I see today that Esther Vergeer has announced her retirement, and thought it was worth just noting it here.A remarkable, astounding career. Congratulations to her, and all the best for whatever she undertakes next.The WTA summary of her tennis achievements:Vergeer's numbers speak for themsel...
ATP San Jose $550K (Indoor Hard) - (Bogdanovic)CHALLENGERSQuimper $50K+H (Indoor Hard) - (Baker) FUTURESTurkey F6 $10K (Hard) - (Allemby)WTADoha $2.2 Million (Hard) - Laura Robson USA $25K (Hard) - Sam Murray, Tara Moore (Whybourn, South)Egypt $10K (Hard) - (Deigman, Abdelaziz)Turke...
- Fed Cup promotion - first ATP Challenger singles Final for a Brit for 18 months - two ITF 25K doubles titles in AUS & the US - an ITF 100K doubles finalist in the US - all-GB singles semis at Wirral Futures (despite having just 2 of the top 4 seeds) & another title for Ed Corrie - doubles title at Wi...
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Here's news of a fifth junior title this week, a first for Josef Dodridge after a tight battle with a familiar name - Tallon is the younger brother of Kevin and Scott, who should be familiar to those who follow the Futures circuit. Boys R1 (L32) (Q) Josef Dodridge (GBR) d. Peter Bothwell (IRL) 6-4 6-0 Sei...
QR1: Anthony Hudson UNR v (q10) Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (THA) WR 917 QR1: James Allemby UNR v (q15) Vaclav Safranek (CZE) WR 1176 QR1: Saqib Farooq UNR v (q8) Bowen Ouyand (CHN) WR 820 -- Edited by steven on Saturday 9th of February 2013 06:39:27 PM
In Burnie, James played 7th seed Duckworth in R1 and got a qualifier in R2. And now ... L32: James Ward WR 270 v (6) James Duckworth (AUS) WR 223 ... with the winner playing a qualifier (this time the winner of a Q v Q match) in R2! -- Edited by steven on Saturday 2nd of February 2013 03:04:18 AM
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...
