Another very short thread, since it turns out that a Brit did sneak into the draw here after all - but not the singles draw: L16: (Alt) Harry Meehan & Christian Hirschmüller (GER) lost to (WC) Bastian Knittel & Jan-Lennard Struff (both GER) by 5 & 5 Not a bad effort against two decent pla...
Amanda Carreras plays a tournament on a surface other than clay! Two late WC's mean that Mandy is not the #1 seed, as had looked likely. Any run of MD wins between now and the end of April should see Mandy climbing up and up and setting new CH's along the way. R1: Amanda CARRERAS (GBR) [3] 335 vs. Alix COLLO...
According to her tweets Katy's injury has been healing well this week to allow her to play in the main draw on Sunday. Her draw is reasonable for this level, but nevertheless testing, against an opponent ranked around 750 WTA. Harriet has a nightmare draw against the US Open finalist, who is already in...
128 man, 4 round qualifying draw out, and once again Luke and James are drawn in the same section, meaning only 1 can theoretically qualify. You couldn't make this up! 3 times out of 3 this scenario has occurred on this trip......i.e. 2 Brits drawn together.....not that it ever mattered, since only Ky...
The second tournament for Maia et al. Millie Stretton has a tough draw against a Russian who has won all her 20 ITF matches so far. Boys R1 (L32) Youssef Hassan (GBR) v Aleksandre Bakshi (GEO) Kareem Allaf (SYR) v (Q) Josef Dodridge (GBR) Sam Rice (GBR) v Jordan Janszen (NED) Girls R1 (L32) Katie Dyson (G...
Similar to the one that cropped up on 'Millionaire' but subly different. Certainly created some discussion at a pub quiz I was at. "Excluding retirements, penalty points, time penalties etc. , what is the fewest possible number of times a player can hit the ball during a set of tennis and win...
Q1: Naomi BROADY 290 (GBR) [8] vs Fiona GERVIAS 995 (FRA) Nomes is in a good section, the other seed is #9, Magda Linette. Hope she can find some form this year. JoKo should be MD & seeded here. -- Edited by wolf on Saturday 19th of January 2013 12:08:08 AM
Next opportunity for Tom Hill to break his long run of losses - but not a promising draw against a player who knocked out the top seed in last week's Grade 1 R1 (L64) Tom Hill (GBR) v Juan Pablo Varillas Patino-Samudio (PER)
Orange Bowl champion Maia Lumsden opts to open her 2013 campaign in the Emirates, and has an easy looking opener. Boys R1 (L32) (1) Roman Nashatyrkin (RUS) v Youssef Hassan (GBR) Josef Dodridge (GBR) v Seif Ben Slimane (TUN) (WC) Abdulla Ahli (UAE) v Sam Rice (GBR) Girls R1 (L32) Emelie Luisa Schwarte...
Main draw DAs here for Goodall, Evans, Smethurst, Milton, Bloomfield, Ward, Pauffley, Corrie, Burn and Rice. Very strong qualifying draw Possible main draw wild cards include Hewitt, Willis, Fitzpatrick and O'Mara
Last year Billy Harris and Chris Pearce won the doubles title here, and are back to defend. Katie Boulter should be joined by Lana Rush and Anna Brogan, with the girls starting a day after the boys. Boys R1 (L64) (13) Billy Harris (GBR) bye (9) Callum Poland-Smith (GBR) bye (WC) Dominik Kellovsky (CZE)...
Apologies for the lack of prior notice (though happily there are still about 70 hours before entries close!), since we only decided at the last minute that we are going to run a BOTB for the AO this year. I am unlikely to have a big enough block of free time early next week to get all the results pages up and r...
ATP Australian Open Week 2 (Hard) - Andy MurrayCHALLENGERSHeilbronn $100K+H (Indoor Hard) - (Baker)FUTURESUSA F3 $10K (Clay) - Alex Bogdanovic (Edmund, Marsalek, Bambridge, Broady)Preston GBF2 $10K (Indoor Hard) - Josh Goodall, Dan Evans, Dan Smethurst, Josh Milton, Richard Bloomfiel...
I'm sure many of us are intrigued about how LA will spin his story to the world to his own ends. Clearly his actions over an extended period of time are indefensible on a number of counts. 1. The years of sophisticated blood transfusions and chemical doping, all of which are of course illegal 2. The years...
Both Brits have drawn unseeded clay court specialists, which is about as good as we could have hoped for as far as QR1 is concerned. QR1: Jamie Baker WR 246 v Julio César Campozano (ECU) WR 222 (= CH) (q19) Matteo Viola ITA & former top 5 player (q9) James Blake (USA) are the seeded players in thi...
Boggo should be in the main draw here but probably won't be seeded this time. QR1: Liam Broady WR 885 v Hassan Ndayishimiye (BDI) WR 1106 QR1: Luke Bambridge WR 797 v Guilherme Hadlich (BRA) WR 1021 QR1: (q12) James Marsalek WR 616 v Dominik Varhanik (CZE) UNR QR1: (q9) Kyle Edmund WR 571 v Rafael Mazón-H...
Not a bad effort against two decent pla...
QR1: Jamie Baker WR 246 v Julio César Campozano (ECU) WR 222 (= CH) (q19) Matteo Viola ITA & former top 5 player (q9) James Blake (USA) are the seeded players in thi... 