There's a Brit monopoly on the seedings here! R1: (1) Colin Fleming & Ross Hutchins vs Lukas Dlouhy & Nicolas Mahut (CZE/FRA) R1: (3) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot vs Matthew Ebden & Ryan Harrison (AUS/USA) All being well, they'll meet in the semi-final again. R1: Oli...
L32: (WC) Laura Robson WR 113 v (3) Anabel Medina Garrigues WR 26 (CH 16 in 2009) H2H 0-2, both at slams - 2 & 3 at last year's US Open and 2 & 1 at this year's RG. A very tough draw! -- Edited by wolf on Sunday 15th of July 2012 10:13:01 PM
For completeness, just noticed there was brief Brit interest in this event earlier this week. L32: Robin Olin (SWE) WR 792 defeated (WC) Craig Walker UNR 6-1 6-4 L16: (1) Giammarco Micolani & Giorgio Portaluri (ITA/ITA) defeated (WC) Taavi Annus & Craig Walker (EST/GBR) 6-0 6-4
ATP No British EntrantsCHALLENGERSLexington $50K (Hard) - Jamie Baker (Bogdanovic)FUTURESIreland F1 $15K (Carpet) - Josh Goodall, Dan Evans, Lewis Burton, Matt Short, Neil Pauffley (Hudson, Oakley, Thornton-Brown, Meehan, Burn, Egerton, Malik, Patel, Johnson, Hodgetts, Ve...
Oli is the no. 1 seed in a pro circuit event for the first time ... but the three Brits fill lines 1-3 of the draw. L32: (1) Oli Golding WR 513 v Ashley Hewitt WR 1142 L32: Jack Carpenter WR 947 v (WC) Joseph van Dooren UNR (junior CH 98 in Jan) Funnily enough, Ashley leads the H2H against Oli 1-0, having beaten...
L32: Heather Watson WR 79 v Eleni Daniilidou (GRE) WR 111 (CH 14 in 2003) L32: Anne Keothavong WR 75 v Marina Erakovic (NZL) WR 50 (CH 39 in May) In both cases, H2Hs are 1-1 with the Brit having won the last meeting. By a twist of fate, for the 2nd week running, the winner of Hev's match will probably face Wick...
This event is called the Gottfried von Cramm Cup, named after the Baron who is still the last player to lose to a Brit in a grand slam men's singles Final. QR1: James Markiewicz UNR v Christian Braun (GER) UNR
Although Harriet Dart has not had much joy in junior tournaments this year, her last venture to Eastern Europe ended with a title in Estonia. Joining her are Pippa Horn, Chris Pearce and Alex Sendegeya Boys R1 (L32) Alexandru Buzelan (ROU) v (5) Christopher Pearce (GBR) Alexander Cozbinov (MDA) v (4...
There is my point about the next coming major. I believe that Serena Williams has the biggest chance to win in London and Maria Sharapova is her only competition. No other tennis player on the womens side has a chance to win at Wimbledon. And now some thoughts concerning the mens draw. Four players have...
Eleanor Dean is a late withdrawal, but Georgina Sellyn joins the group of boys who have moved from Berlin to here Boys R1 (L64) (10) Hannes Wagner (GER) v Jonny O'Mara (GBR) Alan Nunez Aguilera (MEX) v Thomas Colautti (GBR) (12) Jakub Oravec (SVK) v Tom Hill (GBR) (8) Federico Maccari (ITA) v Callum Pol...
R1: Jamie Murray & André Sá (BRA) vs David Marrero & Fernando Verdasco (ESP/ESP) Jamie & André played together a couple of times in September last year, winning a round at the PTT Thailand Open in Bangkok &, the week before that, the actual title at the Moselle Open in Metz, but they w...
QR2: (q3) Dan Smethurst WR 398 v Arnaud Graisse (BEL) UNR or Romano Frantzen (NED) WR 1898 The other seed in Dan's section is Joris de Loore, Oli's doubles partner in Knokke. -- Edited by steven on Sunday 15th of July 2012 01:06:04 AM
I was just flicking back through the historical rankings and I noticed that 4 years ago, during the equivalent week, our 25th ranked male singles player (Josh Milton) had a WR 1017. http://www.britishtennis.net/gbtop25m/2008wk30.htm Now, with that ranking, he wouldn't get anywhere near the to...
Let's start a thinktank, we'd probably do a better job than the GB tennis authorities. Suggestions please -- Edited by VictorE on Sunday 10th of June 2012 10:50:23 AM
R1: WATSON. Heather (GBR) 103 v STEPHENS, Sloane (USA) 59R1: KEOTHAVONG, Anne (GBR) 77 v BURDETTE, Mallory (USA) WC UNRIf Anne gets through she plays Bartoli 2 in R2.Heather probably plays Wickmayer 5 in R2.-- Edited by wolf on Sunday 15th of July 2012 10:19:57 AM
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