With Laura and Heather's late season heroics, things have mostly been looking positive at the top end of GB women's tennis lately. However, here's a slightly sobering statistic: at the start of this year, 32 members of this board predicted what the ranking of the then top-10 GB women would be tomorro...
Gabi Taylor starts her pursuit of a second title in Morocco (and maybe a golden racket) with a gentle looking opener against a local girl R1 (L32) Gabriella Patricia Taylor (GBR) v Tilida El Yazidi (MAR)
With many of the players in Osaka decamping to South Korea, this is quite a strong field for a Grade 2 event, with Katie Boulter and Anna Brogan forced to qualify - which they did in style. All the draws are much tougher than the first round draws in Osaka, with Katie's opponent having won the Thai Grade 2 l...
Matt Short should be joining Kyle, Luke & Liam in the main draw this week. QR1: James Chaudry UNR v Dillon Pottish (USA) UNR QR1: Joe Salisbury UNR v Oleg Mironchikov (RUS) UNR QR1: Connor Glennon UNR v Raphael Werner (SUI) UNR -- Edited by steven on Saturday 27th of October 2012 01:15:46 PM
Originally scheduled for Delhi, but moved late on to Pune, this is the second of the WTA events pitched below International Level for emerging tennis geographies. Points and monetary rewards are higher than an ITF $100K, but on the evidence so far, the field depth is far short of that. As can be evide...
Last week Adam Glynn was beaten in the doubles final (by Christopher Reynolds and partner), and experienced the same fate (to different opponents) this week. However he went one step further in the singles to claim his maiden title in impressive style - losing no more than a handful of games in any mat...
After last week's Thai Grade 2, three of the Brits decamped to Malaysia and are having a good tournament Boys R2 (L32) (3/WC) Callum Poland-Smith (GBR) d. Alberto Lim (PHI) 5-7 6-0 6-1 (6) Samm Butler (GBR) d. Wei-De Lin (TPE) 6-2 4-6 6-4 R3 (3/WC) Callum Poland-Smith (GBR) d. (14) Sahil Deshmukh (IND)...
A highly successful week for British junior tennis with winners and finalists all over the place. One boy stayed in Thailand after last week's Grade 2, and Bjorn Thomson has reached his maiden final in the week of his 15th birthday. The final is a tough one against a strong Aussie who beat him last week,...
R1: Philipp Kohlschreiber & Florian Mayer (GER/GER) vs Paul Hanley (AUS) & Jonny Marray The Bryans (1) lie in wait in the second round, if they get through that one, not that Jonny's a stranger to overcoming them...! R1: John Isner & Sam Querrey (USA/USA) vs Colin Fleming & Ross Hu...
L32: (5) Lorenzo Giustino (ITA) WR 500 vs (Q) George Morgan WR 864 ***** R1: George Morgan & Jeroen Vanneste (BEL) UNR vs (WC) Durukan Durmus (*) & Efe Yurtaçan (TUR/TUR) UNR (*) There should be a cedilla under the "s" at the end of "Durmus", but the bloody Activeboa...
Georgina Axon has become the first of our promising '99s to win an ITF title (with Louise Ronaldson), while Sam Rice has a chance of a maiden title in singles Boys R2 (L32) (8) Sam Rice (GBR) d. (WC) Leon Olivier (RSA) 6-0 6-1 (12) Patrick Graham (GBR) d. (WC) Janre Muller (RSA) 6-2 6-2 R3 (8) Sam Rice (GBR)...
Q1: DUNFORD, Kyria (GBR) UNR v BEES, Hollie (GBR) UNRQ1: WATTS, Sophie (GBR) WC UNR v PRADOVA, Martina (CZE) 1153Q1: MCMINN, Lauren (GBR) UNR v EKLUND, Mia Nicole (FIN) UNRQ1: DREW, Jazzamay (GBR) UNR v FOLLAND, Brigit( GBR) UNRQ1:WATTS, Anneka (GBR) UNR v KINARD, Tori (USA) 652Q1: RACA, Edita (GBR...
L32: (3) Andy Murray v (WC) Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) WR 101 (CH 12 in 2008) or Qualifier PHM is likely to rise sharply on Monday - he's playing the Fed in the semi-finals in Basel later today! Cilic is the first seed Andy is likely to meet, then Tipsy or Mónaco are potential QF opponents, Fed in the same hal...
L32: Amanda Carreras WR 384 v Danka Kovinic (MNE) WR 299 (CH 277 in July) H2H 1-0 - Amanda won 4 & 3 in Mallorca in 2010 just before Kovinic's 16th birthday.
The final leg of the Asian tour gives Evan Hoyt a chance to make up for last week's disappointment in Osaka. Unlike Tom Hill he appears to be in a good section of the draw. R1 (L32) (4) Evan Hoyt (GBR) v (WC) Yunseong Chung (KOR) Tom Hill (GBR) v (2) Weigiang Zheng (CHN)
R1: (1) Ken Skupski & Jamie Delgado vs Matthias Bachinger & Oliver Marach (GER/AUT) R1: Evgeny Donskoy & Dmitry Tursunov (RUS/RUS) vs (2) Jamie Murray & André Sá (BRA)
Like Alex Sendegeya, Lewis Roskilly is a '96 who is at his best on the doubles court. He picked up his fourth title of the year here. R1 (L32) (8) Lewis Roskilly (GBR) d. Darko Jandric (SRB) 6-0 6-3 R2 (8) Lewis Roskilly (GBR) d. (LL) Lenny Hampel (AUT) 6-1 6-0 QF (1) Andre Biro (HUN) d. (8) Lewis Roskilly (G...
Nice work if you can get it, eh? Alex Ward (who should be seeded), Lewis Burton and Marcus Willis are all DAs here. Meanwhile, our old friend Mr Howe pops up in qualifying, presumably on half-term and mixing tennis with a holiday, which seems like a great idea QR1: Jathan Malik UNR v (q2) Kalle Averfa...
QR1: Jathan Malik UNR v (q2) Kalle Averfa...