Maia Lumsden looks for her second ITF title here, and curiously the first two seeds she is drawn against are the two players she beat last week. Boys R1 (L64) Joel Cannell (GBR) v (Q) David Herrerias (ESP) Tim Sandkaulen (GER) v (13) Isaac Stoute (GBR) (Q) Tallon Griekspoor (NED) v Luke Oakley (GBR) Ioi...
Nice little surprise popping up in Eckental ... R1: ALT Adham El-Effendi (USA) & Darren Walsh defeated Dustin Brown & Daniel Brands (GER/GER) 6-4 6-7(5) 10-5 Fantastic result against two very good singles players, both with big games. Extends their nice run of wins. Has something...
L32: Samantha Murray WR 282 v (8) Julia Boserup (USA) WR 301 (CH 174 in Apr) Boserup is on a 6-match losing streak stretching back to early August, though some of the losses have been close and to very good players. edit: updated with 29 Oct rankings - Samantha was ranked 116 places below Boserup when the...
L32: Toby Martin WR 816 v Cedrick Commin (FRA) WR 1318 L32: (7) Richard Gabb WR 788 v Luca Rovetta (ITA) WR 1075 (CH 900 in 2007) L32: Joshua Jones WR 1035 v Henrik Sillanpää (FIN) WR 1129 (CH 961 in May) (already updated with 29 Oct rankings)
Boggo & Smethurst scraped in as DAs here.QR1: Ed Corrie WR 507 v Pavel Krainik (CAN) WR 991 (CH 926 in June, junior CH 61 in 2010) QR1: (q7) Josh Milton WR 398 v (wc) Ryan Shane (USA) UNR18yo Shane has played Futures qualifying 4 times, winning at least one match each time but never qualifying, and is o...
QR1: Ryan Peniston UNR v Stylianos Perdikogiannis (GRE) UNR QR1: (q10) James Ireland WR 1249 v Benjamin Strunk (GER) UNR QR1: Stefan Sterland-Markovic UNR v Fotis Kakridonis (GER) UNR QR1: Robert Carter WR 1829 v Fredrik Ask (NOR) UNR
There's a first title here for Christopher Reynolds, though the detail has eluded the ITF so far, which only has results up to the doubles semis. However the outcome can be deduced from the points allocation Boys R1 (L32) (1) Sergis Kyratzis (CYP) d. Youssef Hassan (GBR) 6-2 6-2 Sarp Agabigun (TUR) d....
A couple of winnable first-round matches? R1: Jonny Marray & Freddie Nielsen (DEN) vs Eric Butorac & Paul Hanley (USA/AUS) R1: Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot vs Thomaz Bellucci & Jarkko Nieminen (BRA/FIN)
Evan Hoyt bolsters the male presence in Japan for the penultimate Grade A of the year, and will need to find his Glasgow form early as he has been drawn against a fast rising Aussie, succesful in all his 4 ITF matches against Brits. Alex Sendegeya has a tough draw against the sixth seed. R1 (L64) Alexande...
L32: Samantha MURRAY (GBR) WR 374 V Marie-Eve PELLETIER (CAN) [8] WR 200 Doubles L16: Lena LITVAK (USA) / Samantha MURRAY (GBR) V Alexandra MUELLER (USA) / Allie WILL (USA) H2H: First meeting. Pelletier has a CH of 106 and won a 25k in El Paso earlier this year -- Edited by Reeltime on Sunday 21s...
Jack Carpenter is a DA here and it looks like George Morgan (who was 2nd alternate) has got in too, because he's not in qualifying - though Korolev WR 248 is in qualifying with a QWC! There is one Brit in qualifying, a 16yo playing his first Futures: QR1: Mehdi Naqvi UNR v Rasmus Schwarz (DEN) UNR
L32: Joshua Jones WR 986 v (WC) Tal Goldengoren (ISR) WR 1314 (CH 1034 in May, age 16) L32: (7) Richard Gabb WR 761 v (Q) Yair Gall (ISR) UNR L32: Toby Martin WR 813 v (4) Adrian Sikora (SVK) WR 456 (= CH & runner-up this week so will rise further) L32: (3) Oli Golding WR 433 v Yan Sabanin (RUS) WR 1170
Earlier in the month Jazzi Plews and Gabi Taylor made impressive strides in junior ITFs. The third member of the successful European Summer Cup under 14 team now gets her chance. Despite her impressive run at the Glasgow $25K Maia Lumsden was forced to qualify here, and it wasn''t entirely straightf...
