I found out - mainly by asking why the ITF junior final was on Friday rather than Saturday - that the winter county cup(open age)is on this weekend. I did find it a bit strange that it is a 3 day event starting on Friday morning, especially when some of the lesser counties will not have 6 pro players so they w...
QR1: Lorenzo Comino (ITA) UNR vs (q15) Thomas Drayton UNR QR1: Charles Dossetter UNR vs (q9) David Eichenseher (GER) WR 1624 (CH = 1587 last month) QR1: (q8) Sven Corbinais (FRA) WR 1612 (CH = 1405 in April) vs Neil Smith UNR Ewen Lumsden should be in the main draw.
L32: Cleeve Harper (CAN) WR 1170 (CH = 1057 last November) vs Adam Jones WR 1646 (CH = 1155 in April last year) L32: (3) Alastair Gray WR 507 (CH = 237 in September 2022) vs Qualifier L32: (5) Max Basing WR 609 (CH = 601 last month) vs Viktor Markov (BUL) WR 1496 (CH = 1488 two weeks ago)
QR1: Russell Henderson UNR vs (q14) Tadjia Radovanovic (SRB) UNR QR1: (q4) Tom Hands WR 1456 (CH = 1333 in March 2020) vs (qWC) João Barreto (POR) UNR QR1: (q7) Harry Thursfield UNR vs Ying Hou UNR Harry Wendelken should be in the main draw & Finn Bass may well have been bumped up.
Stuart, who turned 23 at the end of last month, doesn't appear to have a dedicated thread, so I thought I'd start one, given the amount of success (seven wins) he's enjoyed in the UTR Pro Series in France this month. He's beaten:Laurent Lokoli (WR 358/CH = 207 in April 2015) (3 & 5, 3/8),Gleb Sakhar...
With at least 62 people now reported to have been killed in the south east of the country (the Valencia region has been worst affected) & more than a year's worth of rainfall in eight hours, the situation sounds pretty grim. I hope...
L32: Giles Hussey WR 404 (CH = 304 in August) vs Neil Oberleitner (AUT) WR 436 (= CH) L32: (5) Michael Geerts (BEL) WR 301 (CH = 212 in April last year) vs Henry Searle WR 514 (CH = 506 in August)
J100 Kenya Matt Upton has made the QFs J100 Mexico Freya Peet got a BYE and then a win in R2 Young Clarice Ouvarova won her R1 but lost a close match in R2 J100 Slovakia Ben Gusic Wan, as top seed, is into R2 after a three-set win in R1 Shout out for Leticia Romanova, though, who came through qualies and then...
With his brother, brought Triathlon to the public attention. Great athlete and great ambassador for his sport. One of my wifes best friends taught him at Bradford Grammar and said he was a great lad. As he said to brother Jonny: think youre the best in the world? Britain? Yorkshire? Youre not even be...
