DAs here for Bloomfield, Evans, Milton, Fitzpatrick, Marsalek, Slabinsky, Carpenter, Short, Gabb, Burn, Pauffley, Jones, Hudson and Bugby. Looks like possible wild cards for Ireland, Orton and Meehan (all on the acceptance list but not the qualifying draw) http://www.lta.org.uk/NewWebsit...
Tonight seems an appropriate time to mention Tony Hawks' movie "Playing the Moldovan's at Tennis", in which he attempts to beat every member of the Moldovan football team from the last time they played England, as the result of a drunken bet. The bet became a book and then a film, both of whi...
A stong British quartet here appear to have decent round 1 draws Boys R1 (L32) Joshua Sapwell (GBR) v Zvonimir Babic (CRO) Filip Kraljevic (CRO) v (6) Peter Ashley (GBR) (WC) Strahinja Rakic (SRB) v (3) Jonny O'Mara (GBR) Girls R1 (L32) (5) Katy Dunne (GBR) v (WC) Violeta Jankovic (SRB)
Goodall is a DA here QR1: Sean Thornley WR 722 v Thomas Duche (FRA) UNR QR1: (q7) David Rice WR 593 v Florent Maury (FRA) UNR Two rounds of qualifying played on Sunday.
L32: James Ward WR 248 v (Q) Qualifier A decent draw for James, who would meet 8th seed Wu Di or Bohli if he wins. Over the two weeks of the USO, he is defending QF points (from Bangkok 2011) and R2 points (from Shanghai 2011), so having gone out in R2 in Thailand, it would be helpful if he could make QFs or bett...
R1: James Blake & Sam Querrey (USA/USA) v Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) & Dominic Inglot R1: Jamie Murray & Andre Sa (BRA) v (15) Alexander Peya & Bruno Soares (AUT/BRA) R1: Johan Brunstrom & James Cerretani (SWE/USA) v Jamie Delgado & Ken Skupski R1: (11) Jonathan Marray & F...
R1: Andrea Petkovic & Eric Butorac GER/USA) vs Sania Mirza (IND) & Colin Fleming R1: Varvara Lepchenko & Donald Young USA/USA) vs Vladimira Uhlirova (CZE) & Jonny Marray
QR1: (q5) Daniel Smethurst WR 358 v (qwc) Romano Frantzen (NED) UNR QR1: Oliver Golding WR 502 v (q2) Gerald Melzer (AUT) WR 327 First and second rounds of qualifying are on Sunday. -- Edited by RJA on Saturday 1st of September 2012 10:09:15 PM-- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 2nd of September 2012 09:1...
3 Brits have been out in Mauritius for 2 weeks (I can think of worse places for a fortnight) and Samuel Taylor reached the final in week 1, going one better in week 2 Boys R1 (L32) Samuel Taylor (GBR) d. (LL) Naesar Jawoor (IND) 6-2 6-1 (WC) Maxime De Clippel (RSA) d. (WC) Joel Jones (GBR) 6-1 6-2 R2 Samuel Ta...
L32: (4) Alexander Ward WR 423 v (Q) Romain Sichez (FRA) WR 1498 L32: (3) Daniel Smethurst WR 358 v Luca Roveta (ITA) WR 1183 -- Edited by steven on Monday 27th of August 2012 06:06:10 AM
DAs for 16 Brits here - Goodall, Bloomfield, Evans, Milton, Fitzpatrick, Corrie, Rice, Marsalek, Morgan, Burton, Slabinsky, Short, Martin, Carpenter, Gabb and Burn. Qualifying Draw
Liam and Evan join the trio who played the Winnipeg Futures this week as a warm-up for this event and the US Open R1 (L64) Luke Bambridge (GBR) v Christian Garin (CHI) Evan Hoyt (GBR) v (Q) Daniel Shebshayevich (USA) (7) Liam Broady (GBR) Bye (6) Josh Ward-Hibbert (GBR) Bye (12) Kyle Edmund (GBR) Bye
After last week's doubles success in Belarus Joshua Paris is having another good week in a former Soviet republic, this time in singles R1 (L32) Stefan Rhodes (GBR) d. (LL) Skirmantas Macinskas (LTU) 6-3 6-3 (3) Joshua Paris (GBR) d. Johannes Ingildsen (DEN) 6-2 6-2 R2 (3) Joshua Paris (GBR) d. Lauri...
Helen Parish has produced a vastly expanded version of this table here. I won't be maintaining the table below unless Helen stops updating hers.PosOp RankPlayer NameOpponentVenueDate11Virginia WadeChris Evert USAWimbledonJun-7722Sue BarkerChris Evert USABostonMar-7934¹Jo DurieTrace...
