QR1: Sabrina Bamburac WR 825 v Mari Osaka (JPN) WR 914 Osaka is a 16-year-old who looks to be heavily under-ranked, having played only intermittently last year and reached a 10K Final, reached the FQR last week and qualified for the last 25K she played in 2012. -- Edited by steven on Monday 14th of Janua...
Just 2 Brits here for the Australian Open warm-up - Katy Dunne with a fairly good draw and Harriet Dart with a fairly tough one. R1 (L64) (11) Oleksandr Korashvili (UKR) v Harriet Dart (GBR) Ellen Perez (AUS) v (9) Katy Dunne (GBR)
Could this be one of the most competitive qualifying tournaments of all time to reach a $10k main draw, which in turn is one of the most overly competitive main draws I've ever seen. 4 rounds of matches just to qualify and just look at some of the names. And the next 2 USA futures events look very similar in...
I can't find the qualifying drawsheet yet, but the OoP on the app suggests Colin is having a go at qualifying here: QR1: Colin Fleming UNR v Michal Mertinak (SVK) WR 854 (CH 129 in 2005)
There are some very interesting ties in this week's British Tour. Anna Smith continues her return to competitive tennis and faces Mel South tomorrow. This will be a good measure of where her games is. In another QF, Fitzy plays Fran Stephenson. The top seed is Tara, and 13 year old Katie Swan took seven...
QR1: (q22) Anne Keothavong WR 142 v Grace Min (USA) WR 178 2nd on Court 5 after 23.00 GMT, so probably around 00.30 GMT The other seed in Anne's section is (q4) Tatjana Malek (GER) WR 115 (CH 64 in 2009), whom she beat in Ismaning in 2011, having lost to her 5 years earlier. QR1: Johanna Konta WR 153 v Anastas...
ATP Australian Open Week 1 (Hard) - Andy Murray (Baker, Ward)CHALLENGERSNo EventsFUTURESUSA F2 $10K (Clay) - Alex Bogdanovic (Edmund, Marsalek, Bambridge, Broady)Glasgow GBF1 $10K (Indoor Hard) - Josh Goodall, Dan Evans, Dan Smethurst, Josh Milton, Richard Bloomfield, Alex Ward, Neil P...
We have a Grade 2 followed by a Grade 1 in the old Czechoslovakia with Katie Boulter expected to join Billy Harris and Callum Poland-Smith having withdrawn from the trip to Australia Boys R1 (L64) (13) Billy Harris (GBR) bye (10) Callum Poland-Smith (GBR) bye
The entry lists are out for the Australian Open, with the main omission being Kyle Edmund, opting to play Futures events seemingly. Luke Bambridge is also down for Futures in the w/c 7th but has entered both the Australian Open (starting 19th) and the Traralgon warm-up (starting 12th). Katie Boult...
The defending champion here, Andy Murray OBE will play Ito or a qualifier in R2 and is then seeded to meet (8) Klizan in the QFs and (4) Dolgopolov or (5) Nishikori in the SFs, with (2) Raonic and (3) Simon the top seeds in the bottom half of the draw.
Hello ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce my self, I am an all round sports fan with particular interest in tennis and cricket, and all sports other than football really. I got particularly "interested" in tennis a couple of years ago through Steven's rankings page and the forums. I'v...
Since no-one else has stepped up to the plate, here be this year's ranking prediction competition. I've made some changes to the rules in order to try and make each player's performance have an equal contribution to your score regardless of their current ranking, and to mitigate the effects of injur...
Since no-one else has stepped up to the plate, here be this year's ranking prediction competition. I've made some changes to the rules in order to try and make each player's performance have an equal contribution to your score regardless of their current ranking, and to mitigate the effects of injur...
ATP Australian Open Qualifying (Hard) - Jamie Baker, James WardCHALLENGERSNo EventsFUTURESUSA F1 $10K (Clay) - Alex Bogdanovic, Oli Golding (Edmund, Marsalek, Bambridge, Broady)Germany F1 $10K (Indoor Carpet) - (Meehan)WTAAustralian Open Qualifying (Hard) - Anne Keothavong, Johanna...
The first WTA rankings of 2013 and already there are some milestones to report! (they've been updated for 7 January on the app and on the archived old site http://bit.ly/RA76cu but not on the new site yet, which is amusing ...) Laura becomes the first Brit to make the WTA singles top 50 before her 19th bi...
I've revised my 10 random predictions for GB men in 2013 downwards a little, after the last week's juniors and Team Aegon announcements. Still rose-tinted spectacles and overly optimistic, but I hope some successes worthy of Paul the Octopus. 1. Andy Murray WILL be a winner at Wimbledon, a finalist...