) d. (WC) Joris Bodin (NED) 7-6(5) 6-2 Andrew Watson (GBR) d. (6) Bart Van Leijsen (NED) 6-2 7-6...
R1: Daniel Nestor & Mikhail Youzhny (CAN/RUS) vs Colin Fleming & Jonny Marray R1: Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot vs Juan Martín del Potro & Michaël Llodra (ARG/FRA)
Callum Poland-Smith is seeded in this Grade 2, which is streamed ( http://discovery.md/camere/ with the oop at http://www.sturdzacup.md/DRAWS/oop.pdf ) R1 (L32) Oybek Abdurahimov (UZB) v (5) Callum Poland-Smith (GBR) Joshua Paris (GBR) v (2) Vadym Kalyuzhnyy (UKR)
The third Kenyan event with Jay Clarke hoping to go one step further than last week R1 (L64) (Q) William Bissett (GBR) d. Emanuel Mallya (TAN) 6-3 6-1 (4) Jay Clarke (GBR) bye Daniel Little (GBR) d. Ibrahim Kibet Yego (KEN) 6-1 6-3 R2 (Q) William Bissett (GBR) v (16) Noureldin Adam (SUD) Laurens Verbove...
So Rafa has been back playing for a week and a half, and whilst most tennis fans seem delighted that he's back (he WAS missed), I sense a few reservations and rumblings in the distant background...... That aside, what I've been staggered about is how strident and opinionated he's become about everyth...
Via Twitter and subject to confirmation when they can finally be bothered to post the official drawsheet (the draw was an hour and a half ago): L56: Laura Robson WR 45 v Daniela Hantuchová (SVK) WR 58 Laura has (fairly memorably) played the former world no. 5 once before, going a set up on her at Wimble...
Q1: Farah ABDELAZIZ (GBR) UNR vs. Natasha PILUDU (ITA) UNR Q1: Laura DEIGMAN (GBR) [q7] 1014 vs. BYE Q2: Laura DEIGMAN (GBR) [q7] 1014 vs. Alexandra SHCHIPAKINA (RUS) UNR - (14 yo JWR1109)