A large contingent of Brits were here for the first of the traditional Portugese ITFs in August, and Freya Christie + Alannah Griffin maintained their impressive record in doubles this year, chalking up their fifth title within the last 3 months
5 British seeds amongs the contingent in Luxemburg this week Boys R1 (L32) Nathaniel Seyler (FRA) v (8) Julian Cash (GBR) Alexandre Hebras (FRA) v (4) Lewis Roskilly (GBR) (Q) Elias El Khalifa (FRA) v Isaac Stoute (GBR) Girls R1 (L32) Rebecca Smaller (GBR) v Alexandra Bezmenova (GER) (3) Katie Boult...
QR1: James Brimacombe UNR lost to Stefan Vinti (ROU) UNR 6-0, 6-2 QR1: Humzah Mahmood UNR lost to Mihaita Daniel Damian (ROU) UNR 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-3 -- Edited by RJA on Saturday 11th of August 2012 06:01:58 PM
Assuming Andy does still make it out here he will play a qualifier in round 2 and after that it would probably be Raonic in round 3, Isner in the QF opponent and Berdych or Fish in the SF. For those unaware Federer and Nadal have both withdrawn from this event.
L32: Toby Martin WR 788 v Duje Kekez (CRO) WR 638 L32: Matthew Short WR 774 v Nik Razborsek (SLO) WR 1010 L32: Richard Gabb WR 799 v Marko Tepavac (SRB) WR 1544
R1: (ITF WC) Anne Keothavong WR 76 vs (8) Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) WR 8 R1: Agnes Szavay (HUN) UNR vs (ITF WC) Elena Baltacha WR 102 R1: (ALT) Laura Robson WR 96 vs Lucie Safarova (CZE) WR 23 R1: Silvia Soler (ESP) WR 63 vs (ALT) Heather Watson WR 67 I imagine that both Hev & Bally are in with a chan...
Not exactly a cake-walk opening round for Andy, but he should manage to make the second round this time round: R1: Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) WR 26 vs (3) Andy Murray WR 4 -- Edited by Madeline on Friday 27th of July 2012 01:05:23 PM
Our strongest team of 1998s start the season of European Summer Cups trying to qualify for next week's under 14 finals, which serve as qualifiers for the World Junior Team Cup in August They open today as top seeds in their group against Serbia, and Sam Ferguson has won the opening singles. Jay Clarke,...
Despite being ranked high enough, Jamie Baker is not playing US Open Qualies for some reason. Strange seeing as he has been playing the USTA Challengers. Ward and Goodall are in. Oli Golding might get a WC.
The draw's not up on the ITF site yet, but this snippet appeared on the Beeb's Day 4 of the Olympics page at 14.26 & proves earlier speculation on here correct : Andy Murray, who is in action against Jarkko Nieminen in the singles at this very moment, will play mixed doubles with Laura Robson after G...
R1: (ALT) Jamie Delgado & Ken Skupski vs (4) Frantisek Cermak & Julian Knowle (CZE/AUT) R1: Matt Ebden (AUS) & Jonny Marray vs (2) Robert Farah & Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (COL/PAK) On the face of it a tough draw for Jonny, but Qureshi seems to be experimenting with new partners as much a...
R1: Ross Hutchins / Jonathan Marray WR 51 v Fabio Fognini / Juan Monaco (ITA/ARG) WR 237 Not a bad first round draw but Mirnyi and Nestor await in round two. Edit: sorry, RJA, couldn't resist correcting the spelling of Jonny's full Christian name. -- Edited by Stircrazy on Sunday 5th of August 2012 01...
ATP Toronto (Hard) - Andy Murray CHALLENGERSAptos $100K (Hard) - James Ward, Jamie Baker (Bogdanovic)Pozoblanco $50K (Hard) - (Cox)FUTURESCumberland GBF13 $15K (Hard) - Richard Bloomfield, Dan Evans, Josh Milton, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Oliver Golding, Ed Corrie, Lewis Burton, Sean T...
Q1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 8 418 v BOIKO, Katerina (CAN) UNRJohanna and Naomi to join the action in R1 which might provide an interesting comparison.