Who would be willing to contribute £10 to a player performance fund a large club with 500 members could eg generate £5000 for their no1 player . I know that I could help more players but i am now over budget and a queue of deserving cases not just in tennis .wealthy tennis clubs need to start putting their...
Either the player on the poster advertising this tournament is someone we know or there is a French player who looks uncannily like her ... http://bit.ly/1f3W0sq Lisa did reach the QFs here last year, but an overseas QF-ist who isn't taking part this year is an unusual Still, gone (temporarily) bu...
The field here is so weak that there was no qualifying draw and the top three seeds have byes in the first round of the main draw. L32: James Allemby UNR v Soichiro Moritani (JPN) WR 1990 The winner plays top seed Gerald Melzer in round 2. Edit: just to correct the name of the capital of Burundi-- Edited by...
The final round question on Pointless today was on British Tennis. Obviously for anyone on this board not much of a challenge apart from how many pointless answers you can think of in one minute.
I am sure there are plenty of potential top 100 players out there that would benefit from Management & funding . I think there needs to be a greater collective search For talent with an emphasis on players aged 16-22 . Myself as a club team player in the lower divisions i am consistently disappointe...
L32: (2) James Ward WR 179 v Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS) WR 286 (CH 123 in 2011) H2H 0-0 but of course the Russian was the player Dom Inglot beat in final qualifying in St Petersburg last weekend. The winner plays a qualifier or a wild card in R2.
Doubles : R1: Viktor GALOVIC (ITA) / Matteo RIGAMONTI (ITA) def. Kevin ALBONETTI (ITA) / Imran ASWAT (GBR) 4-6 6-3 [10-6] But Imran gets a wildcard into the main draw of the singles this week: Singles : L32: Imran Aswat (WC) WR 1637 v Maxime Hamou (FRA) (Q) WR 1431 (CH 1219) -- Edited by Coup Dro...
The first of the European Summer Cups has taken place during the last week with the under 14s attempting not only to win the Summer Cup but also qualify for the World Junior Tennis Championships in the Czech Republic next month. With Katie Swan recovering from her recent collapsed lung in Guatemala, J...
One of the reasons that some pros do not take Doubles seriously is that that often drop out after the singles because they can't afford to stay . If you setting out like Lewis Burton to become a doubles specialist then it's a financial struggle because doubles prize money is an inefficient source of fun...
Dom only has a couple of weeks left to keep himself on the singles rankings (his Kuala Lumpur ATP 2012 qualifying points come off on 30 September) and is having a go at singles qualifying here: QR1: Dom Inglot WR 948 v (q8) Vladimir Ivanov (EST) WR 533 (CH 394 last Nov)
A decent first-round draw for the Skupskis: R1: (3) Ken Skupski & Neal Skupski CR 231 vs (WC) Kamil Majchrzak & Jan Zielinski (POL/POL) UNR Ken has risen 12 places in today's rankings to 87 & Neal 28 to 144.
L128: (3) Andy Murray WR 3 v Michaël Llodra (FRA) WR 49 (CH 21 in 2011) H2H 3-0: Metz 2007 plus twice in slams - Andy won 6-4 1-6 7-5 7-6(7) at the US Open in 2008 and thrashed Llodra 6-4 6-2 6-0 at the Aus Open last year. His week 1 draw looks ok but then it gets bad, not least because Berdych, the player outside t...
ATP No British EntrantsCHALLENGERSFergana $5oK (Hard) - James Ward, Brydan KleinNapa $50K (Hard) - Dan Evans, Dan Cox, Ed CorrieSibiu $75K (Clay) - (Edmund)Orleans $125K+H (Indoor Hard) - (Rice, Pauffley, Thornley)FUTURESKuwait F2 $10K (Hard) - Marcus Willis, Lewis Burton (Thompson)S...
After meeting in QR2 in Istanbul last weekend ... QR1: (q4) Dave Rice WR 398 v Sean Thornley WR 1389 H2H 7-3 including a 2 & win for Dave a week ago. Only 2 qualifying rounds here, so hopefully the winner won't find it too hard to make the main draw.
Looks like Alex has indeed (see week 38 entries thread) opted to go through qualifying rather than take a main draw place here: QR1: Alex Ward WR 346 v Houssam Sbaii (MAR) UNR
L32: (7) Laura Deigman WR 955 v Andressa Cristina Souza (BRA) WR 1184 (CH 1140 in Apr) The Brazilian got her ranking back today but has lost to Brits the last two weeks, Fran beating her 3 & last week and Anna double bagelling her the week before, so Laura is on a GB hat-trick, as it were
Johanna Konta plays in the qualifying draw: Johanna KONTA (8) WR141 v Maria Fernanda ALVAREZ TERAN WR342 Match is on at 2pm local time. Winner probably plays top seed Kurumi Nara Laura might be in the main draw here?
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